jblake

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by jblake 5mo ago
Yeah that sounds like a lot of fun, but alas no time for that. I think I need to stick with Datadog logs and use Sentry for errors. I was excited to try to get everything into one tool, but that doesn't seem realistic. Datadog is just
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Observability Stack – AI First?
1 points by jblake 5mo ago|3 comments
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by jblake 3y ago
Funny timing, my app for Shopify is for merchants to sell tickets, and it's featured on the App Store home page right now.
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by jblake 5y ago
I could discuss it with Andrew, but every case will be unique and necessitate its own approach. If I could make one suggestion for anyone dealing with a software patent issue, from my crash-course, is to look into Alice (2014)[1] under Sect
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by jblake 5y ago
I just spoke with Andrew and he was incredibly helpful and is going to help me out. Whew. Thank you Andrew and HN!!
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by jblake 5y ago
Yes, my case is on Pacer.
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by jblake 5y ago
Wow, thanks Andrew! I sent you an email with the lawsuit. I look forward to hearing from you. What an amazing community!!
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by jblake 5y ago
Thank you. I have not personally been served, I found out about it via emails from two different patent attorney firms offering their services, with the lawsuit attached as a courtesy. The lawsuit looks legit to me. I live in Tahoe so don&#
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by jblake 5y ago
The case details does not detail an asking amount. I could post the case details here if people think that's a good idea. I suppose it's public information anyway.
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by jblake 5y ago
You are not alone!
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by jblake 5y ago
I've never worked with a lawyer before. How do I pick one? Should I pick one in my state - Nevada? Should I post the case details here? I guess I was hoping someone on HN had a connection or is an IP lawyer themself, as I have no idea
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Ask HN: I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?
833 points by jblake 5y ago|308 comments
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by jblake 6y ago
- Monitor (with Bugsnag) and fix all errors/exceptions like its your religion. No new feature dev if there's an open bug. Write tests. - Use Heroku. Monitor metrics to ensure you don't have major performance issues - Use Data
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Ask HN: Best way to have a “hot standby” dev machine? (mac)
1 points by jblake 6y ago|3 comments
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by jblake 6y ago
Thanks, I will email you. Not a bad idea on the accountant, but finding (a good) one is indeed the hard part. How do I even vet that? I hate "hiring" for something I don't know a lot about. As for tax benefits, my understandi
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Managing an S-Corp (after switching from a Sole prop)
2 points by jblake 6y ago|2 comments
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by jblake 6y ago
I'm so excited for Starlink! As a solo founder I do all of my support, but I like to frequently go off-roading and camping outside of cell service. I have a satellite messenger for critical things, but it still leaves me feeling quite
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by jblake 6y ago
I work remote now (well I run my own software co), and with nothing tying me down I settled on San Diego a few years ago. Love it here, but it's very expensive (looking to buy soon) and I miss the mountains (and green stuff)... so I&#x
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by jblake 6y ago
A few years ago I was using Beanstream and paying $0.25 per transaction, no percentage points.
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by jblake 7y ago
I run a SaaS company for event organizers (sell tickets, etc)... it's a ghost town. It's kind of nice actually, I get to catch up on work in peace. I've been installing and customizing Datadog, fixing some rare bugs, finally
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by jblake 7y ago
I run a Saas business solo, for eight years now, netting six figures, and I've been on Heroku the entire time for just under $1,000 a month. Monolithic rails app on a single database, 300 tables. Sometimes I feel teased by 'moving
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by jblake 7y ago
Agreed, I've been using Heroku about 8 years now for my solo SaaS business. The most I've ever done in dev-ops is restarting a server and upgrading postgres versions. However, paying around $800/mo, I do fantasize sometimes o
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by jblake 7y ago
Self employed in CA, single, $225 per month, no subsidies.
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by jblake 7y ago
Heroku. Used to be paying around 1,500 month, but with some major surgery got it down to ~$750. You can't really go any lower without becoming a "hobby" app.
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Ask HN: Marketing graphic design templates or apps for solo founder?
1 points by jblake 7y ago|0 comments
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by jblake 7y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Heroku yet. I'm a one man business too, and 90% of the details in this post I don't even have to worry about. Sure I pay a pretty penny for it - at least a thousand a month - but it just wor
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by jblake 7y ago
Love my SE. Replaced the battery for $15 off Amazon yesterday. With replacements available on ebay for under $100, I don't have to baby my phone or use a case. If apple offered a modern SE, I'd probably buy it, but I'm also
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by jblake 7y ago
Usually I'll let the points sit and use them when I have to travel - so the points never touch my bank accounts. I'm not a tax expert, but for that reason I don't bother reporting any income on it
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by jblake 7y ago
As a small business owner, what I like about the Chase business cards is rewards come back in the form of points that I can easily transfer to my personal cards. It sounds like Stripe applies them towards the statement, i.e., benefit goes t
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by jblake 9y ago
The way I set this up in my accounting system was to pile all first data deposits into an asset clearing account, create a bill to pay the client, and then record a payment from that clearing account. Since the IRS only sees income & ex

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