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by nicksiscoe 1y ago
How did you decide to build your one sync engine instead of use an off-the-shelf solution? We’re exploring Zero (by Rocicorp), PowerSync, ElectricSQL, and a few others
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by nicksiscoe 2y ago
After the recent NCAA settlement, college athletic departments will (in the next year) be able to distribute as much as $22M+ to student athletes — aka revenue sharing We’re building the tech that General Managers need to manage their roste
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Show HN: FanCave – the twitch chat for live sports(fancave.live)
6 points by nicksiscoe 3y ago|5 comments
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by nicksiscoe 3y ago
This is entirely anecdotal, but reading the comments here it feels like compensation for the bottom 50% of creators has gone down in the last 5-ish years I ran a Minecraft YouTube channel in high school in 2014 (I thought I was too late t
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
I understand the justification for UBI from a labor perspective if all “mundane jobs” are automated, but where I haven’t heard convincing justification is on the more abstract “life purpose” side of things. What happens, regardless of UBI,
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
“You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain”
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
Not to be anti-capitalist, but you’re describing capitalism lol
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
I swear I’ve seen this article title a dozen times over the last dozen years
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
100% it is - wealth is a predictor of “risk-taking” in general (in quotations because the relative risk is actually fairly small when you’re wealthy)
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
Congrats! What are you focusing on to differentiate yourself from Supabase?
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
Your sentiment is not specific to the tech industry. Many who work in tech are quite blessed to have careers that, despite the supposed realities you mention, give them a quality of life others can only dream of.
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
Interesting about the reading text… I can’t recall ever dreaming about written word in any form
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
Random thought dump here.. it’s kind of crazy how we all discuss the implications of the internet and social media on society and culture whilst all seeing dramatically different “versions” of the internet The TikTok/Twitter/Insta
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
complains about six-figure pay while sitting at home at computer eating a snack while waiting for someone to review their pull request
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
The target market (for now) is probably their existing customers looking for better risk management by checking balance data through an authentic bank connection before initiating transactions through other Stripe products they already use.
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
This isn’t always the case, but sometimes I find myself naturally skeptical of people who seem overly interested in what’s going on in my life and overwhelming positive and complimentary of anything I mention - as if the nicer someone is th
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
Does the green check mean the ban is or isn’t being applied?
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
I don't think it's fair to assign blame to "positivity" and "optimism" as others in the comments have. It takes an incredible amount of positivity to start or join a small startup. You have to believe that yo
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
Hey, no need to lump Sgt. Pepper’s into this conversation!
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by nicksiscoe 4y ago
You should pivot to providing a simple API for other developers to integrate their users’ sports getting data into their own apps - I could see that being a really useful thing
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by nicksiscoe 5y ago
To be fair, those are a few exceptions that buck a greater trend of Presidents and lawmakers almost universally attending expensive and prestigious undergrad and graduate institutions
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by nicksiscoe 5y ago
Not that this is super relevant to the article’s thesis, but regardless of necessity… people still like going to college. People will continue to value a college education because people continue to value going to college. People like going
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by nicksiscoe 5y ago
Not to shill in this thread… but I’m 23 and thinking through a lot of the things you’re thinking about right now. I realized recently that there are lots of “unknowns” in my life that I actually could reasonably uncover with a little bit of
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by nicksiscoe 5y ago
There are a lot of cool private companies, especially tech-focused ones, working to disrupt the public sector bureaucracy you’re describing. Might be worth exploring those options? I work at https://payitgov.com . Would be happy
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Ask HN: Know any Calendly-as-a-Service providers?
2 points by nicksiscoe 5y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Human financial advising for college students at no upfront cost
2 points by nicksiscoe 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: DayPaper – Write daily, simply(daypapers.com)
3 points by nicksiscoe 8y ago|0 comments
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by nicksiscoe 8y ago
Hi HN, I'm developing SponsorWhale primarily with the goal of helping content creators monetize their content regardless of their size. Here's how it works: 1) Enter any Amazon product URL and write a tweet-length review of the pr
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Show HN: SponsorWhale Beta – Make money sharing products you love(sponsorwhale.com)
1 points by nicksiscoe 8y ago|1 comments
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by nicksiscoe 8y ago
"Ebay's buyer feedback rating is absolutely useless now, ever since it was made impossible to give negative feedback to a buyer for any reason, including outright fraud." I do agree with your point. Craigslist's lack of

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