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BukhariH

677 karma · joined December 8, 2013

London. Ex-Wise, Ex-Revolut, Ex-Lightyear & now building something big.

https://idesofmarch.io/

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BukhariH··on How to get your first 100k active users
Usually landing pages for early stage products tend to be iffy but you've killed it honestly! I got what your product was in 10 secs.

What would be awesome is a link to a demo wishlist!

BukhariH··on Justin Kan’s Atrium is starting a boot camp to help founders raise money
From the article:

"Startups also were able to meet with Atrium’s lawyers for counseling and legal preparation specifically for the financing process. All attendees also receive discounted legal services if they choose to use Atrium as their law firm. Of course some may say that this is all just a lead generation tactic to get more companies using Atrium as their lawyer when they decide to raise a Series A."

BukhariH··on SoftBank said to be trying to buy a big stake in Uber at a discount
Just so we are clear:

- Softbank will invest $1B in Uber at a $69B valuation - this is the same as their old valuation. This sale will create new shares and therefore dilution.

- However, the offer is contingent on Softbank being able to buy a significant number of pre-existing shares at a $48B valuation from early investors - no dilution here.

- If they don't get enough investors to agree to sell at $49B then the whole deal is off the table.

BukhariH··on Startup Mistakes: Choice of Datastore
I'm personally a fan of: https://www.heroku.com/postgres

Since it's free below 10K rows and only $9 for 10M. And, the dataclips feature always comes in handy.

BukhariH··on Startup Mistakes: Choice of Datastore
Also, later on if you decided that a RDBMS doesn't suit your needs it's significantly easier to migrate RDBMS -> NoSQL versus the other way around.
BukhariH··on Ask HN: How can I make my LinkedIn better?
I don't have an amazing LinkedIn either but one tip I can give you is to put your skills in the headline since that's what recruiters see on the search page.

So, instead of saying: Web Developer at Style Collective and Stingray Branding

It might say: NodeJS/React/Go Web Developer

Also, honestly, don't bother adding random people on LinkedIn to grow your network. It's not worth it. Stick to people you know whose careers you want to follow.

BukhariH··on Startups should not use React
Wait... I live in the EU aswell (UK).

What do you mean by:

"Gosh, I am so happy to live in the EU where we do not have to deal with this kind of BS and can just use the best technology that solves the problem."

BukhariH··on Startups should not use React
I understand that but here's the scenario I'm talking about:

- I use React for my startup's dashboard

- I sue facebook for violating my startup's patent without removing my react dashboard first

Now, what patents can facebook use to counter sue me that they couldn't sue me with anyway had I not used react?

BukhariH··on Startups should not use React
Can someone please share what patents cover react?

Because if they're revoking patents that don't cover react then there should be no problem to continue using react right?

BukhariH··on 6 Women Accuse Tech VC Justin Caldbeck of Sexual Assault and Harassment
@niniane - Thanks for being open with something so personal.

I know it must have been a hard decision to make because you were probably worried about how you & your company would be treated afterwards but this is going to help open so many people's eyes.

BukhariH··on A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month
AWS Lambda functions are super portable. You can essentially copy & paste them into a simple express.js app and be up and running in a few minutes.

But, either way I agree. You should always have all requests to any services going through your own domain.

BukhariH··on Sinatra 2.0 released
Not only did it come before Express but Express was directly inspired by it.

IIRC back when Express first came out it actually said "Sinatra inspired web framework" as its description.

BukhariH··on Introducing Cloudflare Orbit: A Private Network for IoT Devices
Couldn't I just do an Over-The-Update of which root certificates the system accepts since they're already connected to the internet.

Then I can add my own non-cloudflare certificate to the list and then move off cloudflare and remove their cert.

That should work pretty well right there.

BukhariH··on Show HN: 40 Collar – High paying jobs that only require 40 hours per week
I hate this.

I think if I was in the position to hire people I'd always be flexible, caring and compassionate but I'd HATE hiring people who come into my company with this 40 hour white collar "that's not in my job description" attitude.

I think work isn't linear some weeks you'll only have 30 hours of work and that fine go have fun with the extra 10 hours but other times there will be 70 hour sprints to get the product out and I'd expect you to show up 100%.

BukhariH··on Show HN: A REST API for Calculating VAT in the EU
100% agree. In the UK we have a £85,000 threshold for VAT registration which is basically means an extra £17,000 for small businesses.

However, VAT MOSS has no threshold. That means small businesses now have to make a decision between keeping that extra £17k and not selling to the EU or selling to the EU and forgoing the £17k tax break.

Awfully designed system.

BukhariH··on Ask HN: What prototyping tool do you suggest for non-technical users?
It has to be PowerPoint or Keynote!

Most people already know how to use them and you can create pretty realistic designs using them!

BukhariH··on Startup School 2017 First Lecture
If you don't mind me asking. What's your business?
BukhariH··on Google X employee collapsed on the job due to harsh working conditions
24°C is considered room temperature in the UK. That doesn't sound hot at all.
BukhariH··on Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype
Another factor in China is that people all ready use WeChat to make payments to each other (http://uk.businessinsider.com/wechats-p2p-usage-is-massive-2...).

Hence, it was a natural progression to allow payments to businesses which is where chatbots came in.

BukhariH··on Brands need to fire adtech
I feel like a lot of people here are really confused about how digital marketing works. I hope I can dispel a lot of assumptions people are making!

Yes, there can be a lot of fraud (not that I've ever seen that much) when it comes to CPC but, clicks most new age marketers aren't that focused on CPC that much anymore.

Instead they focus on CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) which is essentially how much you paid e.g £40000 and how many customers signed up as a result of that channel e.g 150. So, in this case your CAC would be ~£27. This calculation takes everything from fraud clicks, CPC costs, conversions into account.

CAC is the first step, next step involves working out the LTV for that specific channel.

Finally, the marketer compares the CAC to LTV and the ones with the best ratio are channels we focus on. The reality is most of the time the best channels are digital and targeted.

If any would like me to go into detail about how marketers go about targeting people then I can do that too!

BukhariH··on Next.js 2.0
I'll be completely honest. I was anti-react when it initially (this is pre-create-react-app generator) came out and I'll tell you why.

I tried to learn it and struggled understanding the new concepts react was bringing in all while people were saying "It's easy! Everything's a components. HTML,CSS,JS all in one place!" whilst I was struggling to get a simple hello world example to run.

Just recently at my University we were forced to learn React as a part of our course and damn after I finally understood it I fell in love! It's a huge improvement over the normal web-app design work flow.

So, I would urge anyone whose anti-react to honestly give it a good go and force yourself a little to get over the initial learning curve and trust me you'll love it!

BukhariH··on Launch HN: Penny (YC W17) – a personal finance coach
It's so great to see Cleo expanding and hiring people.

I remember first seeing Cleo way back when it was just the two founders (didn't they meet each other at some startup hackathon type event?) and they were rolling out cleo as a SMS based money assistant.

Looks like you guys shifted towards the Messenger platform. We (http://dispatch.pm/) looked in to the messenger platform but found it a bit restrictive for our purposes. How is it working out for you guys? Do you see yourselves sticking long term to messenger?

BukhariH··on Launch HN: Penny (YC W17) – a personal finance coach
Back when I was working on a fintech product (this is around 2 years ago) what pushed us away from Yodlee was the appalling pricing.

They wanted us to pay a hefty initial sign up fee ($XXXXX), pay monthly fee per user ($0.XX) and also they had minimums. Being students at the time we were just shocked and disheartened until we saw Plaids great pricing (free whilst in development and $500pm to set the product live) and tried to convince them to come to London which they told us was only 6 months away. It's been 2 years and they're still not here lol.

But there are a few more options in London now. I bumped into Steve Graham way back at HN's London event and he was working on Teller (https://teller.io/) which is now in beta and works pretty well from my testing.

There's also Saltedge (https://www.saltedge.com/) which is used by a few London fintech apps and I believe they have a startup package that a few apps like Cleo (https://meetcleo.com/) started on.

Some new startups still choose Yodlee though like moneybox (https://www.moneyboxapp.com) but they raised significantly more that we had (we had a very very small grant from our University).

BukhariH··on Visual Studio for Mac Preview
Does it feel responsive whilst typing?

I'm used to Sublime and when I tried VS Code it felt kind of laggy.

BukhariH··on Introducing Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries
Yeah! Google already has Parsey McParseface as a part of TensorFlow so it may become a naming scheme for them.
BukhariH··on YouTube Changes YouTube Heroes Video Stealthily
If they allowed everyone to replace source file then people would start selling popular and viral videos by adding adverts to the video...

That's why it's limited to "corporate interests".

BukhariH··on How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow
The dataset has been released already:

https://github.com/workpiles/CUCUMBER-9

BukhariH··on Why you should never use MongoDB (2013)
Cached copy: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RFqcOb...
BukhariH··on Coup attempt underway in Turkey
I not sure that's right.

I was talking about HDP who have posted this on their official twitter:

"There is no way other than embracing democratic politics."

Source: https://twitter.com/HDPgenelmerkezi/status/75408082363312537...

BukhariH··on Coup attempt underway in Turkey
I think in the west we only see Turkey as Istanbul which happens to be the extremely liberal part of Turkey.

The rest of the country is far more conservative so they don't see the clamping down on various freedoms as being a problem and on top of the Erdogan has actually really done a good job of developing the poorer regions of Turkey which were rife with high unemployments and low prospects. On top of that people believe he's raised Turkey's importance on the world stage.

Another reason why I'm about 90% he'll win now that the opposition political parties have just come out against the coup - which if you know anything about Turkey is HUGE. These parties have literally called for Erdogan to be jailed but right now they're supporting him.

I don't even know what to make of that. I'm shocked.

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