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Why Buying a House is like Buying a Startup 🏚

In the past few years, I've gotten very interested in online businesses and SaaS. I've tried to acquire a few SaaS businesses but all of my deals so far have fallen apart. (I'll write about that soon). I'll find one some day.

What does number 6 on the HN Front Page look like?

What does number 6 on the HN Front Page look like?

I hit Number 6 on Hacker News today. It was...in short, fucking awesome. Seriously, this is a drug I didn't know I needed. I made my girlfriend take a picture to commemorate the moment. Then I ate some tacos and poured up a bourbon mule. This was

I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

In May of 2018 I decided I wanted to launch a SaaS product. There was only one problem. I'd never worked on, built, designed or even coded a fully fledged web app or SaaS product. y tho SaaS was to be the holy grail. A magic money machine

How to Scrape Chipotle Store Locations

How to Scrape Chipotle Store Locations

Introduction Web scraping has loads of interesting use cases. From financial forecasting to lead-gen, web scraping has several creative uses that you might not think about at first glance. For example, a burrito shop opening a new location might want to place their location further away from a Chipotle. What

Building a Serverless Ecommerce Store

Building a Serverless Ecommerce Store

Yes, it's true! You can build a storefront in an hour without spinning up a server. WTF, how?! -- you, probably Gone are the days of paying expensive devs or fiddling with strange Wordpress extensions. I run a Facebook group, This is an IT Support Group, and I

Best Remote Job Boards

Remote work is becoming more and more common, especially for jobs that can sustain it. I work remotely and although there are some trade offs (not leaving the house for days, loneliness) I wouldn’t trade it for a traditional job. 37Signal’s book, Remote, praised the virtues of Remote