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Re:How much do you generate in terms of donations? on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:40PM (#30949430)
Yeah that was my thinking too. I was just checking to see if there were any obvious success stories that I was missing.

How much do you generate in terms of donations?

I have been toying with the idea of not going down an ad supported route as a business plan. Instead the idea would be to run the site purely off donations.Ideally the donations would cover one full time dev and the running of the site.Has anyone been successful with this model? I know Patreon has gotten big over the past while and, of course, Wikipedia gets > $50m in donations.I think 5,000...

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Re:A whole website in a single JavaScript file on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:57PM (#30938985)
I was doing the same!
I like the SharkTank style presentation. Impressive stuff to be working on at any age but at 17.xxxxxxxx even more so!
Re:Friday.app is shutting down on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:31PM (#30938759)
What is it if you don't mind sharing?
Re:Friday.app is shutting down on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:29PM (#30938746)
Hey. Shame you have to shut it down. Great that you gave it a shot though. Do you have any plans for what is next?
Re:Ask HN: How many greenfield projects have you done? on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:27PM (#30938732)
Completely greenfield at work? None - I've always had to integrate some parts to some legacy application.
Re:Ask HN: Do you watch streams (on Twitch, etc.)? on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:26PM (#30938727)
I would love to watch some people solving algorithm challenges (leet code type ones). It's something I have never grokked even though I code a lot, I wouldn't be able to solve any hard leet code problems and probably not many medium ones either.
Re:Your competitor wrote the RFP you're bidding on on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:23PM (#30938706)
I interviewed at a bank shortly after I graduated college. We had to do an exam as part of the interview process and for that a few candidates were at the office at the same time. I learned that one of the candidates worked there previously and was known to the hiring team. Immediately I knew I wasn't getting that job!
Re:A self-authenticating social protocol on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:14PM (#30938625)
I believe platforms will always exist but imagine data will be more portable in the future. I think the focus should be on data.

I propose the Newton Web Protocol.

For each action that a user makes, an equal action is pushed back for the user to consume.

When a user interacts with a website (comment, like, save, upload, etc.) the website pushes data/an event which can be consumed only by the author. When consumed the data/event could be processed: saved or replicated to other sites or the authors own site.

Re:Dall-E 2 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:52PM (#30937909)
Wow - mindblowing and kinda scary really.
Re:Ask HN: Is open source ruining your job satisfaction too? on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:42PM (#30937786)
I feel like this but with cloud services (AWS, Azure) instead of Open Source. They have solved most problems, are cost efficient and easily get buy in from upper management. Developers jobs are then to write configuration and plug things together. Very boring stuff!
It transfers the dependency from something they know (password) to something they have access to (phone or email). That thing they have access to could be compromised which then means their account is compromised. That is a risk acceptance question you need to consider.

Also to consider: What happens if a user loses their phone? How do they get access to their account?

Re:We don’t use a staging environment on Sunday April 03, 2022 @08:47PM (#30902310)
This can pass for a startup but not for a proper business with customers.

Do you get audited?

This is everything I need except analytics. I need basic analytics like page views and visitor locations. Does anyone know of a naked blog that also includes some analytics? I this there is space between simple analytics and privacy invading tracking analytics.
I'd rather listen to the expert rather than the newbie for a keynote to be honest. Someone who just learned rails should not be doing the keynote.
That tweet sums up twitter for me. Vague, provocative and a useless analogy
I have been thinking about getting a Honda fit.. or a Jazz as they call it here. What is the boot space like? Wold it be suitable for a small family? 2 adults and a newborn baby?
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:28AM (#30231170)
500k in savings? That is quite the achievement. You should feel good about that.
Re:Ask HN: Why isn't email spam solved using Proof of Work yet? on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:41PM (#25703140)
I use Hey.com which allows me to screen first time senders [1] and it works really well. This is in combination to a spam filter.

[1] https://hey.com/features/the-screener/

Well investing in good stocks should be a lot easier.
Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:40AM (#25701218)
My half baked project isn't even hosted yet. I just work on it locally: https://imgur.com/a/FAVOOka

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