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Is it possible to use Eufy cameras with Frigate ?

What's your experience with sub-agents ? is it really improving the output?

Did you use the one suggested here https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents or have you created custom ones?

I've been writing / editing technical blogs for the past decade, and I found that the key thing is to be engaging.

Most technical blog posts are boring. They look like documentation.

My best technical blog posts were the ones where I added personal stories about how I used the library/framework I was referring to.

The best advice from OP is to hire an editor. Especially for non-native English speakers (like me). A good editor can transform "good" technical content into exceptional content.

Michael Lynch, who regularly front-page HN has a great article about this: https://mtlynch.io/editor/

With a limited company generating £100k/year in revenue, I’m curious how much a contractor would earn after salary tax? (assuming no admin/accounting costs)

Yes loss. 70% of the SaaS companies that IPO'd in the past five years are loosing money. The median operating margin is -21%.

Source: https://blossomstreetventures.medium.com/q1-saas-metrics-dat...

In my understanding, it's not that it's illegal to hire a person as a contractor, it's just that it can be re-qualified by a judge as an employee, if some working conditions are met.

For example in France, which is known for its labor code that protects employees much better than other countries, here are some conditions that can lead to this: - Proven relationship of subordination - The contractor is only working for your company - Poorly written contract (specifically, obligation of means vs obligation of results)

Thanks Artem!

I'm the founder of https://www.scrapingbee.com/, an API for web scraping.

At the beginning we had a banner on the dashboard with a CTA to book a call with me. To incentivize users to book the call, we offered free API credits: https://twitter.com/PierreDeWulf/status/1329765250707623939/...

I had 100+ calls with users in the first months, it helped us a lot to understand our market, what they needed etc.

It worked so well that we had to remove the free credit incentive because taking those calls took all my time.

I don't know about Germany, but in France it's very low compared to the US.

Here is a study of 3600 anwsers: https://www.silkhom.com/barometre-des-salaires-2019-combien-...

There are many other studies like these every year in France, for many different positions in tech.

Here is a TLDR. A junior dev (0-2 years of experience): - Paris: 35-45k€ - Big cities: 35-40k€ - Outside of big cities: 32-38k€

A confirmed dev (3-5 years of experience): - Paris: 45-60k€ - Big cities: 40-46k€ - Outside of big cities: 38-45k€

Senior (5 years+): - Paris: 55k+€ - Big cities: 45-55k€ - Outside big cities: 45-50k€

Note that these salaries are "brut", meaning there are 23% of various taxes (income tax not included), unemployment taxes, social security, retirement etc.

On top of that, France as one of the highest income tax rate in the world.

I'm using Hledger for my personnal finances. Is there any way to import my ledger to this tool?

When I said documenting, I was thinking about publicly documenting what you do, in order to create an audience around your company.

That's really great, especially if people buying your software are also interested in entrepreneurship.

I think it really depends on what kind of software business you want to create.

For example, being a solo founder running a profitable bootstrapped SaaS business requires different skills than a venture-backed B2C social mobile app!

If you want the former, I suggest you read interviews and follow companies on IndieHacker: https://www.indiehackers.com/

You'll find lots of resources and case studies of people that made the switch from developer to founder.

I quit my software developer job two years ago to build a SaaS API business with a co-founder. We're at $4500 MRR and we are documenting almost everything we do: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/scrapingninja

About business books, Traction[1] is a must-have in my opinion as a developer. You'll learn a lot about marketing, which is often the problem most developers face when launching their first company.

I also love "Start small stay small, A developer’s guide to launching a startup with no outside funding" by Rob Walling.

If you need solid advice in terms of code & technology choice/architecture to launch a startup, you should read Hello Startup.[3]

With these three books, you'll have a solid understanding of what to build, how to build, and how to market your software.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Get-Grip-Your-Business/dp/19... [2]: https://startupbook.net/ [3]: https://www.hello-startup.net/

Hey Hacker News,

Today Pierre and I are releasing the Java Web Scraping Handbook for FREE!

And by free we mean you don't even have to give us your email address!

Some backstory about the book: I originally wrote it in 2018 after working in different web scraping projects for startups (Mint.com like) and banks.

The first four chapters are language agnostic, and the last can be applied to any language, so don't be scared if you don't know Java!

By the end of the book, you will know:

- How to scrape any website

- Just enough XPath / Regex / DOM knowledge to be dangerous.

- How to deal with Javascript-heavy websites (Single Page application...)

- How to programmatically perform actions on a website behind a login form

- Parse information inside PDFs

- Bypass captchas

- Deploy your scrapers in the cloud

I'm happy to answer any questions about the book :)

Yes it seems.

I really like the segment.com blog.

It's not just about the content, but the typography, the style, illustrations... I don't know why but I'm more and more sensitive with the general reading experience.

Amazing documentary!

I was really surprised about how he came with the name "Vue".

The "Benevolent Dictator for life" model seems to work just fine!

It seems this post is about transactional emails, not marketing ones. CF the first paragraph!

I know the results are biased given it's a sample from OP inbox but I'm surprised not so see https://postmarkapp.com/ here. I thought they were pretty popular.

I have many cron jobs in AWS Lambda functions for many tasks.

I wrote a blog post about how to monitor a competitor website using Python / Lambda and serverless framework for deployment: https://dzone.com/articles/monitor-your-competitors-with-aws...

For lots of workflows we also use No-code/Low-code tools like Zapier / Integromat.

Is there a code example to extract tweets from a hashtag like this one?

"A basic installation of SAP has 20,000 database tables, 3,000 of which are configuration tables. In those tables, there are ~8,000 configuration decisions you need before even getting started."

Wow, really?

+ VAT management, self-serve portal etc. Chargebee is really great

You made my day with this quote thanks!

Also in Europe, I've been using Discord almost daily for 5 years now, and always impressed by the voice quality.

What public available web archive are you referring to? I know CommonCrawl but it's a monthly archive.

Are you using an open-source web crawler like Stormcrawler / Apache Nutch or are you using Google queries as others suggested?

Very interesting report! I was a bit shocked by these answers:

"What’s your 10-year goal? - 36% just want to continue building cool things - 23% want to become a technology leader (SVP, CTO) - 19% want to start their own company - 15% want to be a product leader - 8% want to be able to retire"

Only 19% want to start their own company in 10 years??

A few years ago when I was working in a big bank, I had the impression that about 70% of my co-workers wanted to create their own company and 30% wanted to become managers.

Interesting list, I'm wondering how did you get this data?

For my next side project, I'd like to test https://render.com/ It seems like a cheaper alternative to Heroku. Any feedback on this?