raviojha

Joined 11 years ago

Karma
119
Submissions
64
Member since
Jun 10
raviojha.com
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 7 years ago
How do you mean?
Comment · 7 years ago
This! OP, please consider thinking over this before you set out on the voyage.
Comment · 7 years ago
I went from startup to corporate and back to startup. You can't resist the desire for instant gratification and feeling of accomplishments that you get at a startup. You become this "T-shaped person", and your knowledge bar on the _T_ keeps expanding because you get the chance to wear many hats, while still being able to expand the vertical bar of your expertise/develop new specialties.
Comment · 7 years ago
Right on! This freedom to wear many hats is what makes working at startups such a lively place. Startup is chaos and finding ways to contribute to the overall business eliminating the chaos is what makes your worth.
Comment · 7 years ago
Hiya! Author here. I can't comment on why you felt this was clickbaity. The intention was to give a third-person perspective of the life of an engineer as a webdev at a startup, emphasis on _startup_.

The post is largely targeted at beginners. I think giving this perspective to fresh grads can help them take a decision to atleast clear up the dilemma when they have to choose to work at a startup/corporate during internships or right after college.

The reason I wrote it was because during my four years at college, we had this perception that webdev was boring and nobody used to opt to interview for companies which were into it. And the joke was, "All you do is change the colors every 6 months". I had the chance to intern at a SaaS startup and then worked there for more than 2 years and then figured students back at college needs to know more about this experience.

Comment · 7 years ago
To debug the process, you can start with searching Google for your own site. The syntax is: "$searchQuery site:wisaw.com", for eg: "wisaw site:wisaw.com"

I got only 4 results with that search. So those 4 pages are definitely indexed. You can check with different search queries for the rest of the pages.

I observe that it's a photo only website. It's hard to get them ranked better than sites with content. Search engines are smarter now, so adding title, description, keywords, etc does not ensure it ranks better for those keywords. It used to work, but not anymore. Search crawler check for actual content and relevance.

Since its "an anonymous photo" app, you'll have to rely high on word of mouth/social/referral traffic instead of organic sources.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton