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Selling t-shirt > selling mobile apps. Dinosaurs.

Stop doing the apps. Start selling t-shirts. I spent an enormous amount of time doing apps, or even programs (before we begun to call it apps). I spent days on doing more or less challenging stuff like PGP implementation or Cryptography. Even the PDF counts (the spec is 756 pages)

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A generational failure: As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds a new transport system

Tomorrow, two high-speed rail lines open in France, providing new corridors for trains to slice through the countryside at 200 mph (320 km/h). One is a 302-kilometer link that will connect Paris to…

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Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment

More than two dozen women in the tech start-up industry spoke to The New York Times about being sexually harassed by investors and mentors.

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Scott's Cheap Flights on Indie Hackers

Scott and Brian explain how they grew a small side project into a booming businesses with over 600,000 subscribers and $4 million in annual revenue.

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Hasnain says:

This is a story of how Scott's Cheap flights started just from one person doing what he liked to a pretty successful business.

I really like the product, and I'm happy (and somewhat surprised) to see it doing so well ($4 million annual revenue)

Posted on 2017-06-30T17:29:45+0000

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Defining Environment Language for Video Games

Level Designer Emilia Schatz outlined the core principles, which help to make your environments playable and understandable to the player.

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Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS? | The Official SQLizer Blog

Facebook was has been around since 2004. In the years since, the company, now one of the five US tech giants, has moved from a single server running in a dor...

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How to Interview Engineers

We do a lot of interviewing at Triplebyte. Indeed, over the last 2 years, I've interviewed just over 900 engineers. Whether this was a good use of my time can be debated! (I sometimes wake up in a...

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Tea Tuesday: Meet The Chai Wallahs Of India

Resham Gellatly and Zach Marks spent eight months traveling through India, meeting with hundreds of India's chai wallahs — or tea vendors — who highlight the country's culture and diversity.

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Maritime Mystery: Why a U.S. Destroyer Failed to Dodge a Cargo Ship

Lookouts and radar operators on the destroyer Fitzgerald should have spotted the freighter it collided with, and the captain should have been wakened.

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