rosspanda | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Would quitting my job, to work on a passion project, be a bad idea?
Sounds good to me
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rosspanda | 10 years ago | on: How I’m Handling My Depression Using an App
I run a side project called http://moodpanda.com , people rate their mood an a simple scale and other members give feedback, I think the feeback is what keeps people coming back to our app, not the rating part but the feedback they get from others.
rosspanda | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Building LinkedIn clone, recommend me a stack
If you are doing it as a CV showcase type thing looking for a job I would do it in C# , why are you doing it?
rosspanda | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: TechBullets
nice, but one thing the logo looks a bit rubbish on my macbook pro retina
rosspanda | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?
LDAP integration for weblogin
rosspanda | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which web app do you use to plan/organise your thoughts and projects?
I use trello for almost everything
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your hobbies, and why are they cool?
Wakeboarding - Get to forget about the internet for a while
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: CTO with no experience, how do I make my first technical hire?
Sorry about that, I was using "guys" as a generic term, but it got me thinking that in 18 years of development, I have worked with over 200 Dev Guys and only 2 Dev Girls.
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: CTO with no experience, how do I make my first technical hire?
I'd Hire the full stack guys first, but spend a lot of time talking with them, the first hire is always the hardest but the most important. Its also hard not to hire people like yourself so take it slow, some of the best guys I have ever worked with are mid 30 with wife and kids that just know how to get stuff done.
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: CTO with no experience, how do I make my first technical hire?
As a CTO you will hopefully ALWAYS have better developers than you working for you, that's the point, the CTO role is not to be the best tech guy in the room. Its the guy that sets the vision, talks to investors, sets high level tech strategy (with a lot of team involvement), hires, fires, keep sales guys away from dev's etc
Eg. sort out everything that would distract your developers from building.
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Corrello – Dashboards and Reports for Trello
And make enterprise like $499 a month, it makes the others look cheap :-)
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Corrello – Dashboards and Reports for Trello
Its quite generous with the board allotment, if it was me i would bump them all down a level and add an enterprise level.
e.g p=1, F=3, S=10, SB=30, E=150
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list
A agree somewhat, but I've seen 10 box systems that could run on raspberry pie with good code
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list
From working with Ruby guys its normally 1. Make it work 2. Spin up more AWS boxes
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
We make about $300 in donations a month over at http://moodpanda.com , we don't do it for the money, its a good way of opening doors and getting invited to events etc.
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: #define CTO
The CTO role is completely different depending on size of company. Here is my experience.
Startups: <10 I have had roles in small start-ups as CTO, but did the role of a Lead Developer in reality, it was important to get investment that they had a CTO on board that had a track record and could talk to investors, but I still had to build everything as well. Thinking back it would have been better to get a 2 day a week CTO and a full time Lead dev.
Mid Size:10>40 In a company this size with a dev team of 10ish its more of a Development Manager Role, this is some times worst than a startup as you have to be hands on, speak to investors and run a team.
Larger:>50 This is where a real CTO can really make a different, by this size you would have a couple of functional managers as your direct reports to look after day to day and get the time to focus on culture, team, investors, new tech, presentations etc.
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Bootstrappers.io – A community for business bootstrappers
its just popped up :-)
rosspanda | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Bootstrappers.io – A community for business bootstrappers
Does it have a lag or admin approval on the stories, i just posted a blog post and it does not show.
rosspanda | 12 years ago | on: Real time tactical action set in a deadly sci-fi universe for dual screens.
Disclaimer: This is my friends game and they are trying to bootstrap to get it into development, I think its a cool idea as you Play simultaneously on your PC and mobile device.
The team are super nice, hopefully we can get it to the target.
rosspanda | 12 years ago | on: Crowdscore.io is Offering 50% Reseller Commission
reseller link http://crowdscore.io/Reseller/
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