rorygibson

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by rorygibson 1y ago
Beautifully written and illustrated. Also informative, and funny. Top marks.
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by rorygibson 5y ago
Hi! Late to the party, but this is exactly the kind of problem that my startup, Trolley, solves. Warning: shameless plug. It's a no-code shopping cart that works with Stripe. We offer Donations that work as you describe. You could che
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by rorygibson 5y ago
Hi! Late to the party, but this is exactly the kind of problem that my startup, Trolley, solves. Warning: shameless plug. It's a no-code shopping cart that works with Stripe. We offer digital downloads that work as you describe. You c
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by rorygibson 6y ago
My consulting work is pretty quiet right now so I'm working lots on Trolley [1] - my payments tool. Lots of people right now seem to be looking for new ways to get paid / make money / start little businesses from home, and be
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by rorygibson 6y ago
I'm slightly surprised by Patreon's pricing, given they're not a discovery platform - it's really just subscription payments and some simple CRM stuff... It's pretty easy to make a simple facility for accepting subs
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by rorygibson 7y ago
The only thing you lost was your humanity?
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by rorygibson 7y ago
I'm using Middleman [1] for the homepage of my product Trolley [2] - love it. As an ex-Rails guy, ERB is so familiar, and the rest of the structure just makes sense. 1 - https://middleman.app 2 - https://trolley.
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by rorygibson 7y ago
Looks pretty flexible and interesting... I particularly like that you can scale-up the complexity of the programming as you get better (eg moving from Scratch to Python to ROS)
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by rorygibson 7y ago
https://www.ideasarecheap.net ^^ I built this more or less on a bet about a year ago. Give it a dollar and it will give you a startup business idea. (No Markov chains here, it's a couple of arrays of industries and keywords
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by rorygibson 7y ago
I built, and run, Trolley [1], a simple payments tool that lets you take payments from any website (or just a link). It's Clojure in the back end, on Postegres, on Heroku. Everything in the product front-end is ClojureScript, with reag
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by rorygibson 7y ago
Substack is cool - but it's kinda expensive. I wrote a short blog a few months ago about how to get most of the benefits it offers with way less cost (and without being tied to a single platform) - plugging together Mailchimp and Troll
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by rorygibson 7y ago
"People don't want chatbots" I'm working with a successful ecommerce company who have hugely improved conversions on their (high touch, bespoke but sold online) product by introducing a chatbot. For some use cases, custo
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by rorygibson 7y ago
https://trolley.link - my payments project. It lets you put a payment button on any website and pop up a cart; single products, donations, deposits, subscription / recurring payments. Customers are using it to power charity
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by rorygibson 7y ago
So much so that I made this for fun a few months ago :) https://www.ideasarecheap.net
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Running a paid email newsletter from a static / JAMstack site(trolley.link)
2 points by rorygibson 8y ago|0 comments
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by rorygibson 8y ago
http://rorygibson.me I've been playing with the typography on the site recently. Not massively happy with it but there you go; I'm sure I'll get round to changing it in a few weeks^H^H^H^H^Hyears I'm mostly a
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How to Take Subscription Payments from a Static (JAMstack) Site(trolley.link)
2 points by rorygibson 8y ago|0 comments
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by rorygibson 8y ago
1) CRUD / data entry systems: stay with request-response. 2) Complex webapps with snappy functionality that need to feel "native" - whatever that means: think about an SPA. Then realise that mostly what you need is (1). 3) Co
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by rorygibson 8y ago
I did a joke side project that encouraged users to pay $1 for a ridiculous startup idea ("Uber for firemen" or "Disrupt the cat grooming industry") It made me $25 - but gave me the next idea. It had turned out to be more
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An opinionated guide to choosing tools to run your startup(trolley.link)
2 points by rorygibson 8y ago|0 comments
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by rorygibson 8y ago
Don't call yourself a freelancer. You're a consultant who helps your clients to improve their businesses. Price accordingly, then over successive engagements, raise prices. As long as you can demonstrate the value, good clients a
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Static site generators and the JAMstack in 2019(trolley.link)
2 points by rorygibson 8y ago|0 comments
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by rorygibson 8y ago
I just - last week - moved from a 2012 retina MBP 13" to a new XPS 13" with Ubuntu 18. Loving it. Also running i3 (actually i3-gaps, + terminator, dmenu, emacs) I also bought a 34" curved ultrawide Samsung, which powers the X
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by rorygibson 8y ago
The old one is, iirc, a clone of the PCOL (Possession Claims Online) system - another MoJ project centred around small claims. PCOL dates from 2006 (I should know, I helped work on it, mostly performance testing using CompuWare to locate &a
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A Journey into Big Data with Apache Spark(towardsdatascience.com)
1 points by rorygibson 8y ago|0 comments
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by rorygibson 8y ago
Most editors have a plugin for "paredit" mode that auto-balances the parens for you. (And code with 50 nested levels of parens is Bad Code, just like too much nesting in a C-like language)
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Getting up and running with ClojureScript (in 2018, with modern tooling)(hackernoon.com)
2 points by rorygibson 8y ago|0 comments
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by rorygibson 8y ago
Might as well jump in here - founder of Trolley [1] which lets you put a payment button on any website, which triggers a Stripe-powered shopping popup. [1] - https://trolley.link
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The simplest static site generator(hackernoon.com)
1 points by rorygibson 8y ago|0 comments
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Quickly validate startup ideas: take payments from a static HTML-only website(medium.com)
1 points by rorygibson 8y ago|0 comments

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