jasonwen

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Google just shut down our $1M business
259 points by jasonwen 4y ago|81 comments
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by jasonwen 7y ago
The real cost is your time. Projects always take longer than you expect, especially if you haven’t done it before (the business part). Product is the easiest and has limited risks if you have decent dev skills. Enterprise is also one of the
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by jasonwen 7y ago
My experience too. Although I mostly order from Amazon Germany. The barrier for selling from Germany is also higher as you need additional tax registrations in Germany since this October.
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by jasonwen 7y ago
The ones who come to mind are Zapier and Basecamp, which has been mentioned earlier. https://zapier.com/learn/remote-work/
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by jasonwen 7y ago
Thanks for starting this Jaclyn. I come from a non-traditional background. More than 10 years ago I started a niche community that grew at its height over 1.5M/monthly visitors. Everything custom built in PHP. Then I co-founded a SaaS
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by jasonwen 7y ago
If the pain point you are solving is big enough, people will accept buggy and slow products regardless. Sometimes its better to ship, especially if you are testing product market fit. A bug free, slick, with awesome tech used, is worth noth
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Tesla’s Approach for Full Self-Driving Gets Validated by Cornell Researchers(teslarati.com)
2 points by jasonwen 7y ago|0 comments
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by jasonwen 7y ago
A lot of solid advice. I’m surprised you learned so much in just your first year. It took me way longer for certain things to realize. Thanks for sharing!
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by jasonwen 8y ago
Amazing achievement. Next step is a successfull return to Earth on 8th March.
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by jasonwen 8y ago
This only relates to iPhone 7 and 8 models, not iPhone XR and XS.
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by jasonwen 8y ago
I have been a passive user on Quora for a while now. At one point several years ago it forced me to sign up for reading an answer. This sucked. However, I started receiving weekly digests, which included interesting questions and answers. I
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by jasonwen 8y ago
So many useless services and so many who believe this year will end in a bullrun. If you ask them why, they can’t give a good answer, or it’s “because last year we had a bull run in December”. I believe in Bitcoin and blockchain, overall I
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by jasonwen 8y ago
I discussed the things that happened specifically on November 14th in my Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-price-of-Bitcoin-plummet-d... It's very very likely because of the Bitcoin Cash fork. It has beco
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by jasonwen 8y ago
Elon Musk won. This was his ultimate plan, to move automakers from fossil fuels. They all made fun of them, execs from traditional automakers, but here they are. We have a lot to thank him for.
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by jasonwen 8y ago
The stories features was also stolen based on data that regular competitors would not have. Facebook used Onavo VPN data from users to see how features affect usage of Snapchat. They can also see which apps are very viral or sticky, which i
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by jasonwen 8y ago
Probably your firewall regexes “rape”
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by jasonwen 8y ago
I like the keyboard. Programming for 10+ years and swithching sometimes to Blue Cherry MXs. What I dont like is the touchbar. Completely worthless and in the way. There is definitely a problem with the dust though, two keys already start to
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by jasonwen 8y ago
Dyson discontinued all their cabled vacuum cleaners when they released the V10.
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by jasonwen 8y ago
There are two use cases at the moment that I can think off: 1. Proving origin and authenticity of a product through the supply chain (car parts, branded bags, wine). In China for example wine companies lose billions because of counterfeit w
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Mac MenuBar App to show current desktop/space
1 points by jasonwen 8y ago|3 comments
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by jasonwen 8y ago
What i understood of this 12M investment was that it invested in its team, not CruyptoKitties, to explore this type of gamification using blockchains.
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by jasonwen 8y ago
I think its an exit scam. He will not be able to sell coins without upsetting his following, because he sells and then announced it on his channels. This will be followed a major dump and his followers will lose significant value during thi
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by jasonwen 9y ago
Amazon FBA businesses, dropshipping, blogs but that will take a while for SEO to kick in, Amazon affiliates, and other affiliate programs but you’ll need traffic to do that.
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Indie Startups: The Ingredients of Success(hackernoon.com)
2 points by jasonwen 10y ago|0 comments
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by jasonwen 10y ago
I noticed myself that i stay motivated by focusing. I have multiple projects running and i can be very motivated and passionate but only one at a time. It's very easy for me to neglect other businesses whenever i'm focusing. If i
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by jasonwen 10y ago
This year we will stop using AdSense altogether. No support at all and the payouts have been declining every year. With the increase of ad blockers, even less encouraging to use ads in general. Sometimes I wonder, are ads as we know it, dea
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by jasonwen 10y ago
One year is too limited in my opinion. If you want to see what people will do with basic income, you have to give them the feeling the money is near infinite. One year looks to me its not enough to drop everything, as you will know it will
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Comodo tries to trademark Let's Encrypt(letsencrypt.org)
2 points by jasonwen 10y ago|0 comments
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by jasonwen 10y ago
Love that the logos from Pentium 3 to 4 went, from flat to embossed glossy https://youtu.be/88ancHxItOc?t=24s
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by jasonwen 10y ago
The news is not about the amount indeed, it's basically pocket money for Ford. However, they go in great lengths to acquire a Tesla through unusual channels. The founders edition are very limited and rare and only given to close friend

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