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Volvo group is listed on the stock exchange , Geely has less than 5% of the shares https://www.volvogroup.com/en/investors/the-volvo-share/owne...
Re:$1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @05:06PM (#28923776)
Disclosure: Hindenburg Research does not hold positions, either long or short, in Tether, bitcoin or any cryptocurrency at the time of this press release.
Hi , I have a service were we spider employers websites for jobs, its no a list of fully remote companies , but might be helpful, plenty of jobs not visible on job boards

https://remotists.com/top100_remotejobs/

Re:Is Tesla a car company, or a casino? on Sunday January 17, 2021 @04:09AM (#25809328)
the author explains buying put options , not short selling. in shortselling you borrow shares and sell them , with the promise to give the shares back to the original owner in a later date (so shortsellers hope to buy back the shares later at a lower value)
Re:SimpleSubmitter: Submit your startup to relevant directories on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:31AM (#24567516)
about 20 years ago there were services like this for your newly created website. all these site they submitted to were low quality and never generated any traffic. history repeats
This is so against the basics of GDPR, all these webshops that participate risk fines for non compliance from the moment a EU citizen is being tracked. Even if these are US companies they need to comply
We are running https://formlets.com, wishing them the best, i can tell one thing from experience, we have a free offering too, 100% free is not sustainable,you will need payed accounts to get a sustainable business, within weeks to months (depending on the popularity) the phishing people will find your service and you will need a full time person to track them and remove the forms or your reputation will be toast. Its a brutal market to be in.

Ask HN: Could someone make a contact tracing app

Singapore has a contact tracing app, but we all could use one, if we get into proximity with someone else (with the app) for a number of seconds and close distance it logs it, if a person gets sick he logs it in the app and all people who got into contact the last x days receive a warning. as far as i know it does not exist yet. Companies could ask all employees to install the app.

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Re:Google Cloud Is Down on Sunday June 02, 2019 @05:43PM (#20078465)
Level(3) one of the biggest backbones has issues too, might be related

https://downdetector.com/status/level3

We are currently bootstrapping formlets.com. in a very competitive Form building market. When you use remote talent you can bring your costs down to compete with players with big pockets.
It looked like a city cab, yellow and black and was front in the line of all city cabs waiting in Ezeiza. Looking back at it it was a Peugeot that was too old to be running every day. It had the back seat door handles and window levers removed, something you only see when you are already in the car. In the end i was happy that he let me go. It cost me 200 USD ... it could have been worse.
As a European I lived in Argentina for a year. At one point I took an official looking city cab at the airport and quickly realised that the driver had other intentions than getting me to my apartment. He dropped me off in another part of town after emptying all my pockets, keeping my luggage as ransom. It does not need to be a complex kidnapping for you to feel unsafe.
Re:Ask HN: How did you grow from 100 to 1,000 users? on Saturday April 29, 2017 @02:59PM (#14228125)
For our freemium service , Product hunt gave the biggest boost in free users. Real paying users we get with Google Adwords

https://www.formlets.com

Re:Show HN: Hacker Hall - Virtual Coworking on Friday August 12, 2016 @05:47PM (#12279033)
i think it works better with people you know than looking at strangers working ...
Re:Tips for selling your side project on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @01:24PM (#12256193)
I know that Node.js is the hype but the site was developed by consultants and has plenty of bugs in there that needs solving .. I thought with my JS knowledge that it would be easy to evolve but the reality is different, it is one big mess of dependencies that is difficult to debug if you did not make it yourself ...

You will see that PHP (LAMP)projects are easier to sell than projects in more exotic stacks

I prefer to have all my projects in the same language -> PHP and i all move them to Google APP engine to keep maintenance to the lowest levels

It has nothing to do with performance i prefer to build on technology that I master

Re:Tips for selling your side project on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @01:17PM (#12256126)
I find the sites on the services mentioned in the article, Sideprojects and Flippa

I do due Diligence myself , I have a good technical background and a good digital marketing background.

Re:Tips for selling your side project on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @11:11AM (#12255062)
My experience :

I bought a number of smaller projects that serve as traffic generators to bigger projects, typical freemium services that provide me regular signups on a daily basis.You can make the calc: pay a few thousands for years of free referrals.

I bought a bigger project 10K+ and that has technical issues that need to be resolved (will migrate from Node.js to PHP) but i have an existing customer base that helps understand the problem you try to fix. I am rebuilding the solution but in the same time i can experiment with pricing and traffic generation on the service i bought.. it is a de-risking strategy.

The reason why people sold in general because they don't have the marketing budgets to carry the project when its initial launch spike runs out.

EDIT : I typically pay 5x recurring revenu max or max 1K to 2K for non revenue generating sites that have interesting traffic of an audience I target Edit 2: I want to build a recurring revenue stream to supplement my consulting business

Re:Tips for selling your side project on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @10:18AM (#12254622)
I bought a number of side projects, its a nice way to get a validation of the market. I always like to see a number of paying customers even if it is just a few.
Re:The rectangularness of countries on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @05:37PM (#12125130)
For people who like complex borders

https://www.google.be/maps/place/Baarle-Hertog/

This is a Belgian city enclave within the Netherlands with enclaves of the Netherlands within its borders

Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what? on Monday June 13, 2016 @09:13AM (#11893507)
Maybe this transition comes too soon but moving from coding in to management is a normal progression. It is another job , but in general it values the same qualities you should have as a coder: Understanding the dynamics of the situation and finding the best solution to get the job done. As CTO you should have the flexibility to find other people to help in the things you hate the most and focus on the fun parts.
Re:When Yahoo Reigned Supreme on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:47PM (#11679603)
People seem to forget that overture (bought by yahoo) was the first to do SEA in auction model like google does now
The perfect way to ship narcotics ?
Re:Experience the first website ever made on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @05:22AM (#11018611)
I think a lot of people don't realise there was an internet before the www , i remember using gopher to access the digital city of amsterdam back in my student years ...
Re:Ipv6 traffic just shy of 10% of total on Monday December 14, 2015 @10:30AM (#10731509)
39,69 % for Belgium looks like to be the highest? One of the Biggest PSPs flipped the switch

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