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Testing is Hard as F*ck(travisdoes.com)
1 points by trussi 13y ago|0 comments
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by trussi 15y ago
Quite interesting! At first, I didn't understand why you only wanted a 200x200 image. I expected it to cut a big picture up into smaller squares and lay them out in a table. But I was wrong! :) It actually creates a 200 row by 200 column ta
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by trussi 15y ago
What are the roles of each person? Is the younger person the hacker and the older person the bizdev? Or vice versa? If the older person is the bizdev and has a lot of domain expertise, then it's a HUGE advantage!
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by trussi 15y ago
The problem I think you are trying to solve isn't much of a problem. I've been developing with CMS applications for 12+ years and have never once ran into any of the issues you described above (failed upgrades, hackings, site-jackings, bugg
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How Jig.com can differentiate itself in the crowded Q&A space - Travis Does(travisdoes.com)
1 points by trussi 15y ago|0 comments
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by trussi 15y ago
Next time... :) Make sure all co-founders' equity is vested. Don't do a 50-50 split. One person needs to have a majority stake. Otherwise, you spend too much effort being a democracy instead of a startup.
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by trussi 15y ago
If you give 40% to a designer, how much are you going to give to your biz dev person (when you need one in three months when your beta is done)? If you both use equity to give to the biz dev and the biz dev requires more than 20% to retain,
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by trussi 15y ago
Car-as-a-service. Nice.
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by trussi 15y ago
Build and install a scaled out application. Multiple AWS instances in a load balanced configuration. Use small instances to purposely bottleneck the available resource pool. Use something like Blitz.io to beat the hell out of the applicat
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by trussi 15y ago
Agreed. Based on lots of experience dealing with off-shore developers, the problem has always been communication. Once a company figures out how to properly communicate the right level of detail, outsourcing becomes a significant force. The
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by trussi 15y ago
Nice work. Glad to see somebody implementing a solution to pretty up QR codes. Only potential issue is the contrast between the foreground and background needs to be enough to properly scan.
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by trussi 15y ago
Check out the specials listed on WebHostingTalk.com. I use unmanaged dedicated servers. Going price for a dedicated Quad Core i7, 12 GB of ECC RAM, 4x2TB is under $150/mo. That's a wicked cheap price for those specs. Obviously if you are g
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by trussi 15y ago
Are you interested in building cutting edge technology or building a business? If you're interested in building a business, then there's a huge amount of opportunity the online communications space! I could probably think of 5 cushy niches
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by trussi 15y ago
Take a look at Tableau. It's super expensive and desktop-based. But it allows for some very powerful, customized data analysis. Build a SaaS version of Tableau and you have a good starting point. You still need to find the problem you are
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by trussi 15y ago
As a developer, I love writing code and solving problems. I spend my Friday nights writing code. I routinely pull all nighters writing code. Did I mention I love writing code? I am going solo on my current project, so I'm having to do al
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by trussi 15y ago
+1 for ASCII art
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by trussi 15y ago
You get even more bang for your buck if you combine two existing products. Combine HootSuite and SocialOomph and you have a rockstar Twitter manager. Synergy is a wonderful thing.
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Your Itch Sucks. Scratch Somebody Else's.(travisdoes.com)
2 points by trussi 15y ago|0 comments
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by trussi 15y ago
Single best post I have ever read on HN. Thanks for sharing!
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by trussi 15y ago
Doing a .Net startup myself, I'd like to think I'm not the only one. I'd surmise that there's actually quite a few people using a Microsoft stack in the startup community. They just don't talk about it much. Obviously, if you choose the .
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by trussi 15y ago
If you have clear technical requirements defined, use oDesk. Put out a $25-50 test job. Make sure to invite as many contractors as you can (the oDesk UI is absolute garbage, so this is a slow, painful process). Pick the 10 best for the te
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by trussi 15y ago
There's a big difference between investors and a support network. Very few (any?!) investors are really going to help you with the grunt work of making the business successful. Never assume that a good investor is a good operations person o
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by trussi 15y ago
Good point. My brain is hardwired to think product == SaaS product. So I'm only referring to using this strategy for a SaaS product. I think it works with a SaaS product, assuming you keep all business related stuff (Domain registration,
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by trussi 15y ago
Friends & Family (F&F) is the quickest and easiest. Spread it out over several people and spread it out in 3 month payments. Make sure you set very specific milestones and a very concrete go-no-go milestone, so you fail as quick a
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by trussi 15y ago
Where your IP 'lives' matters entirely! If a Swedish company owns the IP and the IP is on servers there, US courts can't touch it. How can a US court have any jurisdiction on a corporation or a data center in another country? I think it wo
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Ask HN: Anybody putting IP offshore to protect against patent issues?
1 points by trussi 15y ago|4 comments
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by trussi 15y ago
There are a bunch of triggers you want to include in the agreement, like what if one of the founders become incapacitated or gets divorced? Will the survivor/ex-wife now be your boss? You'll need to either dig up a well-written agreement
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by trussi 15y ago
This is based on a love of b2b saas products that focus on increasing productivity... First, ditch consumer. They don't pay and are very fickle. Lots of lookie-loos. And it's really hard to actually solve a problem for them because they
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by trussi 15y ago
Definitely #2. Here's what you're advantage is: access to good, cheap developers. Everybody and their mother is trying to find good, cheap developers. You are the bridge. Don't go the traditional consulting route though. Here's your strateg
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by trussi 15y ago
I signed up for SerpIQ. Clean UI, but the UX needs work. You present good data, if the user knew what to do with it. Close the loop and tell me. Don't make me become an SEM expert. You're the expert. Just tell me what I should do with

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