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Hello, I'm Alex Greene! https://alexgreene.me/

Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes, or hybrid

Willing to relocate: Not likely

Technologies: Figma, Play, SwiftUI, HTML/CSS, Python...

Résumé/CV: (email me for my resume)

Email: alexgrn7@gmail.com

* Product Designer

* + Engineering background -- ML, Full stack, iOS, CS degree

* + Experience leading/owning projects, collaborating across disciplines

* + Strong product thinker w/ entrepreneurial spirit. Lots of startup experience.

* + Love working on complicated product logic, simplifying complex ideas & making software more personal. Preference for mobile products or creative tooling, open to anything interesting!

What about a higher property tax if you are not living on the property for more than x days a year?

Absolutely, that’s why I tried to frame it as high to most but not everyone.

In regards to being cheaper to buy than to build, that’s certainly possible. Depends on your skillset.

What is the app?

All valid reasons, but I think my point was moreso if they find themselves posting on MicroAcquire, they will likely end up in my #3, whether they intended to or not, and rightfully so.

No shame in my #3 above. I'm not an expert, but typically multiples range from 1-4x annual profit, but I've heard through the grapevine that some folks are paying 5-10x. So absolutely list on MicroAcquire.

If it's very profitable, then they might consider talking to FEInternational (or another firm like them). They take a cut, though. But they do pay referral fees, so make sure you get that cut!

Edit: Before someone says I'm crazy for saying things sell for 1x annual profit, I'm not saying that's typical for a brilliant business. It's more typical for something with heavy maintenance, or with really low profits. If you're really interested, check out the link in my bio.

Yeah that's messed up. Any time you're buying anything, but especially a business, you need to do your due diligence.

Perhaps I'm naive, but I think your risk in buying a business goes down if the current owner under-appreciates what they have, and you have the skills to do it better than them.

If you're interested in buying and/or selling small projects, you can typically expect to pay more than $5k for something that's making any consistent amount of money.

You're also unlikely to find a great deal on a really special project on a marketplace. People who post on marketplaces like Flippa or MicroAcquire or SideProjectors (there're dozens of them) have either:

1. Realized the time it takes to maintain is not worth the revenues/profits

2. Realized the income is not sustainable and are trying to cash out at the end of a great run

3. Realized that some folks are willing to pay very high multiples and will list their projects at prices most (but not all) people will balk at.

If you're really interested in taking over a project that's profitable, network with people, do cold emailing, and find opportunities to take over projects that the owners are simply not interested in any more.

In other words, look for the elderly couple who is ready to move on from owning their profitable, outdated shop.

This is totally off topic but I'm a huge fan of your work!

Me neither.

This 1000%.

I was an ML engineer, and to me it was far more about data management/cleaning than nitty gritty algorithms improvements, but that's definitely not industry standard.

I've also found "Product Engineer" job listings to range from essentially just a backend engineer to a product designer who codes.

This is really cool! Clearly a lot of thought went into making it.

That said, I feel like the otters could have just made a bulletin board to solve their problem

This beautiful but 5 minutes in and my 2015 macbook pro cannot handle it.

I saw this exact thing pop up on ProductHunt at some point in the last year. Sorry, I don't remember the name, but it was an iOS app.

I believe Jane Jacobs also discusses the same point in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Instagram already has marketplace features, and personally it lost its rarified space vibes to me a long time ago.

I agree with the parent comment.

I understood what the problem your product was solving from the title of this Launch HN thread, but viewing the landing page, I think there's big room for improvement for how you explain that.

I think a few things would help:

- Revise your copy to speak more plainly. You're addressing folks working on many different parts of the product, but the language comes off as jargon. As a starting point, I think the title of this thread is way clearer

"Keep product text in sync from design to production" -- Makes sense

"manage and componentize the words across their product from design to production." -- I have no idea what that means

- Replace all of the screenshots and graphics. I see this done a lot, where screenshots are shown and the reader is supposed to understand what's happening, but is not often effective, because they don't understand the context for the screenshots, and it's not clear what part of the screenshot they should be focusing on. I would suggest you provide a very simple clear animation that demonstrates the "magic" behind your application. If it's syncing copy across many different tools and stages of the product, show that magic happening. In other words, if a reader saw nothing but this graphic/animation would they understand what your product is offering them? The demo video is not what I'm referring to, although it is helpful and should remain on the page, maybe even move it up a bit.

Today I checked my spam folder for the first time in months, thanks to having read this thread.

Low and behold there was an email in there that was fairly important.

Not everything is held together with nails.

No because he can leave if he wanted to. He stresses that- if someone gave him $2 million he would stay.

Both are free. As for hosting, Wordpress has a free hosting option.

Ghost, or Wordpress, or just write some markdown or html. Honestly it doesn't need to be better in every way to be better.

Medium is really the worst reading experience. Trying to prevent me from selecting and copying text?

I'm a product designer & builder, looking for a multidisciplinary position. Maybe that's "product designer who codes" or joining a startup that needs someone who can wear a whole wardrobe full of hats.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Would consider.

Technologies: Pen+Paper, Swift, SwiftUI, HTML+CSS, Figma, Python; Java, Javascript, React (but it's been a while)

Resume: http://www.alexgreene.me https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlgreene/

Email: alexgrn7@gmail.com

Strengths: Design-thinking, Product-thinking, Prototyping, Brainstorming, Illustrating, Prioritizing, Communicating, Thinking ahead, Providing Actionable Feedback, Translating User Feedback -> Core Pain Points -> Uncomplicated Solutions

Interests: Consumer, Mobile, Online Communities, Public Transportation, Social Good.

To filter out automated messages, tell me what your favorite hobby is :)

Who else should be judging a company’s culture?

A netflix subscription is access to content, not a purchase of content.

If you're ever in NYC, I also strongly recommend a visit to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.

It's not just focused on video games, but there are ocassionally exhibitions devoted to them.

Do you have any evidence of iOS analyzing and transmitting keywords? It's one thing to say it's technically possible and another to say it's happening.

Good points. I do fit the demographic, I have looked up pages related to Kombucha in the past (thought not in the last 6 months), and I did dwell on the first ad in amazement.

Still, I got home from the store and started seeing the ads immediately.

Technically my girlfriend purchased it with her Whole Foods/Amazon account, and she has not seen any ads.