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iisbum

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Socials: - bsky.app/profile/mubashariqbal.com - github.com/mubashariqbal - https://mubs.me

Interests: Remote Work, Startups, Web Development

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iisbum··on US won't punish United Airlines over passenger-dragging incident
Lets not forget the lobbyists that "asked" the Federal Government to put these limits in place, so the airlines could point their finger and say we're not allowed to offer more.
iisbum··on Million-Dollar SaaS Companies, Which Have No… Offices
Or has false content? Basecamp clearly has an office, has been in Chicago since they started. Pretty sure the others have offices too.
iisbum··on Ask HN: Does the closed model of Product hunt really work for it?
PH has always limited who is able to post things, primarily for this reason.

I know people have called them out for being elitist, but they have always been very responsive to their community about posting things people make when you reach out to them.

Yes it requires a little bit of work (and a good product), but it's not really hard if you want to take advantage of what PH offers.

[Disclaimer: I'm a big fan, and very active user of PH for a few years now]

iisbum··on Ask HN: Do you work remotely? How did you get that job?
I've been doing remote work for over 10 years, but my first remote position ... I was recommended for a position onsite, in NYC, which I interviewed for.

After my interview, circumstances changed and I needed to leave NYC, I told the company and they decided it would be ok for me to work remotely from Boston. Haven't looked back since, love being remote.

iisbum··on Will Robots Take My Job?
The numbers came from a report published in 2013 (linked on our about page): http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/view/1314
iisbum··on Will Robots Take My Job?
A fun side project I worked on with a friend.

Based on a report published in 2013, find out how susceptible over 700 jobs are to automation.

iisbum··on Ask HN: Stories of startup persistence
If only it was as easy as that.

The reason that there would be no garbage truck software is that most developers don't know or want to the understand the garbage business.

While it's important to pick an idea where their is money, it's equally important that you pick an idea where you have a clue of what to build, or have access to people that you can talk too about what they need, and can sign as customers.

A large number of software projects start as consulting projects, where someone sees a way to turn the project into something that might be wanted by more than just the initial client. If you don't have any consulting like this, you can always try browsing the job boards and see what people are hiring people to build, and see if those idea's might be something you can turn into a product.

iisbum··on Show HN: BotList Messenger Bot
We launched BotList one year ago today, and to celebrate, we're releasing a new version of our Messenger Bot.

Search for bots across all platforms, not just Messenger, to find the best bot for your needs, with the connivence of searching in a Bot :)

We hope to release additional bots for other platforms in the near future.

iisbum··on Ask HN: What is your commute like?
I freelance from Upstate NY, my office is in my Basement. My clients are mostly in NYC and SF.

My favorite commute was when I lived in SF and worked about a mile from the office. I used to ride my bike everyday, some how it felt like a downhill ride each way.

Was a great way to get ready for the work day in the morning, and clear my mind on the way home.

iisbum··on Ask HN: How do you overcome fear of failure?
For me it's all about how you frame the question of why you're building things.

The first tune I built something it wasn't with a big vision to be the next Facebook (Facebook didn't exist then actually :)) but it was something I needed, and I figured I'd just see if other people needed it too.

Other times, I've built things purely as a learning exercise, so you can't fail if you launch, you've actually succeeded just because you launch, what comes later doesn't matter.

Once I'd launched a couple of times, the fear factor didn't really come into mind anymore.

iisbum··on Ask HN: How did you get over your fear of shipping?
Never really had a problem with shipping things, guess I'm pretty thick skinned, but I try and remember that feedback, good or bad is better than building in a vacuum.
iisbum··on Show HN: TopShots – Your top nine Dribbble shots from 2016
I got talked into a NYE hackathon, and we built a way to see a Dribbble users top shots for 2016.

Inspired by the best of nine sites for Intagram, we thought it was be interesting to see what was popular in the design community with a tool like this.

iisbum··on Ask HN: Solo founder support group?
Would be interested in something like this too, if you start/find something would love to join too.
iisbum··on 4 Survivors of Aurora Shooting Massacre Ordered to Pay Theater Nearly $700,000
Click bait headline which sucks because the issue of who pays legal fees in cases like this an important one.
iisbum··on Show HN: Top Publications
I was surprised there wasn't a list of Publications available on Medium, so I decided to build one!

Just passed over 300 Publications. The list is ordered by the number of followers, and I'm working on adding additional sorting/filtering options.

Still looking for more publications to add to the list, if you have any suggestions please add a comment.

iisbum··on Show HN: ShowList – Share Bands You've Seen Live, Discover New Bands
Thanks Dan.

Great feedback, and thanks for understanding about the timeouts, always fun times being on HN and PH at the same time !

We focused on making it easy to build the initial list and share it with friends, but for die hard music fans we know you'll want a lot more features that we have on a roadmap.

Oh and I've featured your show list :)

iisbum··on Show HN: ShowList – Share Bands You've Seen Live, Discover New Bands
Sorry we're just finishing up the MVP and the polish isn't quite there yet, I've added the link you suggested and made the logo a link back to the homepage.

Temporary fixes until we can make something better for the long term.

iisbum··on Show HN: ShowList – Share Bands You've Seen Live, Discover New Bands
Lanyard looks great, hadn't heard of it, will take a closer look though. I'm sure Jonny will be reaching out to chat with you :)
iisbum··on Show HN: ShowList – Share Bands You've Seen Live, Discover New Bands
Thanks for the suggestions, the export feature is something that wasn't on our roadmap, but is now.
iisbum··on Show HN: ShowList – Share Bands You've Seen Live, Discover New Bands
Thanks for giving the site a try.

As Jonny mentioned this is very much an MVP which we just finished yesterday. We do have plans to allow you manually add event details if we don't have them in the database.

Sorting of the show list is also something we have on the roadmap.

Sorry about the errors, yeah we're hitting the API limits pretty hard.

iisbum··on Show HN: Critics – Video Movie Reviews
I wanted an easy way to find all the movie reviews on YouTube, and couldn't find anything, so I built it.

Building up the database now and with the help of others, we'll get all the reviews in there, and easy to find.

iisbum··on Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?
I recently got a call from the CEO of a company that I worked for from 2000-2003, asking if I could help upgrade some code I wrote that was still in production.
iisbum··on Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this cartoon
I'd be interested to know more about the process of getting the cartoon into the paper.

Surely if the cartoonist submitted it to the editor of the paper before it was published, shouldn't the editor be the one getting fired?

iisbum··on Ask HN: What are some challenging web apps I can build?
Most web apps are not very challenging to build until you start thinking about scale. Twitter for 100 users is easy Twitter for 1,000,000 users is much more challenging.
iisbum··on Show HN: Botlist – An App Store for Bots
Fixing that right now.
iisbum··on Show HN: Botlist – An App Store for Bots
We didn't quite get zero downtime deploys worked out for our MVP :) If you refresh thing should be working now.

Thanks!

iisbum··on Show HN: Botlist – An App Store for Bots
Very happy to launch our MVP for Botlist.

We hope someday it will become a fully fledged store, but for now we're working towards building a complete directory of bots available on every platform.

iisbum··on Show HN: Remote Duck
Would love to do that, figured this would be a good first step to see if there was enough interest in something like this.

If the websites get enough traffic, will expand the offering :)

iisbum··on Show HN: Remote Duck
Fair enough! I'm sure it's not to everyones taste ;-)
iisbum··on Show HN: Remote Duck
I'm a big fan of rubber duck debugging, but working strange hours its not always possible to find a person or a rubber duck when you need one.

So I built Remote Duck, now you can rubber duck debug with people 24/7. They won't talk back, but boy are they good listeners!

Still looking for more volunteers, if you'd like to help a developer debug their code just submit (http://remoteduck.com/submit) your video.

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