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federalauth··on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)
What city? Looking for a better place to raise my (new) family
federalauth··on EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
Congrats on the rebrand and launch! Biggest reasons to use Gel over Supabase?
federalauth··on Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]
Paging Stripe Press
federalauth··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
If OP is reading the comments, I’d highly recommend developing a meditation practice. As you’ve already experienced, the quality of one’s experience of life is determined by one’s mind, regardless of possessions, achievements, etc. And meditation is the best way to “train” the mind.
federalauth··on What I learned solo bootstrapping 8 software products
Thanks for sharing your lessons, inspiring stuff. All your product sites look great. How do you design them so well?
federalauth··on Ask HN: Advice for finding a good nanny?
Thanks for the out of the box ideas, will keep them in mind. US HCOL, East Coast.
federalauth··on Any good books on why Trump has so much support in America?
Looks good, thank you for the recommendation
federalauth··on Any good books on why Trump has so much support in America?
Fascinating, big fan of Stripe Press’s other titles, will take a look thanks
federalauth··on Ask HN: Bootsrappers who were Software Engineers. How was your journey?
Go for it. You will fail a lot. But where there’s a will there’s a way. And the “end” is so worth it.

Similar story: I was working in software, and over the years I literally felt pain to think about working for someone else for the rest of my life. After lots of side projects alone and with friends, with VC—backable and bootstrapped ambitions, I could just feel it in my bones that solo-bootstrapped B2C-software-entrepreneurship was the best fit for my skill strengths and weaknesses, temperament, and desired lifestyle.

1. I left corporate at $3K monthly (not recurring).

2. 0 pivots on the idea that ended up “working”, but countless other side projects before AND after that idea.

3. $0 for many years. Then decided to monetize (one time purchase) a project that had decent usage and traffic. Then a few thousand a month for a year. Moved to subscription pricing and improved it a ton based on my vision and customer feedback. Now a little under $10K/m recurring after a few years from the previous milestone and growing steadily.

4. I never want to go back to working for someone else again.

5. Solo

6. See above. Two critical aspects IMO.

1. I did a lot of side projects. I had a lot of “at bats”. And each time I learned more. I developed more skills sure, but also arguably more importantly learned more about myself: what I wanted and what I could do. And you only need one hit. Doesn’t even have to be a home run.

2. Product and marketing/sales intuition are critical. I wasn’t even a software engineer, but was a technical product person. You can’t just build an impressive technical system. You have to build a product that users love (product vision/sense) and get it in front of them (marketing/sales), with extremely limited time and money (ruthless prioritization).

federalauth··on A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
Can you give specific examples for how you’ve applied skills learned in Factorio to real life situations?
federalauth··on How to (seriously) read a scientific paper (2016)
What do you generally look for in the Methods section?
federalauth··on Car insurance in America is too cheap
When you say maxed out deductibles for collision and comprehensive, do you mean you picked the highest deductible? Or lowest deductible which would mean max coverage but also premium? I’ve always wondered about the value of collision and comprehensive, since it seems to be one of the more expensive parts of car insurance
federalauth··on Show HN: Open-source script to get your site indexed on Google
Thank you for sharing. Can you quickly explain why keeping an MD5 avoids the abuse issue?
federalauth··on Getting things done in small increments (2022)
Wow, three kids! Developer here with a software side project/business I’m passionate about, going to be a first-time dad soon. Any high impact advice to maximize both productivity and family quality of life during the early years?