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Doesn’t that enable hostile takeover of land? If I own a school or restaurant, and Apple wants to replace it with a store, they can place a bid such that I can no longer afford the taxes and am forced to sell to them.

Wouldn’t such a system just exacerbate business and the wealthy being able to snatch up land?

ubersuggest has a good backlink and keyword volume database for its price. But ahrefs is still the most comprehensive (just expensive).

It depends on the person. In my country it is popular for the poor to sell flowers or snacks at stoplights, and I usually always buy flowers. But in the US it seems most at stoplights are bumming for drugs or alcohol.

That said, I think donating is something that helps you more than them. Generosity makes you feel good, and it lightens your mind.

CloudFlare. They log unique hits for free, which is enough for me to calculate my conversion rate and see the result of my marketing efforts. In over a decade of working with SaaS companies I’ve never once seen concrete action taken as a result of traffic logs, despite countless hours spent analyzing it.

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Weight lifted for barbell overhead press, squat, bench press, row, and pull-up.

I scan everything with my phone and store in iCloud. I shred everything except what must be kept as paper originals (a few government documents). I stick this all into a single folder, and this folder is small since there are few documents that must be kept as paper originals.

It’s 2021, there’s no reason to have a filing cabinet of paper documents.

Here’s my latest browser issue that drove me crazy: In Safari the TextMetrics.actualBoundingBoxRight returned from CanvasRenderingContext2D.measureText() includes dangling spaces, and Chrome does not. So you’ll get different text measurements if the text has a space on the end, which broke my app’s logic of rendering multiline rich text in Chrome. Ugh.

Wow that’s a lot of experience! I think with a bit of formatting and focus your resume will look even better. As others mentioned, clean-up the formatting (consider a two-column layout). Pick the three most impressive accomplishments for each job - avoid the long lists so it’s easier to scan.

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I would listen to your users, and think about your customer acquisition channels. Unless you rely heavily on SEO for customer acquisition, I doubt it’s going to be an issue. People are still going to call Facebook “Facebook”. Nobody calls Google “Alphabet”.

Sure, but then there’s no point to a peer-to-peer decentralized cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency is a peer-to-peer decentralized network. The government can’t stop me from sending or receiving cryptocurrency.

This site already ranked #1 in Google for “Hacker News”.

What’s the justification for spending money on this? So many more useful things to do than buy an expensive domain to redirect it here.

Neither.

The purpose of cryptocurrency is peer-to-peer transactions. No central bank, no retail banks, no payment processors, no KYC, no gatekeeping.

A few days ago there was a thread about Stripe locking a business’ account for no reason, with no support, grinding their entire business to a halt. That’s not the future of cryptocurrency I want.

Consider just signing up for Shopify and being done with it. What are the custom features? It’s likely there are already Shopify plug-ins/services for this.

Writers do measure productivity by pages written… sure, they may not write a best seller, but there’s a date they start writing and a date the book is published and the book has a word count.

I agree though that lines of code or number of pages doesn’t have much of a relationship to revenue.

Launching to the public first and warm leads second is backwards.

You should put it in front of some of your warm leads immediately. In my experience, whatever you’ve made will need to be changed (probably significantly) after you get feedback from actual customers using it.

Put something in front of real customers now, iterate based on their feedback, and repeat. Launch to the public when you have happy customers.

A single VPS server with a GitHub action that builds and syncs code to the server using Git, with a bash one-liner to restart the server. Properly configured this can serve millions of requests.

A cron job which saves a copy of the DB to S3.

That’s it.

If you’re focused on anything more with no employees you’re probably wasting your time.

It seems much more tech/startup focused. So much of what is posted today is current events, politics, and popsci.

My go to is SQLite, unless I need GIS features. If traffic or database size becomes unwieldy, it’s easy to transition to PostgreSQL.

I use voip.ms and forward my virtual number SMS to email. It costs a fraction of a penny per message. There’s no monthly fee. I don’t have a real phone number at all.

I accept PayPal and credit/debit cards, using “PayPal Checkout”. Go to https://LuckyResumeMaker.com and click “Download PDF” to see what PayPal checkout looks like.

Most customers pay with PayPal, but the credit/debit card option is seamless with PayPal. I think it’s even better than Stripe since it doesn’t always take someone to another page.

I still use PayPal because it has the best global coverage and least friction for consumers. Their new checkout form also seamlessly accepts credit/debit cards and does subscriptions.

Many of my customers are in countries that aren’t supported by Stripe, so it’s not much of a choice from a business perspective.

Almost all TVs have an option to zoom to fit 4:3, so there’s no need to stream a cropped version. At least they should provide an option to view the original.

Google’s UI is so terrible I can’t use it. Most of the results page isn’t search results, but ads, Twitter, news story, or other asides, and way too much whitespace.

That’s why I use DDG, it has almost nothing to do with privacy or quality of search.

Which metrics are you referring to?

I can’t speak for ad agencies, but every company I’ve worked with to do advertising measured ROAS using customer attribution (which ad campaign brought which customer, and how much did that customer spend).

It’s simple. You use a URL with the campaign id, and store that when the customer clicks through, then when a sale is made you count that towards the campaign. In offline advertising people would achieve this using campaign-specific phone numbers or discount code given in the ad.

Online advertising math is not rocket science. If ROAS is positive you continue the campaign, if not you abandon it or try other methods.

What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?

The effectiveness of online ads is easily measurable: Return on ad spend (ROAS) = (revenue from ad referrals) - (money spent on ads)

Thanks so much for this. It’s how I read HN :)

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