romanhn

Project description: Whenever I've applied for jobs, I found myself with a mess of emails and spreadsheets. It sort of worked, but also felt like it could have been better. The initial goal of Rolepad is helping job seekers manage their search process. Think an Applicant Tracking System but for the other side. You can also visualize your progress with a Sankey diagram and share it anonymously. Getting started is easy - account is created automatically with your first login.

How to test: use this as if you were looking for a job (bonus points if you are!) - would love to hear what you find useful, what's painful, what's missing. Try the diagram sharing functionality (maybe share the public link in a comment here!). Should be usable both from desktop and mobile.

Contact info: there is an in-app feedback page. If you really need email, you can find it on the homepage.

Love this idea BTW. I'd like to do a Show HN once v1 is ready, but happy to have folks get value from it already!

With a lifestyle business, you're your own boss and can set your own terms. There are tons of small businesses with CEO's making low seven figure salaries. These typically do not grow fast because the owners pay themselves rather than reinvest into the business. Of course the potential maximum payout of a VC-backed business is also exponentially higher than that of a lifestyle business, so pick your tradeoff.

Secondly, while a CTO should indeed be very technically involved at the early stages, it is a business role at the end of the day. Your goal is to build a healthy business, not code up the cleanest architecture or deliver the most beautiful product (though you'll probably need to do these as well). As a cofounder, you will be dealing with customers, with risk mitigation, with all sorts of things that are only tangentially related to technology. This attitude of "value comes from software" is something I see often from engineers, who miss the fact that code is a means to an end. There is a lot more to a successful business than writing code. To answer your question, I do think that you're likely to encounter friction with other senior/executive leadership as long as that is your worldview.

Might be worth reading The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman. He covers the topic of cofounding with others, and also talks about optimizing for control vs money (spoiler, if you go for the former, you will likely have a lot less of the latter).

Autonomous teams with bottom-up decision making are much more likely to push towards the right thing even with clueless management, whereas there is little hope when incompetent decisions are fed to the team in a top-down manner (yes, autonomous teams indeed exist - though they are typically a sign of competent management).

As an aside, I did not realize so many universities have been impacted. What a sad state of affairs.

> Thirty-four Indonesian scientists signed a petition questioning the motives and methods of the Hilman-Arif team. Archaeologist Víctor Pérez described Natawidjaja's conclusions as pseudoarchaeology.

The second bit of advice is to always push yourself out of your comfort zone. Embrace change. This might come off as trite, but that is how growth happens. Many people seem to find a comfortable groove (I did as well) and end up stagnating, and it can be hard to pull yourself out. Good luck!

EDIT: Just read an interview with the author. Looks like he built the game in just one week. His email and personal phone number were included in the title screen, so he often got phone calls, including from mafia demanding he send them the prizes they won (hilarious things like "shoelaces from Procter & Gamble" and toilet seats). Even though the game was not officially sponsored, the actual show had two rooms filled with letters with similar demands.