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Ask HN: Feedback on a Task Management Tool with Pomodoro Timer for Solo Hacker
I have been using and tried various task management tools (Trello, KanbanFlow, Todoist, etc) for years. Though these tools work fairly well, none of them focus on solo hacker and few have a built in timer (especially Pomodoro) to keep track of productivity.I am in the midst of consolidating my experience and ideas to build a better tool for myself (and hopefully useful to other solo...
Ask HN: What do you think of Streak Gamification
It's pretty common these days for apps to implement Streak Gamification, where you gain a streak for doing something each day, and loose all the streak if you skip one day.What do you think of Streak Gamification?- Does Streak motivates you to do things?- Is it counter productive?- Are you worry about losing streak when you are sick or going for holidays? Or do you still clock in just to...
Ask HN: Business model for content creator
If you are a content creator, there is a few business model available- If you start a blog, you can serve ads (e.g. Adsense) or join Medium membership program.- If you create video for YouTube, join YouTube partner program.- If you stream game, join Twitch affiliate program.- If you are an artist or creator, create a Patreon.- If you are working on a new project, there is Kickstarter.Is there...
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Ask HN: Early adopters for hire
Most of the time, the founder are the only ones who give a shit about their own products. Most of the time, we can't get early adopters from our social circle, and the majority/laggards will only take note of your product when it become wildly popular.What if we have early adopters for hire: - these people have some interest with what you are doing, and agree to be paid to be early adopters -...
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stackshare.io like one liner, where I prefer people to be more descriptive on why and how they use it.
It show Company XXX use this and that, but didn't show why they choose it, and to do what.
StackBus also double up as your tech resume :)
- Since money is not an issue, we can cross out the need to get a job to make ends meet and start thinking about fun things to do.
- I believe Idea is not a light-bulb moment after meditation for 6 months in your room; it sort of require you try doing different things in order to bump into the light-bulb moment.
More random advices:
- Do u like Hardware or Software? Assuming you are into tech ideas.
- Unless you have partners and funding, the scope of your project need to be within your own capabilities in order to reach mediocre success in terms of user adoptions.
- You don't need the best idea, just good enuf idea which interest you. Why passion/interest in important? So that you will work on it even though there is no money and users for 6 months, and you use/like your own product.
- Discipline. Build/Ship something every month is an interesting idea.
- follow your passion, not the money. when you work on your startup, do you truly enjoy at least some part of it, or just following the hype or hoping to become millionaires?
- are you well off where money is not an issue? if money is an issue, get a job; you can choose to work with well-off Malaysian startup like GrabTaxi.
- rather than keep thinking about money making startup, just work on small projects which you found interesting. e.g. https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/
Ask HN: Request Submission of Engineering Post of Stack Adoption
I am building StackBus (http://www.stackbus.com/) for users to share their stacks (languages, frameworks, tools, etc.) and about reasons of why to choose it and what they build with it.I was thinking it would be better if we could archive articles on how certain company or product adopt certain stacks, such as: -...
Woofoo (about 7 people) did remote, but the founder admit it's tough and challenging even for such a small and motivated company (imagine your workforce > 1000 people), though there are some obvious benefits.
It's not just about tools (slack, skype, etc.) and finding a procedure that works, but more about company culture, motivation, discipline, adaptation to remote environment, family at home, etc. Not every employee could survive a remote environment and continue to be productive :(
Before everyone could work from home, maybe the idea of multiple office location/work-space (rather than centralized) could be explored, yet it will have many pros and cons.
The purpose is to provide more insights and usage statistics when evaluating something new (server, language, framework, database, IDE, etc.).
It also double up as your online tech resume.
Hope you guys find it useful :)
Show HN: StackBus, what stack you use, why and what you build?
Whenever a new stack popup, I always wonder 1) who us it 2) why they use it 3) what they use it for
Hopefully more people share their stacks on http://www.stackbus.com/ (FYI, I build it) so that it help others to decide better.
Hopefully more people share their stacks on http://www.stackbus.com/ (FYI, I build it) so that it help others to decide better.