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by malcolmocean 7mo ago
in the application form. it explicitly states which visas it sponsors: J-1, TN, E-3, sometimes O-1, and says "Softmax is not able to sponsor H-1B visas for this role."
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by malcolmocean 4y ago
The idea that what matters most is having the most followers is very arbitrary and not relevant to many strategies for enjoying Twitter. In my experience, Twitter is best as a place to have conversations, and this is optimal at some number
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by malcolmocean 5y ago
(author here) Well detected! Yes, I do have an financial interest in this semantic battle. I haven't read Scott Adams' whole book but I found myself called to respond to his take when people were rejecting my app or my other writi
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Tools for keeping focused – attention is scarcer than time(benkuhn.net)
2 points by malcolmocean 6y ago|0 comments
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by malcolmocean 6y ago
I've found some shifts in my language have helped with this. Here's some examples from a blog post I wrote on this awhile ago: Instead of "Some people are born to be singers—I’m not one of them." ▶ try "I didn’t sta
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by malcolmocean 7y ago
(Creator of complice.co here, summoned by HNWatcher.) I'm glad to see this thread because yeah, most productivity apps are just organization structures that don't support metacognition at all, and so people end up in all kinds of
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by malcolmocean 8y ago
I'm the creator of Complice and it was indeed made largely by me (I have another collaborator but he joined after it was already making over $3k/mo) but I wouldn't call it simple! Both the software itself and in relation to y
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by malcolmocean 9y ago
Creator of Complice here. I agree it's sad the rooms are empty! I thought it would be way easier than it turned out to be, to get a room off the ground. There are a few private ones that are consistently active, but for some reason I
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
Here's the Hacker News room, for instance: https://complice.co/room/hackers (Not a lot of people in it lately, but we could change that ;) )
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
There is something important to be said about the effect of having a really clear sense of purpose. I think this is seriously underrated. But I think it's also the case that part of how we discover purposes to orient towards is thinkin
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
I remember a classic breakdown of 7 areas of life which has in a few places when reading about goals etc: Career, Family, Financial, Mental, Physical, Social, Spiritual. These aren't terrible decent, but I think Alex's breakdown
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
I run a productivity app called Complice ( https://complice.co/ ), which is currently making me about $3k/mo. If you want to learn tons more about the process of getting to profitable, you can read my profile on IndieHac
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
Too content with your life? Think bigger. eg... http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ ...it doesn't have to be climate change per se. The point is that if you don't see things to improve on a given level, look
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
Fixed! Thanks muchly.
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
Totally agreed. I think I have a few years at least before I need to worry about VR market saturation crowding me out though :P It's an interesting question of whether it might make sense for me to get into that space with Complice (wh
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
Strangers has worked in some of the earlier rooms I've worked with... I think the issue here is that it's basically all strangers to start. It's easy to add a few new people to some who already know each other, but harder to
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
Awesome! Yeah I find it can work very well with teams, including in-person (you don't use the video or chat as much, but it's still cool to be in sync and see what each other is working on.)
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
I'm kind of a jack-of-all-trades, so I did all of my own design. I don't know that I could get hired by a big company to do design work, but I'm good enough to make my own UIs. One thing that has helped a lot is doing a lot o
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
I got a ton of signups to Complice yesterday via the IndieHackers HN launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12269425 ) so I thought it would be cool to see if we could coalesce a new little community of people doing po
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Show HN: Hacker Hall - Virtual Coworking(complice.co)
147 points by malcolmocean 10y ago|29 comments
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
I described this in pretty great detail over on IndieHackers ( https://indiehackers.com/businesses/complice ) and also answered a bunch of related questions on this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
I really like this "I'm feeling kind of lucky" feature that Google search used to ship with Firefox and that still works: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navc... It goes straig
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
Hmm. I think my biggest milestone came when someone signed up for the free trial, didn't respond at all to the personal "how is the trial going?" message... didn't respond to my "btw, your trial is ending in a coupl
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
I reached out to some friends of mine, pitching them something like "I'm developing a system to help you achieve your goals. It's based on daily planning and reflection. Paypal me $10 for the first month if you're intere
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
I mean, mean is better than median in that if you multiply it by time then it gives you the sum. But mean over what period? It's a bit complex. I think that probably @csallen was using "peak" because some of the projects had
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
Founder of Complice ( https://complice.co/ ) here, one of the sites featured ( https://indiehackers.com/businesses/complice ). I'm game to answer questions that people have that weren't answered
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
I'm the founder of Complice, one of the sites featured. It took me a bit under 2 years to reach my "poverty threshold" target, working an estimate of 20h/week on average. To break it down further, it was more like 5-15 h
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by malcolmocean 10y ago
I started Complice ( https://complice.co/ ) 2.5 years ago while in university, with the goal of making enough money by graduation that I didn't have to get a job. I succeeded at that, and have now grown it to about twice
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Just Do a Thing (that nobody’s expecting you to do)(malcolmocean.com)
3 points by malcolmocean 11y ago|0 comments
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by malcolmocean 11y ago
I've had a similar-but-different experience around being taken seriously with my app Complice. I'd be making small talk with other entrepreneurs (often students or whatever) and people would regularly break the ice with, "So

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