HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

tnr23

268 karma · joined February 8, 2017

submissionscomments
tnr23··on How to Do a Full Rewrite
I founded a company and reached $6M ARR with >50% net profit margin. After 4 years decided to do a full rewrite. Finished it successfully within a year including full migration of all clients. Was the best decision ever.
tnr23··on You don’t need to be “enterprise-ready” or “scalable”
Exactly this. It sounds easy but this type of creator who can do this is very rare but usually has a high success rate. This should be the defintion of the "10X dev"
tnr23··on How to have a billion dollar exit with zero capital gains tax
Why do you feel offended?

OP had the thesis that the "Norway sovereign fund" is funded by high taxes. This fund is also known as the "Oil fund": The Government Pension Fund Global, also known as the Oil Fund, was established in 1990 to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector.

Conclusion: The Norwegian society is not just rich just because you are that smart. You obviously had a good portion of luck.

tnr23··on How to have a billion dollar exit with zero capital gains tax
Norway oil is way more relevant for your thesis than Norway taxes
tnr23··on Ask HN: What are some things you learnt from a game that changed your life?
Tibia
tnr23··on Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas
The more this kind of platforms become relevant, the less they work to gain an edge at investing.
tnr23··on What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
Tbh your achievement sounds like you added a lot of complexity (treating symptoms) instead of really trying to tackle the core of the problem.
tnr23··on [dead]
Hopefully one of the necessary wake up calls for people to realize the centralized monopoly problem.
tnr23··on No one can manage projects, especially technology projects
It's only Apple. The problem space of Netflix is easy.
tnr23··on The Complexity Paradox (1998)
You are mixing hard with complex. A PRNG is very simple (not complex) and hard (not easy).
tnr23··on The Complexity Paradox (1998)
Complexity is easy to build.
tnr23··on Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
They use Gandi under the hood. Using Gandi directly is a much better experience
tnr23··on Modeling a Wealth Tax
That was just an example to make the point clear which varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. But even in your 15% example the long term effects are very significant.
tnr23··on Modeling a Wealth Tax
A problem that is usually not noticed with a wealth tax is that you have to pay the wealth tax from money which already has been taxed with some sort of income tax.

Means a 2% wealth tax combined with a 50% income tax, dividend tax, capital gains tax or whatever ends up being a 4% wealth tax effectively.

Example: You own stock worth $1,000,000 and the government wants 2% wealth tax from you which means $20,000. But to get that $20,000 you have to sell $40,000 worth of stock and pay 50% income tax for that sale and the government ends up taking 40,000$ effectively.

tnr23··on The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
okay
tnr23··on The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
I'm the only dev
tnr23··on The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
Is this seriously considered as being a boring stack nowadays?
tnr23··on How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (2018)
for me it was similar but with the game Tibia
tnr23··on Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising
absolutely
tnr23··on Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com
what about the gmail receive limit? its 60 emails per minute or about 80k per day

if you hit 1 minute over 60 you get blocked 24h

tnr23··on 25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning
In the software space your statement might be true in some cases. You're still far above the median, if you really create real value in the millions for others.
tnr23··on Ask HN: What's the most important piece of code you've written?
Thank you for your offer. No offense, but that would be of no use for me. I learned that external outsourcing of development tasks is not effective at all if you want to focus on delivering quality that customers really love.

Another point is that my market is really not obvious at all and I want to have competitors as late as possible. Currently there are none I know of. Only competitors who solve parts of it which existed before me anyway.

tnr23··on Ask HN: What's the most important piece of code you've written?
Thank you, I don't enjoy writing anything else than code or short texts/comments though.
tnr23··on Ask HN: What's the most important piece of code you've written?
wrote an entire CRM platform for a niche which is still my business today. revenue is at ~200,000 $ per month, profit margin is >60%.

Tech stack: MySQL, Java EE, JQuery, Bootstrap and the like. No big frameworks. All hosted on Google Cloud.

tnr23··on Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization?
what about caring about things that matter?
tnr23··on Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization?
Exactly! +1

Simplicity is also Security

tnr23··on Firefox 64 Released
Damn, since the update the browser SSH is not working anymore in the Google Cloud console with Firefox 64. Had to install Google Chrome to make it work... Let's see where this overcomplicating of the web by Google leads to ;-)
tnr23··on How to balance full-time work with creative projects
It's not possible. And even if you try, no competitior will even take you serious as you are just at 10% speed/willpower/energy. Just quit you job and start in a manner that makes sense :-)
tnr23··on Show HN: Pushdata.io – Ultra simple time series data storage
yours :)
tnr23··on GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home
if you have nothing else to do in your life, yes you could do that
Page 1 of 2Next →