DarrenDev

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by DarrenDev 1mo ago
EU sovereign clouds are taking off right now - especially when it comes to sensitive data (government, healthcare, etc.). Lots of players moving into the space. The common denominator - nothing touches the US. AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Schwa
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by DarrenDev 6mo ago
Canva - I used it for simple designs but ChatGPT is better Grammarly - ChatGPT and Claude are way better, and much more customizable. If I were a human editor I'd be very worried. On the flip side, using ChatGPT for diagrams made me pa
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by DarrenDev 10mo ago
I don't know where the recent idea that em dashes are difficult to type came from. MS Word automates turning a hyphen into an em dash as you type in the same way that it converts "teh" into "the" and has done so for
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by DarrenDev 10mo ago
Have you considered slashing features in order to speed up your MVP release? Our own "must have" features are often not must haves for users. I was in the same boat a few years back and released a cut down version missing what I t
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by DarrenDev 2y ago
I switched off sales of my last desktop app a couple of months ago. It was still bringing in sales of about $600 a month, but it felt like a weight hanging around my neck. Despite shutting it down I expect I'll still get a couple of su
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by DarrenDev 2y ago
Despite being a dev of 20+ years, I use Wordpress as a non-technical user, hosted on a paid for plan on Wordpress.com. I never deploy, never have to upgrade, never have to troubleshoot issues. Whatever monolithic and legacy complexity is pa
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by DarrenDev 2y ago
LinkedIn have an automated rater for applications. Any that their tool consider to not be a fit is automatically tagged "Not a fit" and color coded accordingly, making it very obvious. It's probably based on the location of t
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by DarrenDev 2y ago
I'm building a developer tool for working with FHIR APIs called "Vanya Client". - https://vanyalabs.com/ FHIR is a data standard for sharing healthcare data. It's in use all around the world by healthcar
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by DarrenDev 2y ago
I don't have a great story, but from my own experience I see the key as being a willingness to step outside your comfort zone. Do (if not embrace) the things you tend to avoid doing as a lone developer. An example: I never liked meetin
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by DarrenDev 2y ago
Fastspring or Paddle.
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by DarrenDev 2y ago
Keep it just for the email addresses and accounts you may have opened using those email addresses. If you don't, there'll be something you've missed and you won't find out for 6 months. But drop the website. I have a num
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by DarrenDev 2y ago
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel Always makes me feel that I’m not ambitious enough. And that too many smart people are in the wrong industry (finance). - The Dip, Seth Godin Don’t give up. Unless you’re in a cul-de-sac. - Obviously Awesome, Apri
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
I built one pre-Grammarly that functions as an add-in to Microsoft Word. It's aimed at creative writers and never really took off, though it does have a cohort of die hard fans. Still sells a few copies a month after all these years -
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/resourcelist.html
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
What industry do you work in? What sort of company and team do you work for? Is there really nothing you can think of from a business or work perspective that you need, that could be better, that your colleagues or managers need? Really? A
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
You need to use a reseller type company like Fastspring. There's no alternative - you either do the tax yourself or you make it so that you don't have to. It's an extra 5% or so, but well worth it to avoid all the work and ha
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
A variation of this post pops up here a lot. Reminds me of writers on writing forums looking for the perfect "light weight" word processor. Problem being, everyone has one "must have" feature that they want along with th
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
> use the proceeds from your day job to hire a developer to do the work Interesting and timely. I'm close to doing this now - the time just isn't there to devote to the product and the day job, and the product needs an 8 hour a
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
Focused on a particular industry and domain instead of jumping between industries on each contract. All of us can write code - that's not a hard skill to find. But combining code with strong domain knowledge and a deep understanding of
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
It's possible the University of Bedfordshire role at the top makes it look like you're a student - to a lazy recruiter who doesn't read. The first bullet point "as part of a research project" again suggests you migh
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
I really don't see a problem with newsletters. If one starts getting too dull or is no longer of interest, I unsubscribe. Functionally, they all work the same and all have the same unsubscribe link at the bottom. It's not like the
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
> I need to find some signal from users The clearest and most unambiguous signal from users is "I will pay you money for this" or "I will not pay you money for this."
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
There's no pricing on the website that I can find. Are you really saying that you spent years of work and $1m+ of your own money building something that you love but that has no income and no path to income? A free app? You're ver
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
As a solo developer who has built B2C software in the past, 1600 sales in your first year is outstanding. But I have to say your pricing is terrible - from all perspectives. For you, unless you sell in the hundreds of thousands (which I&#x2
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
I haven't done this, but am considering 3 months in Uruguay in the first half of next year (keeping the career). Interested in any replies people might have.
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
A 700 page book on C++ for beginners back in 1999. Followed by a box containing C++ Builder 4 and a project I was told to to start working on.
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
> How much would you be willing to pay for it (0 is a valid answer) That's not a good question to ask developers. Most of them undervalue software (because they're capable of building it themselves) and will give you a "cu
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
>Launching a series of apps, blog posts, or random ideas This is too much. Do or create one thing. Just one thing. You can drop it and move on if it doesn't gain any kind of traction. But if you start out by thinking of launching ma
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
https://vanyalabs.com/ FHIR data viewer (a healthcare data format if you're new to FHIR). I've been working on it for some time now, and just released the Mac build a couple of weeks ago. Had a 'soft launch&#
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
“Tell me about a project you worked on” is a great question for the person being interviewed, because you can and should have a strong prepared answer. It's basic story telling. You have the opportunity to tell an interesting story abo

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