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Nathan Wailes
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I had been lifting for several years before I started using it and I noticed it had a minor-but-noticeable effect on my ability to lift; I could get maybe 1-2 more reps and maybe go up in weight a little bit. I think it may have also made me look a little bigger than before. So it's a very minor effect compared to the difference you'll see from actually starting to track your calories and go to the gym. But it's better than not having it.
That's a crazy schedule. What does your work schedule look like now while you're working on your startups?
Sorry for going off-topic, but why no SQLite? And what are you hoping to get from using something like Dokku? Is it to just save time with the server administration?
No worries:
For SQLite:
I don't want to spend time converting my schema and data to SQLite format. SQLite doesn't fully implement the SQL standard so certain things that I'm using today are missing. I have tables with array columns for example, and I'd have to spend extra time fixing these tables, adding join tables, etc.
I have customers that need reports generated from the database and shared with them. I have certain reporting tools that require a SQL connection to generate these reports and they don't support SQLite. I'd have to find a new tool that does and self-host it which would then eat up more system resources.
For security reasons, I use separate SQL logins for these reporting situations and SQLite doesn't support multi-user - since it's just a file there's only one set of "user credentials" -- if you can access the file, you can open a sqlite connection.
For Dokku or something like it: yes, it saves time with server administration. Makes it easy to deploy an app - otherwise you need to write some script yourself that logs in via SSH, copies your binaries over, and manages the process on the server (or does something equivalent to pull the latest docker image, kill the old app if any, etc). Also need to install services like Postgres manually and screw around with config files. Doable, just requires extra time and I'd rather spend my time building apps vs. doing too much maintenance.
I love the motivation behind this idea but in my case I'm not even at the point where I can think about SEO, so I wouldn't be able to participate in that particular topic.
My personal preference (which would be more complicated to implement) would be to have some kind of individual and/or team events where the goal is to put in a certain number of hours per day/week on your project, with some kind of verification mechanism that people aren't faking the activity or working on bullshit projects (what jumps out at me is having the community agree that your project is 'real' and then having a tracker/screenshot tool like Hubstaff/Upwork with clicks/keypresses/etc.). So it's a means of motivating people to put time into their projects.
I was imagining a little square widget on the user's profile in the right sidebar. The X axis is days, the Y axis is the amount of time it took the person to start working (self-reported).
The idea would be you could have several different types of productivity-measures that people could track. For example, MyFitnessPal lets you track steps per day, but I don't use that functionality.
I think your proposed version would definitely result in a smaller codebase since you wouldn't be collecting and storing additional types of information, my only reservation is that I don't think it would be particularly useful to me without knowing 1) when I woke up that day (maybe have that as a special TODO type that gets ignored on the homepage / profile so it doesn't clutter the UI?), 2) how difficult the TODO was, since some of my tasks take many hours to complete (I suppose it would incentivize having small tasks to jumpstart the day, which is a productivity tip I've already been wanting to use).
my understanding is that the #1 reason a lot of EU citizens changed their residency to Portugal is that it doesn't tax people nearly as heavily as their home country (some of which were like 50% taxes or something crazy high like that). IMO people/jobs moving to lower COL countries is going to be a major trend in our lifetimes, and the higher-tax / higher-COL countries are going to need to have some Argentina-style cost cutting and/or face Detroit/West-Virginia-style blight.
Yes I tend to agree. I’ve been back in the US for a week now and the amount of money I’ve spent doing regular, everyday things is just insane.
Just to get home from the airport I paid $35 for an Uber - in a low COL country the same distance covered would be ~$5 or less
I lived in the US my whole life up until this year and was used to the prices of everything, but now it feels like robbery when I’m used to the alternative.
The best way is to have a friend who already knows how to do it who will help you at each step.
If you don't have that, my next recommendation would be to use Udemy to get an overview (if they've got the motivation to go through it all), or just to jump in with ChatGPT like Ben said. They'll for-sure want to use ChatGPT once they actually start working on something.
a friend who already knows how to do it who will help you at each step
This would certainly be my ideal! (for pretty much everything) and it's surprising how rare it is that someone suggests it.
I feel like it won't attract the kinds of eyeballs you're interested in, but idk. I think it's interesting that even Pieter with his huge following seems to be basically largely reliant on a good domain and jumping on a trend to get traction. Like, I don't get the sense that he's really successful based on his following the way someone like Mr. Beast is.
Also are you working from a coworking space? I'm thinking of going up to Bangkok to check it out.
Right, not super convinced it'll bring any useful attention either. Having a useful product related to current trends is definitely more important, although it can't hurt to have followers and such
The reason I say that is because people tend to buy the founder and not the product sometimes. A few of my products made sales because people simply wanted to support me
And yeah, I work out of coworking spaces roughly 3 out of 5 weekdays. My favorite so far is True Digital Park followed by Paper Plane Project, meeting a WIPer at PPP tomorrow actually. Feel free to stop by if you're in town
from looking at the website it seems like a guy's passion project that the VCs are funding as lead-gen/marketing, like Indie Hackers getting bought by Stripe.
IMO you're already killing it with your execution, I don't see what you think you'd get from something like that.
Thanks! Yeah, I don't have a problem with execution, just distribution at the moment given I have ~350 X followers (active) and ~1.5k LinkedIn (most of them are inactive or recruiters that don't want to buy anything, my engagement on X is similar with ~1/4 the followers).
I'm basically only considering it for additional eyeballs on my products - on top of the usual cold emailing and outreach I'm doing myself ofc.
I feel like it won't attract the kinds of eyeballs you're interested in, but idk. I think it's interesting that even Pieter with his huge following seems to be basically largely reliant on a good domain and jumping on a trend to get traction. Like, I don't get the sense that he's really successful based on his following the way someone like Mr. Beast is.
Also are you working from a coworking space? I'm thinking of going up to Bangkok to check it out.
Right, not super convinced it'll bring any useful attention either. Having a useful product related to current trends is definitely more important, although it can't hurt to have followers and such
The reason I say that is because people tend to buy the founder and not the product sometimes. A few of my products made sales because people simply wanted to support me
And yeah, I work out of coworking spaces roughly 3 out of 5 weekdays. My favorite so far is True Digital Park followed by Paper Plane Project, meeting a WIPer at PPP tomorrow actually. Feel free to stop by if you're in town
What I really want is something that will apply to jobs for me. Like, just take my resume and apply to all the companies in Hacker News' "Who's Hiring" every month. Or something like that.
If I just want to keep track of jobs I'm applying to I can just use a Google sheet, it's good enough.
You mean auto apply based on your CV and skills. This must be tough because system need to read your CV and know very well about the jobs you want it to apply like title, skills and companies culture, and also need to control how many jobs to apply, etc. Real hard
Or I misunderstand?
I don't mind answering some questions to make it easier for the app to auto apply for me. IMO determining whether to apply to a job isn't the hard part, I think the hard part is interfacing with all of the company-specific web apps for accepting applications.
True! It will more easy if jobs can be applied by your form before pushing to companies's ATS. But yes, how to push to their ATS also another challenge.