Is that something you factor into your playbook? Or do you simply not find it relevant to judge whether to enter a certain space?

I’m quite at the beginning myself, but I like it so far! It’s a nice mix of science and craft.

As many have pointed out, the cost of token via Cursor is prohibitive compared to having a CC or Codex subscription, so I think the new update brings little to current users, but reduces Cursor's usability.

I think Cursor should go in the direction of embracing other provider's extensions and go for a more integrated and customizable IDE, rather than a one-solution-fits-all kind of an approach. Today I opened VSC again after a log time.

Is having a tax advisor really the only way? I've seen some tools to keep track of invoices etc, but most seem to still need a tax advisor for the last step. Is there any way to learn about this myself? Any tip is appreciated.

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I currently try to read long-form content that requires deep focus in the morning before work (30-45 mins depending on my day). Then during the day I have some breaks and read newsletters and other posts. Videos and podcasts are difficult for me to consume, as they are often a bit too padded with small talk and non-essential conversational information, but I sometimes listen to them when I work out or while I cook. I recently started taking notes when I read, I would like to extend this system into rewriting my synthesis in Obsidian or Notion.

However, despite all, I feel my reading list keeps growing and I'm always catching up with what happens in our field, but as if I'm always a few steps behind. There are many more articles and books that would make me better as a professional, but I simply don't have time to go through them. (Not to mention other topics I'd like to learn aside from my work, or simply read for pleasure.)

So my question is: how do you keep up? How do you stay up-to-date in your own profession?

And I mean it both in terms of your approach/methodology (e.g. when do you read and what, how do you retain information, what aids to reading/bookmarking do you use) but also in terms of the mental aspect/wellbeing (how much is "good enough" for you? How do you keep yourself from being overwhelmed? Do you feel energized by reading?).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43544254

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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: React, Typescript, Nextjs, TailwindCSS, Redux, HTML/CSS, Figma, UI Design, UX Design, Product Design, UI/UX Design

Résumé/CV: https://francesco-bianchi.com/resume

Email: francesco@cmdshift.studio

I am a Design Engineer looking to join a cool team/product. I am passionate about building apps, websites, and other software that merge form and function with elegance and simplicity. Prior to engineering, I worked as a Product Designer for 7 years, designing delightful consumer apps (N26), news and media websites (Edenspiekermann), complex B2B platforms (HiPeople), and more.

Some links:

Portfolio: https://francesco-bianchi.com

Latest project: https://quartzite.ai (bootstrapped app, I did everything alone from design to development)

Therefore I made an app where I can tell the AI what I want to practice, and how (e.g. translate, fill the gap, ...) and it generates an exercise for me! Additionally, I get a pretty much limitless amount of available exercises!

Let me know what you think! I'm looking to improve the prompt and overall UX/UI in case (it would also be cool to expand it to multiple languages later).

PS. as it's AI-based, sometimes the AI review is not correct (5% of the time in my tests). Make sure to cross-reference the result if you have doubts!

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To Firebase: either you must automatically condone such mistakes or implement the requested feature.

To anybody else: Does Supabase or other platforms offer this?

I've seen that a lot of bootstrapped recommended starting with LTDs and I decided to try this approach. Sure, in the beginning, I got a bit of money, and surely it's easier to convince somebody to pay $50 once (i.e. LTD) compared to $5/month. So right in the first months, I've gotten approximately $1k/month with very little promotion, which is nice.

However, as the user count grew I also started to feel an increase of pressure. The cost of running my app is very low, so cost wasn't the issue, but I felt a bit like a fraud. What would happen if I decided to discontinue the product? Refunding 100 customers would have been painful, but still doable. However, as I kept increasing the user base, so were my concerns about how to handle a worst-case scenario.

Furthermore, offering an LTD for a product that still needs to grow means partially that you are making a promise about the product you want to build. What if you decided in the future you wanted to pivot? Sure, you can disregard your users who bought the LTD thinking they would get a certain product, while you decided to build a different one, but personally I didn't like that idea, and once again this increased my stress level.

So, all in all, I didn't like it too much and decided to switch to a subscription (although fairly low). Nowadays I feel much better with the overall revenue model. A user doesn't like the product? They are free to leave after one month, and nobody has different expectations about that. At the same time, I came to discover some additional benefits compared to an LTD:

- users are more engaged with your product. In a way, with a subscription, they are deciding every month whether your product makes sense for them, and they will be more vocal about what they need and don't, which is very useful feedback as a founder. Plus, churn data can tell you more accurately if you are improving your product or not.

- to my surprise, my conversion rate didn't change (it might even be slightly higher than with LTDs). My guess here is that buying a LTD still involves a bit of trust in the founder/company which, if you don't have a large following on social media, it might be difficult to get upfront. Overall this has been a painful lesson, as I realized that if I started with a subscription right from the beginning, I would have a much greater MRR by now.

- best of all, I see my product growing sustainably now. Every week/month is a little better, and I don't have to worry every month about how to reach a certain target revenue (of course, with LTDs you start from zero every month). Overall, I feel I'm building a product for the long run now and towards being a profitable business (still getting there).

So all in all, I don't know if I would recommend the same approach as the author describes. Sure, I've seen people executing it well and effectively bootstrapping their app in a short time, but my guess is that happens if you have a good base of followers and you can kickstart your marketing channels too. Also, if your product is sustainable as a one-time purchase (e.g. a desktop app, a content piece, etc.) then LTDs are definitely more attractive, but I don't see the point of trying to build a SaaS without having a feedback if your users are really willing to buy a subscription form you.

Love this concept. Definitely going to steal it.

1) I saw that science states clearly that heroine's addition, harm for my body and for others, are lower than the ones of alcohol's, and...

2) that I believe in the validity of the studies, and also in the way they are been conducted so that they are relevant for my personal goal (trying heroine for an individual, rather than to be more relevant on a global/societal perspective), and...

3) I had somebody/someone who highly recommend the experience and explained clearly why (I don't have this desire atm, therefore I never looked into points 1 & 2),

...then yes, I'd probably try heroine if I was interested in such experience. However, I doubt that you would have all the three points I mentioned to check out - reason why is common sense not to try heroine.

However, I would extend the argument to other drugs quite easily: weed, LSD, ecstasy. All of these are great experience in their own and if not done too regularly, very low harm (surely less than many other bad behaviour considered normal in our society), and close to zero addiction. (NB. all of what said imply that you are doing well mentally and not prone to abuse - in which case stay away from any drug, alcohol included.)

But yeah, drugs are not all the same. I clearly stay away from some although I've tried a few - reading and learning about the different compounds helps removing wrong preconceptions given us from society (e.g. ecstasy is an hard drug and drinking alcohol is instead ok).