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Currently trying to differentiate when to use Servers & when to go Serverless. Serverless will scale infinitely, although it has 1 small cost of cold starts but if the site is used regularly then cold start is not needed. Servers are inherently costly. Even if we don't use it to its full potent...
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Hey Builders, โ€ข Would you be interested in forming small support groups to help and push each other to deliver each day? โ€ข Creating an accountability circle will boost motivation and commitment. โ€ข Each group will meet regularly (virtually on this platform) to share goals, tackle roadblocks, and k...
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The title says it all.ย  I am just curious, feel free to share especially non tech/business related books. Thanks!
Optimised Mining - exam prep courses for the mining industry, started by me and mate in Australia. Chart below of quarterly $AUD revenue since starting in 2018. We usually talk in quarters because our revenue is a bit lumpy, we get 20k one month then 60k the next if we get a big B2B deal. W...
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I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs tend to put their mental health as a secondary focus to their work and other aspects of becoming successful. How do you monitor, maintain, or support your mental health while you are also typically working hard and juggling all the factors of entrepreneurship a...
Title says it all, but we've got CS college, Graphic design college, online courses, tutors, learning on the job, boot camps. And these all have tradeoffs and timelines. How would you respond if someone asked you the best way to learn how to design and build web applications?
I would love any feedback on the sales page for my new education product, the Rails Performance Workshop. I consider myself a novice at "sales letters". The Rails Performance Workshop consists of 4 weeks of classroom instruction and tutoring with Rails performance expert Nate Berkopec. You'll le...
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๐Ÿ”ฅ Launched our MVP (link) ๐Ÿ“Current goals:ย  - ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘ Acquire early users - โœ๐Ÿป Gain feedback on MVP - ๐Ÿ’ฐ Acquire first paid users (monetize) About: Moocable is a cohort-based learning platform where you can study online courses & books with your friends. Study courses (hosted on Coursera, edX, FCC,...
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Hi guys, During the past several weeks I've worked on <paragraph>, a web application that helps users learn English while reading the daily news. This week I'd be happy to let ppl try the first Beta version and collect some early impressions. You can try it in 2 ways: 1. Chrome extension man...
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If you read a lot of books and can't take physical copies of books with you, how do you keep your epubs, pdfs, and the like organized? Or most importantly how do you avoid vendor lock-in? (Looking at you Kindle). The closest thing I've found is Zotero because it lets us upload pdfs and epubs, ...
I gave up freelancing and consulting and would like to stay away from it. But being a maker (c) doesn't monetize as fast... I'm considering additional source of revenue. And building programming video courses seems like a great learning experience for myself, ability to contribute and share to s...
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I just bought parents another new Android. This time around, I'm wondering if there are any "elders-focused" products that can help them improve their general tech-savviness? They're about 50 and speak good enough English to otherwise navigate their phone, but they seem to "lose common sense" w...
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Hey, So my friend and I we had this problem -- in another project we were supposed to use a few javascript libs we knew nothing about and googling for how others use them wasn't fruitful. So we scraped open-source repos on the internet and created a searchable index where you can find apps by the...
WIP-er Scott B asked this question in the Telegram chat, so I jotted down a few ideas in response. Feel free to add your thoughts, as well. Link to original: https://t.me/wipchat/582693 Here goes...
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I am working on a project where I have partners who provide services and customers who use those services by paying some amount. I am using Stripe for processing payments. What are some common mistakes that people do while implementing this?
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Hey, I want to test out a new business idea before I start working on the website. I plan on using Google AdWords to attract users to a landing page that talks about what the website will provide with an email sign up if interested. Depending on the interest level with email sign ups I will decid...
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https://cosmic.school Looking for landing page feedback! Right now, once a user enters their email, it just says thank you for signing up. Once we really launch, we'll have it load you into the virtual museum experience immediately after entering an email. For now, we're just looking for feedba...
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Iโ€™m new to building and in parallel to my own research asking here. What would you say is the best place or resources to understand working with APIs in general and the new Chat GPT API specifically?