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FahadUddin92

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FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: What skills will be useful during an upcoming recession/depression?
There always are a few skills that help during recession. When recession comes, people want to switch to cheaper ways of doing things. So find a way to making stuff less expensive always helps.
FahadUddin92··on Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
How is this better than serverless?
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: Why do you host your blog on Medium?
It was because of ease of use, being free, good SEO and readership. I just deleted it yesterday though because of privacy.
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: I don't like front end anymore. What should I do?
How about your learn WordPress? Its easy to pick up
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: Are there tools for start up your commercial VPN Service?
You can use a reseller program of a VPN service. It gives a web app, mobile app and IPs to sell. Think its a great if you don't have the time to code. https://www.ivacy.com/business-vpn/reseller-program/
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: What are some exploding markets that you know of?
1. Cloud (cloud hosting, managed cloud services) 2. Mental health (apps and tech to help combat mental health) 3. Gamification of things.
FahadUddin92··on Napster: A New Killer Internet App (1999)
'killer app.' I heard that was the term 'Bill Gates' was also asked about during his hearing in the Gates vs USA case.
FahadUddin92··on Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories
Indiehackers.com does this.
FahadUddin92··on Monitor your WooCommerce stores automatically
This one is for store owners who are obsessed if their store is working okay. You can set a notification, "email me when there are no checkouts in a day" and it will email you. The reason is to get over the obsession to continuously check your store.
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
My first problems were(completed both):

1. Completing education (getting a degree from a good University) 2. Becoming financially independent.

I did both well. I write down a lot of thought daily in notebooks. It helps me understand what I am thinking most about daily. If its very important and valuable, I make it a problem I need to solve.

Nowadays I am interested to make my millions from tech. I can't focus because I still don't understand my deep why for making the millions. Apart from being able to be financially independent, its not very attractive.

FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: How old were the most talented software engineers you've met?
Know someone who is 47. He is super awesome.
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
Yes. So many books that could have been explained in a single tweet.
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
I am focused around tech and startups.
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
It had details and insights of what was going on in real. Pretty detailed.
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
Yes. It was a very quick read.
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
I read 50 books this year. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/50-books-i-read-year-fahad-ud...

One Minute Manager

Talent is Overrated

Originals

Measure What Matters

Crossing the Chasm

Mindset

The Startup Of You

Remote - Office not Required

So Good They Can't Ignore You

The 8 Traits Successful People

The Box

The Defining Decade - Why Your Twenties Matter - Meg Jay

The Power of Habit

Cracking the Coding Interview

The Google Resume

Brain Rules

Automatic Millionaire

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Bootstrappers Bible

Startup Nation

The Lean Startup

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Ideavirus

Traction - Gabriel Weinberg

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

The $100 Startup

The Customer Funded Business

Alibaba - The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark

Don't Make Me Think - A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability

Hooked

Shoe Dog

Side Hustle

Start With Why

The Phoenix Project

Wiley The Customer Funded Business

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

The Pragmatic Programmer

Outliers

Delivering Happiness

The Four Hour Work Week

Good to Great

Sacred Games

Option B

Entrepreneuring Pakistan

Give and Take

Your Money or Your Life

Zero to One - Notes on Startups

Pour Your Heart Into It

Fourth Industrial Revolution

FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: As programmers, why are we still going to the office?
One word: "hygiene."

--> Only reason for taking bath daily.

--> Shaving weekly.

--> Keeping yourself clean and presentable.

FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: Why isn't Internet considered a revolution?
Because its not a industrial revolution people acknowledge in the industrial revolutions.
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: How to warn developers not to use certain libraries?
Have a Github Rating App. Here is your next +$1b idea Microsoft is buying. Unless people fake recommendations too lol.
FahadUddin92··on Microsoft Releases MS-DOS Source Code on GitHub
I got it confused with Altair BASIC which gates used to work on.
FahadUddin92··on Microsoft Releases MS-DOS Source Code on GitHub
So it was built on Assembly language? Always thought it was built using BASIC.
FahadUddin92··on Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression
So let me explain it. I started being active on the internet after learning no one would be friends with me (I was in class 6 back then). I would spend time figuring out things, talking to people and then social media evolved. I am still pretty active on social media but the main reason people are active on social media is they don't have people around them that listen to them.
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: What is a some costly solutions but not worth they money?
They are available as low as $5
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: Are you using AWS Lambda in production?
I am using AWS Lambda. I use it in our team to create a notification flow to OpsGenie etc. Its been an amazing service so far.
FahadUddin92··on TinySeed – A Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers
1m1m (https://1m1m.sramanamitra.com) exits since 2010. Whats new here?
FahadUddin92··on Declassified documents show why the US and the USSR came close to war in 1973
Both have been fighting proxy war since then in Afghanistan and other countries. Pakistan fought proxy war against USSR for US and has since been bearing the loss. And now Trump says Pakistan doesn't do much efforts. US used Pakistan as their scapegoating.
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
India (Bangalore) is a great and cheap place to live. You will have to learn some Hindi to get everyday things done but many people there know English (almost all people who work at offices). You can start a company there.
FahadUddin92··on Show HN: A simple python script to make all those GitHub squares green
You probably would get banned by Github if you use this script.
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
1. You could Google the authors/books/courses. 2. I did a CS degree but I worked almost full time as a freelancer learning technology while I was at University (this helped me pay my University fee and also make extra money for everything I wanted to try like different ventures). 3. For marketing. The basic ideas came from doing my own ventures. When you really need to get the word out, you start using social media, link building, backlinking, SEO, SEM, Ads etc. There are really good Udemy courses for that (try the ones that are free). I read the book called 'Traction' for exploring marketing channels. Its great. Most of the other things come from daily feed coming from different sources. I like gary vaynerchuk's stuff on it these days. 4. I combined marketing by giving business ideas and opportunities for expansion to each employer I worked for. Things like sharing links to good content, doing analysis of competitors and helping young marketing guys (in startups). 5. Read a lot. Don't try to be someone else. Adopt the things you like in someone and keep moving!
FahadUddin92··on Ask HN: How to start a startup that requires a high amount of initial capital?
In Pakistan, Finja did the same. http://www.finca.pk/news/finca-launches-pakistans-first-ever...
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