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1) Start by picking your customer. Pick a customer that is easy to find and has a clear channel to access them. For example, maybe I want to target sales people. I know a lot of sales folks use LinkedIn, seems like an easy channel to them. edit: Also, pick a customer that _pays_ for things. B2B-type customers. You don't want to be selling a product to teenagers, developers or anyone that doesn't like to pay for solutions :)

2) Don't invent anything new. Pick a well established idea/business that is already being done (and most importantly, people are paying for). Continuing on the sales example, I know sales people often pay for technographic data. There are plenty of SaaS products out there selling that kind of data. I build a list of them.

3) Scope the product down to its bare essentials. What exactly are the sales people buying? The products probably have a lot of fluff that isn't needed. Get rid of it. This is a good time to talk to the target customer. It can be nice to hear their complaints about the products they are currently using, etc.

4) Finally, build the product and ship it. Get the initial version out quickly and keep refining it.

My entire career was spent building valuable software for companies to generate large profits only for me to be laid off (and fired, once). After the firing I was quite angry and probably a bit arrogant.

I went on a bit of a rage.. "I built the most successful product there, I can do it on my own."

So that's what I did and I haven't worked for anyone else since (on 8 years now).

"Hey that page doesn't exist, but there are some similar pages..."

Yes and no? I was certainly brought on as a valuable asset to the company.

I was introduced to the founder via a mutual acquaintance. I had other job offers at the time and had no intentions of joining, but the acquaintance asked me to speak with the founder and hear him out. I was basically tossed an offer that was silly to refuse.

I provided a lot of value and was responsible for building the most successful product the company offered.

I think things went a bit south when they wanted to raise even more money and bring in more investors. I think I was a bit of a black sheep in the company (I didn't have the phd+company pedigree as the other founding members). I felt like maybe I didn't look so good when they presented to investors. They certainly pitched the company as being built by the elites of AI and machine learning... and yet there I was ;p

I don't think it's an ordinary path. The founder had success before, and the company I was a part of skipped seed and started with a series A before raising more pretty quickly.

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From the looks of it, they have 500+ employees now.

I joined a company as employee #2 (though, I started the same day as #1). I started working with the founder and co-founder in a We Work office that barely fit the four of us.

Within 11 months the company was worth over a billion dollars and my wife was about to give birth. At this time the company had around ~15 employees (mostly in sales).

I find a job posted on our site for a job that sounds an awful lot like mine. The founder/CEO is suddenly vary combative with me every day over nothing (shouting at me). I felt like he was trying to get me to react negatively to him. I just dealt with it because my wife was about to give birth.

One day I come in and I just couldn't deal with it anymore when he was shouting at me. I basically told him to stick it up his ass and he went ballistic. I was "fired" at this point and had to leave and leave behind my company laptop.

I get a call to meet with the founder the next day to discuss the exit. We meet at a cafe. He presents a folder with a bunch of "evidence" for why I was being let go. None of it was really damning in any way (he had private emails between me and an employee, Slack private messages, etc). He tried to spin some narrative as to why I was being fired and not given my stock even though the cliff was around the corner. I also had to return my signing bonus ($XX,XXX).

I told him good luck and showed him the job posting that was dated after he found out my wife was giving birth. I also had printed email exchanges proving the company was doing some less-than-legal operations.

Needless to say I got to keep my signing bonus, but not the stock. I also got glowing recommendations for every job I applied to after that.

Do something every day. Maybe it's getting up on time. Maybe it's exercise. Maybe it's a bug fix.

The tutorials are missing quite a bit of information if you're following them on Linux (seem to refer to files/includes that don't exist). Be prepared to do digging on your own...

I've been debating between using opengl or vulkan for some simple games I have been thinking about making.

I feel like it has eradicated much of the family time for bonding. The only reason we hesitate to take them out of school is the socialization aspect.

Turbolinks is the HTMX-Boost before HTMX was HTMX.

* Planet Scale

* Supabase

* Neon

* ...

I mainly use NoScript and enable as needed for a select set of websites (banking, etc). I'm not a full on RMS, but I at least make choices that align with my thoughts and opinions, even when it's not convenient.

I recommend picking an area of interest and diving in head first.

Note, "foreigners" committing crime is a pretty common thing to hear Japanese people say. When they say it, they usually mean people from south east asian countries and they tend to be looked down upon.

Java, is that you?!

I read the FOIA response because I wanted to know what happened. I had always hoped they killed their handle and moved on to something else, but unfortunately that wasn't what happened.

https://archive.is/a2WQ5

That's just the tip of it though.

TLDR; The retroarch devs had an IRC channel where they would shit on byuu/near all the time, for no reason other than a group of them did it constantly. It was part of their "community".

I also believe marcan (another friend of Near's) commented something similar, but I can't seem to find it (I think it was on Twitter).

Near's spouse referred to Near via "he/him/his" in all of the police/consulate correspondence in the FOIA, so it seemed alright to me.