anthony_franco

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by anthony_franco 1y ago
Connect your coding tool to a browser (like with the playwright MCP) and just let it iterate on its own until it matches the design you want.
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by anthony_franco 2y ago
I agree with everything except for Kamal. I'm happy to have someone else handle the server side maintenance. Maybe once my service grows so huge that handling it myself makes sense moneywise, but starting off that way is overkill when
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by anthony_franco 2y ago
Lightweight umbrellas.
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by anthony_franco 2y ago
I find that if you check when the LLM's data was updated, and then choose a framework/language version release date that's before that, then it's pretty good. In my case I use tailwind css a lot and found that sticking t
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by anthony_franco 2y ago
You built a product first and then are searching for the market for it? That's tough. If you do it in reverse, find the market first and then build a product for them, it's 100x easier. Trust me.
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by anthony_franco 2y ago
The llm just returns a method name and arguments to pass it. Your code is in charge of actually executing it, and then replying with an answer.
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by anthony_franco 2y ago
There’s some YouTubers that release weekly videos about AI news. I suggest you search around for ones that suit your interests.
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by anthony_franco 3y ago
Friendster was one of the first big social networks but the amount of users slowed it down. That made everyone move over to MySpace/Facebook. If I remember right, Friendster had a feature that told you how you were connected to every o
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by anthony_franco 3y ago
The 4-Hour Workweek - motivated me to start my own business and now I have a lot of flexibility in my life.
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by anthony_franco 5y ago
http://bookmooch.com/ It's a great way to trade your books with others. And you can pick and choose from others' collections. Plus it's a good way to get rid of any extra books you have lying around.
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by anthony_franco 5y ago
I setup mine to automatically restart every night and it fixed a lot of issues.
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by anthony_franco 6y ago
I had the first one Venmo me just to verify people are willing to pay. Then I setup a quick solution using a no-code platform. Maybe down the line I’ll build a fully custom one but for now it’s been working great.
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Should I Use Ruby/Python/PHP Node for My Startup?(antfranco.com)
1 points by anthony_franco 6y ago|0 comments
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by anthony_franco 6y ago
Well, did you improve the product based on what the "free candy" people said? Were you able to determine the reasons they didn't buy and then improve your product accordingly? Seems you should be improving your product/p
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by anthony_franco 7y ago
I reached out to my friends to email-intro me to anyone who might be interested in my product. That mutual connection made it so that people were way more willing to jump on a call to discuss the problem space. I made sure to be respectful
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by anthony_franco 7y ago
Amazon directly competes with Netflix and they get along fine. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/netflix/
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by anthony_franco 7y ago
Reach out to your network or email your friends to put you in contact with potential users. It should be moderately easy since you're just asking for a free Skype call, you're not asking for money yet. If you're having proble
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by anthony_franco 7y ago
You won't get enough data if you ask them to fill out a survey. If you try a single interview you'll see why. You'll end up with pages of notes and venture into problems you had no idea about. If you had asked them to fill ou
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by anthony_franco 7y ago
Indie Hackers lists lots of examples you can read about. Just filter on employee count and revenue: https://www.indiehackers.com/interviews/page/1?employeeCount...
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by anthony_franco 7y ago
First step is to validate the problem. Ask 20 people in your target market about their biggest problems. If they bring up the problem early in the conversation, you know you got a winner. If you gotta pull it out of them, you'll have t
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by anthony_franco 8y ago
“How to Win Friends and Influence People” is a good one. It’s a nice reminder on how to treat people.
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by anthony_franco 8y ago
First piece of advice is to get it in front of potential users ASAP (if you haven't yet). Just to make sure you're going in the right direction. Even just mockups or wireframes is good enough (we started off showing hand-drawn des
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by anthony_franco 8y ago
Pretty much all businesses are automatable. Just hire good people and have good processes in place for them to follow. For example, WP Curve was even able to automate the process of hiring dozens of developers. You would've that that i
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by anthony_franco 8y ago
500-1M USD? If you hire full-time US workers then that's probably the case. For me I hired a few remote part-timers around the world. So it costs me an order of magnitude less. And they're all awesome, so I barely have to lift a f
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by anthony_franco 8y ago
Start any business and just hire good people to run it for you. I have a SaaS. I have a support person, product manager, and developer. Between them they handle 90% of the day to day tasks.
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by anthony_franco 8y ago
I could write a whole book on what I’ve learned :) As can any other business owner I think. But I’d be happy to chat with anyone wanting advice.
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by anthony_franco 8y ago
Every business can be automated. Just find good people to run it for you.
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by anthony_franco 8y ago
If you interview people about the type of problems they deal with day to day then you start to get tons of ideas. That’s how I started.
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by anthony_franco 8y ago
I started a SaaS company in the hospitality industry.
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by anthony_franco 8y ago
It took me about four years. It would've been faster if I knew then what I know now.

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