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You can say "Hey Google".

Growing up in Brazil, Orkut was as popular as Facebook is now; most people had an Orkut account.

Personally, I made a few new friends, connected with some high school colleagues and met a long term girlfriend.

I miss its simplicity. The lack of a news feed was a feature, not a bug.

The Surface Book 2 track pad is pretty decent and customizable.

I have 1000+ active customer subscriptions on Stripe. Does it mean that my fees have just increased 0.4%?

Is there something like this for Canadian businesses?

Whole plants, mostly starchy complex carbohydrates and legumes.

Right, I replicate the database. Latency hasn't been a problem for our volume. During our peak hours we get 30 requests/second, so it's pretty manageable.

Bare metal means I'm not running on VMs, but on dedicated servers, like the ones you can find on OVH and many others.

I do things in an old-school way. 2 Bare metal servers at different data centers with totaluptime.com acting as a load balancer with auto-failover.

Deployment is done via SFTP by pressing the publish button in Visual Studio. This will deploy to the inactive server. I then manually trigger tests on GhostInspector (this could be automated via API) to make sure I didn't break anything. Then I run a custom script to make the load balancer redirect traffic to the upgraded server.

Solo founder, small bootstrapped business generating 50k/month with 1000 paying customers. Hosting costs are under $500. I could double the number of clients without needing to upgrade the hardware. I looked into moving to AWS or Azure, but can't justify paying 4x more for the same performance.

> The jury is not in yet, but it feels that the voluntary churn is a lot less for the customers paying more, compared to the lower price point.

I noticed the same. Our $29.90 plan churn is 3x higher than our more expensive plans.

That's the prevailing food paradigm among HN readers who have something to add to this topic, which is about a product that is mainly consumed by vegetarians and vegans.

In the case of the configuration manager, the test project would have its own underlying configuration file.

I understand where you are coming from, but instead of judging veganism based on one vegan who harassed you, why not read about the fundamental concepts? Peter Singer or Tom Regan are a good start.

One way to understand why certain vegans act like this, is to learn about Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder. This is more common than it looks and watching documentaries like Earthlings can definitely trigger it on people who are not well equipped to witness this level of violence.

Given IT salaries in Canada, it would also be easier to attract Canadian engineers who don't want to move to the US.

Same here. I cringe when I see the common HN rhetoric that parents now a days are over-protective. Go say that to parents who lost a child and now live in regret.

Kids are unpredictable. I remember being 7 years old and waiting with my mom to cross a busy street. For some reason that today is unknown to me, I decided to just run across the street as soon as the lights turned yellow. I almost got hit and my mom almost had a heart attack. I use this example to keep me alert when I'm with my daughter in a potentially dangerous but seemingly safe environment. You never know what's going on in their little heads.

Forgot nuts, seeds and mushrooms.

Subscribe to /r/vegan if you haven't yet, and feel free to ask for help. You'll find people with similar goals and lot of people willing to help.

Working remotely and having more control over my schedule (they don't always come together) allowed me to work on my side project until it was making enough money to cover my living expenses.

The only problem is that now, after running my own business for a few years, I cannot phantom the idea of going back to a regular job. In that sense, my career as an employee is over.

Whenever I felt like that, I used a mental hack to make me feel better. I would sit down and start to think (or write) about all the things I am grateful for. Coming from a third world country, it was easy to see how good it was to be highly employable and live in a relatively safe society. This would instantly put me in a good mood and make me feel proud of my achievements.

Being grateful doesn't mean you should accept your lot in life and stop striving for improvements. It will just help you make peace with where you are at right now, so you can focus on your next steps without the negative pressure.

Today I run my own business and make more money than I ever expected, and I still use this method whenever I'm having a bad day.

For my SaaS, the tech stack mattered a lot. I resisted the temptation to pick the hottest stack, and instead went with the boring stack I've been working with for 10 years. This allowed me to spend more time focusing on the business and less time fighting with the language/framework.

After testing several podcast apps for Android, this was the one that stuck.

The ability to quickly scroll through unfinished episodes was the killer feature that others are lacking. I listen to different podcasts depending on what I'm doing (running, cooking, preparing to sleep, etc), and all other apps, at best, required several clicks to find an unfinished episode from the previous day.

He or she is probably not North American.

Comcast says it's been resolved for most customers now: https://twitter.com/comcastcares/status/927636388517838848

No, I think he's just referring to refined flour. Carbohydrates can also be found in whole grains, legumes, fruits, etc.

You misinterpreted what the parent said. Whole grains and fruits are not unbound fructose.

For #4, there is happycow.net. It's great for finding vegan/vegetarian food in a neighborhood you are not familiar with.

Why not download something like Pocket Casts? It lets you easily download episodes and, IIRC, you don't need to create an account.

I can't believe this is the top comment.

> I don't know what your revenue is, but I'd guess a few hundred k ARR.

Is it normal for a SaaS with a few hundred k in ARR to be worth $14 million?

Can you give more details about your startup? Were you a single founder bootstrapping?