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ifendon Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?

This. Ensure you have someone that can replace you so you can quickly move on to better things when they come up.

ifendon Ask HN: What are you working on?

For Kickstarter I'm accepting shipping data from founders but other than that it's going to all be crowdsourced. It will be tricky to keep the data reliable. If anyone has ideas I'd love to hear them.

I'll add the Tesla when we launch. Should be fun to see what happens!

ifendon Ask HN: What are you working on?

Problem: Kickstarter et al founders not communicating shipping information. I'm looking at you Antsy Labs!

Project: Crowdsourced backer shipping data. A backer can share their order date, delivery date, and optionally their order number. This allows other backers to see when (if!) orders are being shipped and delivered. We can then estimate when backers should get their order.

Audience: Kickstarter and Indiegogo backers.

Stack: Rails 5 API on Heroku+PostgreSQL, S3 hosted React client.

Launching: This week.

ifendon Study: Blended food prevented hunger for longer

RTFA, it has to do with how the food separates in the stomach.