AussieCoder

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Still programming after all these years.

Lurk on HN a lot but rarely post.

Founder SavvyIdeas

https://savvyideas.co

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Comment · 10 months ago
Just out of interest, is this a US based product? I'm in Australia and most of the major banks have this as a built-in capability in their apps.
Comment · 1 year ago
I have friends in the Abingdon area and the primary objection, from what they've told me, is that locals objected to a reservoir that would mainly be used to supply London. Little Englanders at their worst.
Comment · 1 year ago
I invested in Small Robots Co (https://smallrobotco.com/) who were doing something similar. They had a good product, good brand, raised some funding, and were starting to get traction, with robots in trials on a number of farms, but at the end of the day they ran out of funding before they reached default-alive.

It's a tough space - convincing farmers to give it a go and running trials takes time and the UK isn't a very startup-friendly environment - investors are too often looking for a quick return.

This is such an important area - it's only going to become more critical to be able to grow more food whilst using less fertiliser and weed killer - so I wish you the very best of luck!

Comment · 1 year ago
That's what I was concerned about. They're all charging $29-$99 to list on them and there's a risk that they harm my SEO.

Good point about timing. Sometimes I forget we live in the future here :-)

Comment · 1 year ago
Completely agree. An infinite canvas sounds great until you need to find anything, then you end up with having to create a structure to it, and you rapidly end up grouping stuff into "pages" - Miro's "frames".
Comment · 3 years ago
4 year old Lenovo laptop here, 16GB RAM and SSD. Bootup from cold is around 5-seconds, everything is pretty snappy even with lots of browser tabs open and VSCode running. Never had the start menu lag other people have reported. Definitely faster than it was when Windows 10 was installed.

Have you checked for viruses? Last time I saw a machine that slow booting up, even with a spinning disk, it was riddled with viruses.

Comment · 5 years ago
I'm building SiteSentry: https://sitesentry.app

It checks your website for the kind of things that get missed when you go from dev to production or can go wrong later - expired domains and SSL certs, broken links, robot options blocking search engine crawlers, etc. Adding more checks all the time and always keen to hear suggestions.

Comment · 6 years ago
Every proposal I have seen kicks in after $100m. That's a level of wealth where even paying a 5% tax is likely to result in an annual net increase in wealth, as when you have that amount of money to invest achieving 5%+ returns is not unusual. The net result is that wealth would still increase, just at a slower rate.

Additionally, even amongst the general population, let alone startup founders, the number of people with wealth in excess of $100m is tiny. Numbers are hard to come by but I've seen estimates of 5,000 people in the US. What this means is that people arguing against a wealth tax are happy to disadvantage 330m people to protect the wealth of a low number of thousands.

Comment · 6 years ago
Shameless plug - StaticForms (https://staticforms.co).

It's not free because I want it to be sustainable, but also because it does more than just capture form data and send you an email. You might not need more than that, but if you do then it's probably even more important that it's a sustainable business.

Comment · 6 years ago
Exponent, a weekly podcast covering a topic from Stratechery, Ben Thompson and James Allworth on business and technology strategy.

Friday Night Comedy from the BBC. If you like satirical comedy and an English sense of humour then The News Quiz and The Now Show are the best there is.

The Art of Product , Build Your SaaS and Out of Beta are great if following along as people build bootstrapped start-ups is your thing.

Startups for the Rest of Us is the OG bootstrapped start-up podcast.

Planet Money and The Indicator, both from PBS, cover business, economics and society and make it interesting.

Flash Forward, by Rose Eveleth, a trip to a possible future then a walk through how we get there.

Comment · 7 years ago
This is a great service and Troy gives a lot to the community generally.
Comment · 7 years ago
I've been using this a lot recently and love it. Fast, simple and VueJS-based so easy to extend.
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm hosting on Microsoft Azure, so Application Insights gives me most of the server monitoring, but you make a good point about checking 3rd party services that I have dependencies on and tracking license expiration dates, which I have no process for at the moment. I'll check in to that.
Comment · 7 years ago
That post makes really interesting reading. I'm hosting on Microsoft Azure, so I'm hoping they have a lot of that stuff covered, but I guess I need to dive in and make sure.

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