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Case Study: Passion or Money? Can you do both?

youngmakers.substack.com

7 pointsby gczhvor 6 Jahren0 comments

Make Your First Profit with Newsletters

youngmakers.substack.com

4 pointsby gczhvor 6 Jahren6 comments

Toucan teaches you new skills while you browse the web

jointoucan.com

34 pointsby gczhvor 6 Jahren29 comments

Ideas on How to Grow Your Business by Writing (Thread)

twitter.com

3 pointsby gczhvor 6 Jahren0 comments

Stop taking regular notes; use a Zettelkasten instead

eugeneyan.com

3 pointsby gczhvor 6 Jahren0 comments

How our whole company made a transition into “A New Normal” of fully remote work

novocall.co

3 pointsby gczhvor 6 Jahren0 comments

How I Did It: From Psych Degree to VP of Data Science at Top Startup

eugeneyan.com

153 pointsby gczhvor 6 Jahren76 comments

comments

vor 12 Monatendiscuss

very cool! have you tried Tanstack DB and ElectricSQL?

https://x.com/marcelohbairros/status/1956892684859158892

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Location: Asia / Singapore (Open to work EU/US hours)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

    - Languages: React, Typescript, Ruby, Python, SQL, interested to learn Elixir, Golang, Rust and Zig

    - Frameworks: Next.js 13/14, Ruby on Rails, open to learn more (i learn quick)

    - Systems: CI/CD, Postgres, Redis, Serverless, Cloud Architecture, GitOps, Web Crawling, Web Scraping, Sidekiq, Docker, Supabase

    - Platforms: Vercel, Upstash, Baselime (Distributed Tracing for Serverless), Sentry, DigitalOcean, Heroku, Render, Railway, Supabase and more

    - Others: TailwindCSS, RadixUI, CVA, Figma etc

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yp9zrToHmQN0Awow2MRletTfIyk...

Email: zhchuan.2016 [at] gmail [dot] com

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I'm Gabriel, a mid-level full-stack software engineer with experience in engineering management but have pivoted my career back into IC track, which I discovered to be more enjoyable to me than managing teams.

Prior to doing engineering management, I was a Ruby on Rails and React full-stack software engineer. I helped build telephony (auto dials phone numbers in the browser) and chat based rails + react apps.

My passion lies mostly in scraping and crawling tech and working with data at scale. I was laid off 3 months ago and have been working on my side projects (a database of AI products which I'm trying to sell to VC firms/anyone who would need data to track where AI is headed towards)

I'm looking for a product-driven company that's focused on solving hard problems with a culture that encourages that.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

This is really cool! Shared with a few friends!

It might be interesting to plug GPT-3 in and use embeddings for each clause. For example, for each website where a user has agreed already to their ToS, you could use embeddings to see which ones are similar.

Wondering if there's a chance we could chat more if you're keen! I'm on twitter @gabrielchuan

PS: I'm working on something tangentially related at https://url2format.com. It's a WIP (for now free) service that allows people to do various things with any public url such as checking metatags, generating a markdown of a url, etc. I think there's lots of interesting spaces to explore around these

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Cedric Chin is massively underrated on the topic of Deliberate Practice. He literally has a whole bunch of a gem of articles on the topic of Expertise, which Deliberate Practice falls under.

See: https://commoncog.com/expertise/

I wished more people knew about his writings – so much to benefit from!

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Interesting idea! If there's anyway we can support you at SMUMods.com to spread word about it to engineering talents in SMU, let me know! I'm on telegram at https://t.me/gabrielchuan!

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

This is brilliant! I still see many cafes and restaurants here in Singapore using physical menus. It scares me into thinking a previous occupant might have had some flu or virus. And I might be contracting that next just because we're sharing a dirty menu (that's often not sanitized AFAIK)

More restaurants need to know of this QR Menu Creator!!

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I'm a pro subscriber myself. Highly recommend giving this a look. It's the best damn report out there on upcoming trends, put together every week through dozens of hours of sweat and toil and love.

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

This is so much better than the default Mac OS X screen capture tool. It would be nice if Apple bought over Cleanshot and made it the default defacto screen capture tool.

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Thanks for your kind words Dru! This coming issue, which I’ll release on Friday 2pm covers how another maker who built landingfolio.com used some life hacks to increase the amount of money he makes from complementary products.

Also, upcoming ones in the pipeline include historysearch.com, treendly.com. They’re all successful makers with decent profits.

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Thanks Phil! There’s indeed a lot of badass French Engineers out there!

Wow, I didn’t know Algolia was a French company. When you mentioned Algolia in your comment, I was wondering why you said so. Gave it a quick google and got on their Bloomberg profile. Interesting. They’re one of my favourite startups in the world.

Thanks for your kind words!

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Note: I’m the editor of this newsletter. Would really like to help fellow makers who might be lurking on Hacker News. If there’s any questions, anyone you’d like me to interview or help, please let me know

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Love this! There were so many many times I wished I said No but I didn't know how to do it. The amount of pain and time wasted that came after were hundreds of hours. I'd imagine if I billed people for those hours, it would have been terribly expensive. Having templates like these would make it way easier for me to say No and avoid all of that now. Thanks Pat!!

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Love how this might create a positive spin in light of all the pessimism in these trying times.

You're awesome Pete!

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I'm a user of mailbrew when they launched their beta. Love how it makes all my reddit, twitter information overload bearable.

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Not the author here but I'm relaying your message to him. He's going to come online soon to reply to the comments. We're on a different timezone

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

That's rather interesting. I noticed a lot of friends who are much better at communicating than those who started off on a technical career with a technical degree. Not that being highly technical is a bad thing but in business, you go further as an employee and/or manager if you can grok what's better for a business. Usually that's where communication comes in.

Very cool example you have there. I'm keeping this filed on my Roam Research documents!

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

> Maybe I'll start with posting on sites rather than just reading the comments :)

I like this idea! Primarily because for the longest of time, I have felt that passively consuming content wasn't helping to make the world a better place.

Instead, if only each of us contributed genuine, well-thought-out comments, it would be much more meaningful. A friend once said to me, "the meat of things for HN posts are in the comments" (paraphrased)

Can't agree more.