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kakkan··on Marginalia Search: 1 Year
Would you recommend more resources to learn about his work?
kakkan··on Number of journalists in jail reaches global high
I think this is a misleading title. Journalism as a profession shot up the last couple of years due to internet and media so the count should be normalized. What ratio of journalists are persecuted compared to total number of journalists out there?
kakkan··on Show HN: Made a website to create and explore tech learning roadmaps
TLDR: There are over 50 career roadmaps right now. It's built with golang and nextjs. You can see the github repository over here https://github.com/guyandtheworld/reallyconfused and the whole website is hosted over here https://reallyconfused.co/

Full Story: Five years ago as I was learning to code, I was frustrated about not knowing the whole journey. Recently I decided to revisit this problem and to solve this, I decided to build a web app where you can create and share learning roadmaps, and beginners can explore roadmaps based on careers and programming languages. The aim of this project is not to give a single roadmap to anyone as a prescription that promises a career if you do X, Y and Z, but merely an exploratory platform that can be used as a source of inspiration if you get stuck because no tech career path is the same. I managed to get over 50 learning roadmaps on a variety of careers and programming languages. It's built with golang and nextjs and use postgres as a database. I'd love your feedback and your criticism!

Best Regards.

kakkan··on Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529
Can someone ELI5 how bad this variant is?
kakkan··on Show HN: Mostly inaccurate but dead honest 33 years of one man's life
Sounds right to me.
kakkan··on Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
Happy Birthday!
kakkan··on Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?
How do you find the temporal bone? Would you have a reference video so that I could try it out? Temporal bone massage returned some vague results.
kakkan··on 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
if the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light why can't we harness that power and travel that fast?
kakkan··on I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed
Thanks for sharing. That's the goal, anyway. :)
kakkan··on I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed
By deep tech, I mean getting to solve complex challenges through technology. It could be solving problems using machine learning, or a hardware product that's genuinely useful. I believe we're going to see a rise in hardware technology soon. After being in the phase of building a product to get upvotes on ProductHunt, I was trying to capture the essence of being an inventor by following a prescribed recipe, which wasn't satisfying. I ended up moving to a more business role and it's much better this way but we're barely building anything.

I'd like to play a role of an inventor and a builder of crazy technologies. Imagine https://www.noya.co/ or https://frame.work/. My only concern is that not being from a research background or a first world country could hinder my chance of doing that. Hope that made sense.

kakkan··on I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed
I relate with your sentiment. I'm from a product background, not a research one. What do you think is the best way to eventually transition into deep tech companies over the next five years?
kakkan··on Ask HN: What were the tech trends thought to be revolutionary but died out?
How do you think NFTs will die out?
kakkan··on Ask HN: What were the tech trends thought to be revolutionary but died out?
This is really cool, why did this die out?
kakkan··on Dating in Delhi when you're poor
Even though the article captures a good amount of truth about the lifestyle, the dinner pricing might need a bit of context. The top 5% of the restaurants might cost more than a hundred bucks for two people but that should be expected from the high-end four star and five star restaurants. I'm an Indian engineer who earns in USD, and even if I'm picky, my per meal is always between $3 - $5. Even if I'm going for keto or specialised meals, it never goes beyond $10.
kakkan··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
I'm trying to do the same. All my notes are backed up to a private repository, would be pretty kick-ass to get it synced with my iphone. Let me know if you find it out!
kakkan··on Using a magnetic string to fish for a lost iPhone 12 in a Berlin canal
Time to roll back this innovation and release the new iphone with 2x volume so that it'd float.
kakkan··on I Launched my Product on Reddit to get 1,500 Sign-ups and 300k Page-views
Thank you! I used https://unicornplatform.com/ for building it.
kakkan··on I Launched my Product on Reddit to get 1,500 Sign-ups and 300k Page-views
From my observations, there are communities which has strict moderation policies, but sometimes they do allow posts if the incentives are right. That's why I mention writing an essay instead of posting a link. I feel like if it's a well known pain-point and the community is aware about it, and you outline why your motivation for solving it, it will resonate. Instead of promotion, you're posting your story.

Again, this strategy could fail too, but I've always noticed if you take one topic, there are multiple subreddits that address it, so you'll have luck in at least one of them. What market is your product targeting?

kakkan··on Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?
That's super fascinating. Does praying enrich your life? Do you think it's something you could replace with meditation?
kakkan··on Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company
You can always choose to not use a phone or the internet? The difference is that life becomes hard when you wanna opt out of a mainstream technology that we fully do not understand.
kakkan··on Ask HN: You have a fortune of $100B, how would you fix earth in 3 years?
This is the only correct answer.
kakkan··on My simple GitHub project went viral
That's what I'm intending on doing next! I'm trying to find distribution channels to reach out first and to validate some ideas I have in mind. Would you like to hop on a quick call to brainstorm stuff?
kakkan··on Coinbase from YC to DPO
They met through a reddit post or some other way?
kakkan··on Show HN: Khuro, a Private Social Network
Hey! This looks great. I was curious to know how this would be different from the same share feature that Instagram has. You can share posts and related stuff there and additionally since all your friends are there I wanted to know what incentive you plan on giving people to switch platforms.
kakkan··on Embrace the Grind
Thank you, appreciate the detailed answer.
kakkan··on My simple GitHub project went viral
Thanks for pointing them out! I'm taking the site through some changes so these bugs are very recent. When I released it, it was pretty much bug-free.
kakkan··on My simple GitHub project went viral
I got 100k visits for my project https://reallyconfused.co/ and 0 donations because my donation link was broken and I noticed it too late...
kakkan··on Embrace the Grind
Why do you think GCP is worse than AWS? I've used GCP and found it quite easy to start with and the managed instances was a breeze to set up and deploy stuff. I've done it for only small businesses and they were happy with the results too and the easy to use console made things easier to navigate. Maybe the trouble with GCP comes with scale?
kakkan··on The Part Time Creator Manifesto
Damn, as someone who has been working on a side-project for the past 7 months and have been releasing it through the past one month, this resonated with me a lot. I actually work part time for a company which treats me really well and appreciates my inputs and I have very constraints when working there and they encourage the things I come up with.

Recently I've been thinking about fundraising but I haven't figured out a monetisation strategy yet so I've been pondering about it. But I work 4 hours a day on my side-project and I read your article and had the epiphany that I can work part-time on this till I figure out monetisation on my side-project. Really appreciate you taking your time to write this!

kakkan··on Show HN: ReallyConfused – Explore, create and share self-learning tech roadmaps
I really like Google Cloud. I use docker and deploy it on cloud-run which works like a charm since it auto-scales and I never had any problems with it. I also find Google Cloud environment easier to work with than AWS. I've never tried Azure so I cannot judge.
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