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by fredrivett 6mo ago
1/ This is very cool 2/ What a beaut of a domain Will deffo try this out.
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Becoming the person who does the thing(fredrivett.com)
215 points by fredrivett 1y ago|171 comments
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Sensitivity and Frustration(insidegame.substack.com)
1 points by fredrivett 3y ago|1 comments
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by fredrivett 4y ago
Hey folks, I built this as a side project as I couldn't see a list of privacy-focussed tools specifically aimed at startups (rather than consumers). The project has languished a bit recently as my focus has been taken up elsewhere, so
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Show HN: Privacy-focussed tools to build and grow your startup(privacyshortlist.com)
2 points by fredrivett 4y ago|1 comments
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by fredrivett 4y ago
Another great place to look is Open AI’s example list: https://beta.openai.com/examples/
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Ask HN: Best AI API's for Developers?
3 points by fredrivett 4y ago|3 comments
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by fredrivett 4y ago
I think this is a good point I didn't convey in my hastily-written-in-10-minutes-blog-post-that-I-didn't-expect-to-reach-the-HN-front-page. I can fall into perfectionism, but I find this a suboptimal mindset for healthy outcomes.
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by fredrivett 4y ago
100% with you on this smitec. It's what I tried to capture in the post, but probably could have put better. The sense of just taking the steps I can today, rather than burdening myself with the expectation of needing to have worked it
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Not Perfect, Just Better(satfax.substack.com)
65 points by fredrivett 4y ago|39 comments
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by fredrivett 5y ago
The other key difference here as far as I understand, is that Telnic required you to register .tel domains, you couldn't bring your own domain and store contact information against that.
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by fredrivett 6y ago
yep, it's still down, failing to install packages for me, says they're working on a fix
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Yet Another Habit App?(yaha.fyi)
3 points by fredrivett 6y ago|0 comments
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Authenticated Routing with React, React Router, Redux and TypeScript(medium.com)
1 points by fredrivett 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredrivett 8y ago
Hey folks For the past few months Barry ( https://twitter.com/pace ) & I have been talking to a bunch of young'uns about their news habits and one thing that keeps coming up is that people are overwhelmed with the ne
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Brexit means Brexit?(thedot.news)
2 points by fredrivett 8y ago|3 comments
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by fredrivett 8y ago
Hey ohazi, thanks for sharing your thoughts here. A point of clarification that didn’t make the article: we’ve not technically raised VC funding yet, we’re in an incubator. But we’ve effectively raised an initial round via our budget, and a
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by fredrivett 8y ago
Hey ausjke. Sounds tough, but congrats on getting this far. I'm not best placed to give advice here, and might need more context to do so properly anyway. I know a good group for bootstrappers, if you want the details my DM's are
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by fredrivett 8y ago
That specific point was that people often start a business because they want the freedom of not having a boss, but in many ways you always have someone you're serving, be it a boss or a customer. The wider point was: both bootstrappi
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by fredrivett 8y ago
Hey Andrew, appreciate your perspective here. I agree bootstrapping itself wasn't the problem. The problem was that I felt my focus on building a business on the side of my day job limiting to what I could do next. At the start of the
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by fredrivett 8y ago
Appreciate your thoughts here Dave, agree with what you say. A quick point of clarification on my situation (author of the post), I didn't take a failing bootstrapped company and get it funding. I stepped away entirely from the bootstr
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by fredrivett 8y ago
I would say you gain different* experiences, not necessarily more valuable. It depends on your circumstances and your goals. Hopefully my perspective on that came through in the post.
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by fredrivett 8y ago
You're right on the 10x being low asprouse, I probably shouldn't have included that. Agree Tiny Seed looks interesting, I actually recommended someone that earlier this afternoon. Great to see new takes on funding businesses and I
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by fredrivett 8y ago
Definitely agree the west coast has it's own culture that's more open to risky ideas and the like.
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by fredrivett 8y ago
Hey kjullien, thanks for the thoughtful comments here. > One thing that is undeniable is that a bootstrap will always leave you in control at the end of the day. I agree bootstrapping gives you more say over which way you take the busine
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by fredrivett 8y ago
It gets messy. As are all startups to one extent or another. You ride out the highs and lows and keep moving forwards. I wasn't trying to say that going the VC route is necessarily easier or better (I hope I made that clear), just that
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by fredrivett 8y ago
> When you take VC, you've just hired yourself a board full of bosses. Agree taking funding brings back an element of having a boss again Alan. It's certainly a trade-off of the VC route, and one of the main reasons I haven&#x2
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Why I switched sides: From bootstrapping to VC(medium.com)
61 points by fredrivett 8y ago|44 comments
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The news is broken: here's how we're fixing it(medium.com)
2 points by fredrivett 8y ago|0 comments
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by fredrivett 8y ago
Haha, it's just a bit of tongue-in-cheek fun really. I don't expect folks to try to con their friends over that they're football mad in reality!

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