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Re:Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? on Friday June 08, 2018 @12:02PM (#17266743)

David Cancel will probably still sell yet another company for 7+ figures eg https://www.drift.com/

Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housing shortage... on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:17PM (#16924406)

Correct regarding the 9am comment. I live 30mi west of Boston and it is essentially an automatic 90min if I were to leave my house at 730am. For reference, it is 35min w/o traffic. Natick, MA seems to have become the "I can't afford Newton and Wellesley" town. Prices are crazy.

I thought the removal of physical toll booths from the Mass Pike would help. I have seen absolutely no benefit.

Re:When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go? on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:36PM (#15789830)

Couldn't agree more. Also didn't want to be that person tracking calories ... but now that I do and can look back, my perspective is more of "let's face it, losing weight is not easy" and those people tracking were doing hard work.

But you realize, finding your macro deficit combined with an app like my fitness pal makes it SIGNIFICANTLY easier. Losing weight becomes simple arithmetic.

Alcohol is rough. So many people have no idea what a drink actually contains calorie wise. Even the new and popular alcoholic seltzers will list something like "100 calories", and then the nutrition facts will list something like "5 carbs". With 4 calories per carb ... 4 * 5 does not equal 100. It is more accurate to just take the calorie count of 100 and divide by 4. Now you have a 25g of carbs drink, which is fine, but you need to factor that into your daily tracking.

Alcohol has calories per gram, but it isn't required to be listed. This makes craft beers very interesting. Take a 16oz can of some double IPA at 8% and boom, you have around 320 calories in that one drink ... or 80 carbs if you look at it that way.

I've tried to simplify it a bit with this calculator that actually factors calories/g of alcohol.

http://www.thealccalc.com/

Re:Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea on Monday October 30, 2017 @09:23PM (#15590463)

I used to think Dane Maxwell of The Foundation was the crazy one, and all those infopreneurs with blogs were geniuses.

I’ve since realized how wrong I was. Dane’s big thing was about interviewing small businesses, finding a pain and then being paid to solve that pain with a saas product. Seems pretty logical to me now.

Re:eBay launches visual search tools that let you shop using photos on Thursday October 26, 2017 @12:09PM (#15560177)

Some brilliant mind who lurks on HN should create a competitor to eBay. Not some online yard sale where you have to meet people in person for the exchange, but a nice online marketplace for people to sell their stuff.

If this already exists, do tell.

In my opinion, eBay for sellers (outside of maybe the power sellers. I've sold <100 items) is a nightmare.

I sold a Tiffany necklace a few months back. The buyer reported to eBay it was fake and I was ordered to refund the seller and they could keep the fake item. Long story short, over a span of a few weeks, I was lucky enough to get an original receipt from Tiffany and supply it as evidence, which almost still did not work.

More recently, I listed an old iPhone with a "buy it now". Sold in like 30 minutes to someone with an "@god[dot].com" email requesting I send the phone first and then he will pay me. It took a week or longer for me to challenge this. I even have settings to disallow certain types of eBay users based on ratings etc. eBay still charged me a listing fee.

I had success doing a non buy it now sale after that. Maybe that is my only option now.

I don't even feel like getting into how slow their seller admin tools are ...

Re:New React website on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:37PM (#15367362)

Before even finishing your comment, in my head I was saying "compared to vue.js where the tutorials instantly clicked for me". I'm no master js guru, and agree completely with you.

Re:Launching a Product with No Money and No Customers on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @09:17PM (#15128991)

I'm blanking on his name but this sounds like the teachings of The Foundation (thefoundation.com)

I have no affiliation, but I recall podcasts where he repeats over and over that you just need to interview small biz and find real pains they'd pay for.

Re:Show HN: The best time to visit any city on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @04:22PM (#15076035)

Maybe we can partner up :). I made http://www.averageweather.io for a very similar reason.

Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't? on Friday July 07, 2017 @06:57PM (#14722876)

http://www.averageweather.io

I have no content, thus no SEO, which has dramatically limited traffic.

Paid search is extremely effective to get people on my site, but AdSense doesn't cover the costs.

Re:Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start? on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @11:44AM (#14042932)

So true. I started side projects so many times without staying consistent and it created this self fulfilling prophecy of "I'm not good enough at coding, I can't build a real web app". Then for http://www.averageweather.io I finally decided to just keep working at it every day. After a few months I was comfortable with python, Django, js, heroku, and postgres to the point where I felt I could build anything I wanted if I just put in the time.

Then something like http://www.thealccalc.com took me like an hour since it is far less complex.

So ya, just keep at it, google for answers to your questions and just keep learning.

Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:23PM (#13932859)

http://www.averageweather.io

I've got a database of over 2k locations searched and over 27k days of weather searched.

Must have some advertising value ... ?

Site has been live for ~6months

People seem to love it for wedding planning: https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingplanning/comments/5y8dwp/web...

Re:What are you working on? on Monday March 20, 2017 @02:21PM (#13916406)

Please ignore the footer bug, but something like this? http://www.averageweather.io/monthly/boston/ma/10/

Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup? on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:37PM (#13888947)

You may disagree but I feel we are in an age of transparency. TripAdvisor, yelp, cargurus, Amazon reviews etc. Consumers want to know as much detail as possible prior to a purchase or visiting a hotel.

My big point is that one of the remaining non transparent industries is nightlife. Bars create fake lines and charge bogus covers.

I just feel like technology could improve this.

Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup? on Thursday March 16, 2017 @09:53AM (#13884965)

It amazes me how many hiring platforms/tools there are. Greenhouse, lever etc. It's like I see a new one every day.

Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup? on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @10:59PM (#13882104)

If I consider my industry going to bars to drink then the problem is lines.

In 2017, I shouldn't walk/uber 20min in 20 degree weather to a bar only to find a 30min line which also has a surprise cover charge at the door.

I've thought about this a lot and have some ideas...

Re:What are you working on? on Sunday March 12, 2017 @02:53PM (#13852345)

So you'd want to search like all of July at once, and so on? Is that right?

Re:What are you working on? on Saturday March 11, 2017 @11:21AM (#13845912)

http://www.averageweather.io - get average weather data, fast. Great for planning vacations, weddings, which marathon to pick etc.

I shared on r/weddingplanning and it shot to the top which was exciting. Made $20 in Adsense and had 2k visits in one day.

I've also had some tweets from people with 100k+ following, so for around a week now I am averaging like 300 uniques a day.

So, now I ask, how can I make some real side cash? All ears.

https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingplanning/comments/5y8dwp/web...

Re:ASK:HN Recommendations on new sources of income on Thursday March 09, 2017 @12:20PM (#13830797)

I am getting a lot of traffic in the past week to http://www.averageweather.io yet my SEO doesn't seem to change. I'm the #2 most upvoted post on r/weddingplanning in the past 24 hours. I did 2k visitors yesterday.

Any advice? Current revenue is 100% AdSense.

Re:Nike’s Vivid Shoes, and the Gray Area of Performance Enhancement on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:36PM (#13826736)

Lance Armstrong was just on Howard Stern and he brought up how in the very early cycling days, riders would run fishing line to a cork...hide the cork in their mouth while the other end was hooked up to their team/pace car. Old school blood doping.

Before judging him, I'd listen to the interview and his interview on Joe Rogan.

Point being, especially in cycling, people are always finding new ways to cheat and get an edge.

Re:To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @11:12PM (#13817836)

I took the commenter to mean getting work done. Like, your long commute isn't made up by the fact you can sit and code on the train ... because odds are you can't sit. I actually now live outside Boston and good luck getting a seat on the commuter rail to do real work, unless you live far out on an early stop.

Re:“What’s your current salary?” is a trap question–Here's how to answ... on Friday February 24, 2017 @12:45PM (#13725800)

Well that'll do it.

Re:“What’s your current salary?” is a trap question–Here's how to answ... on Friday February 24, 2017 @12:37PM (#13725724)

Very much agree. Just get the salary discussion done with up front. Saves both parties time IMO.

Re:“What’s your current salary?” is a trap question–Here's how to answ... on Friday February 24, 2017 @12:35PM (#13725703)

Apparently in MA, USA, where I live, it is illegal to ask this[1]. It is brought up on Business Radio often (sirius xm 111). Although strangely, the host always thinks the law applies just to woman, which I'd find very odd. However, I am not sure people abide by it.

1. https://qz.com/749476/massachusetts-salary-history-job-inter...

Re:Txt.fyi on Thursday February 23, 2017 @03:29PM (#13717449)

Is it wrong to be bothered by the lack of favicon?

Re:Learn web development: Django Web Framework on Friday February 10, 2017 @09:25AM (#13615520)

Well, this is exactly what I was looking for. I am still a pretty new, self taught developer, and during my trials and tribulations I fell in love with python and django. Now it seems React is the cat's meow, so I have started to look into it and was wondering how it could work well with Django. Than k you

Re:Node v7.5.0 Released on Friday February 03, 2017 @11:58AM (#13561191)

I pay $16/month for Heroku. Is AWS really that much cheaper?

Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:13PM (#13557613)

How much did that sales rep get in commission? ;-)

Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:24PM (#13556847)

Ugh. Handled. Thanks

Re:Computer Science Education on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:53PM (#13552690)

I had the same excitement ... then seemed to find nothing resembling a path to a CS degree.

Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:49AM (#13551965)

Nice. I think my http://www.averageweather.io web app fits in well here, but I guess I will wait and see if it gets approved. Quick and to the point, useful web apps.