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hughhopkins··on The last days of Silicon Roundabout
+1 It is but Brexit also coincided with the pandemic which led to a massive spike in remote working so it's quite hard to tell the extend until the dust settles.
hughhopkins··on I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed
This is a good point and ties into the whole funding trap. I imagine some founders find it difficult to show a shitty looking MVP when you have investors looking
hughhopkins··on I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed
I think Ravi (the author) is spot. The difficulty is the table stakes features for SaaS products have increased so much as the industry has grown and so have expectations.

That being said I think people have erred way too much away from the MVP concept and aren't fundamentally testing the biggest unknown with their MVPs. Of course you're going to need SSO at some point but you don't need it for a MVP.

hughhopkins··on Net Score
sadly HN does not support emoji and my title is ruined.
hughhopkins··on Tired of memorizing passwords? Manuel Blum came up with this algorithmic trick
This is not the easiest way off having secure passwords that you don't have to store. Yes, there are password managers but if you don't want to store/save your passwords anywhere you could use pwdhash which is based off MD5.

Friend of mine actually built one off SHA1 and it's all open at https://github.com/simontabor/pw/ or www.pwapp.io. It's 40 chars so much much better than pwdhash (but that's the original I guess).

hughhopkins··on How we completely changed our internal comms in one morning (Campfire – Slack)
Yeah, we especially like the ease in which we can add integrations.
hughhopkins··on Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs
So frictionless, really impressive work. Well done.
hughhopkins··on A Hacker News but just for Londoners
Cheers James, means a lot
hughhopkins··on A Hacker News but just for Londoners
Thanks! it is work in progress so a few upgrades should be coming along as well
hughhopkins··on A Hacker News but just for Londoners
yeah, It's starting hyperlocal because that seems the easiest route. That would be good and I'll look into it
hughhopkins··on A Hacker News but just for Londoners
Because HN is very SF centric and I know the London comunity will really benefit. Quite simply really. Not trying to create a $B company just something good for the area
hughhopkins··on A Hacker News but just for Londoners
Feel free to fire me any questions about it here. Also, it is based on Telescope by Sacha Greif and Tom Coleman - which is built in MeteorJS.
hughhopkins··on Show HN: GoCoWo.io - See The Startups In London's 'Genuine' CoWo Spaces
well I like it