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kanakiyajay··on Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?
There is good evidence in terms of attrition numbers published by major tech companies --- it has gone as high as 22%!! India is also experiencing a major demand for software developers

It's due to venture funds, remote work & high demand ...

Cash is cheap. US, Europe & Japan have unleashed >$9 trillion since the pandemic in stimulus checks & buying of bonds in the market. Global venture funding hit a record high of $221B with 250 start-ups becoming unicorns this year. Coinbase debuted publicly with a market cap of $89B on its opening day. Indian start-ups have received a record funding of $8.76B

Salary Difference is Huge . The average salary of a software developer in the US is $107K with senior developers commanding $300K in San Francisco, a stark difference compared to India. Demand for talent is coming from all industries, the automotive sector hired more software engineers than the tech sector last year, all the more reason for going remote

Which means remote postings have risen by 457% since the past year! Engineers prefer to continue WFH as it enables flexibility, increased productivity & reduced commute times. Even the challenge of different time zones can be solved using good asynchronous communication in remote work

To recap, an engineer can work for - FAAMG (Remain the top pick) - US & EU software giants (Coinbase, GitLab, Automattic) - 3000 India Dev Centers (Eg: John Deere) - IPO-bound unicorns (Zomato, Paytm, MobiKwik) - Freshly funded start-ups (100s) - 2800 IT services firms

What is the impact?

Attrition rates in Indian IT will be at an all-time high of 22-23% this year. Top-tier candidates now get multiple offers with an eye-popping 2x-3x (not 20%-30%) raise. The 2-3 month notice period means candidates continue interviewing after accepting the 1st offer. Developers are consistently learning new skillsets on AI, Machine learning, cloud computing, automation, blockchain to be in high demand. No doubt, multiple founders have recently tweeted about this new competitive market & candidates informing before joining date

Recruiters & founders need to differentiate themselves not just with cash, but also with ESOPs, buybacks, venture backing, eye-watering benefits, rapid career growth & work even harder to retain existing talent

The war for talent is on

kanakiyajay··on A solo journey to $100k in sales
Do you've any resource country wise pricing for digital products and services (or how does a large company does it) (not big mac index)
kanakiyajay··on Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'
Supertokens seem great for any startup and many use cases. But a critical part for many enterprise organisations is compliance and strong security. Does it ensure compliance around GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DIS etc?
kanakiyajay··on TailwindCSS v2.0
Hi Adam,

The demo given just below looks amazing. I initially thought it was a video, now seeing that it is actually coded. Brilliant

kanakiyajay··on Don't use third party auth to sign in
Another alternative to prevent such a situation from happening is connecting not just Google sign-in but combine with facebook or email as well.
kanakiyajay··on Why Tailwind UI made $500K in 3 days
Woah! It jumped to the first stage for a brief second, never expected that
kanakiyajay··on Software will eat software in a remote-first world
I had written about my predictions about technology trends which are going to make a maximum impact in 2021 out of which no-code will have a definite impact

https://jay.kanakiya.in/blog/what-i-am-excited-about-in-2020...

kanakiyajay··on Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
Agreed, FPGA is too expensive currently with a non-standard toolset present across the industry. But if someone is able to create an industry coalition (think Wi-Fi Alliance or Bluetooth SIG) it can definitely make a large impact for everyone involved with several companies reaping the benefits
kanakiyajay··on Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
Wrote a blog post on the technologies I believe are going to change industries

1. No-Code Tools 2. GraphQL 3. Oculus Quest 4. FPGA 5. Netflix for Gamers 6. Windows for Linux 7. Notion 8. Animation Engines

https://jay.kanakiya.in/blog/what-i-am-excited-about-in-2020...

kanakiyajay··on Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?
I have been using Twitter as a bookmark system since the past 10 years, it works great - you can search, tag (#hashtag) as well as supports different content

You can even download all your tweets and there are hundreds of twitter apps and tools around it.

Additional benefit is additional followers, cloud sync and it's simplicity

Do have a look at my account http://twitter.com/@techiejayk

kanakiyajay··on Turn Sketch into native mobile apps within minutes
Idea looks pretty interesting
kanakiyajay··on [dead]
Love the UI! Keep up the good work
kanakiyajay··on [dead]
Which API is it referring to for getting the projects ?
kanakiyajay··on UI Sources – Curated Interaction Design Patterns from the Best Apps
It would be great if they could add editable mockflows as well.

You can quickly new app mock-ups from them

kanakiyajay··on [dead]
The makers are credible it seems. Hope the project ships
kanakiyajay··on Arcentry – Create beautiful cloud and open-source diagrams
What purposes/use cases are you looking for ?

There are multiple other tools which are available.

kanakiyajay··on Front End Performance Checklist
Google already has a page speed tool which gives you recommendations and the actions to be taken.

The sheet has links to npm packages which can be integrated in your workflow.

kanakiyajay··on Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
I have got two sites averaging about 50K a month and used to earn close to $50 a month. But I got bored and earnings and visits crashed. I have now got a renewed interest to look at it and try to establish a basic business model not based on ads which is just not sustainable. Affiliate networks is something that I am excited about or a job board site. Tl;dr ad revenue is nothing as compared to what you can make due to affiliate networks or a paid service. For people who were asking: https://jquer.in and http://angular-js.in
kanakiyajay··on PurifyCSS – Remove unused CSS
Wrote a quick tutorial http://grunt-tasks.com/grunt-purifycss/ on how to use it with grunt and grunt-usemin
kanakiyajay··on Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?
http://frontb.in/ | Modern Pastebin for the Front End Developer.

Technology: SPA, Node-js, MongoDB

Statistics: About 300 Pageviews a Day

History: Needed a simple way for jsonlint, jshint, pastebin, compressing, remove whitespace basically a quick tools for the web developer

kanakiyajay··on Amazon releases new Kindle products
I own a Kindle 3, waiting for a e-ink color Kindle to come out! will love to read comics on that !
kanakiyajay··on Amazon releases new Kindle products
Have you tried emailing your pdf as attachment to your free kindle address with subject "convert". This works for me everytime.
kanakiyajay··on Ask HN: How much traffic to expect if your project hits HN front page?
My blog http://jquer.in was briefly (about 3 hours) on the front page. I got around 1500 Unique Visitors according to GA.
kanakiyajay··on What was your best passive income in 2014?
I manage a simple jQuery plugins blog http://jquer.in/ in which I list one plugin a day. Hosting costs are about 20$ a year. Average monthly advertising revenue is about 100$ not bad considering I haven't started sponsored posts yet.
kanakiyajay··on Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?
"What they teach you at Harvard Business School"

A must if you are thinking of taking the plunge from development to doing an MBA

kanakiyajay··on Show HN: Shoelace.io – Visual Bootstrap Grid Builder and Teacher Beta
Good Work !

Had made something similar before : http://jaykanakiya.com/bootstrap-grid-builder/

kanakiyajay··on RandomColor – a color generator for JavaScript
Anyone looking for a single line code to generate a random hex color: var randomColor = Math.floor(Math.random()*16777215).toString(16);
kanakiyajay··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
Pune , Remote / Relocation , Full Time

Stack : Angular-js , js, jQuery , html5 , Node-js

Resume : http://jaykanakiya.com/resume.pdf

Contact : mailto:kanakiyajay@yahoo.com

I am looking for a front-end developer position and open to learning new technologies and relocating.

kanakiyajay··on Frontend: The web visual editor
1.How is it different from macaw or Adobe Muse ? 2.I did not understand why are you using a custom web framework xtyle , instead why not go for Bootstrap ?. Its already used by millions and you also save a lot of time. 3.Components feature sounds exciting , but how much similar is it to angular directives. 4.What is target market ? front-end developers or non-tech people?
kanakiyajay··on Show HN: Simple Bootstrap 3 Form Builder
Similar -> Bootstrap 3 Grid Builder http://jaykanakiya.com/bootstrap-grid-builder/
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