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RandomSorton Ask HN: My product isn't making any money, and I have rent and food to pay for

I notice on your team page - you have a CMO? Maybe they should know, or find out ;)

RandomSorton Ask HN: My product isn't making any money, and I have rent and food to pay for

I have been diving reasonably deep into the Tool For Thought category over the last two years, but have yet to see notegarden in this space. I concur with the spend your effort on marketing not development. Look into tools that both do the same and more: - Obsidian.md - RoamResearch.com - Notion.so - Remnote - Readwise.io - Anki

I am sure there are others. You mention remnote specifically, how do your tool compare, when is it the best, when should I go with some other tool? See for instance https://medium.com/geekculture/roam-research-vs-notion-3064a...

Also the copy overall could take some overhauling, there are some errors and stuff that takes you a bit out - perhaps hire someone on upwork to check that up.

With regards to team, maybe figure out what your cutoff point is for calling it quits. If you have been working on this for 3-4 years, without many users, three persons, what are the signals that you are working in the right direction? Figure that out, commit to some numbers and dates, and strategize based on those numbers.

Good luck.

RandomSorton Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

I have build a little tool to help teams work in creating a healthier culture: https://cultooling.com It could go either way :D

RandomSorton Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

In Continuous Delivery and DevOps:

Lean software Development - Mary & Tom Poppendieck

The DevOps Handbook - Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois

Accelerate - Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

Continuous Integration - Paul M. Duvall, Andrew Glover, Steve Matyas

Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble, David Farley

RandomSorton Ask HN: What's the most underrated programming language?

I'm going to say Groovy. It allows you to do all the nifty things Java does, but you just feel infinitely more productive.

RandomSorton Ask HN: Why are sites now breaking login forms into stages (name then password)?

Many sites have started using "magic links" where you can choose to either receive an email with a link that will authenticate you or you can input the password.

Both Netflix and Slack does this.

RandomSorton Ask HN: What is the most difficult tech/dev challenge you ever solved?

At work I was server admin because I was the one that had tried to install Linux before. This is probably more common than it should be.

There was one development server and at some point we added a NAS. Due to the access restrictions and my inexperience with other stuff, the server would mount the NAS and reshare that through Samba.

On Windows machines every folder would show up as a file. You could still manually enter the path and get a directory listing, but you could of course not navigate the directory structure in any satisfying way.

It took me a few weeks to figure out the error that came from a error in the NFS file system. Figured out the fix and patched the kernel.

Felt nice when I was done.

I've put a link to the serverfault thread about the issue.

http://serverfault.com/questions/491464/directories-shown-as...