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During the day I run Facebook ads for an apparel brand. On nights & weekends I'm trying to automate my job: https://www.staticads.ai/ :)

Check out this book called The 2 Hour Cocktail Party. I used it as structure to host a small get together last week and it was a lot fun!

I think as other comments allude to scheduling can be really hard so its a good idea to start sending out invitations 2-3 weeks in advance. Also don't be afraid to invite old friends - I reconnected with some friends I haven't talked to in 7+ years and it was great

I'm working on a project where I launch something every week this year. Here's my process:

* Create a notepad in your phone and throw any and all ideas in there whenever they come up

* Choose one to work on this weekend - whichever excites you the most

* When working on the project, be careful of scope creep. Accept your project will do one thing, and one thing only. Also accept your project will probably be crap - that's ok, you just need to something to start with so you can begin building on top of it next weekend

* Start with technology you're very comfortable with - whatever that may be. Then learn whatever else you need to learn as you work on the project

* Reuse code from past projects

* Force yourself to launch by the end of the weekend. This restraint will force you to be creative with your approach to building, and launching is always a great morale boost

feedback is really important because:

* it helps event planners improve their events

* gives event planners data points to attract more/higher quality sponsors

Imagine what your local dev meetup organizers could do if they had more funding (free arduinos? Fly out Woz? Hand out AWS credits?)

I designed the feedback form to be completeable in under 15 seconds, while giving good data to event planners. You don’t even need to provide your name. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for an event planner to ask 3 questions in order to provide some photos - photos you can use to build your personal brand, post on dating sites, cherish as memories, etc.

I think it’s a win-win situation for everyone

Haha good idea :) in the meantime feel free to follow along on Twitter (link in bio)

I'm going to build & launch a new project every week - https://www.radihuq.com/52

Haha yeah happy holidays, and thank you :)

I created this project over the weekend, inspired by the infamous leaked text exchange[0] between Elon and Parag. https://www.whatdidyougetdonethisweek.net/

You can text updates on things you get done throughout the week, and then generate a (.PNG) text conversation with Elon Musk stating what you got done

Just a fun project, feel free to poke around!

[0] https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1575598387335901190

Great insight into how it all happened! Thanks for sharing

I have a sort spot for the folks at Twilio, because they were actually the ones who convinced us to do ads on Read the Docs originally, with a hacked together campaign way back in like 2015

This sounds really interesting! I find it fascinating that Twilio was willing to do such a personalized project with a relatively small company. Would you be willing to share the story?

Specific curiosities:

* Did you reach out to them, or did they reach out to you?

* Who were you working with there? (someone in a business unit, or someone in engineering?)

* Twilio is huge with (I imagine) big reputation risk. Why were they okay with being such early adopters?

* What was the process like working with them through this campaign?

out of curiosity, how big is the file?

EDIT: never mind, I see you answered this in another comment:

The original film is around 10TB of mpeg2 1080p 25mbit/sec 25 frames per second.

We later transcoded to h264, it now clocks in at about 2TB.

I like Supabase's SaaS model because I don't have to worry about infra work; I can just build.

Maybe eventually I'll have to explore other options, but for now my projects are still small enough where their feature set meet my needs. I think $25/mo is well worth it, knowing:

1. I can spin up a db & auth for a new project without having to spend hours on configuration & deployment

2. I can sleep well at night not worrying about one faulty line of code bringing down my entire app

I look at a bunch of company dev blogs for my side project[0].

IMO don't use Medium as its tough for content exploration as a user.

I think the best option is to setup a static site generator using whatever tool works for you - ideally a tool that allows your users to search for blog posts, and filter posts by tags.

I would probably start with Wordpress to quickly get started, and explore other options as needs arise.

[0] https://www.engineeringblogs.io/

Good breakdown, thanks!

40x valuation seems crazy, even in 2022. Is this the new norm, or is AngelList Venture an exception?

I actually just got hired off last month's thread.

I received 7 inbound emails, some more personalized than others. 1 Twitter DM.

Surprisingly, I even received emails into the last week of February.

For context, I'd call myself an intermediate full stack JavaScript developer. I don't think I did anything special; here was my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30173273

I think he has a very desirable core demographic of young technologists

Mix that with him being popular, well connected, and generally well respected, I can see why big names in tech would be eager to go on his podcast

Indiehackers makes a lot of sense since they can sell builders on using Stripe Payments and Stripe Atlas on Day 0.

Here though, I'm not so sure - maybe they try to sell intellectual content creators on a Gumroad alternative via Stripe Checkout? Seems like too small of an opportunity to be worth pursuing

Edit: honestly, could just be a recruiting play. IMO they have the brand "our founders are incredibly intellectually curious, and some of the smartest people work here", and this acquisition could help strengthen that brand. I think this could be the most plausible reason.

Does anyone know Stripe's strategic reason to acquire a content company and/or run Stripe Press? I find it hard to think of the connection here other than a philanthropic effort by the founders.

Location: Waterloo, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: React, React Native, JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, GraphQL, ExpressJS, PostgreSQL, TypeORM, AWS, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Storybook, Serverless

Résumé/CV: https://radihuq.com/resume

Email: radihuqHN@gmail.com

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I have 2 years of experience working as a Full Stack Developer. I enjoy building web applications that have a business use-case. My ideal role will have me working across the full stack (from frontend, to backend, to devops).

* At my last job I helped build two cross-platform mobile applications from scratch using TypeScript, React, React Native, and react-native-web. We used GraphQL, TypeORM, PostgreSQL in the backend using Serverless architecture, and AWS to deploy.

* Currently I work at a startup overseeing the technology infrastructure for multiple medical clinics across Ontario, Canada.

* On the side I'm building https://engineeringblogs.io - this project scrapes & indexes thousands of articles from tech companies' engineering blogs, and provides a search engine interface for you to search across them.

I'm open to any opportunities that allow me to help build web applications.

The best way to reach me is by email (radihuqHN@gmail.com) or on Twitter (@radiunhuq).

I find it hard to learn programming if I'm not intrinsically motivated. As another person mentioned, the learning curve is immense and it takes a lot of time to get a productive state.

Here's what I'd recommend:

* If you could build anything, what would you build? Have a clear vision and make sure it excites you. It could be an app, it could be a game, it could be the next GPT-3, it could be a calculator. Whatever the case, this is your north star & what you should work towards

* Forget about tutorials, focus on your building vision

* Seriously, don't overthink it - just start building

* Start small. Break it down into layers and tackle each step as you get there (eg. first I will create a webpage, then I will figure out how to share it with my friend, then I will make the webpage do something, then I will make it look pretty, etc.)

* When you get stuck, Google the problem. Don't think anyone's judging you, literally ALL 100 million developers before you Googled "javascript how to add another item to the end of an array"

* If you get stuck, have the mentality that GIVEN ENOUGH TIME you will find a solution to the problem

* Programming is a creative endeavour. If you don't know how to move forward, step away and take a break. You'll likely come back with 100 more ideas to try

* Focus on your vision. Work towards building it. I promise in a few weeks you'll be amazed at what you've managed to build

Interestingly, someone built a recipe app with this narrative and received a ton of backlash online: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56241653

I can't find the exact timestamp but at the beginning of this podcast[0] Jason Calacanis talks about his experience joining Musk backstage at SNL, as well as how that Asperger's joke came to be. If I recall correctly, I think its confirmed, or at least strongly implied, Musk does have Asperger's

EDIT: they start talking about it at the 7:00 mark

[0] https://youtu.be/GE0iWGNXKXw?t=420

+1 my experience is the same - its a great laptop barring the fan, microphone, and camera

It is true, Chamath from Social Capital mentioned it towards the end of the recent All-In podcast

A startup-focused coach sounds incredibly valuable. How did you find your coach?

How much of the $30M expenditure do you spend on marketing?

I think that early Amazon employee you're referring to is Paul Davis[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=PaulDavisThe1st

I'm curious, do you think we'd be having this conversation today if they had released an Android app?

This conversation is inevitable, but would it be happening sooner or later if Android users had access to Clubhouse?

Nice, thanks!