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July 2023
Hacker Overflow pricing.
Attempting to hack the cold start problem of a new community.
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Kevin Marshall
No easy wins.
I wrote a fantasy football management system (supermug) and a subscription based fantasy football help site and community (draftwizard) before most…
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Kevin Marshall
June 2023
Commitment builds passion (not the other way around).
Common advice says "Do something you love. Build something you're passionate about." But the reality is that success is what actually builds passion…
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Kevin Marshall
Useful comments
Last night as I was laying in bed waiting to fall asleep and for some reason my mind kept wondering over the idea of code comments. You know those…
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Kevin Marshall
Hacker Overflow - the idea
A community of builders and doers.
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10 general dev tips for building things.
I’ve built a lot of things over my 30 or so years in “tech”. And while it’s true that the tech is always changing — that we are constantly going through…
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What is the best way you know to validate an idea?
This depends a lot on what you mean by 'validate an idea'. If you mean - validate it's a potential business: put a price tag on it. If you mean …
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100 People.
Your secret advantage to launching anything.
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We are all frauds
If you don't feel like a fraud in what you are doing (or trying to do) at least a little every day, then you aren't pushing yourself enough. Worse, you…
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Revenue is what ultimately matters.
Without revenue, you don't have a business.
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