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Re:Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better by aussieguy1234 on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:33AM (#24154462)
For me I find the fact I can grow my startup at my own pace without pressure is a good thing.

I still have my day job as a software engineer, so I won't be running out of money any time soon. My employer reduced my hours by 20% and I'm working from home because of covid, giving me more time to focus on side projects. My product (https://expose.sh) is basically complete and unlikely to change in a massive way.

For now I'm just starting to get good at social media ads. After work I set up some campaigns, then review the results the next day and tweak them.

Re:Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better by 5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV on Friday August 14, 2020 @07:13AM (#24156443)
Your mobile experience is quite jarring (the way you did your menu). I'd suggest not removing the other menu and just having two different menus and toggling the other sliding in. Didn't check the code but that's probably it, the menu getting removed and the content jumping up
Re:Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better by aussieguy1234 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @07:22PM (#24230182)
Thanks, I've updated it to a floating menu that doesn't move content when its opened and did a minor revamp of the mobile experience of the site
Re:Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better by auggierose on Friday August 14, 2020 @05:09AM (#24155592)
Maybe it's a case of "If you have to ask what it does it's not for you", but from the expose webpage it is not clear to me at all what it does.
Re:Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better by aussieguy1234 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @07:27PM (#24230228)
It will give a server (website or api) you have running on your local machine a public url.

Like @beaconstudio below mentioned it could be used to test webhooks. Other uses are testing local sites on mobile devices, like I just did to give the mobile experience of expose.sh a revamp. Its faster than running adb, rooting your phone or connecting a cable and doing mobile debugging.

There are other tools, although expose.sh is focused purely on http/https and not other protocols, this makes the syntax a bit easier as you don't have to specify a protocol, just a port i.e. "expose 80" instead of "ngrok http 80" (using ngrok as an example).

Re:Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better by beaconstudios on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:01AM (#24156755)
I've used similar services for Web hooks - if you're developing eg. a slack bot you'd have to deploy to a public url constantly without a tool like this, which shows down development considerably.
Re:Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better by yakshaving_jgt on Friday August 14, 2020 @06:44AM (#24156232)
Looks like a competitor to ngrok.
Re:Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better by noychery on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:46AM (#24157165)
Author of the article here. Good point! I think going solo can also provide peace of mind, in a way.