Ask HN: Tell me your biggest pain and I will try to solve it
I would love to run this experiment. Tell me what your biggest pain is and if I can I will try to solve it (e.g. through software, etc.). If I can't, probably someone else on here would love to help you.
Thanks!
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I have never seen this actually work. I have failed doing it myself.
Sappiness is what girls want from the guys they are already head-over-heels attracted to. It does not work for converting a girl from neutral or slightly attracted into wanting to go with you.
The best thing to do is just to hang out with her casually, flirt, be playful, tease her, do active things, go for walks, have fun, and gradually escalate physically, escalate touching, escalate sexual innuendo in your conversation. If she reacts positively, escalate more, if not, then there is sometimes nothing you can do.
The best book I have read on this subject is "Models: Attract Women through Honesty" - http://www.amazon.com/Models-Attract-Women-Through-Honesty-e...
You could: - Write a script - Perhaps say you have feelings for her instead of dropping the L word. L is big. And I think it's hard to really make exist if you're not actually together for a while. - Make sure you're aware / able to control your breathing while you tell her. Will chill you out.
Maybe they are not out of your league. What makes you think they are?
If they are, is it even in a dimension that matters in a relationship?
If so, you can work towards getting up into their league.
Having lived some time before the Web was around, and some time more before it was quite the resource that it is now, I think this is a problem that is, if not caused by the Web, at least severely aggravated by it. For as useful as it is, I can't shake the feeling that if I could entirely abandon the modern information world for a set of traditional media and the Real World for a few years I'd come out on the other side both better educated and far happier that I will if I don't, but it's so hard to live anything like a normal life without the 'net, and there aren't many (any?) jobs as all-around nice as working as a programmer that let you disconnect like that.
Probably I'd have made a good monk.
Also, to add to the problems-to-solve list: I'd like an Anki-alike that lets me type and/or freely draw on both sides of the card when I'm creating one on a device with a touch screen. I realized after ~3 hours of collecting images for some flash cards I didn't end up creating that if I could have just drawn my cards on a tablet and saved them directly—no stupid, slow shuffling between a graphics editor and the flash card app—I'd have already been done, and, not finding such a program, I abandoned my project. At that point I (obviously) considered using real notecards but I doubted I'd carry them around enough.
Are there already services out there for this?
It's presold to 129 customers as a subscription before it's even done.
Stack is: Google App Engine, Google CloudSQL, Django/Python, Bootstrap, Stripe for transactions
If you are interested email me lanec@hush.com and I'll give you more information.
Hiring an outside firm would also put the knowledge of the platform and the product into their hands. It'll make it more difficult for us to iterate and grow beyond just the MVP concept into a full business. That's why we want an equity partner. Someone who believes in the product and wants to see it grow with the rest of the team.
If you're just assuming they won't pre-pay, then it might be a costly mistake. At least ask them - offer a discount or some sweet deal for taking a chance on you - at least a few of them might pay.
You're right that hiring a firm might get complicated, but hiring a solo developer could work.
Unless you are offering something other than equity - a chance to work with a team with a great track record, backing from investors, some unique ground-breaking technology - I'm not sure why anyone would want to work for free.
Contracts and deposits. Don't take on work from people who won't sign contracts and always try to get paid up front. Don't work out of their repo unless you get paid in advance.
Licensing. Try writing software that you can re-use for multiple clients. Just be sure you license the software to them in your contract. Most clients on small projects don't understand licensing or intellectual property ownership. It's easier to close small projects by recycling code. It's legal so long as you retain ownership of the source code but provide the client with a license.
http://jacquesmattheij.com/blog/categories/consulting
If you get a good offer (on-contract, upfront deposit) consider taking the plunge. Have 3-6 months of cash for a fallback - in case you fail and decide to re-enter the traditional job market. Or more likely, when you encounter an extended dry spell as you learn to build and maintain cash flow.
Prepare yourself mentally for a greater level of uncertainty. Your next paycheck is not guaranteed. Not only do you have to do the work to get a paycheck, you also have the additional work of getting to the next paycheck: keeping a full pipeline of good-paying gigs. Always be marketing and selling yourself.
Not all customers/clients are created equally. Know what you're selling, set your price and stick to it. You're probably not in a position to work for equity. (Since most startups fail "working for equity" is the same as "working for free"). Be prepared to say "no". Be willing to gracefully exit a relationship with a troublesome client.
Stay away from odesk, elance, freelancer.com, etc. These are highly regulated, tightly controlled markets with enormous pressure to push timelines and costs down to the lowest common denominator. Unless you're in a country where bidding for $500 fixed price jobs and $20/hr contracts can make you a good living.
I had this issue couple of months back; i had severe pain which shoots down till my toes from hip. I knew it has something do to with the Nerve. I visited an Ortho and took an MRI and we found out I had a Slip Disc problem. (FYI..I am in a software job and I sit all day, also due to my height and my incorrect seating posture this problem developed). While my doctor suggested an Operation, I was shitty scared and was researching in internet about the problem. One of my friend suggested an alternative treatment "YOGA". I thought why not give it a try, I found an institute where they specialize in treating body pain through yoga, I had to stay there for couple of weeks and do the routine. At the end of the second week, I wasn't feeling any better, but the people in the institute asked me to keep faith and asked me continue the exercise.
I continued for a month and suddenly like a magic my pain got disappeared and never had again till today. So, the point is try to find out what is causing you pain and try to do some research and find the best physio or exercise. Happy to help you, if you need more information about my problem and how I got rid of it. All the best!!
B.T.W. I do have a back problem and I did found out what was causing it, too much physical stress on my back for much of the past year (having to do with fulfilling a business opportunity for myself while not being able to pay for construction workers and being one myself in the past).
The other problem was my bed, both problems are solved and with a lot of stretching exercises I am getting my back into healthier condition.
Hope that helps!
The solution I found was to upgrade to a 5 GHz router. The one I bought can transmit on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, but I configured it to only transmit on 5 GHz. This forces my computer to always use the 5 GHz connection, which has less noise. The 5 GHz signal decays faster when it goes through walls, so the signal will not be as strong as a 2.4 GHz would, but the signal-to-noise ratio will be much better because 5 GHz is significantly less crowded.
You should hang out on https://growthhackers.com and http://inbound.org. Some of the best marketers hang out there. Even if you don't find a partner, you'll definitely learn some useful stuff.
http://www.btc.com.tw/english/2-7-25keyboard.htm
Have an idea -> google for its existence
If idea is novel -> Google to answer questions about implementation; Else -> come up with new spin on idea or stop
Confirm findings or test idea -> have a new idea or new questions
I also have ADHD & can sometimes (ok...often) hyperfocus when I catch this cycle. I can lose hours upon hours in it. But that's not the main problem...
There are numerous ways to enter this cycle (ie. Triggers for any of the habits) & they occur so frequently that they disrupt the development of new habits. The standard triggers are having/encountering a new idea, a question without an answer, or an answer that needs confirming. I can also jump into it accidentally through procrastination means (eg. reading HN) or just as a result of everyday work (eg. searching for something on stack overflow).
I'm a programmer without a support system to enable me to disrupt these habits without unplugging for months, which I can't afford to do.
But the only thing that really works for me is when I focus on a positive goal I want to achieve, instead of spending energy on avoiding the bad habits.
Now, I'm focused on building my business. It doesn't mean I have stopped getting lots of shiny new ideas. But now I don't have to fight with myself. I just don't have the time or energy for these new ideas. Too focused on the current idea.
Sorry for the previous curt response. This is essentially the only thing I'm trying to deal with right now because it leads to failure in all the things. And progress is slow because getting people to invest time in someone who has no money is seemingly impossible.
But what I try to do with all the ideas I come up with is to let the idea sit, I too have a lot of things that trigger my ideas but I only really think about the ones that have stayed with me, like I have a really solid start-up idea right now and I have had it for about 6 months now. In between that 6 months I was consistently thinking of other ideas. But I think I am just going to focus on this, because it keeps coming up in my mind, and I have thought of some awesome ideas for it.
But what I do is I exercise, it really keeps my mind fresh and throws out a lot of shit. I know its not a software solution but it has helped me so much.
The local market sucks so I'm unable to escape from my agency job. I feel trapped making disposable marketing websites that will disappear in a month or two. I have applied to remote jobs but most don't want someone that is not from the US.
I have no idea what to do. I feel like my current job is killing my drive for web development even though I love it.
Sorry for venting here.
I have applied to remote jobs but most don't want someone that is not from the US.
That must be the case if you only apply to remote jobs at companies based in the US. Apply for jobs outside the US.
Make a good professional profile online.
Post your profile and apply for jobs on the monthly hiring threads on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring