dorait
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Comment · 4 years ago
Technical books using https://learning.oreilly.com/home/. I have been a subscriber for more than 10 years, dicontinued for a few years and resumed about a year ago.
Also use Amazon Kindle, Google Play books if I can't find the book on Safari.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
There are lots of good resources as mentioned by others. Here are some starting points.
Start with a list of ideas - These ideas should be solutions of problems either you face or you see others face - Find 10 people you can talk to about your solution and make a list of features - Pick the core ones and build a functional prototype that people can use and give feedback
Start with a problem (space) - Look for problems that people complain about or ask questions (an analysis of Ask HN is a good source to start with)
Here is one story I read today (I think I found it on HN!)
https://www.linen.dev/s/linen-community/t/545988/from-idea-t...
Wish you all the best. You already took a good first step by asking a question here.
Comment · 4 years ago
Some companies do provide a technical track in which you can become a Principal Engineer with no management responsibility. But if you have experience in solving problems, you may be good as a mentor/coach to other devs.
The longer term solution to this problem may be technical consulting.
Comment · 4 years ago
Blockly is an example of no-code app that generates code. It is a good starting point to understand how you can build a no code framework. Blockly is...
https://developers.google.com/blockly
High level concepts
1. A workspace 2. A set of pre-defined componets that map to functions or statements 3. A way to connect components to back-ends (like spreadsheets or database columns) 4. Some semantics(behavior) for connections. 5. An implied or explicit sequence of interactions between components.
Comment · 5 years ago
Great.
Can you decouple it from VSCode so that we can use it with other editors like Vi or Emacs?
I struggle with PKM. Stuff is distributed on Google Drive, Github wiki and a few tools like Obsidian.
Comment · 5 years ago
"find your first 1-10 paying customers yourself". I agree with this. Going through this will show you whether your product is really ready for the market and customers perceive enough value to pay for it. This part cannot be outsourced. This is the founding teams job and is as important as creating a product (sometimes even more important).
Comment · 5 years ago
Like it. It will be a great teaching aid (to start with).
What do we get by joining the mailing list?
Comment · 7 years ago
The current search engine has very limited context (your profile and the sites you visited and the searches you have done).
What if the next incremental improvement is asking you questions about the search to get better context before actually doing the search and giving you a smaller set of usable results?
Just dreaming :)
Comment · 8 years ago
Build a simple functional prototype (also known as Minimum viable product) and give it away free.
This will start a whole series of next level tasks and some of them you may not even be aware of with just an idea.
Track usage and interest in your prototype and decide whether it is worth building the full product.
Comment · 9 years ago
Check out https://www.meetup.com/Code-for-San-Francisco-Civic-Hack-Nig...
Find one similar in your region. If it does not exist, start one.
Coming up with an idea for a product that is useful and that people will pay for is more difficult than actually implementing one.
Comment · 9 years ago
- SciFi - Foundation Triology, 2001 Space Odessey and Ring World
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - I never read anything like that before
- Leon Uris' books (Qb VII and a host of others) showed how scary humanity can be
- The Magic of Thinking Big was a breath of fresh air
- Edward De Bono's books
Comment · 9 years ago
1. Charge a subscription fee one rate for consumers and a higher rate for businesses
2. Get rid of all inactive accounts
3. Charge a fee for tweetstreams
4. Fix the rate limit of APIs and create tools for developers
5. Add a features for event tweets/group accounts
6. Talk to developers, add features for Twitter app development
7. Fix the 140 character limitation
Comment · 9 years ago
Chatbots with Intelligence. A variety of skill bots that can teach people at all levels. Made possible by AI engines like api.ai, luis.ai and others.