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Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?
But how do you find jobs like that?
Im_a_throw_away··on Maps reveal the structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books
Any good "choose your own adventure" book you would recommend for adults?
Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?
To get "hundreds of emails" (let's say 500), with a ~1% conversion rate, you need 50,000 page views. How long to get to that point with just 3 blog post when you start from nothing?
Im_a_throw_away··on A million-dollar engineering problem
This sounds super interesting! Where can we learn more about your story? Do you have an email or Twitter to contact you?
Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: How to actually get clients when starting to freelance?
Really interesting, thanks! Can I send you an email to ask you a few questions about this? Where can I find your email?
Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: How to actually get clients when starting to freelance?
> You can check out Double Your Freelancing

Already read it, and it's great! But it doesn't explain how to start getting clients from scratch.

> Expanding your network is a great way to increase your 'luck surface'.

That's what I'm trying to do. But I feel like going to developer meetups is going to be a very slow way to expend my network. Any other ideas?

Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: How to actually get clients when starting to freelance?
That's a good point, I'll try these too!

However there are developer meetups almost every day in Paris, but I don't see any for business people or marketers.

Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: How to actually get clients when starting to freelance?
Thanks for the great advice!

> If you are only talking to 10 people a month, and you close a deal with 10% of them, that's 1 new client a month.

If I follow the plan described in my post, I will be talking to ~30 people a months. But they are just developers spending time in meetups, not people actively looking for freelancers. So I won't get 10% of them as clients, maybe 1% or less...

Im_a_throw_away··on Show HN: My side project iOS game just hit #3 in the Finnish App Store
Congrats, and the game looks really cool!

I'm curious: how did you market your game? What made you go in the top charts?

Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: Best place to host a static website with SSL and CDN?
GitHub Pages already have a CDN, so why add cloudflare?

And as mentioned in my post, Github doesn't let you have some kind of htaccess, so no 301 redirect are possible. And I need that feature.

Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: Best place to host a static website with SSL and CDN?
Thanks for the detailed answer! Here are some comments to answer your questions:

> 2. A CDN, for super fast loading.

I just want my website to load fast from anywhere in the world. I especially want this since page load time impact SEO. Something like cloudflare.com which has a free plan.

> 5. And not expensive, less than $10 per month.

$10 per month excluding the domain name. I don't think that's unresonable for a simple static html website. As mentioned above there are some CDN that have a free tier.

Overall I'm trying to find the simplest way to host my static website online, and make sure it works well with search engine (ssl and fast to load). All of that for less than $10 per month.

Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?
Really cool! What's your app doing?
Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: Thinking about making a website to teach people Excel. Good idea?
What's your point? I already know that there are a lot competition in this space.
Im_a_throw_away··on Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them
I'm curious: What are the best free GUI for Git?
Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
Cool game! Do you mind sharing how you marketed your game to get 3M downloads?
Im_a_throw_away··on PHP Sucks
Do you know any ressources that explains how to write "good" plain PHP?
Im_a_throw_away··on How Badoo Saved $1M Switching to PHP7
Do you guys know any good ressource to learn PHP 7 from someone who learned PHP years ago for fun (thus probably with a lot of bad practices)? Thanks!
Im_a_throw_away··on Show HN: Fieldbook: Lightweight Database with a Spreadsheet UI and a REST API
That looks like a really well made product, awesome UI!

What are some real world use case for using fieldbook?

Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
Awesome product! Do you mind giving more information about how long have you been building this, and how much do you make?
Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: One man SaaS apps that are profitable?
Here are all the ones that have been mentioned so far. I'm sure there are a lot more!

- http://www.improvely.com

- http://www.appointmentreminder.org

- http://www.briefmetrics.com

- https://pinboard.in

- http://www.appointmind.com

- https://www.hittail.com

- https://www.getdrip.com

- http://www.bidsketch.com

- https://getmysky.com

- http://www.snapinspect.com

- https://www.everytimehq.com

- https://www.menutail.com

- https://www.s3stat.com/

- http://www.twiddla.com/

Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: One man SaaS apps that are profitable?
This looks great! Do you mind answering a few questions?

When this product was created? How many customers do you have? How do you market your product?

Thanks!

Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: One man SaaS apps that are profitable?
A few that I have in mind:

- http://www.improvely.com

- http://www.appointmentreminder.org

- http://www.briefmetrics.com

Im_a_throw_away··on Ask HN: Your best passive income?
That's awesome, congratulations!

Do you mind me asking how did you get your first few customers? Ads, blog, cold emailing?

Thanks.