smithmayowa

I never knew pinterest was that big, never used it in my life not even once. How many other startups and market tangents have I been ignorant to I am beginning to wonder.

It is saddening to hear that the fear of resulting financial debt due to hospital bills, stopped you short from dialing 911 in such a precarious situation.

There goes my fantasy that in the west at least health care was top notch and affordable compared to Africa.

Tech startup's "the end justifies the means" motto right there, growth at all cost and lest I forget are you growing 20% month over month?, because you should to be valued as a unicorn.

Here is where that take it slow advice comes into play, also prioritizing all your interest in relation to your level of interest in them, your skill-set, and your network is definitely the key here.

It is either that you are definitely more interested in one than others or you are more suited skill-wise to another one or you are a 2nd degree connection with someone entrenched in another. One of these should come into play and be the deciding factor.

Excellent, now you know your real problem; motivation, this is easily solved by thinking hard and deep on the one change you will like to see happen in the world(humans living forever, space travel, e.t.c), once you figure that one thing you want to see happen try and find a way to contribute to it even a little bit, motivation will come then.

You can either work normal jobs(preferable) and work part time on that goal or you focus mainly on trying to help see that change happen.

Takes things slow though and remember it does not have to be a grand goal or better you can try working on a very small part of a grand goal, for example if you are interested in climate change being solved you can help this happen by eliminating one of the bottle necks that people have to believing climate change in the first place; access to verifiable data, you can build a platform that collects this data from goverments and institutions around the world and make them available to the average Joe in visual parsable form.

Where do you stay that programmers are in such high demand?

you can try focusing on ai implementation then, there are a lot of implementation tasks you can still do regarding ai with just basic college level math and high school stat skills.

This would never work where I stay, because of mosquitoes. You do not open your windows unless you have nets, and of recent the air blown are also hot, and so air-conditioning is the only saving grace you have provided there is stable power supply except you are ready to utilize generators which contributes to making the whole climate situation unbearable.

Thanks man seen the invite.

hey do you mind inviting me too? email in my profile.

That focus 'thing' is a good advantage all on its own,Netlify is also way easier for non developers to quickly set up their page on than other services, i mean check out just how easy it is ;https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/09/29/a-step-by-step-guide...

Netlify does the whole static thing better, by being extremely focused on all things static, which makes setting up a static site on netlify way less stressful than on github and amazon, there is also the market knowledge factor, I mean github is known for hosting code repos and S3 is known for hosting files(videos and pictures), netlify meanwhile is known for static pages.

Currently going through your course, thanks for taking the time to make something like that.

Thanks for taking the time to write this list, I will definitely get them and MIT OCW could really come in handy in providing a kind of lecturing feel to this goal.

Thanks man, will definitely get this book.

This is definitely worthy of a trail, the number of asses we founders have to kiss to get anywhere with our startup could use an increase anyway.

Makes me wonder if we really are changing the world by keeping so many peoples butt wet with kisses, and not really making the world a better place.

What kind of developers are you looking for?

Being an African I never understood why most westerners don't get the simple fact that to people who have been starving to death any policy or government that creates wealth for the majority of them is very welcome to them irrespective of their poor human rights disadvantages.

Can you find a SaaS successful SaaS founders or preferable a SaaS sales person close to you, that you could learn from cause it seems your problem is sales and not really SaaS.

I was once in your shoes building SaaS project that never amounted to much, what changed well I got into yc startup school last year and while my startup failed I learnt a lot from fellow startup schoolers when it came to sales, things like; b2b and b2c SaaS require different sales approach, cold outreach bring in 3% of all SaaS sales,and so on. And then I joined Facebook SaaS groups, which where filled with successful SaaS founders, where I am learning a lot from, I even found founder mentors there, who are now mentoring me through my recent SaaS project that is accomplishing results my other SaaS projects never could. There are so many variables involved in building a successfull SaaS project, so many in fact that it is a fallacy to think you can optimize them all by yourself, best approach is to find someone who has already optimized most of these variables and learn from them.

SaasGrowthHacks is a particularly good Facebook group you can join, it is a closed group by the way.

God I thought that Matt Damon headline was not real, turns out I was wrong, just googled it's very real.

Very awesome video on physics and how some theorem are ignored for no reason but just being far ahead of their time, thanks for this link dude.

This sort of self benefiting deals should not be acceptable in any organization from their executives, just as they are not acceptable from democratic government officials.

This is very impressive

Hope you've still got your hopes up, never give up bro.

Could they be used as actors in movies?, imagine a world where a whole movie from the scripting to the acting was done by an AI all in a few hours.

how can i reach you, email me at my username @testimonly.com and i will be happy to talk to you.

Thanks will check them out.

What about fall to fall tales and rise to rise tales that abound plenty-full in several cultures like mine.

The tech community as a whole has always been anti-war from time immemorial, but in the past the vast majority of tech funding came from the govt and so tech companies were always involved in one way and another in building war machines so as to make money, but in recent times with the vc in tech funding more tech companies, they no longer really need to build war machines to make money, I mean the top five tech companies in the world presently are majorly consumer tech, so tech companies and the workers who make them up can say fuck you to the government sponsored tech contracts and fuck you to war in general.

That thread was unbelievable, man hackernews discussions were very enlightening back then, drew houston even introduced his startup in that thread.