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It's the same for almost any profession I think. As long as you can't decide what to do with your own time, and you work from the supervision of someone else, you will always feel like that. Maybe you are better off trying to create your own business instead.

Or become a freelancer, and switch jobs every two years or so. It isn't easy either way.

But there are other jobs where you would be a better fit, so I think you probably should switch jobs, and avoid the risk of getting burned out.

There where you are currently at, it's not going to get any better, right?

Yes I'm definitively the chief growth hacker, I take care of a lot of the marketing activities myself. But I need help, preferably from someone with some relevant experience growing a SaaS company.

In your view, what are some of the core competencies that as growth person should have? Looking forward to hear your thoughts, thank you.

Hi everyone, anything that you would like to share about your experience hiring growth professionals would be tremendously helpfpul.

Anything from job boards, interview tips, the type of deal you propose them, do you hire them as an employee or offer equity, or anything else you can think of.

Thank you so much for any insight in this matter.

Here are the 5 key distinctive features of Qwik:

- Server-side rendering by default: Qwik server-side rendering works out of the box, without special configuration or extra libraries. Server-side rendering is the default, you don't have to turn it on.

- Resumability: Qwik applications are resumable, meaning that they continue on the client where the server left off, so the client does not have to re-render the component tree again after page load (no flickering effects, etc.). There is no need to do manual state transfer between the server and the client, Qwik takes care of that transparently.

- Lowest possible Time To Interactive: The initial Javascript payload of a Qwik application remains constant as the application grows, which is a unique property of Qwik. Only a very small amount of Javascript needs to be delivered on application startup (the Qwik Loader), giving Qwik applications a startup performance that is very close to a plain static page.

- Fine-grained, automatic lazy-loading: Lazy loading is completely automated, and done transparently by the framework. Qwik decides the lazy loading boundaries of the application at build time transparently, and splits up the application into fine-grained chunks. For example, the code for a click handler can be lazy-loaded only when the button is clicked for the first time.

- Proxy-based change detection: Qwik change detection is very convenient to use as it's possible to simply mutate data directly just like if we were handling plain mutable Javascript objects. Qwik change detection has all the performance of an "on-push" style change detection system, without any of the drawbacks associated with having to use immutable objects.

Don't overthink it. You can validate the idea using SEO tools, check if the competitors have traffic and do some detective work to see if they are viable companies.

Check the SEO space, and see how many people are running ads on the main search terms, how hard is it to rank for the the main keywords. Check if forums exists, and discount coupons for similar products in marketplaces, check for similar products on product hunt and all the other product websites like Appsumo, Capterra, etc.

Look for blogs, Youtube channels, Facebook groups, subreddits. Join the communities and post there, ask questions. Interact one on one with at least 15 or 20 people and ask them about their needs.

You can do all this in a couple of weeks in the evening, without even writing a single line of code, and validate your idea.

Regarding the legal part, unless you are directly competing with your employer, they couldn't care less.

And even then, a lot of companies are created by people that learned the industry by working for other companies.

Your boss does not care about your side project, as long as you get the job done. But for you to feel better, don't put your name on it until you have quit your job, it's the internet you can still be anonymous.

No company is going to waste their time and expensive legal resources gratuitously suing you for a side project, unless it's something blatant that directly impacts their bottom line.

I wouldn't tell your boss about your side-project either. He will likely just see it as a sign of lack of dedication, that your priorities are elsewhere, and a tell sign that you will leave soon anyway.

So if they are on the fence on keeping you, that might trigger a decision.

Hello, thank you, I think I'm going to try deel, several people have mentioned it.

And what is your experience with deel, did you like it? Any downsides?

Do you go with contractors or employees with deel, and why do you prefer one vs the other?

I'm thinking of trying contractors first.

And can we hire a person for years as a contractor, or will we eventually have to upgrade them to an employee due to legal reasons, how does that work? Thank you for any insight on this.

Thank you for commenting, that would be great news. But is it really that simple?

What about work contracts, and should I ask them to issue a company invoice explicitly?

A company invoice can always be included as expenses, right?

Switch jobs and get a 5 to 10% increase, and keep doing it for a while, this way you will retire earlier and the excitement and optimism of the new job will keep you going for the first year at least.

Persue an alternative that you find interesting and learn how to make a living out of it.

You can create a small SaaS company on some niche, freelance remotely, get creative and learn how to invest, maybe invest a little bit in crypto, take what you have an invest in real estate buy a studio and rent it and start making some extra income.

Make a plan, there has got to be a way.

Look around you, do you see anyone over 45? This means they all figured out an alternative, so with time, so will you, but don't make the mistake of thinking that you are "trapped", you have a lot of alternatives and choices.

I feel like I've been playing against it a lot in chess.com, with the tremendous amount of cheating that is going on online, every 1 out of 6 or 7 games is an engine user (I know because I report them, and they get banned).

It's great to have a better engine, but I feel that would benefit the most the online chess community is not a better engine, but an open source cheat detection system, if that's even possible.

I wouldn't know how to build one, but I think that is a lot more important for chess right now, still it's great to have a better engine so congratulations and thank you to the Stockfish team.

So they will charge 0.5% of my business to do my taxes? That makes sense until 350k per year more or less, but after that Quaderno has a 45 to 99 usd per month fixed price to do that.

It sounded outrageous the first time I saw it, but it actually makes a lot of sense for most small businesses.

I'm glad they rolled out this feature, too bad that they never announce what they are working on and it's a big bang overnight.

I was looking into integrating my app with a tax provider, I wouldn't even have started if I knew this was in the pipeline.

But now that it's here, it sounds great and just another reason for choosing Stripe. I haven't integrated with Paypal and I don't think I'm going to.

I don't think anyone cares, really. It's a well established name, people knows what it means a REST-style API. It's not perfect, but nothing is, it's good enough. Let's not change its name, what would be the benefit of it?

It would only cause even more confusion for no good reason.

Hello, thank you for the suggestions. About the page, it's for a product so I thought the best way was to show pictures of what the product looks, so that people know what it looks on the other side after signing in.

We were trying to engage people in scrolling through the story, so they understand what the product is. Do you know of a great example of a product page that does not require so much scrolling?

I guess we could condense everything to 3 or 4 cards max, many of them are probably not necessary. That is a great point.

2 - It will take months to build courses, but I didn't want people to have to pay upfront while they are building courses. Maybe the free plan is not such a great idea?

I think I will leave it for a while to build more users and get feedback, but quickly require a minimum amount. I suspect that there will be a lot of users that never publish anything, but this is just getting started.

3 - You're right, this is a new product but I'm not sure how to tackle that, there is a chicken and egg component to it.

I think we will have to get our first 100 users one at a time, build trust with them and then after that network effect would kick in. Do you have any ideas how to handle that?

Thank you for the feedback, I super appretiate it! Cheers

I've been using 5 minute TTL in production for years, never noticed any problems with it. It has the advantage that it makes it super simple to deploy to production at a moment's notice, in case something unexpected occurs.

At least the freelance rates of today are about the same value as in the early 2000's, for the typical enterprise job.

I used to work as a freelance around 5 years ago, and I still receive some recruiter emails with occasional mention of the going rates.

It's the same as 5 years ago or less, which is the same since I remember in the early 2000's.

The rates took a hit with the 2008 crisis and stagnated since then. I think the golden age was somewhere in the mid-90s, where developers got paid really well.

You have to fine tune the recommendations yourself, by manually removing and choosing the option "I don't like the video".

It works surprisingly well, and well worth the effort.

I remember reading something like russian poor farmers that didn't have enough food for the winter to do this, it was called Lotska, which reported in scientific papers over 100 years ago - http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com/2010/03/curious-case-o...

"At the first fall of snow the whole family gathers round the stove, lies down, ceases to wrestle with the problems of human existence, and quietly goes to sleep. Once a day every one wakes up to eat a piece of hard bread, of which an amount sufficient to last six months has providently been baked in the previous autumn. When the bread has been washed down with a draught of water, everyone goes to sleep again. The members of the family take it in turn to watch and keep the fire alight."

But I don't find many reliable source about it. Does anyone if this is really true? It sounds hard to believe.

The web is just getting started, I don't see it hitting a stable point before it its 50 years old or so. More and more transactions are made online as opposed to before.

More and more jobs are available online, but it's still a small percentage. Imagine when most of everyone's shopping is done online, when half the people work remotely, and when all countries in the world not just the most developed ones have full access to fast internet.

I think an alternative to the reddit OP, since he loves coding and has so much experience is to try and create his own product on some niche.

He would get back the joy of coding and still be a programmer, without having to deal with any of the corporate system.

I can fully understand where he is coming from, it's not the job itself, it's the whole system that makes it unbearable after a while.

This is the reason also why there aren't many people over 40 in tech. They have usually by then accumulated enough money and found an exit strategy.

I think this is true, a lot of enterprise applications can be designed and are designed directly by the developers, that do a mix of backend and frontend work.

By using a UI library like Angular Material, a UI framework like Material Design and some simple UI design principles, it's possible to build a more than decent UI experience, without having UI specialists on the team.

So there goes OANN and Newsmax alternative reality business model.

Freedom of speech does NOT mean freedom of misinformation.

These companies (Fox is an example) get sued in court and admit they were lying, and claim freedom of speech as the right to say anything including spreading damaging lies, and get away with it and are not condemned.

I'm all for freedom of speech, but seriously this is getting to Nazi Germany "we lost the war because of the jews" lunacy level.

Freedom of speech does not mean being able to say anything at anytime, independently of the consequences, including lies and be guaranteed to get away with it.

No, some things that people say can get them into legal trouble, and rightfully so. Our freedom ends where another person's freedom begins.

For example, people can get sued and convicted for defamation, for saying something that negatively affected someone else.

The US might not be a democracy in 10 years if this goes on, it has to stop.

You got to admit that the EU at least has the courage to take some controversial measures in the best interest of their people.

I can't see this soon enough, I have family that answer emails in vacation all the time, that get phone calls like its nothing.

I know people that connect everyday from home to the office network to work one or two hours (extra) otherwise it's impossible to keep up with the workload.

Most managers know this, and turn a blind eye as it's in their best interest to get employees to work as much as possible.

I had a similar progression also in two years, from only knowing the rules to 1658 last week (my peak rating so far).

But this is rapid rating, not Blitz or bullet, and I only play 45 minutes matches with 45 seconds increment on chess.com (which I think is not actually classical and not rapid, but marked as rapid on chess.com).

I don't do puzzles, study cards or anything, I simply took a couple of opening video courses from Simon Williams on both white and black, and played those exclusively.

Initially I played 15 minutes/10 seconds increment games, several a day, until I felt that I was losing a lot of winning positions only due to time.

Then I increased to 30 minutes, and now 45/45 which is almost a classical format.

I don't think playing short time formats is ideal for learning, I like playing longer ones and really think the games through.

Then analyze each game thoroughly with chess.com post-game analysis.

I only play one game a day, almost every day. Most games end in well less than an hour, but some take close to almost two hours (due to the increment and long end games).

I think like in any game, if you continuously play with opponents of just about your skill level, and you analyze your games to make sure that you are not making the same mistakes again and again, you will improve over time just like with anything.

To minimize rating fluctuations and tilting, playing only one long and well thought out game a day works great and keeps it fun.

I think to keep it fun, it's important not to forget that rating fluctuations are normal and don't mean much. As long as you keep playing and analysing each game, improvement is possible.