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winkv | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Self Hosted Netlify Clone

you can try it on any of the cloud vm's (aws,gcp,linode,azure etc.) and than shut it down if you don't like. Or you can try it on your local machine with vm.

However you make a good point. When commercial version is released i will make sure that source code is available for audit by purchaser for additional fees.

winkv | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do people use to prevent crawlers?

Interesting, i am facing problem with this approach.There is a site which pops up alert box for username and password and i can't seem to switch to it with chrome web extension.With selenium it is as simple as driver.switchTo().alert(); have you ever faced this problem? by any chance you know how to fix it? I am trying to accomplish the same thing as described in this question in SO https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/20710/not-able-to-us...

winkv | 8 years ago | on: Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations

Wow! thanks for explaining this, i was aware of the discrete group but never had the intution of lie groups,never understood continuous symmetries. It is sad that math books are full of proofs but never care to explain the intution behind it.

winkv | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Get emailed whenever your brand is mentioned on Hacker News or Reddit

i think you should consider making a profitable product out of it instead of open sourcing it(i know we are good samritans :) ). It can be used as marketing tool. Brands will subscribe to your service and will be informed when their brand name appears on site. This can than be used for damage control if it involves bad press or marketing for e.g answering questions giving discount etc. if someone shows interest.

winkv | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: I am doing $2M annually as a solopreneur and need your help

creating quality content is not easy but you have a good start. I think you should adopt a publisher model, you already have captive audience in terms of paying customers for your niche. You can find out what else would be relevant to your customers and design a curriculum around it, no content, just the table of content for your next course. You might as well publish it to your website in coming soon section and give early bird discount(which would guarantee paying customer and fund the development of course.) if you don't get any customers don't go further in developing that course. Outsource the research on material for your TOC to virtual assistants, they will be responsible for curating and providing you the quality material. Once you have all these you can as well hire an intern with good communication skills who is interested in this course (say machine learning) but may not have the knowledge. Groom him and ask him to come up with writeup for your TOC. Hier high paid thought leader for this course as identified by your assistants while doing the research and let him be the editor for the content. RESIST any attempt to do it yourself if intern/assistants are not able to do it the way you want, just be patient. Rinse and repeat and send me 1M$ that you make from your next niche ;-)
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