Thanks, am working to keep the site up, probably need to upgrade the server!
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I noticed when I started remote work, I struggled with a lot of basic things like habits, disciplines, routines, finding community, etc...
I wanted to learn from other people that had already done it, without prescriptive advice like "the 10 things you MUST do with remote work"—so landed on remote interviews.
We aim to release a new interview every Monday, and are always looking for interesting remote workers to interview. If you're interested head over to https://remotehabits.com/interview-me/
With RemoteHabits I'm aiming to build a resource for people to learn how to work remotely. I've struggled with this a bit as I went from full-time -> consulting -> my own projects.
Please let me know if you have any feedback or anything that can be improved!
The idea is to capture notes/thoughts/todos quickly and send them to any service (Trello/Basecamp/Asana/etc...). For people doing deep work (programmers, designers, writers) you want to stay in flow but also be able to capture any random thought that pops in your head.
This project is a bit harder than ones I've done in the past because I'm trying to take it cross-platform (macOS first) and keep it native UI everywhere.
For the past few years I've been storing almost everything in Markdown and organizing files into yearly folders—I call it my "memex".
It ends up being pretty simple, but I end up missing some information that gets silo'd off in services like Trello.
* What do you like about remote work? http://remotehabits.com/interviews/question/what-do-you-like...
* What do you not like about remote work? http://remotehabits.com/interviews/question/what-do-you-not-...
I thought a good way around this would to just tell stories about remote workers, how they got started, what they like, what they don't like, routines they've found that are helpful, etc...
So that's what the site aims to do—interview remote workers so you can learn from their experiences.
One cool thing about the site is you can deep dive specific questions, like
* What do you like about remote work? http://remotehabits.com/interviews/question/what-do-you-like....
* What do you not like about remote work? http://remotehabits.com/interviews/question/what-do-you-not-....
Let me know what you think, thanks!
In this case I included a link because I think it strengthens the argument. Product Hunt was built to help people like me—and it did. Here's the proof!
And I think my post confirms what you're saying—I was able to use Product Hunt as a tool to help reach my goal. I know this isn't always the case, which is why I wanted to give my experience.
What Ryan and Product Hunt did was incredible. So many people wanted to create an alternative to Hacker News and Reddit for product people. Everyone else failed but they figured it out. That's awesome.
Product Hunt personally helped me in my goal of becoming a independent app maker by showcasing my app https://www.producthunt.com/posts/focus. As of tomorrow I'm full-time indie (YES!) and I proudly display my Product Hunt badge on my app's page https://heyfocus.com/. I didn't have any connections there—I just made a product people liked.
And AngelList seems like a great fit. It looks like they're building a crowd-funding platform, and Product Hunt as a marketing/discovery engine makes perfect sense. In that context, Product Hunt is worth a bit of money.
This seems like a great outcome. Congrats!
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I sat on it for an entire year because I was convinced nobody buys stuff outside of the AppStore anymore.
A year ago, the project still had really good traction, so I decided to try to sell it directly as a test (using Paddle.com).
Boy, was I wrong! TONS of people buy outside the MAS, and Focus is doing better than ever. If you're questioning it like I was, give it a shot.
Focus is meant to provide an environment that's not distracting on your computer. That's it.
The same way you might clean your desk before you start work. Or go to a coffee shop. Or go sit in a chair with a pad and a pen.
When you really want to get work done, you want to be able to minimize distractions.
You can't really do that on your computer since distractions are 1-click away (not to mention interruptions).
Focus is an experiment in improving your productivity by building good habits, and blocking distracting stuff is the very first step. Lots more is planned!
My huge, huge, huge problem, on the other hand, is sync. I don't want to get locked into iCloud and the idea of Apple offering multi-platform support is unrealistic.
If you offered this as a cross-platform solution + syncing I'd sign up immediately (it sounds like this might be where you're headed anyway).
10 years+ of experience as a full-stack developer on the web (and more recently a few years experience with Mac & iOS). While I primarily work in Python/Django, Objective-C, Javascript, PHP—I am not as focused on the tech.
I am 100% focused on providing you a ridiculous amount of value—which usually means making you more money or getting more/better users. Every engagement we work on together should end up making you significantly more money than I cost. A few common ways I've done this in the past:
- Optimized conversion rates through marketing copy, drip campaigns, landing page optimization, a/b testing, etc... and increased yearly revenue by 1.5 million dollars
- Automated manual processes which saved hundreds of employee-hours every month
- Fixed a bottleneck where a company couldn't scale past 10 sales employees due to insufficient reporting systems. Now they can scale up to 50-100, which directly contributes to their ability to make money.
I'd love to learn more about your business and see if/how I can provide value using methods like this. If you're interested in hiring me, please email contact [at] bradjasper [dot] com
To learn more visit http://bradjasper.com/
- You have a brilliant idea for a new app
- You find a developer just as passionate about the idea as you
- You immediately start working on sketches, wireframes and building a prototype
- A few months go by...things aren't going so well. The project is late, over budget, and critical features have been cut
At this point things usually go from bad to worse. Maybe you decide to stick-it-out or switch to a new developer—neither solution is going to be cheap.
After consulting for a few years, I've unfortunately seen this happen too many times. Projects end up costing 2-3x (or more!) because of poor planning.
This is what I'm solving—killer project plans & consulting that help you build the right thing for the right price.
I'm Brad Jasper, a full-stack developer who loves building excellent products. Check out my latest app http://www.heyfocus.com/ — it got a bunch of love on HN, Lifehacker and Breue.
If you're having other people build your idea and you don't already do something like this—you're probably paying too much!
Contact me, I'd love to start talking about your idea: contact@bradjasper.com
Pardon my very beginner questions, does anyone know how this technically works and can explain it in more detail (or point to a good resource)?
My understanding was new information either needed to be implemented directly into the Bitcoin block chain, or a completely new one had to be created.
How could you still share CPU resources but have two different networks?
Would this mean a 51% attack against one would have no affect on the other?
Happy to accept pull requests for stuff like this if you're interested in contributing.
I think the bigger problem was just that nobody could agree on the cancel/freezing timer issue.
To me that's a design decision a maintainer has to make, not someone submitting a patch.
It came down to a fundamental design decision—and after months of hard work, they got a non-answer.