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I didn't know that, thanks. I remember how much I love ublock origin when I start visiting websites in chrome on mobile. We get used with a clean browsing and feels like this is the norm until you have to do the same thing on mobile.
Indeed, but sales are difficult for a technical founder, and as a solo founder, I need to adapt or bring someone on board, which is risky as well.
As the founder of an early stage startup, everything that is not related to product development seems that I am not actually working. I know that I should devote myself to hone my Customer and Company machines, but I hate the feeling of wasting time.
I am trying to transform Customer and Company as products, so I trick my mind to evolve them appropriately.
For ones like me that never heard about AppImage before (shame on me), you just need to "chmod a+x file.AppImage", then execute as a normal (./) [0].
This is the reason that I said DATA (that you measured) and user feedback. Furthermore, I am talking about the funnel, incremental changes. Ford probably got user feedback to make the car better. What you said comes before.
What is the minimal state of completion this project needs to reach for me to consider it a success and having been worth my time?
I used to think like that, but this is a moving point. As long you finish a list of things that you deemed important, many others will replace the old ones and the list actually will never be empty. This feeling of fulfillment will never come.
So I'm doing differently this time in my startup (that was also my side project for a while). I created a funnel and measured everything. I cannot develop anything on top of my head (We, developers, are creative by nature, and it's easy to find a myriad of interesting new features). The new feature needs to come from data and user feedback only. No exceptions.
The funnel is completed and has being measured, then the project is completed. Everything beyond that is just optimization. This was a shift in my mind and I feel much better because I finished the project, instead of constantly open. And of course, this is not a mind tricky. The project is actually completed.
One that I learned from Mr. Robot: put a space before the command to avoid being registered in the history.
This is good news for YC, and I bet that the amount of international founders accepted will increase in the next batch.
I don't disagree with you, but there are so many bad websites that something should be done. AMP is a really bad solution to a real problem. Walled garden pages as Facebook for companies and similars are equally bad in my opinion. Some time ago I had the idea that, maybe, the website layout could be controlled by the user, and only data are controlled by the website's owner. The web would become boring, I know, but the alternative is just as bad: broken websites.
I'm curious what do you think about AMP. Do you think it is a good solution for this? (not implying that AMP solved this problem, but rather some company as intermediary to serve you the page correctly, instead of relying on the website's owner)
What PG calls "bets" I would call interesting topics for Newton. Maybe he just liked the subjects. Calling bets is saying he was trying to actually accomplish something out of their studies and work. I don't think a curious mind would work like that. Even in physics, he studied a broad range of topics, not only Mechanics.
Furthermore, you don't need to make a breakthrough in everything to satisfy your desire for knowledge. Even more so for Newton, which was known by his seclusion and introversion.
But by the time finishing the copy, the owner had improved their product and advanced the roadmap. The key here is constant move, IMO.
I have just discovered the previous write-ups about your business numbers [0] and it is awesome! So much valuable information. Thanks for taking the time to share!
If this experiment shows that the costs are too high reducing working hours, I wonder how UBI could be cost effective.
In the end of the debate, it would be interesting to show the score of each participant.