ROUNDTABLES ★ 4 upvotes 2019

Ask HN: Looking for someone to collaborate on side project with

The Founder's Submission

Direct narrative and submission text authored by @bevacqua on Hacker News:

Ideally you're an experienced UI/UX designer, product designer, or business development type, with something you want to build in mind. You might just have an idea, or maybe you already have a rough first draft. SaaS is strongly preferred.

I want to help you develop this idea as a partner or as a contractor, whichever works best for the both of us.

I'm a software engineer with several years of experience. You can check out my blog at https://ponyfoo.com to learn more about me, read some of my articles, find out about my open-source work, conference talks I gave, or to check out the books I wrote (O'Reilly, Manning). I'm remote and my time zone is UTC -3.

You can leave a reply here or write me an email at hackernews@ponyfoo.com

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An open Ask HN community consultation from 2019 where @bevacqua convened hundreds of developers and bootstrappers to share real experiences, hard numbers, and tactics.

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Participants share raw revenue figures, churn rates, and stack decisions that corporate PR never publishes.
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Recurring answers reveal that distribution, not coding skill, is almost universally the rate-limiting step in developer businesses.
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Practical recommendations on bookkeeping, payment gateways (Stripe vs Paddle), and freelance-to-product transitions.
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WA @WalterSear Peer Contributor

I'm trying to build a personal information manager that applies CBT and DBT based psychological techniques to everyday life via a GDT/wiki based system. I want to build a personal assistant that assists with all aspects of personal cognition, helping people make better decisions for themselves on an ongoing basis, however technology can help.

The MVP is a task manager with optimized views for capture of information, and executing one's list of current tasks. You can read more (at a page that is currently entirely unready for publication :) ), here:

Https://catchthinkdo.com

I'm afraid I can't guarantee the stability of the demo right now. This isn't finished software :)

I'd appreciate any feed you have, in any case. Thanks!

HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 4 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 1 comments
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