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Fees: great point. I have "capped fees" logged as a future feature, but haven't gotten to it yet since it's an edge case. Contact me if you'd like to talk more about your product, I'd be thrilled to work together: zac@squarebit.io

The other points are all excellent items.. I've written them down to review later today. I appreciate you taking the time to submit feedback here!

Definitely! You're right, the homepage doesn't explain as well as it should.

All use cases boil down to two scenarios:

1. Creators want to sell a digital thing, but don't want to give up 30% to 50% in fees. Digital things could be: ebooks, a font, PSD templates, WordPress plugins, etc.

2. Creators want to take advantage of Git integration (fantastic for selling software, ebooks, etc)

Excellent feedback, and very true.. new user onboarding isn't as good as it should be. It's for non-technical users too, and I'll need to find a way to communicate to them as well.

Oof, being a one-man show is taxing. Thanks so much for your feedback, I've added a task in Teamwork to get on this!

Hey thanks for that feedback!

The current setup is focused on creators, not customers. Something like ThemeForest is customer-focused, while this is more similar to Gumroad, which is more creator-focused. (Gumroad does have its "Discover" feature, but it's not prominent)

Eventually if some product categories get popular I'll find a way to showcase a curated catalog. And if any creators are worried about reaching an audience, get in direct contact with me. I do free PPC campaigns for products I believe in: zac@squarebit.io

Cofounder & CTO here - happy to answer any questions! My heart is filled with joy today to finally launch this product.

The project has been an entire year, full-time, in the making. It started when I tried selling software that I had written as a side project. I saw two very big problems with the digital marketplaces online:

1. One company owns most of the marketplaces. Fees start in a tier, at 50%. Others like Creative Market are better (30% flat), but still seems excessive. I did a whole lot of spreadsheet math and determined 18% is more than fair for both creators and the company.

2. Engineers: do you like downloading Zip archives to get updates? Me either. I made the platform with deep Git integration. Customers can type `git pull` to get updates, or add the CDN urls to their package managers. Creators can use branches and tags as they see fit to manager their products. And hey, if your customers aren't technical, they can still download archives & see all Git commits in their dashboard.

So here I am one year later, finally complete (unit tests and all!). I'm a classic ENFJ personality. Please send me any feedback, good, bad, or downright mean :-)

Cheers!

I apologize my wording made it appear I was abusing drugs, I don't condone that. In fact I'm the opposite: I microdosed Adderall. 5mg a day for the longest time, then bumped up to 10mg. My doctors over the years pushed me to take more but I always said no. Instead I would take breaks and let tolerance die down before resuming.

I first got a prescription when I found I would rather spend 2-3 hours of my work day staring at a wall than work on a tedious task (literally, I did this). I was either hyper focused on a task and spent all day and night on it, or would rather be left with my thoughts.

I went home many days wondering what was wrong with me and waited every day to hear the news I was fired. I eventually went to a doctor around the age of 20 and he said, without a doubt, I have severe ADHD.

I have found other ways to cope with the condition. Many already shared in this very thread what has worked for me: no sugar, exercise, plenty of sleep, and a tinge of coffee. Even when on small doses of Adderall, if I had more than a handful of Oreos, I would have to go home because work is impossible. This actually happened! I know it's hard for people without ADHD to understand. It's not about willpower, it was an impossibility for me to work.

If anyone here reading this needs the motivation or gentle reminder: you might not need Adderall anymore.

I've used it to get ahead in software for the past ~8 years. I recently gave it up, but it was hard to realize that it was time. It might be time for you, too.

The thing holding me back was fear. Fear I wasn't enough, that I couldn't be efficient. That I would get fired from my high position. Or even if I could make it work, that I still wouldn't get enough done on my startup (which has its own list of fears itself).

What finally pushed me to quit was realizing I wasn't as compassionate anymore; it was impacting my relationships. I had three separate people tell me in my coworking space that I look too busy and unapproachable so they never came to chat. I had a SO tell me that I'm emotionally unavailable too often. All within the time span of a month. I'm naturally an optimistic, compassionate person. This wasn't me, and being a robot (as mentioned in the article!) wasn't who I wanted to be, at any cost.

Indeed, three days after I quit I felt like a new person. I felt silly, fun, again. I had a week of "brain fog" where I wasn't productive. Afterward my efficiency went back up. Nowhere near the Adderall levels, but to a very acceptable level.

So in summary, you might not need it anymore if it's causing you grief. Sorry for the lame motivational things I'm about to say (Taken from the book, Daring Greatly):

You are enough.

You are worthy.

It's a fine line, isn't it? Ha! You're correct of course.

To anyone with fear of being creepy: my good friend shared a video with me recently on vulnerability. It forced me to rewire my brain:

https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability

One item I'd add to the article on being charming: be vulnerable. Vulnerability is relatable, it's genuine.

I can see how one may think that!

I see charm as a way to make connections with others (which is awesome!). It's also crazy fun to inflect your voice. Everyone has a better time when you're okay being silly.

Would you treat a new acquaintance like they had the plague? Probably not. Is it manipulative to be nice to someone? I don't think so. Being silly with inflection, or using any of the tools described in the article, for me is just another way to relate to others.

I won't deny some may use the tools for manipulation - but the practice isn't inherently manipulative in my opinion.

One tip mentioned is to raise your eyebrows. As example: when you first meet someone, raise your eyebrows slightly (or one), smile, and tilt your head and greet them. Making someone else feel special makes you charming.

Along the same lines: I find that voice cadences, and inflection, work pretty well for being charming! Take time to enuncicate the whole sentence you want to say, throw emotion into your words. And if you happen to do the eyebrow trick at the same time - it's charm overload.

Surprised audio cues weren't mentioned more :-)

I'm not sure what Storify is/was. I attempted to find out by clicking the "About" link in their footer, and got redirected to Adobe. Looks like maybe they got a buyout!

Looking great for a first release! The demo is smooth, well done.

Seems like there's a good framework in place to catch up to the competition. I'd switch away from TinyMCE or Summernote if there was a component/widget system that worked well. Writing custom behavior for any HTML editor is painful, and none of them have a big use case in mind: custom layouts.

SiteOrigin's Page Builder for WordPress is cool: https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels/

I wanted something (Free or paid) like what's shown in the above video, that's independent of WordPress. Couldn't find a darn single one, if you can believe it. I'm stuck with Summernote + workarounds to get something similar for a Laravel project of mine.

Not able to read without paying, unfortunately!

What I was able to read and the title itself has always interested me, as someone who drinks a lot of coffee to get through the day efficiently. I can easily correlate coffee intake with quality of sleep, and it does worry me.

So far I've felt OK about sacrificing weekday sleep quality by making up deep sleep on the weekends. Not sure if the article talks about this or not, but it helps me.. "sleep at night" so to speak :-)

This post feels like a draft for what could be a killer article. I don't mean this as disrespect, just that I'd be interested in reading a detailed post, OP. Something beyond just introducing a concept.

Perhaps along the lines of what IndieHackers.com/businesses would publish. They ask (and get answered) questions startups typically won't answer, post a plethora of stats, and go into detail on both what did and didn't work. (Heck, maybe even apply to get interviewed by them)

I think your business (and side business mentioned in the post) in particular would be interesting to read in a detailed format.

Cheers!

You are correct! The implementation is strange, however. I'm not able to directly override any of the nginx settings already set. As there is no route overriding in nginx, this makes things real tough in trying to allow/deny access by route.

The hacky workaround is to create a more specific regex to override any existing routes. So "Location /" becomes "Location /(.*)"

Other alternatives like running your own nginx configuration or apache2 is possible, but no current documentation exists (some is available, but it is outdated and following steps results in a landslide of errors). Plus I don't like the idea of using a different configuration as far as new updates breaking my instance goes.

This is just one example as well - and one I chose because simple IP allow/deny IMO is not an enterprise feature, but a very common use case for anyone running CE.

This makes me slightly worried.

I'm fine with paying for a service like Gitlab's hosted instance (and will start paying for it), it's a pretty good service. The UI isn't amazing but the tools are better IMO than GitHub's.. last time I checked, anyway.

What worries me is that as a heavy user of self-hosted CE, I see frequently that many features that I would like are enterprise (EE) only. Something like doing an IP whitelist/banlist on your server in the nginx config is surprisingly difficult unless you are an EE customer. It's a common use case that shouldn't be EE-only.

This change on their values (the very generous free private hosting) makes me wonder what the future holds.

Youth Startup Weekend is a nice event to get your feet wet. The kids that show up are fun and pretty darn smart, some great ideas come out of these.

http://startupweekend.org/interests/Youth

It's a whole weekend of volunteer work, functions just like an adult startup weekend. Kids learn to pitch, come up with ideas, and pivot more times than an adult does (ha!).

I've done a few in different states. Only one wasn't run well (techstars appoints faciliators & organizers, it's up to them on how well the event runs). The others I learned just as much interacting with the kids than they learned from me.

Give it a shot! They don't have many events on that page now, but they have events in quite a few states throughout the year.

Oof, I'm so very happy you shared this with me. Looks like I'm rebranding!

Right! I've been developing this for almost a year now, and any time I spoke about it at a networking event, each dev says "Wait, you're right. Why doesn't this exist?"

It has been nice to hear that, it helps with the crushing doubt in my mind that I've wasted the past 7 months of my life.

Thank you for taking the time to submit feedback to me! I appreciate it, and agree, the homepage really does kind of suck.

I hesitate to put this up on Show HN for reasons you outlined. Mostly I am interested in finding authors until I have time to redo the layout. Being a one-man show is very taxing!

BUT, again, very happy you said this and have added "Make a better homepage" to my task list because of this message :-)

Hey! Sorry I realize now maybe the idea of Git-powered products wasn't very clear.

No forking/reselling takes place (unless of course that is desired by the product creator). The only role Git plays is first-class support for developers to do things like:

1. Do a "git pull" to get product updates instead of having to go to some online UI (like CodeCanyon) to get a zip archive, then manually do a diff to see what changed. And my favorite thing is you can add the git repo in your package manager (like npm or composer), which none of the other product platforms allow.

2. Creators can make releases (like GitHub does them), which is very cool for managing release-specific issues/bugs, handling subscriptions per-release, or allowing customers to get updates only when you're ready for a release.

As far as compensation goes for any collab done related to this HN post, I'm open to any suggestions. My main goal is to find creators, not to profit from the collaboration directly. Mostly just looking for fun creators to work with and willing to help them any way I can!

HN users clicking through: take a look at reviews before installing. Appears there may be an issue with adware.

westoque - might want to check your code base, if the adware is unintentional.

Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Full stack consultant with project/product management experience.

Primary backend technologies: PHP, Laravel, CMS systems (Magento, WordPress, OctoberCMS), MySQL & Postgres/Postgis, Apache & Nginx

Primary frontend: Vue, d3, Phaser, webgl, some react, the normal frameworks (bootstrap, foundation, etc)

Secondary projects in: C#, Objective-C, .net MVC, python, Node.js & Node-webkit

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Email: In profile

Cheers!

Similar story: a few years back I was interested in applying to TopTal for side work. As a senior engineer working with well known companies, I thought the acceptance process wouldn't be as bad as claimed on their homepage.

Passed the first personality interview. The second was a coding challenge. I said to the interviewer several times I have not studied algorithms, and that if the coding challenge involves them, I would prefer to drop out and not waste time for anyone involved. I was very happy to say that multiple times - I know what I don't know. The interviewer goaded me into taking the challenge anyway, saying I'll "definitely be fine and pass."

The next day I attend the timed coding challenge. Three algorithm puzzles that are in no way insignificant. I had Google at my disposal and still could not solve a single problem - although I came close on one involving permutations of chess pieces.

Unreal. At least Yegor had the good fortune of not being directly lied to by the recruiters!

I've never encountered this problem to the effect I needed a build step for HTML. I wonder if frontenders who work only with HTML/CSS find it helpful? Whereas they don't have the concept of breaking up code into templates or partials with a server-side language.

No disprespect to the author, what you've done is cool and your presentation is awesome. My biggest concerns are:

1. Onboarding & rampup time that's now added to my team just to write HTML.

2. Turning away potential hires who don't want to work with an over-engineered tech stack. Much opinion can be formed just by adding to your job requirements "we use a transpiled HTML processor"

3. Technical debt & tech lock-in. Will this technology be a detriment in 5 years? Do we get enough from it right now that it's worth future legacy costs?

Somewhat off topic, but related since it's not documented anywhere: you can put ads on your GitHub Pages install.

I'm not positive to the extent and what internal rules may apply. But out of curiosity I emailed the GH legal dept and they said it was fine (after checking around and getting back a couple weeks later).

So if you want to monetize your open source projects with Adsense or otherwise, that's actually an option! (Not that I have or ever will)

I agree with you that Obama's quote is similar to what I stated (although not explicitly).

The article goes into detail on how to setup a full-blown plan of cutting down decision count. I think they missed the point entirely.

Alternative opinion: the character trait not talked about is focus & drive. Obama is focused on doing his job the best way he thinks possible. So is Zuck. That means they don't have time for playing the "what should we eat tonight?" game with their SOs. And they simply don't care what they wear.

I'm aware of studies suggesting a set amount of decisions each day and that does make sense. However I don't think removing the choice of what you're wearing (and other menial decisions) measurably impacts your performance. It's a symptom of your ambition and drive for efficiency.

I recently went to a startup weekend. A group of young men started wearing the same shirts each day after reading the Zuck story. I think that is missing the point entirely.

Wow, purple almost snuck a victory on your king! A few more armies and he would've won. The second attempt was his only way out but you had too many armies at that point.

I find that games can easily tilt in your favor if you seek out the king square and sneak a capture.

You might be color blind. I noticed the same problem and I am tritanomaly color blind. You can see if you are here:

http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simula...

For me, clicking the tritanomaly button doesn't really show a difference, but my friends say it's a drastic difference.

I've lived most of my adult life not knowing. I previously thought there were just a lot of designers that picked poor color palettes. Humorously, I thought they were color blind!