The New American Micro-SaaS Dream
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From 3/6/2019, 4:11:30 PM till now, @raunometsa has achieved 832 Karma Points with the contribution count of 181.
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Ask HN: How Do You Feel?
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Ask HN: I interviewed 30 solo dev founders. AMA
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Show HN: How to start a startup as a solo developer?
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Plausible comes into my mind: how Uku found his co-founder in marketing and how things took off from there.
They're now at $1M ARR: https://microfounder.com/blog/cofounder-in-marketing
(also open-source btw)
I did use Sentry and my problem was solved when I removed it.
Maybe yes. It was very weird: even without sending any error messages to Sentry, it was still slow just by having the composer package installed. Some Sentry DNS thing? (https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/php/guides/laravel/#configu...)
I wake up to discover that my site https://remotehunt.com is super slow. First thing I do is visit HN to see what's up and I instantly see that Sentry is down.
I'm using Sentry to monitor logs and it now makes sense. Ok, so I remove Sentry from Laravel's error handler but nothing changes. And it's weird because sometimes it works, sometimes not. I tweak some things on Cloudflare (turning on Under Attack mode etc).
I still have this feeling that maybe it's related to Sentry: I'm using it and HN says it's down. So I go and remove the composer package as well, just in case. And it worked.
It took like an hour... I didn't use Sentry anyways :)
What did I learn: do not depend on external services if you really don't need it.
Thanks for your feedback! The data comes from the companies directly (I've been talking to a lot of remote companies) or from their public sources like their website.
I like all your 4 things to improve – will be working on them!
Can you give me your brutally honest feedback about my side project?
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"Remote Hunt – Find your next remote startup to join"
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How does it look like?
New remote startups on the front page, every day:
1) What are they building? Screenshots of their products.
2) Where is their remote team located? (is there a city close to you to sometimes work together?)
3) How is their remote culture? (flexible hours? async/sync? if and how many company retreats?)
4) Which benefits they offer? (health, paid home tech, co-working space budget, etc.)
Why should you visit Remote Hunt?
1) You probably have a job already. Maybe you're thinking about joining a new team, maybe not – doesn't matter.
2) You visit Remote Hunt (every day/week?) to discover remote startups. Why? Because maybe you discover a new cool product you'd like to work on, or a company culture you resonate with.
3) So basically: life is too short to work on a product you're not excited about. Come back to Remote Hunt and see what other remote startups are building and see if – at any point in time - you'll find something cool to work on, and then apply.
Now that you know about my side project, will you come back tomorrow or next week to check out the new remote startups? If not, then why? Be honest with me, I can take it.
Show HN: Remote Hunt – Find your next remote startup to join
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Solo Developers Making $1,100,000 per Month
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I love your term "mood driven development" (or MDD for short?). I know Gumroad is doing this to at least some extent:
"At the end of the day there's a lot of emotion that goes into Gumroad, that's not dissimilar from an art project. We sometimes pick what's fun and feels good to work on! We love listening to creators! We don't do tons of data analysis to decide what's worth working on." – @shl, founder
I wrote about it more on my post "Startups should be more like art projects" (link somewhere in the comments already, won't add it here again not to spam)
>> Upon reflection, I believe I've been implicitly doing this on tasks for side projects.
Yes, me too. I wrote about it here: https://remotehunt.com/blog/startup-art
"The way I work on my side-project is very different from the way I work as a developer at a startup. But what's the difference?"
TL;DR
a) startup: I work on what I have to
b) side project: "I work on what excites me the most at this moment."
While it's probably impractical to choose your spot for the night based on your cat's, I think there's actually something we can learn from here:
"Cats will sleep in a variety of different locations, each likely the combination of factors such as mood, warmth, light and coziness." [emphasis mine]
And I think we – humans – should also follow our mood more often in our everyday lives – even things like sprint planning or building our startups. I feel there's something hidden in the feeling of how you feel (your mood).
For example, you look at these 5 tasks in your backlog and choose what you want to work on based on your mood/excitement/feeling.
Maybe the level of excitement you feel for the task is a message from your "unconscious" mind saying that this task is a good one to do right now? And even if that's not the case, you'll just feel better doing a task that you feel excitement for rather than the one you don't feel like doing right now.
Advatages? 1) you just feel better (which I don't have to explain why that is good for you) and 2) you probably finish the task quicker and with a better quality
I've been keeping a list of remote companies who offer flexible hours here if anyone is interested: https://remotehunt.com/remote-companies-with-flexible-workin...
Let me know how to improve this!
>> I suspect alternate analytics companies are going to love Google for this decision.
Oh yes! https://twitter.com/MarkoSaric/status/1504121261915574273
Nice! And side projects > resume
HostiFi had a good $3k MRR when the founder got fired. And I think reaching the initial $3k or $5k is so important because it shows that people are willing to pay for your product.
But the other startup Bannerbear actually didn't have a decent revenue, making only $234 MRR. The founder contributes the MRR growth to a mindset change:
"I think that mental switch was important. Getting a job was no longer an option, it was Bannerbear or bust."
I agree that it's the most difficult growth phase. "Funded by technical debt" is an interesting way to say about building something quickly and well enough to work. Loved it.
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