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Slick design. Love that it doesn't try to do a million things. I think this would be really nice as a smartwatch face or an iPhone widget.

My favorite entrepreneur read this past year was Minimalist Entrepreneur from Sahil.

Depends a bit on your approach.

If you're trying to ship projects and you don't care how things work under the hood, then check out repos that look interesting and start pulling levers.

A lot of projects you can play around with now on Google Colab without really knowing how they work.

If you want to go deeper, really understand what's happening with Machine Learning and neural-nets, then the most-recommended course is still Andrew Ng's Coursera course.

https://www.coursera.org/collections/machine-learning

And if you just want to keep up with the headlines/fight FOMO I'm writing a 20% jokes 80% informative newsletter at https://boteatbrain.com/

I use Feather and I love it. Makes for such a convenient writing experience.

I use a service called Feather (https://feather.so/) for my blog which uses Notion as a CMS and abstracts away the actual api layer.

I believe behind the scenes it uses a service called https://usenotioncms.com/ which offers some quality of life improvements over the vanilla Notion api.

You might want to check them out.

Got lucky with this pair:

"Professor" to "Education in France" Time: 66.789 Seconds

Number of links visited: 3

The path you took: [ "Professor", "Tertiary education", "Secondary education in France", "Education in France" ]

Welcome to the internet at large.

Wish more of these kinds of posts hit the front page. Tired of VC news dominating when indie hackers are building interesting small businesses like this that never get featured.

Then there are mangroves whose trunk flattens out at the base; these trees stem from a branch at a low elevation — and they walk!...Is this tree really walking? When we walk, our physical mass moves as a whole. But no displacement of matter occurs with mangroves; the way they grow just makes it look that way. The “movement” is the growing process, four to five meters a year. The branch experiences necrosis and vanishes at one end, while it keeps developing on the other.

Do you have a link to your project or a way to follow your progress? I'm interested in decentralized community platforms.

Most casual language learners underestimate the time and effort required to get anywhere close to fluent in a language.

"Casual" will never get you there.

If you're seeking functional fluency, expect to spend 2-3 hours a day for 1-3 years at least. Most of those hours should be spent consuming content in the target language.

Check out a system like Refold for an idea of the effort required and how to plan your study https://refold.la/roadmap

I've only learned one foreign language so far, Spanish, and I started 10 years ago in highschool.

I made the greatest leaps in my ability when I spent 2-3 months at a time spending time like this:

- living in Spanish-speaking country

- reading and watching YouTube (10-20 hours/week)

- taking private lessons (1-3 hours/week)

- using spaced repetition systems (3-4 hours/week)

Living in a country where your target language is spoken makes learning opportunities more accessible, but without focused effort you won't just "pick up the language" unless it's already very close to a language you speak.

All that said, anyone can learn a language if they put the effort in. It's mostly "hard" only in the sense that it takes a lot of time. Most of your study time could be watching TV, reading books, talking to friends, or playing video games as long as they're in your target language and near your limit of comprehension. It should be as much as 80% fun stuff/20% studying to keep yourself motivated.

Isn't their whole business model "explicit"? I don't get how this will work out for them.

Based on the Indie Hackers interview with two active Only Fans content makers, it also sounds like their app is kinda shitty and slow.

Seems like they're opening the door wide open to a new competitor.

A dollar general opened in my food-desert hometown a couple years ago. First new thing to open in decades that hasn't shut down within a year. Welcome addition to the town.

Pretty cool, do you have any demo URL's or currently popular streams to try out the multi-player experience with?

Okay, trying it out:

https://www.you---tube.com/watch?v=oLeNW7b_2E0

Right on! Try and fail and you'll still be farther ahead then when you started. There's really no way to lose this particular challenge.

There will be an option to view the top 50 across all categories once we start collecting updates.

The chosen tag is randomized every time you refresh the page. If you refresh you should see every single company has a different tag.

You can click the tags to toggle them and choose what you want to see.

I liked it and felt it fit the vibe of scrappy founders making it work. I still like it.

re trust-worthiness in design. Design is always communicating something. Sometimes it's "I'm a bank you should give me your money" and other times it's "This person/company isn't very good at building website".

re trusting me in particular. I've been running the community behind this challenge, Indie Worldwide, for a couple years now and haven't f'd up too bad yet.

Oh thanks! And I took your suggestion re the wording.

Oops, looks like the auto-editor changed the title from "100 Paid Users in 100 days".

Hi HN, I made this challenge with the goal of encouraging indie founders to focus on growth for a few months.

The challenge is simple, get 100 new paying customers in 100 days.

If you sign up, your project will be added to the leaderboard on the homepage (now filterable by category!).

Starting on Monday we'll be collecting weekly updates, verified by screenshots, to confirm how many new users you've added.

If you take the challenge and succeed you'll have passed the proof-of-concept faze and graduated to the I'm-building-a-business faze of your startup journey. Good luck!

Reminds me of The Running Man by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

Richard Kong has a really cool story, accidentally starting a publishing business from his highschool bedroom. He started out just trying to get better at English by translating novels but by the time he sold to Tencent he was making hundred of thousands of dollars and had a network of translators working publishing on his platform Gravity Tales.

SEEKING WORK - NYC/Remote Full stack web development: React, Node.js, Postgres, Python

Portfolio https://castrio.me https://formico.io

email: anthony@formico.io

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There's a separate thread for freelancers/seeking freelancers that you might get more hits on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24651638

If you qualify for COBRA or Medicaid that might be a better option.

California is also an odd bird in general and a lot of their public schools didn't offer a student health plan for part time students that I could find.

yea, it's pretty dumb

College plans are considered "special-risk" plans and therefore aren't obliged to follow ACA guidelines at all.

So they can do tricky stuff ACA banned like have low lifetime maximums, exclusions, and kick you off the plan when you drop out of school because you're too sick.

This is a good point, and also kind of an unintentional pun since enroll could refer to either enrolling in school or enrolling in the healthplan.

Some (many?) schools you are enrolled automatically to the healthcare plan unless you opt-out.