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reillychase

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Founder of https://hostifi.com

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blog.rchase.com 5mo ago

iPhone Claude full stack dev – no VPN, no remote desktop

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blog.rchase.com 9mo ago

I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI

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spamattacker.com 2y ago

A Python script that replies STOP, then START to SMS spammers until they broke

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blog.rchase.com 6y ago

$374K ARR

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medium.com 6y ago

Why we're reinvesting in our UNMS cloud hosting product

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medium.com 6y ago

RIP Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud 2017–2019 (Alternatives)

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medium.com 6y ago

Our Collaboration Tools as a 100% Remote Team of 2

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medium.com 6y ago

Growing My $12K MRR SaaS from Solo Founder to Plus 1 Employee

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medium.com 6y ago

How We Deployed Duo 2FA for SSH to 600 Ubiquiti Servers

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mspstory.com 7y ago

0-$3k MRR How I started a cloud backup service for MSPs

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medium.com 7y ago

My Git workflow as a solo-developer

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medium.com 7y ago

Why I’m rewriting my SaaS

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

Show HN: 17.5 hours of GhostiFi development at 100x speed

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medium.com 7y ago

How I wrote the Python backend of GhostiFi, a VPS based VPN service

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medium.com 7y ago

How I used DigitalOcean Spaces to automate OpenVPN server migrations

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medium.com 7y ago

New PoC and Pseudocode for GhostiFi, the VPS VPN

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medium.com 7y ago

GhostiFi – Working with Vultr and Cloudflare API in Python

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medium.com 7y ago

Python: Writing the Server.create() Function for My VPS VPN SaaS

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medium.com 7y ago

A car accident helped me overcome my fear of failure and start my first SaaS

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medium.com 7y ago

How I Handled Python, SQLAlchemy Threading for GhostiFi

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medium.com 7y ago

How I integrated a WordPress front end with Python back end for my SaaS

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medium.com 7y ago

GhostiFi – Making the DB: MySQL, Python and SQLAlchemy ORM

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medium.com 7y ago

How I designed the database schema and pseudo coded my second SaaS, GhostiFi

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medium.com 7y ago

Watch me build my second SaaS business

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medium.com 7y ago

My First SaaS: Choosing the Tech Stack

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medium.com 7y ago

My First SaaS started with a car crash

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I like reading BlackRain79 and watching his YouTube videos. Nothing beats experience though. Start playing without money for a long time first to learn the rules of the game. I actually downloaded a Game Boy emulator for iOS and the ROM for GBA World Poker Tour (2005). After playing that for a long time I finally got the basics like muscle memory of knowing what hand beats what and what possible combinations could be out there based on the board cards, stuff like that. Then from there if you live in a legalized state like I do you could start playing the lowest stakes online like .01/.02 NL.

Yeah I used PokerTracker 4 to cross reference and kept working with Cursor until it got very close like within 1% of accuracy but there are still some edge cases I might not have found yet. In the beginning it was hallucinating a bit by “estimating” what the percentages “should be” etc but I kept working it until it was doing things right.

I'm curious if it's possible to make a profitable GPT Poker bot, I have seen a few GitHub repos but not experimented with it. Obviously legal/ethical concerns there aside. In my experience you see a lot of the same names when playing and they could be bots. But you can interact with people in the game by chat or "throwing" objects at them in the game like a horseshoe or cards. And when they react back maybe that's a sign they're not bots. Regardless you want to avoid playing with the good people and seek out the bad players aka fish so you can play against them instead. Table selection is key.

No idea, obviously you can see I'm a n00b and not a profitable poker player but on the strategy side, and this is very oversimplified, but you should be folding a lot of the time other than when you get AA-22, AK, AQ, AJ, AT, KQ, KJ, QJ, JTs, T9s, 87s you call or 3 bet pre-flop because you have good odds. When you're up against tight players you can make a small bluff on the flop and scare them away most of the time, if they raise you fold though. Position is very important in the game, when you're on the button you have odds in your favor because everyone else has to check or bet before you so you play more loose and aggressive in that position and more tight and passive in early position. There is no one single strategy to memorize and apply, that's why it's great. 5 minutes to learn the game, a lifetime to master.

Oversimplifying for sure but if you're loose and aggressive against a tight aggressive player, you're going to make them fold most of the time and win a small amount by applying pressure on bluffs but every once in a while if you get too aggressive and they call you because they have a monster hand then you get wrecked

I still think that might be oversimplifying what software creation is which is being able to explain to a computer what it is you want. I think of Cursor as Python was to C. It's a higher level language but you still have to be able to think like a hacker, which will always be a rare skill.

For reference my micro-SaaS is $1.7M ARR. B2B. Not marketing tools or analytics related. Large market share % of a tiny market rather than 1% of a large market.

Probably not, I really wouldn't recommend for anyone to actually use the code in their next project, I just wanted to try to inspire anyone who might be thinking they're not a good enough programmer to start a SaaS business because I felt that way and almost never launched because of it.

I told him that too. People put too much emphasis on “Launch Day”, when really Launch Day should be day one and every day after. Never stop promoting and publicly “Launching” new features. Also too many people launching to Hacker News, Product Hunt, and Reddit where their peers hangout instead of places where their customers hangout.