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mjnaus

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Founder and web developer at Chilly Orange (www.chillyorange.com).
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mjnaus··on Ask HN: Where did all the ICOs go?
Ethereum
mjnaus··on Tether's USDT Stablecoin Slips from $1 Peg
Large holders of Tether would be pretty dumb to short it, as they'd be shooting themselves in the foot. If Almeda indeed knows something the rest of the market doesn't, they would (assuming rational action) quietly be exiting their position.
mjnaus··on Bootstrapping a site builder to $6k in monthly revenue
Matt here, one of the founders of Pagestead.

Totally agree, from a technical point of view, PHP would not be our first choice (or second, or third, etc). However, since our customers need to install this on their own infrastructure, we were rather limited in options.

mjnaus··on Making your first dollar from a SaaS project
The first $1 is easy.... If you're struggling to attract a single customer you seriously need to re-evaluate what you're doing. As mentioned earlier in the comments; doubling from MRR from $40,000 to $80,000 is a way bigger challenge than making that first buck.
mjnaus··on The Human Cost of Tech Debt
There are other ways to test legacy code rather the applying unit testing. If no testing is present at all, unit testing is not likely the correct approach and function/integration testing (using a PhantomJS for example) might be more suitable.
mjnaus··on Ask HN: Any advice for switching from self-employment back to employee?
Sounds like you were NOT running a business, but the business you built was running you. In other words, you created a job for yourself, rather then a business.
mjnaus··on Tech Startups Come Up with Some Creative Definitions for ‘Profitable’
Shouldn't it be more like:

(0. Are we solving a pain / is there a market)

1 - "Will anyone pay for it?

2 - "Can we build something"

3 - "Can we turn a profit on each unit?"

4 - "Can we grow profitably and eventually cover our fixed costs?"<br>

mjnaus··on Managing your manager when it comes to legacy code
There are other ways of testing which are more suitable, at least until you get your code base to the point where unit tests can more easily be applied. Smoke tests, functional tests, integration tests, QA, are workable solutions to build an initial testing harness around legacy code.
mjnaus··on Show HN: Zephyr - team platform for building great product – free access
That's a rather lame response, coming from the guy who submitted this and who's clearly affiliated. If you're only posting this for the "Oooh's" and "Ah's", you might want to submit it elsewhere.

You'd definitely come across more professional when taking criticism to heart rather then getting all defensive.

mjnaus··on Show HN: Zephyr - team platform for building great product – free access
After staring at your site for a solid 2 minutes, scanning back and forth, I still haven't gotten a clue what it is that your product/service does...

Also, a major fail IMO, the share buttons are covering the first paragraph of text. This being the first written content visitors will be looking at, you better make this readable as most people aren't as patient as I am and will not stick around...

mjnaus··on Show HN: Turn form submissions into emails (without the spam)
How's this better/different then Formspree (https://formspree.io/) or Sent API (http://sentapi.com)?
mjnaus··on Show HN: Creators selling files from their own host, Dropbox etc.
SnappyCheckout has been rocking this functionality for several years now... and they're cheaper as well.
mjnaus··on Sandstorm Oasis hosting open beta and App Market
Are you guys planning on adding paid/premium apps to your app store?
mjnaus··on Show HN: Invoiced, a self-hosted invoicing app with API
Since we've opted for a flexible item table structure (not every business out there requires the "item", "description", "item price", "total" structure) the table columns can pretty much anything, so the application currently have no way determining what to multiply with what.

Not sure about the number of digits in the totals, but obviously this should be unlimited. On our own installation we're in the for digits, so there should not be an issue with this.

Discounts are located in the Financials tab. It's a simple invoicing app, so there's no way to specify a discount based on when the invoice is paid (nor are we likely to implement something like this).

Terms can be placed in the invoice footer.

mjnaus··on Show HN: Invoiced, a self-hosted invoicing app with API
Should be working OK in Safari now as well
mjnaus··on Show HN: Invoiced, a self-hosted invoicing app with API
No, it should be online. Just tried and it loads ok for me... Are you getting an error or anything?
mjnaus··on Show HN: Invoiced, a self-hosted invoicing app with API
Thanks for the screenshots; the popup issue seemed to appear on Safari/Chrome, and has been taken care off now.

We also corrected the wording on the install page (SiteCloner is another one of our products, nothing shady going on here :)) and fixed the typos in the install instructions.

Thanks again for pointing out these issues :) Ping us at support@chillyorange.com if you'd like us to you the updated version right away.

mjnaus··on Show HN: Invoiced, a self-hosted invoicing app with API
Apologies for the typos; we'll take care of these shortly.

Regarding issues on the dashboard; we're not aware of any issues. Would you mind sending an email to support@chillyorange.com so we can figure out what the issue is and hopefully take care of them asap?

The only currency set through the config file is the default one; we placed this in the config file as, typically, you would set this once. Defaults per invoice and client can easily be set through the UI.

mjnaus··on Show HN: Invoiced, a self-hosted invoicing app with API
Tnx for pointing that out, fixed :)
mjnaus··on Show HN: Invoiced, a self-hosted invoicing app with API
Tnx; taken care off
mjnaus··on Show HN: BillingEngine – Online billing software for creative professionals
How is this any better/different from the other gazillion invoicing platforms out there?
mjnaus··on Show HN: Shogun – drag/drop page builder that plugs into your website
Guys, the pricing is insane.... $150 per month is asking too much for what you're offering.
mjnaus··on Show HN: Get your startup now
People are visual creatures, so yeah... design matters
mjnaus··on Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
Well, this whole thing IS about being honest...
mjnaus··on Show HN: Anchor: Free Client Management and Invoicing App for Freelancers
I like Anchor, same as I did Duet (actually bought a copy of it a few months back). The two major issues I have with both is:

a) the lack of support (this applies more to Duet then to Anchor obviously b) the lack of multi currency invoicing. Having the need to invoice customers in 4 different currencies means I can't use either Duet or Anchor :(

Other then that, I personally love self-hosted alternatives to expensive SaaS software!

mjnaus··on Show HN: Avaza, a Free Business SaaS with Projects, Timesheets and Invoices
Why should I use this instead of one of the other 10,000 project management apps out there?
mjnaus··on French Developers can earn double in Silicon Valley
If they're able to speak English that is :)
mjnaus··on Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?
This is our CC portfolio: http://codecanyon.net/user/chilly_orange/portfolio
mjnaus··on Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?
Nowhere near the same amount of exposure. Yes, you'll earn a higher percentage, however with the lower number of sales, the money you pocket will be significantly less.
mjnaus··on Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?
When you're new you only get 50%, that rate goes up when you earn more. I think my account is at 55% right now. But the numbers I mentioned in my post is what I get, not the total amount of sales we generate.
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