kohanz

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by kohanz 2y ago
They are asking about a consumer SAAS
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by kohanz 2y ago
All the replies so far are making me envious of when my weekends were my own (or just me and my girlfriend, now wife). Weekends now revolve around the sports and activities of our children. It's a choice we make and there are a lot of
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by kohanz 2y ago
Congratulations on building something of value and successfully selling it. It's quite the achievement and most don't get to this level. I do have to say, I was somewhat surprised by the low multiple on the valuation, but perhaps
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by kohanz 2y ago
I recommend The SaaS Playbook: Build a Multimillion Dollar Startup Without Venture Capital by Rob Walling.
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by kohanz 3y ago
I also have first-hand experience with this scenario (shared here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043885 ) and if we had followed that line of thinking we would have unnecessarily lost a valuable life. It turns out t
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by kohanz 3y ago
I'm truly sorry for this event, OP. As a father, I cannot fathom how this feels, but I have had a taste of it when my young brother-in-law was in a catastrophic car accident. I hesitate to share this story, because it may again bring h
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by kohanz 3y ago
Thanks for this. Fortunately we got a white Wii U, which it sounds like shipped with Samsung nand and is unaffected by this issue.
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by kohanz 3y ago
I just bought my kid a used Wii U for Christmas. If I only care about his ability to play games offline, should I be concerned?
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by kohanz 3y ago
Your app is profitable but not "ramen profitable". If a business is ramen profitable, it means it's making just enough money for the founders to pay for living expenses
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by kohanz 3y ago
I think that's a subjective interpretation. Others would define a cloud server as any server that someone else owns and you don't have physical access to it.
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by kohanz 3y ago
Are you only looking for huge unicorn-like examples? I founded and bootstrapped a startup the year my 3rd child was born and exited it (for a life-changing amount) about 4 years later. Doing something before you have kids may mean that you
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by kohanz 3y ago
We use puma-dev for this https://github.com/puma/puma-dev
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by kohanz 3y ago
It's working for me, as of 10:43am EST.
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by kohanz 3y ago
The recovery may be in-progress, but while my dashboard came back briefly (with broken charts), I'm now still getting this message: "Sorry, something went wrong. We've already been notified of the problem, but if you need any
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by kohanz 3y ago
Yes, their dashboard has been down since about just before 9am EST. Payment processing and the API seem to still be working. https://twitter.com/stripestatus/status/1674767539065307136 https://status.st
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by kohanz 4y ago
This is a great topic and I support the OP for posting it. However (and as a PoC myself), to me, "Tell HN" is generally reserved for alerting the community to statements of fact (e.g. "Tell HN: AWS us-east-1 is degraded"
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by kohanz 4y ago
I did this. Founded a bootstrapped startup with wife, kids, mortgage, that eventually and unexpectedly led to a life-changing exit. The key is that I didn't jump into it full-time right away. I first transitioned from a full-time job t
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by kohanz 4y ago
I'm not sure if it was your intent, but that comparison makes the fishing output seem even more outsized to me, given the size of the auto industry.
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by kohanz 4y ago
In his jurisdiction (NYC), probably. Not everywhere, even though in places where this is technically prohibited (e.g Canada), it is poorly enforced.
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by kohanz 4y ago
https://www.failory.com/
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by kohanz 4y ago
I don't really get this rule in the context of a startup. In poker, the point is for there to be a win-lose arrangement where you are the winner. Are you saying that one should only consider joining a startup where they consider the fo
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by kohanz 5y ago
Is the parent OP light gray because of the status of the poster or due to downvotes? If it's the latter, it saddens me that this Reddit-esque behavior is finding footing on HN. You may (vehemently, even) disagree with what the parent p
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Veed.io raises $35M from Sequoia Capital(twitter.com)
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by kohanz 5y ago
This is great advice as an employee (which I try to follow and sometimes succeed), but practically impossible to follow as a founder.
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by kohanz 5y ago
Thinking about it in such binary terms is quite limiting and unhelpful though. It's a spectrum. I would consider ScrapingBee closer to a bootstrapped company than a venture-funded company. Heck, by your definition if I took $5k of frie
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by kohanz 5y ago
"There's no excuse" and "it's ok" are not mutually exclusive. The point being that if you have no customers, working on a password reset feature instead of marketing, can be a poor choice. I know of several boo
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by kohanz 5y ago
Not really a dead giveaway. Lawyer is the more commonly-used term in Canada too.
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by kohanz 5y ago
Except that it had a significant outage just a couple of weeks ago. Source: most of our stuff is on us-east-2.
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by kohanz 5y ago
As a counterpoint to the nay-sayers, I personally see value here and would opt for this were it offered to me by my bank, for example. This is not for people who live paycheck to paycheck, of course. However, for people who often have (a so
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by kohanz 5y ago
I suppose it depends on how you look at it. Is it a good living? Yes. Is it commensurate with the value Evan has helped create through Vue.js? Not even close. But that's kind of the deal with open source, isn't it?

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