I'm an engineer, so I'm giving out the only thing I learned by observation.
As an engineer, my observation and pattern matching skills are pretty good, so I am only describing what I observed by analysing "successful" entrepreneurs.
I'm probably different, because I arrived to the Bay Area only five years ago. It may not be clear to you if you always lived and worked here.
In any case, depends how you define success? The author of the thread is also an engineer that codes, so I am guessing his definition of "come to fruition" would be an exit where he can cash-in more than $10mm.
What's the aggregate number of engineers who made a satisfactory exit? Is it "statistically significant" to you?
I did that formula for the past year and was very lucky that it worked before 5 years. Although, I was planning to "exit" in 10 years.
This might sound like a focus issue? Three startups in six years?
Are you able to focus on only one thing and for more than 5 years? Almost nothing extraordinary can happen before 5 years. Even if you sell before.
Example: I am 99% sure I can make millions of dollars if I go on my yard and start making a hole in the floor. Although, here are the constraints:
- working 18 hours a day.
- every day and 7 days a week. No vacation.
was that a job interview? You probably shouldn't use your favorite super-scripting language on a job interview that was asking for a more robust answer. They were maybe looking for someone to transform their hacky platform to something more robust.
I believe it's really CL problem. They won't ever find a better mobile engineer or someone who will even spend 10% of the time I've spent hacking something cool.
If you got a C&D as well and isn't happy about it, you should go ahead and make a better product. Otherwise you can go to work for one of their competitors. That's the beauty of being a hacker.
Just make it sure that online classifieds is your passion.
You are renting a server in Germany. If you were a german citizen, they would ask you a copy of your id. Since you are a foreigner they ask you for a foreigner identification, which is the passport.
Aside from the passport, when I first rented a server there I had to send a ¡PHOTOCOPY¡ of my credit card and send via FAX. That was the truly weird thing :)
I tried everything to not send things via fax, but then I understood that they must receive hundreds of request from fake people with fake id and fake credit card. If they don't have at least the photocopy of those it means that you're probably a fake trying to get a server with someone else data.
In the end I decided to send the data anyway, since it's a huge corporation and they're based in Germany. If it was based in some shady place, I would never send the data.
Right now I have three servers in hetzner. I have been using them for 5 years, but only last year my startup "boomed", so I had to cancel my old server and move it in the same rack as the other servers. If your startup has already "boomed" just make it sure to rent all your servers in the same rack or pay the reservation fee ($10 per server).
Hetzner prices are great for any software engineer. Having that powerful server waiting for my projects is one of the reasons that I had the chance of succeeding. I used to say that this is our profession and having a dedicated server is a mandatory thing.
Even with one server from hetzner I was able to virtualize it into 8 machines and create a real production environment that made it easier to scale. After you learn XEN it's faster than going through amazon interface.
From my past experience I always worked with people who wanted to use amazon or google appengine. I was always against it and said that the prices were ridiculously expensive. My colleges said that they didn't wanted to manage servers and the cost of appengine was only $2 per day, etc. This is a real story and when the time of high traffic came the $2 became $50 and now we pay $1500 in something that could be handled with ONE $100 hetzner server. After using hetzner I would NEVER advise appengine and I would only advise amazon if you must have the servers in the US.
For those who say that the site would have too much latency if it's in hetzner: just use a cdn for static content, http://www.maxcdn.com is very cheap and probably much better than just hosting in the US.
i like this. there's a really simple free version for the android platform and i would collaborate to improve it if it was a opensource project. Including readability to it is very important.
It's really cool. I would like more details on "data request".. it's still very dark matter that doesn't really tell much about. It would be interesting to know how much "per person data requests" has been released. Brazil has more "data requests" than US, but it may happen that US requests that ALL user data is sent back every month, witch would count as 12 requests :)
this is great news for me. I have already a couple of android apps that i am starting to port with the ipad with the iphone sdk, but my learn curve with objective-c has not been the best.
awesome. I have been using varnish for a while now and it's just awesome. The VCL configuration works like a charm and is very simple.
ESI is really cool and can be easily integrated as a normal include with the common frameworks. For example, cached file including when developing and ESI tags when production and stagging.
Having ESI is very good to cache and distribute in parallel different parts of the page, that can have different CPU usage. Also it's really good to cache stuff even when the user is logged in.