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It must have been brute forced. I used to create aliases on gmail for different services - eg. [email protected] and it happens that alias is targeted by non-twitter mails.

In general in last year or two (wfh? hehe) I realised that I receive more and more spam for email addresses I don't share at all.

I've also created a small email-forwarding service [1] that I and few friends use for public sharing like conferences or sketchy services (of course I don't mean Amazon here ;) )

[1] https://non-public.email

Re:Ask HN: Why is there no small Android phone? on Sunday February 20, 2022 @11:09AM (#30406742)
Try Samsung A40
I guess a lot of people have been using Revolut's split bill.
Re:Show HN: Help the Restaurants Go Online on Sunday March 21, 2021 @03:52PM (#26533345)
Not a rocket science project nor ML/AI/CRYPTO/ESG/GME - just sharing with the community as I've been a reader for years (literally since the moment I spotted THAT orange page at my friend's desk).

The project idea was pretty simple - assist restaurants with creating and posting their menu online with no cost and no effort.

Motivation behind project: - Plenty of family/friends struggling during the pandemic months - Having my project 'my baby' where man can focus on all aspects of the business, not coding only - Solving the specific problem of hosting multiple subdomains with no/zero effort and maintenance cost - Extending skillset above coding SEO, marketing, building the audience, blogging - Not really profit-oriented, but for sure with ideas how to cover cost of bigger traffic if it comes to that

Highlights/lessons: - Tried out interesting architecture - Get a better feel of AWS services - Realized how nice alternatives are - Netlify, Vercel, FaunaDb (ending using both stacks for cost effective solution) - Finally go a legit reason to try FB and Google ads (the former are pain in the ass if you don't exist on Facebook) - Did some digging for alternatives and included them on the blog - https://blog.emenu.today/ (even added this very post there)

Fails: - Overcomplicating UI/UX - trying to go with unique design instead of casual and familiar bootstrap style for the user - Literally close to 0 users, way more bots signed up for it lol - Maintaining 3 separated pages/projects - landing page, app itself and the blog - could easily be squeezed together in one repo for simple pipeline, editing etc. - Diving into offtopic - like looking the simplest blog editor/creator - for me it was Hexo - hexo.io - Not picking the better idea - recently even FB added the menu tab (still it requires editing menus, generating images and uploading, but people are used to that) - Probably not pushing harder

Any comments, questions welcomed.

Cheers guys!

Love the hidden relation between news data and stocks. Can't wait what's the next step. Could you find correlation between Libra and the related news eg. testimony given by David Marcus and the response by Senate?
Re:Ask HN: Solo app devs, how do you do user testing? on Monday June 18, 2018 @02:24PM (#17340451)
Probably it was already said, but quite crucial in the process would be proper analytics. To see where the user's flow is concentrated or stops at all.
Re:Ask HN: Where do you host your API endpoint? on Friday June 09, 2017 @05:35AM (#14520244)
http://pythonanywhere.com/ is also a good alternative.
Re:Ask HN: How do you overcome fear of failure? on Monday February 13, 2017 @02:38AM (#13633719)
Just jump into the task. Less thinking, more action.

Remember after every failure you are richer - experience is gold and no1 can take it away from you.

After master and 3 years experience I was a trader in a prop firm for one year. And this was...

Best experience in my life, I have learned a lot about myself and that world outside pure IT can be even more astonishing and challenging. Psychological leap I would say, advancing to new level. Despite my friends who couldn't understand with I sacrificed my top salary (yeah, I had it best among my programming friends).

Though I failed (yeah, can admit that proudly, because I tried) and I am back in my profession, with even higher salary then before 1-year challenge I got much better perspective now. I try to widen my horizons more often and in different ways. Oh, and after few months break aiming to jump back into trading on my own account... Real fighters never surrender, right?