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Hi ,
I have a service were we spider employers websites for jobs,
its no a list of fully remote companies , but might be helpful, plenty of jobs not visible on job boards
the author explains buying put options , not short selling.
in shortselling you borrow shares and sell them , with the promise to give the shares back to the original owner in a later date (so shortsellers hope to buy back the shares later at a lower value)
about 20 years ago there were services like this for your newly created website. all these site they submitted to were low quality and never generated any traffic. history repeats
This is so against the basics of GDPR,
all these webshops that participate risk fines for non compliance from the moment a EU citizen is being tracked. Even if these are US companies they need to comply
We are running https://formlets.com, wishing them the best, i can tell one thing from experience, we have a free offering too, 100% free is not sustainable,you will need payed accounts to get a sustainable business, within weeks to months (depending on the popularity) the phishing people will find your service and you will need a full time person to track them and remove the forms or your reputation will be toast.
Its a brutal market to be in.
We are currently bootstrapping formlets.com. in a very competitive Form building market. When you use remote talent you can bring your costs down to compete with players with big pockets.
It looked like a city cab, yellow and black and was front in the line of all city cabs waiting in Ezeiza. Looking back at it it was a Peugeot that was too old to be running every day.
It had the back seat door handles and window levers removed, something you only see when you are already in the car. In the end i was happy that he let me go. It cost me 200 USD ... it could have been worse.
As a European I lived in Argentina for a year.
At one point I took an official looking city cab at the airport and quickly realised that the driver had other intentions than getting me to my apartment.
He dropped me off in another part of town after emptying all my pockets, keeping my luggage as ransom.
It does not need to be a complex kidnapping for you to feel unsafe.
I know that Node.js is the hype but the site was developed by consultants and has plenty of bugs in there that needs solving .. I thought with my JS knowledge that it would be easy to evolve but the reality is different,
it is one big mess of dependencies that is difficult to debug if you did not make it yourself ...
You will see that PHP (LAMP)projects are easier to sell than projects in more exotic stacks
I prefer to have all my projects in the same language -> PHP and i all move them to Google APP engine to keep maintenance to the lowest levels
It has nothing to do with performance
i prefer to build on technology that I master
I bought a number of smaller projects that serve as traffic generators to bigger projects, typical freemium services that provide me regular signups on a daily basis.You can make the calc: pay a few thousands for years of free referrals.
I bought a bigger project 10K+ and that has technical issues that need to be resolved (will migrate from Node.js to PHP) but i have an existing customer base that helps understand the problem you try to fix.
I am rebuilding the solution but in the same time i can experiment with pricing and traffic generation on the service i bought..
it is a de-risking strategy.
The reason why people sold in general because they don't have the marketing budgets to carry the project when its initial launch spike runs out.
EDIT : I typically pay 5x recurring revenu max or max 1K to 2K
for non revenue generating sites that have interesting traffic
of an audience I target
Edit 2: I want to build a recurring revenue stream to supplement my consulting business
I bought a number of side projects, its a nice way to get a validation of the market. I always like to see a number of paying customers even if it is just a few.
Maybe this transition comes too soon but moving from coding in to management is a normal progression. It is another job , but in general it values the same qualities you should have as a coder: Understanding the dynamics of the situation and finding the best solution to get the job done. As CTO you should have the flexibility to find other people to help in the things you hate the most and focus on the fun parts.