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mmarian
1,459karma·1,053submissions·July 28, 2019
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Latest projects:
* AI Copilot for LibreOffice Writer: https://librethinker.com/
* A personal blog about tech and startups: https://developerwithacat.com
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I open source my failed projects at: https://github.com/mihailthebuilder
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Sounds like you should ask yourself what you would do if you were in their shoes, and a random person reached out to you about their MVP.
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Second this. Got some potential partnerships, not sure if they'll work out but it's better than anything else.
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https://archive.is/HUW0Q
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https://archive.is/5T6pi
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I've made a couple of decisions which I often question: 1. A while back, I quit a well-paid job to start my own business. The business failed, and it took me a few good months to get back on my f…
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Interesting, so this doesn't connect to any API? Just fetches all the IP info locally?
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I don't get why you're calling the job high-risk. Is it because you're going to get fired if a mistake happens? Just because the stakes are smaller doesn't mean it's less stre…
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> I can't really find co-founders because the people around me aren't invested as I am To solve that, put yourself in the shoes of your potential cofounders. If a stranger came to you tal…
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Founders think that marketing will solve everything. But that's just part of the go-to-market strategy. You need to have product-market fit as well; if the MVP
doesn't solve a major pain p…
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My own rap music. And trading, I find it hard to believe in it given empirical research about well diversified passive funds over performing.
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Don't make grammar errors, but I do make sure whatever I say and how I say it is not generic.
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I think it's been about a year. Hetzner Ubuntu VPS, with Caprover to manage deployments.
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Always because of insufficient validation before development. Wrote about a couple I failed with here: - https://developerwithacat.com/blog/052025/postmortem-company... - h…
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Best way is to add unit tests. Next best is to have a test environment. Don't recommend service tests with test containers, too complicated.
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Using markdown for the content on my blog site built with Astro. Don't have to think about hosting a backend, it's statically-built.
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https://archive.ph/l1WLz
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The inevitably-long class attributes