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My point was that fiat currencies live and die by the trust in governments that issue them. "Full faith and credit".

Just like any fiat currency?

Tell me you don't understand Bitcoin without telling me you don't understand Bitcoin.

If I don't feel like making the button blue, I won't. If they don't agree with my decision, they are free to take their business elsewhere.

> If someone else is giving you money, they are your boss.

It is true in some respect, but when you're employed, you only have a single or handful of bosses. When you run a business, you have tens, hundreds, or even thousands of customers. You can say NO to any one of them when the push comes to shove.

Even putting all that aside, working for someone entails doing what you're told even if you don't want or agree with it. That's not how I want to spend my waking hours.

Oh, and I passionately hate alarms. Don't want to wake up every morning just because someone decided for me that I have to be somewhere.

Sidenote: Good decision-making matters a lot. You can work for thousands of hours without having anything to show for it, or you can work for an hour and make more money than you've ever made in your entire life. Scary but exciting. See Taleb's Mediocristan vs Extremistan: https://people.wou.edu/~shawd/mediocristan--extremistan.html

Please don't. More often than not, better-marketed products win over better products. It's unfortunate, but that's how it is.

> I like building products after all.

Most of us do, but you're unlikely to gain any traction without marketing, and after failing to see tangible results, grow resentful towards your project and start losing interest. Been there, done that.

If you want to minimize time spent on marketing in the longer term, your best bets are word-of-mouth, referrals, and SEO (if you're after low-competition keywords). However, not all businesses are conducive to these strategies.

Regarding tools, pick the ones (1) you're familiar with, (2) don't have complex billing, (2) and don't lock you in (in that order). There are exceptions, but this is a good rule of thumb (and that's the rule I have been sticking to in my current business).

Don't get bogged down in minutiae. Ship it!

Unfortunately, no, you'll have to add them manually from the Share menu in Notion.

I'll include it in docs.

I see your point and agree with your assessment. I simply decided to release it early to get feedback and squash bugs, hence the single discounted plan.

I do plan on having at least two tiers and yearly subscriptions once the product matures.

Shameless plug: Since Notion has released their API, I've been working on a tool to automatically back up workspaces. I use Notion a lot, both personally and professionally, and it low-key scares me that it could all be gone.

It's still in beta (as Notion's API), and there's a lot of work to be done, but at least for me, it's better than hoping it all won't blow up one day (and I'm too disorganized to regularly export workspaces).

https://notionbackups.com

Institutional trading and Bitcoin.

That speaks volumes about how resilient Bitcoin's ecosystem is.

Bitcoin isn't Chinese. Bitcoin doesn't belong to any country, nation, tribe, political party, institution, or person at all.

> primarily because it's one of many "quick wins"

Be careful with that, though. You might have an illusion that you're making progress, while in reality, you aren't.

I'm with you on having the fun part!

Switched from Django two years ago and never looked back. Having worked with both, Rails is more polished and pleasant to work with.

Side note: if you're building a business and already know Python/Django, stick with them!

Even if you can, you shouldn't expend a non-trivial amount of brain cycles on that, especially early on.

> If on the other hand you're experienced it's probably about finding that trade off between perfectly orchestrated software and having something that delivers your vision in an acceptable amount of time.

Don't.

As someone who built (and sold) a business before and is building a new one, I'd say it really doesn't matter before you get traction. Just ship the damn thing however you can!

The chance of a first-time founder succeeding is incredibly slim anyway. So, you're better off spending your time figuring out distribution and finding a good enough market.

With my new business, though, I went with SQLite. It's good enough, and I don't have to worry about keeping it up 24/7 (or paying someone to keep it up). I can copy a database file to a new machine, and it'll be up and running in no time. I don't worry much about scalability.

More often than not, simple is better than complex.

You don't need to transact on-chain (i.e. settlement layer). There's a lightning network, where transactions are instantaneous, and fees are a few satoshis.

It's amusing how most Bitcoin critics focus on on-chain fees and pretend that lightning doesn't exist.

> And why did it drop 50% in a month? Because the worlds 25th largest automaker decided it was a bad medium of exchange for buying electric cars.

That wasn't the main reason. It was the China FUD and the lack of Grayscale's neutral arbitrage, which took out the biggest buyer off of the market.

Since their API is in public beta, I'm building a tool to back up and restore your Notion data to a storage provider of your choice:

https://notionbackups.com

It could happen with any other bank as well.

You'd think that a bank that claims to "work with the brightest minds in technology" would have a better 2FA mechanism than a phone number...

> We are currently only supporting legal residents of the European Economic Area (EEA), Australia, Canada, Singapore, Switzerland, Japan and the United States

The problem is that if you're not from the "right country", you're pretty much locked out from the finanical infrastructure needed to process payments on the Internets. I wasn't that gung ho about incorporating a business abroad but didn't have much choice.

I wasn't gung ho about incorporating a business abroad, as it introduces unnecessary complexity and costs money in the early stages. But as someone who didn't have access to the modern financial infrastructure (to accept cards on the Internets), there weren't that many options available (and most of them involved traveling to foreign countries).

I use Tarsnap daily!

The only hiccup was with receiving an EIN confirmation later, so I had to call IRS so they could fax it to the third-party designee.

Haven't used Clerky, but the biggest perks with Atlas are a bank account (which is generally a pain to open for non-residents) and $5k AWS credits.

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/llc-vs-c-corp

I'd say go with a C Corp if you know you're on the investment track. You can convert from an LLC to a C Corp later. The reverse is harder.

Usual disclaimers apply.

> Are you getting E&O insurance through Stripe (or a referral) or did you add that elsewhere?

Haven't gotten one, so can't speak to that.

A lot of guides on the Internets concerning HTTP status codes are regurgitations or outright ripoffs of RFCs (2616 or 7231). Or light on details.

I want(ed) to go one step further and explain when each code is appropriate (from the website operator's perspective), how to work around some of the errors (mostly for 4xx and 5xx), and some context around HTTP headers/methods.

1. Install Firefox Focus, which has a built-in content blocking capability. FF Focus only allows one tab at a time, which is mostly suitable for quick, throwaway tasks. It's not a browser if you want to have multiple tabs open or save bookmarks. To block Bad Things in Safari, go to Settings > Safari > Content Blockers (under General) > Allow Firefox Focus. In FF Focus, go to Settings > Enable Safari Integration.

2. Pi-hole (or NextDNS) to block spyware/malware on the DNS level.

It's not a 100% replacement for uBlockOrigin (especially if you like maxing it out), but it is good enough.