prasenjit_pro
prasenjit_pro on Hacker News
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:24AM
from the self-post dept.
I can sense your contempt. But hear me out here.There are some counter-intuitive advantages to taming that inner instinct and natural pride a developer has, which makes him/her want to always develop stuff instead of paying for it. Here is a couple…1. You will be able to relate: Till I started paying for stuff, I had a hard time relating to people who pay for stuff. That’s not a helpful mindset...
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Thursday December 01, 2022 @01:50AM
from the self-post dept.
Entrepreneurship is a ride of discomfort. You are almost as a rule doing things that are outside your comfort zone. I have in so deep I can’t find my way back to my comfort zone. While I was gone, someone came and walked away with it, I think. Or at least, that’s what it feels like for the time being.a) I am not a writer, but I write.b) I am a programmer at heart, but I market what I have...
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @03:18AM
from the self-post dept.
Since I launched my startup Proxies API, to date, I have created nearly 100 blog posts here on Medium and our blog combined. I have also posted about 30 articles designed explicitly for communities like Reddit, Quora, and Facebook.That’s 130 blog posts in a year, bringing it to about 2.5 articles per week.The consistency is staggering, considering my weekly average in my entire life before...
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:58AM
from the self-post dept.
Since I launched my startup Proxies API, to date, I have created nearly 100 blog posts here on Medium and our blog combined. I have also posted about 30 articles designed explicitly for communities like Reddit, Quora, and Facebook.That’s 130 blog posts in a year, bringing it to about 2.5 articles per week.The consistency is staggering, considering my weekly average in my entire life before...
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Friday November 11, 2022 @01:46AM
from the self-post dept.
One of the things I noticed that I tend to do is build up a milestone I want to achieve, especially “the first x” and make a big deal about it in my head. Like when I was building Proxies API, I would build this narrative that I couldn’t wait to finish developing. It creates weird anxiety that helps nobody. Then when I finished it, I would make a big deal about “the first customer.”“If only I...
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:05AM
from the self-post dept.
When I started to build out my SAAS app Proxies API, I didn’t want a billion-dollar company or even a million-dollar company. Those are weird goals and don’t have any power behind them. The why of doing a startup should be so powerful it drives you every morning and every hour on its own. For that, it has to be natural. Lying in reality. A lot of gurus advocate having a strong why to their...
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:59AM
from the self-post dept.
BackgroundProxies API is a rotating proxies API that developers use to fetch hard to scrape data at scale and consistently. We auto-rotate millions of proxy servers, and also handle auto retries, rotate user agent strings, handle cookies, CAPTCHAs behind the scenes.The ConstraintsThe service has to scale to millions of URL fetches a day without lagging on speed and should work out of a single...
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Friday October 07, 2022 @06:41AM
from the self-post dept.
I have wanted to write about this for a long time. I have seen that there are two types of Goals if I can even give it that honor. In actual terms, one is a Goal, and the other is a delusion. One is natural and the other is an un-natural personal one.When we make a goal, the reason or the intent behind it is the power behind that goal. Have the wrong intention, and the target goes nowhere, and...
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Thursday September 29, 2022 @07:44AM
from the self-post dept.
While building a bootstrapped startup, I realized early on that the whole heuristic of measuring a startup comes down to the habits that I have constructed that can repeat on a day to day basis consistently for months and years.I have already written that in the case of Proxies API, my SAAS startup, the two main habits that have made it successful were.a) Make small, consistent improvements to...
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @01:59AM
from the self-post dept.
Having built Proxies API and made it to 100 paid users for the first time in my startup life, I tried to compile a list of tips for other developers like me who might be thinking of starting something on their own.Developers are a different beast, and the advice here may not apply to anyone who is not a developer and is a normal human being.Pick an idea you have used. When you start a startup...
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Monday August 01, 2022 @08:50AM
from the self-post dept.
For years, I have dismissed what I knew to be extremely potent, if only I implemented it in my life, as something that I could never do;that’s not me; that is something I don’t enjoywas always my refrain.And yet here I am.Hi, I am Mohan, and I am a chronic developer who couldn’t be anything else. But I have recovered.How?Because it needs to be done.As developers, we are there to solve problems....
Posted by
prasenjit_pro on Thursday July 28, 2022 @03:35AM
from the self-post dept.
After having failed with more than seven startups and finally achieved some success with my latest one Proxies API, here are a bunch of criteria I follow when picking a startup idea to bootstrap from the website1. I am a bootstrapper, so I am interested in making recurring revenue and build an asset. So it has to be a SAAS idea. No consumer internet.2. It has to have a competition. Again, I...
Though Studying Effectively for me had different methods for Different subjects but massively floated around notes and constantly writing important highlights and ignoring the usual normal things.
When I say different methods for different subjects:
I mean like Maths: I focused more on redoing my full school book like 6 times in a Half plus would go beyond and redo other similar standard books with more difficult and complex calculations to make the level higher where normal hard problems would become easier.
For Literature: It was like reading the book, watching it in theaters and spending quality discussion time with some book worms and teachers.
While reading this article I could recall the article I was reading the other day on "CHINESE DAM SLOWS DOWN EARTH'S ROTATION". While we are setting out research team to dig deep into our planet's history, our future is in the hands on human beings who are ready to destroy it.
Another new string play started with these. It will impact the market huge time.
It's peaceful to atleast allow Coral Reef to recover. If it was upto fools then they would have destroyed it long back.
Hope there is no situation where another planet comes into existence and there scientists discover that there was a planet named "Earth" like we read now.
Philosophic words have been a part of programmers life sometimes but not misleading. Go in depth and you would get the meaning. I must say it is cleaver use of words.
Or it may be that the words connect everyone in their own domain. If a marketer reads it's kinda looks like a pitch, if a programmer reads it's kinda client, if a husband reads its like way to ask his wife, so on and so forth, Cleaver use of words.
Bang on target! It's gonna take more than a decade if you count from flipping burgers era because there a downstream ongoing. Upstream will take more.
Fine read but paid? Glimpse was attractive but try to share information rather promote nytimes.
At a personal perspective it is best to quit most social media channels including Twitter for a daily surfing craving because only a handful people whom you care & whom you matter the most would be there waiting on social media. Most of my closed people miss the personal touch, some free time jumping around to the ground and spending time at some pals place and hate to talk on Social media while we can do many more things out of the Internet box. It's what matters. History of our online usage can be used by advertisers but not by our loved ones.
Robocall numbers are marked under "Block Spam Call" for all the people I know. Looking at the ratio it seems everyone has the same option activated. It is bound to get reduced in future because in today's world people are in a rat race and when robots calling is distressful.
If you ever been involved in a web scraping project of any size, you would know about the inevitable problem or running into IP blocks.
I completely agree with your comment. I am also a seller on Amazon. Every single decision about my brand have to be done in accordance to Amazon rules where I hardly make profit after trying to fight competitors will low pricing set by Amazon pricing rules, getting charged by Amazon on management fees, self ship on some products and moreover customer system exploitation. There has been several cases customers have returned wrong product and Amazon didn't do anything to look into it. Now some ask me why I use Amazon still then. My answer is to keep money rolling, advertise my brand and generate customer who can be targeted.
What are the changes does this version coming on with?
I would be good to attend the session. I bookmarked the page for reminder.
That's good Elon Musk after the recent story on how Elon Musk is living in his office and after knowing he sold everything to support his dream. Competitors will be there and new one's will join but as Darwin said "Survival of the fittest".
There has been lot's of discovering but the big question is, "Does it support life?"
Good question. I too had this question.