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georgiecaseyon IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

but the founder's alternative was hustling every month to get more advertisers, for probably less money than the Stripe deal.

the best deals are where both sides benefit, this sounds like one

georgiecaseyon IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

didn't see this one coming! major congrats to Courtland.

just a thought on the power of Hacker News to get noticed by 'players'. surely Patrick Collison heard of Courtland/Indiehackers and Patrick McKenzie through browsing Hacker News? so it's not all procrastination posting here

georgiecaseyon Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the most expensive cities?

take a random sample of 100 devs in Ukraine and India and offer them a green card to the US of A. how many do you think would take it? and for people who wouldn't, how many do you think would cite Trump as their reason?

georgiecaseyon Instagram grows to 1M active advertisers

i agree, loads of casual FB advertisers surely just leave on Instagram

the power of the Adwords and FB Ads customer base is sometimes overlooked I find. if Instagram stayed independent and had to build their own ad-customer base, would they have been as successful?

georgiecaseyon Instagram grows to 1M active advertisers

is this the secret sauce? https://github.com/mgp25/Instagram-API

the work the Spanish developer puts into this 3rd party API is crazy and all the issues are from Indian spammers demanding he fixes it!

georgiecaseyon YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

130 points upvoted in 2 hours, is the voting patterns on this weird or am i looking for conspiracies

georgiecaseyon Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in an alternate reality

what if that doesn't work?

georgiecaseyon The Cloud’s Software: A Look Inside Backblaze

i love B2 as well. about 25% of the cost of S3! i use it for weekly MySQL server cron backups

georgiecaseyon Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

an android app that pulls in about €500 a month. i coded it years ago and literally have not thought about it this year until now. it used to bring in about €700-€800 a month but i finally got some competition after a few years. i've noticed the app game is tightening up

georgiecaseyon Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

what kind of traffic and CPMs you getting? i assume most of the traffic from organic search?

georgiecaseyon Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

so passé right now

georgiecaseyon A Moneymaking Machine Like Few Others

I think he's referring to traders paying for colocation in the exchange data centre.

georgiecaseyon Exposing high-end poker cheating devices

i presume this would be about the online poker bots taking over the low level stake tables

georgiecaseyon Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you did to market it?

good day of HN marketing today!

georgiecaseyon Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming

storyteller

that seems to be really hot right now

georgiecaseyon ABI vs. API (2004)

very tenuously related, but I forgot that Ian Murdock died over Xmas. crazy. any updates on what happened there?

georgiecaseyon Buffer Layoffs

https://open.buffer.com/hiring-at-buffer-in-february-2024-ap...

i wouldn't be worried about an employee exodus as they get loads of applications as is. and everyone is replaceable IMO.

the company fascinates me with their high salaries for customer service and relative low salaries for engineering. from that post, they've way more applications for customer service than engineering. why not save money by paying way less?

georgiecaseyon Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round

forget the valutation, what can a social media app possibly spend nearly $2B on? not like it's uber where they need money to enter new markets. maybe google appspot bumped up the bills lol

only logical thing is founders taking a load of money off the table

georgiecaseyon Panopticon: A libre, cross platform disassembler for reverse engineering

i was trying to edit one byte in an ELF, no change in file size and it kept crashing. i read that each section of code is hashed and obviously my byte edit changed the hash. i was pretty out of my depth tbh.

georgiecaseyon Why is Google allowing this popular app to violate so many Google Play rules?

i'm involved in this Android ban game myself, i don't think this guy is pulling connections with old Google colleagues. i noticed myself Google getting a bit slower banning accounts of previous indiscretions. they'll have another wave soon and knock out loads of apps and accounts.

i'm also skeptical that OP in that reddit thread is really a soundcloud musician. more likely he's a jealous Android dev and snitching on his competition!

georgiecaseyon Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions

i preferred colonization because it was more real and based on real history. i learned loads playing that game. and i loved the business aspect of it

georgiecaseyon Stockfighter is live

that business model... if you've nothing nice to say, say nothing, i'll keep to that

georgiecaseyon The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

you aware of Google Keep?

georgiecaseyon Stocks Off Sharply as Market Upheaval Grows

i don't know much about stocks but agree with your last line in general, encapsulated by patio11's tweet

    I occasionally get asked for advice by students. Biggest one: resist following scripts which evolved to serve a world which no longer exists

georgiecaseyon How Zapier Went from Zero to 600k Users

http://www.acronymfinder.com/FAC.html

i can't guess from that. friday afternoon club? if i was pushed to guess from the context. i'm bemused how anyone can use an acronym like that twice and expect everyone to know what it means. or maybe it's just me and you!

georgiecaseyon Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet

> 'We had several NoSQL technologies, all of which eventually broke catastrophically'

georgiecaseyon Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire?

i just watched the show and he hit spaces other than 4 and 8 a few times. was he just lucky those few times or did i miss something? here's one example when he hit space 6 and 'pick a corner': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0phlwtxwFU&feature=youtu.be...

georgiecaseyon Getting to €20k in MRR in 90 days

did you read the part of the post where he tells us sales by operating system? iOS is 33% and Android is 9%.

it's a certain demographic that would buy a monthly box for their dog and i'd expect them to be mostly iPhone users

georgiecaseyon Is it just me or did Kelly Ellis disappear from the front page?

> A complicit culture of silence? I feel sick, uneasy, and confused.

jesus, get the story right before jumping to conclusions

georgiecaseyon Understanding Regular Expressions 2: Groups and Captures

RegexBuddy is the best €30 I spent for speeding up and testing expressions. Pity it doesn't support OBjC though.