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daleholborow··on Ask HN: (How) Should I monetize this?
the guys from servicestack went through this process (i am in no way affiliated wit them), they got some backlash from a move to licensed model iirc, but also, it allowed them to be sustainable and grow into a company that allowd them to continue supporting the products.

perhaps something the same? a cheap/free model for open source projects / schools etc , free for single devs or small shops, and paid for $Corps... yeah, you'll lose a few users from companies who only want something for free, but then, what have you lost, really? If people dont value their own time, thats their choice to make the $ vs Benefit calculation.

good luck

daleholborow··on Ask HN: What is the best stack to build a product that's easy to recruit for
"recruit for" is the killer thing here. Its highly geographically dependent, or if you ultimately want to employ remote workers, you'll have a different set of challenges. If you go down the dotnet route, I recommend taking a peak at ServiceStack, (not affiliated, but I use it myself), Laravel is obviously the php winner, but I cannot speak for any other languages (and i personally avoid PHP ;)

Why not take a peak at local recruitment boards, if you want local workers, or poke around on upwork etc if you're thinking about outsourcing. You'll soon get a decent idea.

daleholborow··on Trading System
I believe you should mark this as Show HN.

Also, your SSL doesn't appear to be installed/working.

daleholborow··on Show HN: Igrepper – Interactive grepping using ncurses and rust
Looks very powerful! Will check it out, this might be the excuse I need to dive more into Rust.
daleholborow··on Ask HN: What do people learn too late?
compound interest
daleholborow··on Best tool/library to generate PDF documents in .NET?
Aspose and syncfusion are two that come to mind
daleholborow··on Ask HN: Software Contractors how did you became an expert and found your niche?
This, to me, is terrible advice. Being a successful contractor isn't about "having no competition", that's good for news headlines about old guys earning top dollar for maintaining cobol mainframes but not much else.

Pick tools that are used a million times per day (java, sql, whatever) by a million companies who will always need extra professionals that can add value quickly when onboarded to a new team.

More to the point, start researching the job markets wherever you plan to work. Stop guessing, do research. Good luck.

daleholborow··on Ask HN: What idea/insight changed your perspective lately?
Long term investing enthusiast for the past 15 or so years, i read "the psychology of money" by morgan house. Completely changed my perspective on risk, return, timing, life choices and decision paths. Simple, but highly highly recommended.
daleholborow··on Ask HN: What are some good sites or blogs about the mechanics behind trading?
Google Ernie Chan trading. I don't agree with the trading (I am pro investing) but Ernie explains as a practitioner
daleholborow··on Ask HN: Git alternatives that aren't so complicated?
Gitflow plus a copy of smartgit will go a long way
daleholborow··on Ask HN: Are there any *profitable* companies in the cryptocurrency space?
I put this question in LinkedIn several months ago, am still yet to hear even a single attempt at claiming a real business model/profitability.
daleholborow··on Ask HN: Are you going to adopt Blazor this year?
Just started investigating it, but I'm not really a front end guy, just forced to get my hands dirty during some MVP prototyping. If you find good resource or have good/bad experience, please do post about them.
daleholborow··on Ask HN: How to know when an idea is worth pursuing?
Adam, the value of a community is somewhat diminished, in my opinion, if it's encouraged to lazily throw your problems up in the air and yell "does anyone know the answer to my question" before they've made even a cursory attempt to research or solve the problem themselves. Why on earth pollute a forum with more noise?
daleholborow··on Ask HN: How to know when an idea is worth pursuing?
It's amazing how many people e stumble across the Ask HN and manage to navigate the sign-up-and-post procedure but fail to grasp how Google works. Here's some suggested search terms "mvp" , "proof of concept", "how do I validate my idea", or perhaps "is there anyone out there who can help me Google"?
daleholborow··on Combine clean architecture with entity-component-system
What's the system? Do the absolute bare minimum required for success, and if you don't need the additional overhead, avoid it. Find Jimmy bogard on vertical slice architecture in YouTube for some good talk on pragmatic , simple designs winning over theoretically sound but heavy and unnecessary architectures, well worth a look
daleholborow··on Ask HN: We're ditching AngularJS, any recommendations aside from ReactJS?
vue
daleholborow··on Ask HN: Uber for Shipping Containers?
You know that uber loses money, right?
daleholborow··on Ask HN: How do you evaluate / found a service that you don't normally use?
use it
daleholborow··on Ask HN: Value Investing Courses
Just read valueable book by Roger Montgomery, check out validea or alphaarchitect, good luck
daleholborow··on How to lookup T Table in C# + math.net?
Aah, you've confused ycomb for Google/stackoverflow/actually reading the documentation and/or source code.
daleholborow··on Ask HN: What are some current shortages you were surprised by?
Common sense
daleholborow··on Ask HN: What is HN definitely bad at?
Stopping these kinds of vague, pointless questions?
daleholborow··on Ask HN: Are people considering Corona parties (a.k.a. Pox parties)?
You give yourself? Merkel just advised the German government that 60-70% of Germans could ultimately be exposed.
daleholborow··on Ask HN: Is this a good time to buy stock?
All in on Tesla, elon's gonna invent a cure any day now surely!

Seriously, the market is now back to where it was six months ago. Consider what that says about people trying you to tell you to "buy the dip now that things are cheap". You've got two choices... Buy index funds slowly and consistently regardless of the news, or learn to pick decently priced individual stocks based on your own fundamental analysis.

Ignore anyone who tells you to use technical analysis, they're an idiot, and if you venture into reddit/wallstreetbets, you are screwed.

Good luck.

daleholborow··on Ask HN: How will the recession affect those working in tech?
Companies will want to pay less for more and you'll see a huge amount of restructurings happening.
daleholborow··on Ask HN: My clients always lose interest towards end of projects
You should be getting paid at incremental milestones, NOT big-bang 100% at the end.
daleholborow··on What do you do to stay fit?
Stronglifts 5x5. Buy the app. Set your brain on pause, lift, progress.
daleholborow··on Ask HN: What blockchain projects are you or your company working on?
Is blockchain still a thing? Who knew...
daleholborow··on Ask HN: Can my co-founder be a non-US citizen?
Best thing to do would be to ask a vague question on a public forum, rather than say, look at the official government information (maybe on a website?) relevant to your specific location (s) and situation (s).
daleholborow··on Ask HN: popularity, traditions, mix of both?
Yes
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