hsribei

I hear good things about spreadsheet functionality in org-mode.

>The last of my primary reasons for using FF over chrome were killed with Quantum.

Which?

The repo has the scripts that are used to compile the binaries. It's not even a fork, it just downloads the code directly from the official repo.

I didn't know Portugal was big on censorship. What kinds of sites are blocked?

Adding to the list of "If you want hosted Git": Keybase.io.

They provide encrypted git hosting for free: https://keybase.io/blog/encrypted-git-for-everyone

No issues, pull requests, and social features though.

Great documentation!

I particularly like that you mentioned "NAT Traversal" as one of the benefits of hidden services.

I think that's an overlooked feature that would in many cases be enough of a reason for one to use them, even without caring for the added privacy.

Great find! Here's the source link: https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#sequence-

Gitlab also took VC money and have an exit as their only option. Doubt they'll get as far as GitHub did though, and the option to just grow slowly into a solid independent business is off the table. Probably an acquihire with small return to investors.

One point that is often lost on the discussions of fake video/"deepfake" is that this development won't only make it easier to fool people into believing something that's made up, but it might also make people more distrustful of things which are actually true.

When it's been spread out enough that anything can be doctored to an indistinguishable extent, everything becomes deniable by those being caught, and the skepticism explosion is going to raise the bar for investigative journalism / actual evidence to standards high enough that few will have the resources to produce them.

_Can_ Elon Musk be booted if the board wanted to? I'd bet he still has a ton of control.

I think the Brave Browser and associated Basic Attention Token (BAT) are a step in the right direction. It's hard to escape ad revenue if you want to avoid paywalls, but Brave at least gives users privacy, control, and revenue share.

I found this after coming up with my own #spokenDSL for binary at https://github.com/ttobbec/rubble (pt-BR).

I found mental math became a lot easier after practicing it a little bit.

Might be a good way to teach kids binary. Tell them nothing about bases, conversions, or anything, just give them decimal numbers with a different name, wait for the phonetic patterns to take hold, then show them what's behind it.

Urbit's Hoon also takes the approach of coming up with phonetics for ASCII symbols, which I find great. https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/doc/book/3-syn...

I'd love such an arrangement myself too, especially remotely. I have friends who tutor on Thinkful or some other company so they can choose to do fewer hours a week and dedicate themselves to family/projects, but that pays much less than working as an engineer. It works for them because they live in low cost-of-living countries.

Hi guys! Small world =)

How does Next.js' static export feature compare to using Gatsby.js?

It also pains me to have to sift through all the meta noise. But some examples do stand out. patio11 is one.

I recently found about Tyler Tringas, who has open revenue numbers, is profitable, and specifically focused on making the business as automated as possible to have time. He was going to write and sell a "metabook", but decided against it precisely for reasons of credibility. He's publishing it for free at https://tylertringas.com/micro-saas-ebook/.

Another one is Jason Kester, who wrote about how he did it for free on one simple blog post here: http://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-...

It's good to see there are some actual cases, and it sounds at least more doable than the crazy startup lottery that is, ironically, more socially acceptable. (Passive stuff is for lazy people.)

I use RSS with Blogtrottr to get updates by email. But I prefer it when the blog has its own newsletter. Saves me the trip to Blogtrottr and receiving their ads on each email.

So how do I sync two instances with nothing but a USB stick? What commands do I use on both ends?

Surprised this got no traction. I'm interested in seeing what HN thinks about this too, especially with regards to blogging on Codementor Community vs Medium vs your own space. Are there reposts or other threads that have comments on the launch?

Curious: are you living off of smsinbox? What do you estimate is the average weekly amount of hours you spend on it?

Thanks for the pointers! I think (2) is the hardest, but I'll try some of the things Amy Hoy publicly shared about her Sales Safari process (can't afford 30x500 yet).

Wow, it's so great to hear that there are people out there who are actually doing this. Congratulations! That's exactly the kind of security I want to have.

Good to know how long it took you. 6+ years requires grit, and although still a bit limited by the RSI, I'm in a personal position where I can have that kind of long-term commitment.

I loved the expat software website, by the way :) It reminds me of an amusing conversation someone on Freenode (##passiveincome) sent me this link to:

myles.io/thoughts/passive-income-hacker-vs-startup-guy

SMS Inbox is brilliant! Congrats for being successful with it.

Your suggestion to focus on a platform is also great, I hadn't thought about it. Stripe is soon going to launch in Brazil too, so there will probably be many low-hanging opportunities there. Thank you for going the extra mile :)

If it's not too personal, I'd love to know how your, er, personal philosophy has changed over the years.

Is it work that got more interesting, so you don't mind doing more of it, or you found new uses for money you didn't think were important before, or something else entirely?

(Feel free to ignore.)

For the same technical challenge? None occurs to me, but I'll think harder about that. Even if other options are more challenging, I guess I welcome the excuse to dabble in Elm soon :) Thanks for the advice.

Wow, thanks a lot for taking the time to answer. This is better than getting on the front page.

>a) recurring revenue (BCC didn't have it and _believe me_ did that radically raise the savviness bar required on the customer acquisition front),

Didn't know the savviness gap was that big.

To be honest, I even considered emailing you to ask if doing bingo card software localized to Brazil for instance was a good idea, since: 1) you've trailblazed its SEO and conversion optimization tactics already 2) sold it, so no conflict of interest 3) they haven't to my knowledge localized it 4) there seems to be few competitors in Brazil, and 5) you seemed to have been able to make a decent annual salary from it with ~3h/week if I'm not wrong.

I'm not nearly as savvy to tune something like it to the extent you did though, and the Brazilian Portuguese market is much smaller than the whole internet's English-speaking audience.

So B2B non-critical SaaS sounds like the best bet indeed.

>The third thing is probably hardest to build, and as your time scale gets longer, it is the most likely part to require your sustained attention to improve. (I have no information how BCC is doing these days but I rather suspect the original organic SEO strategy which served me well for 5+ years will not continue operating unaltered for 20.)

That makes a lot of sense. What I like about BCC is that the user-satisfying part of the software itself is so simple and unchanging that you had the time to devote yourself almost exclusively to optimizing traffic and conversion.

It's hard to think of a useful SaaS product that wouldn't require a good amount of code maintenance, stack upgrades, new features requested by users, etc. just to keep the repeat business of the current ones.

As a solo entrepreneur with little time available, splitting it between that and constantly tuning marketing channels sounds challenging. But as you said, a lot of it can be automated.

>In terms of where these folks hang out: business owners who have priorities in their life other than the business are still business owners. I think the great mistake in the "passive income" community is failure to treat running a business like running a business; it becomes aspirational for lots of folks who have neither the skills nor the inclination to run a business nor, unfortunately, the desire to change either of those two things. This makes "passive income" spaces into a whirlwind of depression and hucksterism.

Exactly. I was at my wits end googling around (I might be terrible at googling, who knows) for a community that didn't come off like that. I went so far as proposing one myself under the "4hww4devs" banner (https://hsribei.github.io/log/4hww4devs/), hoping the "devs" filter would bring in a more skilled and "business owner"-mentality crowd.

Thankfully I found Indie Hackers, which has taught me a lot so far. And through that post I was reached out to by Matthew Mallard, who started the ##passiveincome channel on Freenode a couple of months ago. I hope being on Freenode achieves the same kind of selective pressure I was looking for.

>MicroConf, BaconBiz, and DCBKK are three conferences which all had folks who were at many points along the spectrum here. All have online ambits to them, too.

I will definitely acquaint myself as deeply as I can with those. Thank you a lot for the pointers, and for the kindness in answering without prejudice.

Indeed! I take back what I said previously. There has been positive response and even someone who's done before giving me hope it's possible:

https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/post/-KgG2eMQ4Sv9wWUc4SKJ

Glad to see @patio11 thinks the same way. Look at his answer to this:

Q: Why are you bothering with BCC when consulting is so much more lucrative? (I can think of a few good reasons, but I'd like to hear what your reasons are.)

A: I really enjoy being a product guy. BCC has a very desirable property in that it mostly works in my sleep. Consulting is quite lucrative and intellectually engaging, but it often disrupts my life in ways that BCC does not: for example, flying off to $BIG_CITY_ACROSS_OCEAN for a few weeks is wonderful once or twice a year but would get tiresome if I were doing it every month. I very rarely get tired of BCC, and with the exception of a trivial amount of support all of my work for it is at my absolute discretion to schedule. I mean, my little brother is graduating college this spring and, without even looking at the calendar, I can say "Sure, no problem, I'll be there. Tell me the day sometime."

Money is also not a huge motivator for me. I like it, don't get me wrong, but after I've got the rent and necessities covered (oh look, bingo) money generally has to be the icing on the cake to motivate me to do something. (Shh, no telling the consulting clients.)

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018936

Thanks! Good luck on yours too. If you write about it, please let me know. My gmail is hsribei.pub. Cheers!

From a health (and personal) perspective, Rolfing and other kinds of myofascial improvement help a lot with stamina.