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malditojavi

1,509 karma · joined July 30, 2012

javiersanzlozano@gmail.com

I run http://petithacks.com a list of marketing tricks that companies do to get more of your time, clicks, attention, and money.

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malditojavi··on Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
brilliant.org
malditojavi··on Listen to the Clouds
This reminds me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Broadcasting_(b...
malditojavi··on Amazon Go
Now the question is: would Bezos keep this tech for himself or give access to it to other big retailers?
malditojavi··on The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede
We had a similar initiative but with other purpose here in Brussels after the November terrorist attacks on Paris

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/09...

malditojavi··on GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
Not comparable but airpair have a similar trick, asking to signup if you want to see their whole samples http://i.imgur.com/pVuVjrY.png and not obfuscated code samples

I run a site (http://petihacks.com) with many of these little tricks if it's the interest of anyone

malditojavi··on Show HN: Extract a unique CSS selector for any element on any page
I don't get it - I do this in Chrome tools > magnifying glass > right click > Copy CSS path. What does it solve this ?
malditojavi··on Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?
Spain > Belgium Came to work for a Belgium co, now working for a USA co working on remote still form Belgium. 3 years of this already.
malditojavi··on Generate Regex from Examples
Looks promising if the title matches what it does - but page does not load.
malditojavi··on Ask HN: Is it possible to build a company where everyone is a software engineer?
Related with this: I found out last week that a javascript developer (http://julian.com | @shapiro) is vp of marketing in webflow and I had a similar reaction, 'wait a js dev in a marketing position?!'.

Amazeballs!

malditojavi··on Ask HN: If you charge online, can you help us to define what to work next?
https://quaderno.typeform.com/to/wbMyiH Copy/pasteing link here so you can click directly.
malditojavi··on Show HN: Rabbits – Send an email to get any grunt-work programming job completed
24 hours later, never heard back. Great idea + bad execution = 1 lost potential client.
malditojavi··on Show HN: Rabbits – Send an email to get any grunt-work programming job completed
I sent a request too. Not answer yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
malditojavi··on Ask HN: Designing Useful Dashboards
Don't know if this post (http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/data-visualization-mistake...) can help, but I enjoyed it a lot. I think I can be applied to Dashboards too.
malditojavi··on Ask HN: My app is shared on Twitter every day. What should I do?
Start tracking who uses the tool, and how they do it. I reached out manually like 40-50 people to ask them (by email) why the were accessing to my site twice per week, what they were looking for. http://mixpanel.com have some free plans that might be helpful for your case.

drop me a line if I can help somehow javier@petithacks.com

malditojavi··on Ask HN: My app is shared on Twitter every day. What should I do?
btw now that I know what most of the recurring users are looking for (inspiration for their marketing campaigns), now it's when I'm starting to introduce some features (paid plans for promo of products related, reach an audience, etc.) If it can give some ideas.
malditojavi··on Ask HN: My app is shared on Twitter every day. What should I do?
How many monthly active users (or even daily) do you have? As far as I'm seeing through Twitter, it's just people sharing the link, but using it?

I'm in a similar situation with http://petithacks.com Launched it last september while learning Rails, and got some traffic peaks that bring among 2-3k users/month (but only 100 active - liking, saving stuff).

malditojavi··on Nomad SMS – Receive a local SMS anywhere in the world
Spaniard living in Belgium for 3 years. For every purchase I make online with my Spanish card (issued by a Spanish bank), if I don't receive the code into a Spanish phone number, there is no other way of receiving it. I might start using this! :)
malditojavi··on Patreon to Europe on #VATMOSS: “Not our problem, mate.”
Not really, every business with European based customers needs to comply with EU vat https://quaderno.io/blog/is-your-business-ready-for-the-new-...
malditojavi··on Startup jobs with low salary and negligible equity, what gives?
Startup jobs are the new corp jobs.
malditojavi··on Ask HN: Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcamps'?
Never participated in a bootcamp, but I participated in a RailsGirls event, and I learned a ton. At least, it motivated me that much to keep learning on my own. I commited myself to get something up and running in a server in 2 months, and I did it (http://petithacks.com)

Best ways of learning have been: 1.the study groups done almost twice per month during 3 months after that RailsGirls event, 2. Learn how to get answers in StackOverflow, 3. Ask around to devs in the internet and even my colleagues (I do marketing in a software company).

I don't know how good are these bootcamps, and I'm not sure if all the comments here included are real or just bootcamps trying to defend their business. I'm pretty sure there are good teachers out there, but dont know necessarily if they are in bootcamps. Seeing that many of these bootcamps either they implied to commit full-time, either they were USA-based, either their curriculums were super-easy, I tried to look for specific help in places like Codementor (https://www.codementor.io/r/5HXQM64N3R referral link!), much flexible and I don't feel 'scammed' paying for really basic stuff that you can learn with time + internet.

In http://petithacks.com/posts/how-i-learned-to-build-a-rails-a... I gave more explanations about my learning.

malditojavi··on Chinese Mobile UI Trends
bookmark'd!
malditojavi··on EU’s New VAT Rules Could Create a Mess for Startups
Hey fellas, we've being building a solution to this http://quaderno.io/stripe-vat-invoicing/ So far, VAT management for Stripe Drop me a line in case you need further info or help hello@quaderno.io
malditojavi··on Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
$1.4k MMR? I though these were real data http://www.it-engelhardt.de/linksspy-com-monthly-income-repo...
malditojavi··on Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
Mmmm I did my first $49 with an sponsor that I get for http://petithacks.com A website where I curate small hacks & tricks companies do to get more of your time, of your attention, of your money.

Nothing spectacular, I know. I started to get some traffic (28K visits so far) 1 month ago after being featured in ProductHunt, SmashingMagazine, SitePoint, etc.

Still trying to figure it out what I could do with the 1,4k signups I have.

malditojavi··on Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience?
bookmarking this
malditojavi··on Ask HN: Any startup charging with direct debits?
Interesting. Personal experience from a business owner point of view or as user?
malditojavi··on Ask HN: How much you make working remotely?
You can figure that out if you take a look to my oDesk profile, link is included in the post and you can see what kind of works/and when I raised my $/h.
malditojavi··on Ask HN: How much you make working remotely?
I keep working in remote for hand-picked clients. I raised my rates (I started really low, 8$/hour, coming from non-technical background at all). My current rate is 25$/h, and I have started to take some projects that imply some development (ruby on rails, html/css).

AMAnything if you feel like! Willing to help or solve some doubts.

malditojavi··on Ask HN: How much you make working remotely?
With 60% oDesk clients and 40% other remote clients, back in 2012, I did around 17k $ in the whole year. I explained it at the end of this post http://malditointer.net/after-working-1200-hours-in-odesk/
malditojavi··on [dead]
hola amigos! Javier here, the one behind this thing. Let me know any questions you might have about it :)
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