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New comment by watrami in "What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide"

watrami — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:50:16 +0000

It seems like it's the same story everywhere I look. Housing is the main driver of inequality and there is little change happening. We have the same problem here in Germany.

I am currently living in Munich to finish my CS Master's at TUM and build a startup, and it is absolutely impossible to find anything remotely affordable. I am supported by two startup scholarships and make enough to get by, but no landlord even gives me the chance in the first place after they see my income and plans. Right now I am paying 940€ for ~20sqm, and only because my mom co-signed my contract - which is incredibly humiliating as a 24 year old guy.

And even with high-paying jobs it's impossible to get anything remotely affordable. My girlfriend just finished her degree and makes 75k straight out of college and still gets rejected either for her financial situation or because the rental contract is already set to increase 8% each year - which we simply cannot afford. And it's not just Munich. Every city in Germany has this problem.

How the hell are we ever supposed to build up some savings, settle down and have a comfortable life? It really feels like being born 15 years too late for this.

Germany paid a lot for our education but offers us little reason to stay. We are already looking to move to other places and created a university-wide google sheet where we compare different countries and cities around the world for those kinds of categories.

Sorry for the rant.

Ask HN: How to get in touch with more clinicians?

watrami — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:18:35 +0000

Hi HN, I am working on a healthcare startup idea and we are currently trying to validate our assumptions. For this we need to talk to a number of medical professionals within a specific domain. Since my university has access to a university hospital next door we were able to talk to 12 doctors and also the financial administrators to get info about budgets so far. While the feedback was very promising the incubator we applied for wants us to get in touch with at least 100 professionals.

Given that it took more than 1.5 months to get in touch with the previous sample group I was wondering if there was a faster way that I am not seeing. I already thought of faires, but the next relevant fair is a month away and we really need funding asap to keep going.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35058947

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by watrami in "Tell HN: Salary data is for sale"

watrami — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 12:34:22 +0000

In Germany we have our own data kraken though. See Schufa. Even with GDPR you're basically forced to hand data over to them.

New comment by watrami in "ISO should make all standards Publicly Available"

watrami — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:46:54 +0000

Unfortunately not. Unfortunately libgen also never has the recent ones

New comment by watrami in "Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser"

watrami — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:13:33 +0000

I've been using Brave for a few years now in combination with ublock origin - as Brave just does not block everything that's annoying. I use duckduckgo and don't see a need to switch to Brave search.

I primarily like the Brave sync feature, and it's actually the second main reason I recommend using Brave these days. It was quite junky when it was first released but by now it works like a charm for my 6 devices.

New comment by watrami in "Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files"

watrami — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:59:38 +0000

I can totally recommend this tool. I use it daily and perform a sync between all devices with syncthing.

New comment by watrami in "Germany’s hidden hunger: On the breadline in Europe’s richest country (2017)"

watrami — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 11:35:27 +0000

Fixed the typo.

New comment by watrami in "Germany’s hidden hunger: On the breadline in Europe’s richest country (2017)"

watrami — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 11:32:08 +0000

I volunteer for a "Tafel" in the center of Munich for about four months now, and here the main issue is related to immigrants. I can state with confidence that about 19 out of 20 people coming there have an arab background, and the vast majority have more than 7, sometimes even 10, people in total in their household. And you can see from the cards they need to show, that most of them are children.

Many of the migrant kids I've met can't speak any German. Even kids that are already 10 years old. Thus I believe this situation will escalate even further in the future, as it will be very hard for these kids to get a proper education without the needed language skills.

It makes you feel really bad to see them growing up in such an environment without much chance for a better life. But ultimately this is due to their parents decision to have so many kids, even if they can't afford simple food.

New comment by watrami in "CVE Alerting Platform"

watrami — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 21:23:51 +0000

My startup is providing a somewhat similar service to our customers. However, we also provide intel on suspicious activity regarding the customer's software on social media and on forums. This way our beta testers were able to prevent the OWA hacks that happened a few weeks ago. It's primarily targeted towards small and medium business that usually lack some deeper knowledge in cyber security and can't monitor this stuff themselves.

Ask HN: How to get a Logo/ Corporate Designs in 2021?

watrami — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 08:57:10 +0000

I know this has been asked plenty times before but most of these threads seem to be quite old. So hear me out.

I am the founder of a cyber security startup in Germany and we are at a point where our website is getting more and more traffic and customers start to ask for business cards to refer our services to other businesses. Soon our web app with new services will launch and it just doesn't have any proper design guidelines yet. Currently the logo is just the name in Roboto font and all presentations and documents are just plain text without any proper corporate design.

I have been doing some research and it seems like there is three main contenders for crowd sourced logo designs:

- fiverr - 99designs - designcrowd

But HN seems to have a bad opinion about each of these platforms. Regarding the covid situation I'd also much rather pay a creative person directly without intermediaries taking a 20% cut. But the problem stands on where to find them.

So here's my question: Where do you people get your Logo and Corporate Designs these days?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26445127

Points: 29

# Comments: 42

Original Stackoverflow Logo Design Contest

watrami — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 08:46:03 +0000

Article URL: https://en.99designs.de/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverflow-6774/entries?filter=allactive&sorting=rating

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26445093

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by watrami in "Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?"

watrami — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:12:46 +0000

As a guy trying to build something while still in Uni I'd have to name most episodes of the indiehackers podcast. It's incredibly valuable for me to listen to established "normal" founders telling their story. It feels like I'm at a table with them.

One of the best ones was the one with the hotjar founder David Darmanin: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/036-david-darmanin-of-h...

It proves that failing at previous projects doesn't mean that you are a failure yourself.

I'm from southern Germany and the startup scene here is basically non-existent. So listening to indiehackers is sort of like a replacement for other meetups.