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juanse

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news.ycombinator.com 9mo ago

Ask HN: What's your toxic co-founder story?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Will captive portals be in jeopardy due to browser policies?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: How did you learn to get organized?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Is there something to connect Raspberry's WiFi from a phone?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Is anyone still using/making money with MS Access in 2023?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Help a novel tech entrepreneur trying to get the first sales

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How does the Titanic submarine manage to comunicate from such depth?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Help me plan this feature for my Raspberry Pi

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Is there any good Dropbox-like client for your own FTP server out there?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Render.com isn't that attractive anymore

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Prevent monitor turning on during restart?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What is the simplest product that you know of that makes money?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What features should “the perfect personal CRM” have?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What do you do to fix your circadian rhythms?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Stackoverflow Is Down

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What maintenance should a dedicated server have?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Any book that you can recommend about adquiring CIA skills?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: To what extend is multithreaded app server more performant?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Is anyone using Dokku for production?

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github.com 4y ago

Rodauth: The most advanced authentication framework for Ruby and Rails

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What's your tech war story?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Are managed DB so important?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: As a solo/micropreneur, what infrastructure are you using?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Is there a reliable way in Linux to know if a monitor is on/off?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What should I consider before selling Raspberry Pi based project?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: As a solo founder, what are the reasons not to use Docker?

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First couple of hears of IH it was fire. I understand that dynamics change and once you become a marketing channel you are on a different phase. But I wish we could get back there.

Absolutely agree. I also had a family account that kept instead not watching anything anymore. In the end I felt like paying for watching propaganda that I could see for free in national television. This came at the perfect time as an excuse.

Solo founder also here with a product that mixes software and hardware.

For me the big realization was that self-sabotage is mechanism that make up excuses to prevent future damage to your ego. It is activated when you feel uncertain about outcomes and in risky terrain.

Knowing that, the trick is starting stuff you are unsure as an experiment, so you can see how can you get there instead crossing items in a to-do list.

In my case I got to feel really guilty about wasting days and weeks without any advancements. Stuck in complex issues (in my mind) and swimming in circles.

Progress in the only cure, and only reframing your day to day it get easier.

Amazing post Michael! I have been following your story for years.

I have also a similar project backing, but not as technical as yours. I use also Raspberries for Smart Kiosks that are set to be in restaurants and increase the demand of the most convenient dishes at a time with great photography.

I see that you think now of Debian packages as an optimal way for installations in your project.

What would you say it is the best way yo keep a Raspberry system "auto-updated"?

PD: My skills are way lower than yours. I use mostly Ruby scripts (SystemD) to contact a backend in Rails.

Certainly the license model is easier in that way, however it usually needs technical support (Phussion Passenger is also a good example). Besides, the target audience changes towards a more technical one. And those are harder to reach and satisfy.

I Lost over $200k 4 years ago

It is good advice. Not fully agree with 5 tough. You need both, stability and UX. Cemeteries are full of stable products that were hard to use.

I am a solopreneur with Smart Kiosks running on Raspberry pi.

The whole service (which isn't too complex) is a file script in Ruby managed through SystemD. This script turns off/on the screen based on API calls, and is also in charge of scheduled/remote restarts, pinging the backend and stuff like that.

What I like the most is how easy and reliable is. Beeing a below average guy, ruby makes really easy to combine system calls, API calls and shell commands within the same context.

After having read it, I agree.

You only have to look to the disinformation coming from this "official" sites in critical moments in which there are government-led interests: covid, ukraine's war, Biden laptop...

Twitter files gives a lot of content into this issue.