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by SMrF 1y ago
What you say makes sense, but I think there can be reasons. For our military customers we offer an air-gapped version of our app early on because it was easier for customers than getting an ATO. Also as a bootstrapped company it was a lot c
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by SMrF 2y ago
SOFware | Remote (US) | Full-Time | https://sofwarellc.com/ I am the Director of Product Engineering at SOFware. We are a fully remote, small and profitable software company founded by a retired Navy SEAL turned Ruby on Rai
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by SMrF 5y ago
SOFware LLC | Software Engineers | REMOTE (USA)| Full-Time For the past 10 years we’ve helped in the selection and assessment of candidates involved in Elite Special Operations Forces and Federal Law Enforcement. We help deep select the bes
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GitHub Ghost Towns(planningforaliens.com)
5 points by SMrF 12y ago|0 comments
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by SMrF 12y ago
This book is awesome! Really glad to see someone mentioned it. It has just enough about design so you can make something that doesn't look terrible. :-)
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The infamous Angular learning curve(planningforaliens.com)
2 points by SMrF 12y ago|0 comments
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by SMrF 12y ago
Honestly, hadn't thought about accessibility. Thank you for bringing it up! I'm going to start looking into captioning services.
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by SMrF 12y ago
Been lurking on HN forever, this is my first Show HN. This is my second product, the first was a book for web designers. I used to run a meetup group for developers with side projects. We were all there for the same reason: we love programm
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Nothing sucks the joy out of programming like a job(planningforaliens.com)
8 points by SMrF 12y ago|3 comments
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Lessons learned from my first successful product(planningforaliens.com)
2 points by SMrF 13y ago|0 comments
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Why I'm going back to capturing credit cards up front(planscope.io)
72 points by SMrF 13y ago|43 comments
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How do you stay motivated when you're not making any money?(unicornfree.com)
7 points by SMrF 13y ago|0 comments
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by SMrF 13y ago
Usually these "lessons learned" posts are very hand-wavy and hard to relate to. But this post has some great tips and the author sounds like me, just a regular person trying to sell a product. I also think that building something
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by SMrF 13y ago
Well, My book will not be low-quality. And it will be evident after I've written some high-quality sample content and guest blog posts. So the landing page is just the final step in the funnel. That said I don't mean for it to lo
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by SMrF 13y ago
I only have before data right now, and not a lot. I'll be sure to post data for the new landing page, just as soon as I get some.
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by SMrF 13y ago
The funny thing is I agree, but I don't think I'll do it. The old version is just so bad I feel like I'd be throwing away money. I'm not internet famous so traffic is hard for me to come by. Can I justify a split test? S
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by SMrF 13y ago
Thanks Barry. It was nice to meet you there. It was such a great conference, I learned so much and met so many great, like-minded folks.
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by SMrF 13y ago
Not yet. I have some posts in the works for web designers so I'll see how they convert compared to the old page. I'm ignoring all stats while this article is on HN. This isn't exactly the target audience for my book.
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by SMrF 13y ago
Just a book. Software soon. I wanted to start with something small that I could do relatively quickly, so I'm writing a book. Then I will convert readers of my book into customers for my software.
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by SMrF 13y ago
Awesome. I'm glad it helped. BaconBizConf was awesome, I highly recommend it for bootstrappers.
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by SMrF 13y ago
This is surprising. It's just HTML on S3 with cloudflare in front. Maybe Typekit is slowing it down...
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How patio11 redesigned my landing page in front of a live studio audience(planningforaliens.com)
80 points by SMrF 13y ago|31 comments
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by SMrF 14y ago
"Not only do those audiences not buy things, not only are they scattered and incoherent and unprofessional and in many cases incompetent and/or broke…" Ok, so to perhaps answer my own question I'm just going to reverse this. A good niche bu
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by SMrF 14y ago
"I know Hacker News types think that’s a great list of niches, but it’s actually a really terrible one. You can’t sell to ANY of those people." This piece of the conversation really left me wanting more, especially since I've been using tha
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by SMrF 14y ago
I live in Chicago and I'm an experienced developer. I want to start a company but I don't want to go the seed funding route because I want to create a profitable small business, not a startup. Is there a Starter League for me? Not that the
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Programming is tripping on stairs, every day(planningforaliens.com)
1 points by SMrF 14y ago|0 comments
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by SMrF 14y ago
"Nobody reads from just 15 or 20 sites a month. People read from hundreds of sites a month, creating a vast long tail of publishers." And somewhere out there Ted Nelson is saying, "I told you so. We needed transclusion, transcopyright, and
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by SMrF 14y ago
I'll be surprised if a widely adopted single sign-on solution emerges from a standards body. Standards should be formed from working code, not the other way around. Also, I'm not sure what standard you are talking about. They have a very ni
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Who Are You, and Who Am I to Ask? Your right to misrepresent yourself.(nymbus.org)
1 points by SMrF 15y ago|0 comments
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by SMrF 15y ago
It's insulting to be lumped into a stereotype, so it's hard for me to not get defensive. Chicago is one of the greatest cities on the planet. The population is very diverse. It's why I moved here in the first place and why I just bought a

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