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syed123

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Founder https://LetsLunch.com
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syed123··on Competition is not market validation
i guess its called the unfair advantage and there is even a book by the same name!
syed123··on Competition is not market validation
then you can passionaltey study people and find if they are not passionate in your passion then what passions they have and make their passions evolve your passions to passionately help their passions.
syed123··on Competition is not market validation
very valid point- but people do start with passion and iterate being the keyword based on understanding users and the market - however if you jump straight into competition/market without having interests or passion then you are driven by numbers and other people and have nothing to fall back onto in terms of purpose/vision/mission - so someone passionate in ornamental gourd futures can use the passion in it to underdtand other peoples/passion or interests in it and then in the process develop your understanding of them to feed what they are looking for coming from your evolved passion now - youtube was hotornot pics to begin with!
syed123··on Competition is not market validation
Why not check your passion and interest regardless of presence/lack of competition and then you can play a long game instead of being in a reactive state.
syed123··on Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools
The problem with books in general and articles is that they always refer some more books to read or go indepth so it has caused me to move even far away from taking action- even the best/top 10 books is not the final list as they themselves refer another 20-50 books so i feel like its never ending cycle of slippery slope. I have completely given up on reading books and occassionaly chatgpt the problems i am currently faciing and go from there rather than ever reading a single book or article.
syed123··on Challenge HN: I will redesign any web page within 2 hours, for free
https://LetsLunch.com Would love to see how you can help me send the message to companies that opening up can use letslunch to setup lunch n learn with vip's
syed123··on Ask HN: When is it time to give up on a side project SaaS?
Never 1: Change market 2: Change product 3: Change team 4: Change yourself by upgrading your knowledge/experience 4: Market changes on its own 5: Customers needs changes 6: Environment changes All of the hunger has to come within
syed123··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2019)
Location: San Francisco. Remote: Yes Technologies: React/Redux, Node.js, Javascript

Resume/CV: Send me an email for full resume - https://linkedin.com/in/SyedShuttari

Email: Syed@Shuttari.com

6+ yrs of Technical experience including cofounding a startup https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/letslunch-launches-and-wev...

Experienced in building SaaS, Consumer and enterprise products in variety of domains. Based out of San Francisco and Willing to relocate for the right role.

syed123··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2018)
Location: San Francisco. Remote: Yes

Technologies: React, Node.js, Javascript, Php

HTML, CSS, BootStrap, Sass, webpack, babel

SQL, Postgres, MySql, PL/pgSQL

AWS, GIT

Resume/CV: Send me an email for full resume - https://linkedin.com/in/syedShuttari

Email: Syed@Shuttari.com

12+ Years of development with last 6 yrs Cofounding a startup https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/letslunch-launches-and-wev....

Experienced in building SaaS, Consumer and enterprise products in variety of domains. Based out of San Francisco and Willing to relocate for the right role.

syed123··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2018)
link: https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/letslunch-launches-and-wev...
syed123··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2018)
Location: San Francisco. Remote: Yes

Technologies: PHP, Python, Nodejs

HTML, CSS, Javascript, BootStrap

SQL, Postgres, Oracle, MySql, PL/pgSQL

AWS, GIT

Resume/CV: Send me an email for full resume - https://linkedin.com/in/syedShuttari

Email: Syed@Shuttari.com

12+ Years of development with last 6 yrs Cofounding a startup https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/letslunch-launches-and-wev...

Experienced in building SaaS, Consumer and enterprise products in variety of domains. Based out of San Francisco and Willing to relocate for the right role.

syed123··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2018)
Location: San Francisco.

Remote: Yes

Technologies: PHP, Python, Nodejs HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap SQL, Postgres, Oracle, MySql AWS, GIT

Resume/CV: Send me an email for full resume - https://linkedin.com/in/syedShuttari

Email: Syed@Shuttari.com

12+ Years of development with last 6 years Cofounding a startup. Experienced in building SaaS, Consumer and enterprise products in variety of domains. Based out of San Francisco and Willing to relocate for the right role.

syed123··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
LetsLunch.com |PHP Developer|part time negotiable| Remote|San Francisco, CA

LetsLunch http://LetsLunch.com helps job seekers meet with hiring managers at company cafeterias, tour the company experience the culture and meet future coworkers. Its like lunch date with employers.

We have setup over 100,000 lunches between entrepreneurs and are now opening the site for brands/companies to host networking lunches.

We are looking for an Engineer with YII framework, PHP, LAMP, AWS, Varnish, Linkedin/Google API's and mysql.

Any questions feel free to reach out to me at Syed@LetsLunch.com

syed123··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
LetsLunch |PHP Developer|Full time, part time negotiable| Onsite|San Francisco, CA

LetsLunch dot com is launching a new service that helps job seekers meet with hiring managers at company cafeterias, tour the company experience the culture and meet future coworkers. Its like lunch date with employers. We are looking for a cofounder in the role of PHP Engineer with YII framework, AWS, Varnish, Linkedin/Google API's and mysql.

Any questions feel free to reach out to me at Syed at LetsLunch dot com

syed123··on Ask HN: How do you network with other professionals?
Teaching people what you are good with is one of the best way to connect with others. You get the respect and also help others. Make a list of 10 things you are good at and teach the top 3. Also Try http://LetsLunch.com to setup lunches with entrepreneurs. Disclaimer : i'm the founder.
syed123··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
LetsLunch |PHP Developer|Full time, part time negotiable| Onsite|San Francisco, CA

LetsLunch dot com is launching a new service that helps job seekers meet with hiring managers at company cafeterias, tour the company experience the culture and meet future coworkers. Its like lunch date with employers. We are looking for a cofounder in the role of PHP Engineer with YII framework, AWS, Varnish, Linkedin/Google API's and mysql. Any questions feel free to reach out to me at Syed at LetsLunch dot com

syed123··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
LetsLunch.com |PHP Developer|Full time, part time negotiable| Onsite|San Francisco, CA

LetsLunch http://LetsLunch.com is launching a new service that helps job seekers meet with hiring managers at company cafeterias, tour the company experience the culture and meet future coworkers. Its like lunch date with employers. We are looking for cofounders in the role of PHP Engineer with YII framework, AWS, Varnish, Linkedin/Google API's and mysql.

Any questions feel free to reach out to me at Syed@LetsLunch.com

syed123··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)
LetsLunch.com |PHP Developer|Full time, part time negotiable| Onsite|San Francisco, CA

LetsLunch http://LetsLunch.com is launching a new service that helps job seekers meet with hiring managers at company cafeterias, tour the company experience the culture and meet future coworkers. Its like lunch date with employers. We are looking for cofounders in the role of PHP Engineer with YII framework, AWS, Jquery, API's and mysql. Any questions feel free to reach out to me at Syed@LetsLunch.com

syed123··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
LetsLunch.com | Co-founders|Full time, part time negotiable| Onsite|San Francisco, CA

LetsLunch http://LetsLunch.com is launching a new service that helps job seekers meet with hiring managers at company cafeterias, tour the company experience the culture and meet future coworkers. Its like lunch date with employers. We are looking for cofounders in the role of UX/UI designer and someone to help us get companies on board Any questions feel free to reach out to me at Syed@LetsLunch.com

syed123··on Ask HN: Relaunch my website in Ruby/Python or continue with PHP?
wow..excellent advice. You made me day and week!!
syed123··on Ask HN: Relaunch my website in Ruby/Python or continue with PHP?
This is really helpful. I was being pushed to upgrade by the programmers i am trying to hire who say old website code is kind of spaghetti..and a new clean rewrite in node/ruby will go a long way in hiring good bayarea programmers.
syed123··on Ask HN: Relaunch my website in Ruby/Python or continue with PHP?
it also helps to find more programmers here in the bayarea if i switch to ruby, node etc all the cool programming dudes that i want to hire -are not in php.
syed123··on Ask HN: Relaunch my website in Ruby/Python or continue with PHP?
Based on the website and code base i have, i just want a rough estimate..are we talking 2 weeks, 2 months or 6 months here to rebuild in a new language? does it provide any advantage that the code was already written and api's work etc in the other language? trying to see if something can be reused or is it gonna be a total build from scatch new website..
syed123··on Ask HN: Relaunch my website in Ruby/Python or continue with PHP?
Thanks for the detailed rundown. How long do you think it will take to rebuild the existing letslunch.com website from scatch in python? just a rough estimate without going for the nitty gritty of table sizes, length, number of lines of code.. letslunch has data of 90,000 users, 60,000 lunches, 12-15 dynamic pages and about 6 api's that we use from linkedin, facebook etc
syed123··on Ask HN: Relaunch my website in Ruby/Python or continue with PHP?
website is kind of slow and some bugs..so i am wondering if refactoring or bugs fixing is worth it or switching to a new modern language.
syed123··on Ask HN: Relaunch my website in Ruby/Python or continue with PHP?
i thought new languages are easier,scalable, more libraries etc since they are new. But it will take more than a week for sure to port the site data to new rails/node. Thats why wanted to make sure its well worth switching.
syed123··on Ask HN: Relaunch my website in Ruby/Python or continue with PHP?
Thanks for the helpful tips. Its hard to live in SF and not feel like missing out on Ruby/rail, node.js and other new fast and easy programming languages.
syed123··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)
LetsLunch.com | Co-founders, intern |Full time, part time negotiable| Onsite|San Francisco, CA

LetsLunch http://LetsLunch.com is launching a new product to host lunches at corporate companies so job hunters can get a foot in the door, connect with employees and find backdoor entry to hidden jobs. Companies get to meet prospective talents, demo new products, test new features.

We are looking for cofounders in the role of Backend developer PHP,IOS developer, designer, Product manager, business developer, marketing/copywriting and an intern.

Any questions feel free to reach out to me at Syed@LetsLunch.com

syed123··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)
Location: San Francisco

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Role: Product manager

Linkedin: http://www.Linkedin.com/in/syedshuttari

Email: Syed@Shuttari.com

I'm an Entrepreneur with 12+ years of industry experience in product management, launched a startup www.LetsLunch.com in 6 countries and worked as SQL engineer for Wells fargo. Pretty comfortable with the life cycle of product management, PR, community management and growth.

syed123··on Interpersonal skills vs. coding chops
The skill here is to flow in waves -start with socializing completely for days/weeks where you get to warmup, practice, improve your skills etc then get back to coding- again warmup,get fully into coding - while also simultaneously reflecting on the socializing you did, internalizing what you learnt, measuring your performance etc.. repeat the cycle by cutting down the time you spend in this cycle..this way you will reach a day where you can find a healthy balance and ability to switch on/off whenever you want.
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