NiagaraThistle

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by NiagaraThistle 2y ago
You just summarized the last 35 years of my life.
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by NiagaraThistle 2y ago
I love this! I've been building something similar for far too long - and it is far too buggy still - for Europe-only travel. Good luck with this. I know how hard it can be doing this sort of thing between job, life, family, and dreamin
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by NiagaraThistle 2y ago
Just got back from 12 days in Germany to follow Scotland in the UEFA Euros - team was a bitter disappointment, experience was once in a life time. Having to use my phone for everything from buying/selling my match tickets on stubhub, m
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by NiagaraThistle 2y ago
God I hate these interviews. I'm 45, focus on Web development, have worked in-house on teams building ecomm carts/solutions for multi-million dollar per ear local companies, in design agencies focusing on custom $100k or templated
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by NiagaraThistle 2y ago
Isn't Pieter Levels using AI to build is therapistAI app with pretty good results? I'm sure it's not perfect, but from what I've seen and heard about it, it seems to be a good springboard for basic "therapy" bu
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by NiagaraThistle 2y ago
Wow. I was just telling 2 co-workers this week that I keep a "How the F" file on my machine. It is not exactly what the author describes, but it's very similar and includes all the "how th f do i do this thing again?&quo
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by NiagaraThistle 2y ago
i love my iphone 12 mini for this very reason. It's still small enough to fit 'mostly' comfortably in my pocket, even a shirt pocket. I hate how large most phones are now and everyone i know that sees my phone makes fun of me
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by NiagaraThistle 2y ago
Do developers really build basic websites / pages WITHOUT pure CSS when it's an option? I know there are times when you need to do something CSS can't (and shouldn't do of course. But I mean when the 'thing' is
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
What do you mean it "isn't accepting" that you spent all the days since September 16 in the Scehngen Zone? Is it not accurately calculating that you no longer have days available to your (assumed) 90 in the 180-day window? Is
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Show HN: Schengen Zone Travel Day Calculator(eurotripr.com)
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
TLDR: Love your kid. Read and sing to your kid - even if you are an awful singer. I read and sang lullabys to both my kids from when they were weeks old. THey didn't understand, but the memory is worth it, and I continued to so nightly
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
I like to tip based on the local minumum wage (or on the higher end if the service was exceptional, my own wage) and how long I have sat at the table for. So if the minimum wage was $10/hour and I have sat at the table for 45 minutes,
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
All of my pet projects can be found as real tools or services elsewhere, but I built them for myself (or in the case of Eurotripr) as a hope to monetize one day. - Book tracker to track books I want to read (for self, with kids) and will ra
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
I find NORMAL ChatGPT a good programming Rubber Duck and use it often.
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
I don't recall the guy's name. I don't even know what to google to find a link for you, but several years ago I came across an article of a man who did something similar to what you are talking about but as a Chat Bot (it was
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
My biggest concern with Home Schooling is you literally have someone not qualified as a teacher, as in probably knows nothing of the subject and may not even have an education themselves, teaching the children. Obviously this isn't all
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
https://Eurotripr.com - a website/web app to help people plan trips to Europe affordably and with Confidence. I've been working on it off and on for WAY too long. Technically it is live, but it is unfinished in many wa
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
I love Dan Brown's books. Maybe critics don't like him for his formulaic writing - copying the plot over and over after Angels & Demons. But IT WORKS. And it is HIGHLY engaging and moves the reader through the book at breaknec
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
I recently told my co-workers on a Zoom call that I ALWAYS carry a paper map in the car and anytime I am backpacking or traveling in Europe. They couldn't fathom why I would bother when I have a phone that can give me directions immedi
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
Not sure how interesting they are for others, but i built a few things to keep myself accountable and track progress on parts of my life I wanted to improve - small parts, but things I just kept procrastinating on. 1. I built a small web ap
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
Yeah I 100% agree. While I DON'T pirate anything, I DO pay for a sh!t ton of services to watch soccer and Cycling. Furthermore, I follow Scottish Soccer, specifically the Glasgow Rangers. So I pay 1. the club for their RangersTV, 2. Pa
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
Eurotripr.com - a constant work in progress. The goal is as if NomadList and Indiehackers had a baby and that baby wanted to help others travel affordably around Europe.
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
I hope Courtland and/or Channing does a podcast to explain this.
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
Without an actual clear response from COurtland or Channing, this is the first reason that I've sen that makes sense.
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
It was never bought by stripe to have MRR. The initial acquisition by Stripe was to allow Courtland (and Channeing) to continue just inspiring people to become business founders. No revenue generation, no MRR for IndieHackers. Just continue
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
They aren't going to run the site for free. They need to earn revenue from it to stay afloat and earn a living. They will monetize it somehow - ads, subscriptions of some sort, some other manner. Maybe they will sell it outright and mo
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
Before getting acquired he used to run ads on his Newsletter, so now that he has a much larger audience you are probably right.
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
"isn't pressed to make money" It was never pressed to make money. Courtland said it many times on his podcast that Stripe never expected or gave him goals to earn revenue. My guess as to why Stripe acquired IndieHackers is th
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by NiagaraThistle 3y ago
i disagree. Maybe the POSTS in the Forums are low-value, but the Podcast and interviews have always been great sources of inspiration and value imo. I do agree that the past several months, and the past several podcast episodes have been le
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by NiagaraThistle 4y ago
"Where you can just walk to a friend or a relative's house unannounced for a cup of tea, without thinking all the time if it would inconvenience them." I really miss this. I have lived in the US my whole life but my father an

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