patwalls

yes, mainly reliability if you're making a lot of calls. if you run this on your own server you'll run into a lot of issues being able to crawl

Yes but we don't solely cover VC funded startups with success rates of <5%.

We cover a lot of small & bootstrapped businesses, e-comm, agencies, side hustles, etc that IMO believe anyone can start. This isn't the stereotypical list of successful companies ala Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox.

Ah yes, been meaning to fix that. Was planning on cleaning it up and also adding a typeahead / search function. Thanks for the feedback.

I think both are important, but I appreciate the feedback.

I know there are a 'zeitgeist' of typical SV successful companies (Uber, Dropbox, etc) but we actually cover a ton of companies you've probably never heard of. We cover a lot of side hustles, side projects, agencies, e-commerce, and more too.

Good call, I could add this as a tag / make it filterable as some of the companies we've done case studies on have since failed, pivoted, or been acquired. Adding this to the backlog.

The guy who made this is a good friend of mine. He's a hacker but for his day job he creates dog treats [1] and my dog loves them.

[1] https://earthlypet.com/

Did App Academy in 2015.

1. Hardest thing I ever did, up to that point.

2. $105k starting salary

3. The most important thing it did was get me in the door as a software engineer. I actually learned and became decent on the job. I took those skills and built my own company years later.

Hope it helps!

https://starterstory.com/how-to-say-no

My point is less about the content being useful/interesting and more about being mindful of our information diet.

How many videos do you need to watch about music theory? Does it ever feel like the same content but regurgitated in different ways? Do you watch this to genuinely learn? Or is it more enjoyment/infotainment? (honest questions)

I don't study music theory, but this is how I feel about productivity/self-help/business videos, which dominate my feed. Although these videos were life changing at one point, I'm not sure how much more value I'm getting by continuing to watch these anymore. When I get to the end of these videos, nowadays, I just feel a bit 'bleh'.

It feels nice to find new, refreshing content that is completely outside of what the youtube algo would give me, and sometimes that happens by talking to friends (esp in different industries), reading books, old blog posts, etc. I want to stay curious and proactive in finding discovering new things and hobbies and interests.

(for users in the G Suite ecosystem)

I've built an Airtable-like product that lives inside your inbox and is directly linked to your email conversations.

https://trypigeon.co

Haha, my "workarounds" consisted of being persistent with a few different support emails I found, posting on the Chromium support forums, and a few other things. Pretty boring stuff, and I'm not really sure that it even worked.

Weeks or months from now, I'm sure someone will get their extension removed from the store, and may come across this post scrambling for a solution. If that's you, please reach out to me and I can send you the support emails and everything I tried.

I'm not saying that's why they turned them off, just another sign that Google is not investing time/money/resources into the Chrome Web store.

Because they are attempting to automate all of it. This message is generic and based on some analysis of the "manifest.json".

They have also turned off all reviews in the Chrome Web Store: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935092

Chrome extension developer here.

Google ripped my Chrome extension off the app store about a month ago.

I got a similar cryptic message, and then I scrambled to fix it, like you're doing now. Somehow my extension reappeared the next day.

Email me pat [at] trypigeon [dot] co and I can send you some of the things I did that maybe have helped.

Tweeting my support as well: https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1260638967793242113

I built an app that lets you create a blog from Google docs.

https://youdontneedwp.com

Made it smaller. Lmk if that looks better?

I built this daily journal thing a few months ago, just been hacking on it. Not too much of a blog but just to keep myself writing every day and putting my ideas down.

Thinking about ways to keep people updated, but I want to keep it minimal with no CTAs or email list. RSS is easy to add.

Open to suggestions.

I would pay for that if it's cheaper and my freelancers were OK with it.

I think another benefit of using Upwork for this is the hours get logged on their Upwork profile which makes them more "active" and preferred in the Upwork algo?

I run starterstory.com and trypigeon.co.

I use Klaviyo to send a weekly newsletter to my lists, drip sequence after signup, or one-off marketing emails.

I use SendGrid for when users sign up, reset password, etc.

I'd like to switch platforms but I'm SO fast and comfortable with Heroku.

Change costs for me might be high. I'd rather spend time on marketing / features that could get me 3 more customers/month to make up for it...

I learned Heroku at my coding boot camp and they have made thousands of $$ off of me since...

Agreed. I built this Daily Journal app and just been hacking on it for the last couple months. I'll bring the text size down a bit soon.

What I love about Mailbrew is I can specify things like:

- send me X top tweets from X user in last month

- send me all tweets with the words "XYZ"

And for the obvious reasons it keeps me off twitter and less subject to their addictive design/UI.

Haha! What ERP are you using, if you don't mind me asking?

Also, I wrote a little bit about my approach to freelancers, may give you some more context on that $1k/month: https://www.starterstory.com/hire-freelancers

No, just spreadsheets for now, but I do pay for a tax accountant. I will add that right now.

You might like marketingexamples.com

Thanks for the shoutout! (Starter Story founder)

I created an automated reminder in my email to share the best stories from my blog to Hacker News, this is not some elaborate bot system.

I'm just one dude running a solo business and need to build automation things like that so I don't forget to post on Hacker News.

I never manipulated votes or anything like that.

OP here.

Yeah I agree, maybe I should have said if it's not in your "Top 3"

I think it also depends on your resources. If you're a solo founder then it can be hard to justify much time on social media.

And I also think you can have both. You can automate some posts, and also do ad hoc stuff. In my use case I publish articles on a consistent basis, why not automate the social media side of that?

About a month ago, I launched a startup in 24 hours and live streamed the whole thing on Twitch. I hit #1 on Product Hunt and #1 on Show HN.

I wrote more about that at https://starterstory.com/blog/how-i-built-a-startup-on-twitc...

So I wanted to create an organized event to let others try this too. One day, 50 streamers, and a web portal where you can see everyone building.

Say what you want about building a product in 24 hours, but I think it's a great way to:

- Get your idea out there & drop your ego

- Just build something & have fun!

- Exercise your programming and product building skills

- Build your audience.

What do you think of this idea? I'm pretty excited to see what comes out of a remote hackathon is also streamed on Twitch...