15:[[19249035,{"by":"ambivalents","descendants":8,"id":19249035,"kids":[19250494,19255331,19249313,19255608,19258014],"score":22,"text":"I searched but there hasn't been a thread about this in a while.

What is the best online course you've taken? Doesn't have to be confined to CS -- I'm personally interested in expanding my horizons and learning new things in different fields.

Thanks all.","time":1551125903,"title":"Ask HN: Best Online Courses?","type":"story"}],[19251981,{"by":"throwaway128932","descendants":50,"id":19251981,"kids":[19252849,19252277,19253167,19252067,19258457,19253565,19253307,19252279,19253500,19255628,19254370,19260069,19252259,19252537,19255583,19253477,19252247,19253583,19255334,19253460,19270540,19265353,19255768,19255625,19255134,19252291,19255240,19255956,19252675,19258558,19253459,19252758,19262345,19256407,19252688,19252817,19272742,19252076,19254225,19254489,19252269,19254050,19252200],"score":95,"text":"I've got 9 years of experience in tech, mostly as an engineer in high profile startups and some big companies.

I'm increasingly finding it harder to get any interest from employers, it seems like they all have better, younger, candidates.

Every new rejection brings me deeper into depression, to the point where I'm about to be homeless and I don't see a way out anymore without ending my life.

And at the same time, I realise my attitude to interviews has become worse: I'm more nervous, less excited, less happy... because I know it's not likely to lead anywhere.

Is there any hope? I can't afford any kind of therapy or get help anymore. My parents are dead, my friends don't understand or just tell me to keep trying.","time":1551155316,"title":"Ask HN: How to cope with job hunting and depression?","type":"story"}],[19214359,{"by":"the_wannabe","descendants":36,"id":19214359,"kids":[19214654,19214579,19214386,19215112,19214773,19214551,19215051,19219616,19217863,19214490,19216669,19215416,19216430,19215267,19215933,19214419,19214909],"score":53,"text":"I'm finally starting to wrap up the MVP of my web app which is my side project. Now I'm starting to look at how I'm going to host it, and I'm getting overwhelmed with the number of options. My background is in desktop\\embedded code, so I've not really had to deal with this much before. My app is written in Rust on the Rocket framework and uses PostgreSQL and PostGIS.

I was originally looking at Digital Ocean, however I'm thinking that managing that might be too much work for me, and it will be too easy to make a stupid security mistake. I'm currently looking at https://www.clever-cloud.com/en/rust-hosting which seems safe and easy. Are there better options?

Should I not try and ignore this stuff and spend the time like learning something like Docker instead?

Any other tips? Anything I'm overlooking?","time":1550720765,"title":"Ask HN: Advice for Hosting and Deploying My Side Project","type":"story"}],[18943606,{"by":"jamestimmins","descendants":2,"id":18943606,"kids":[18944019,18945950],"score":3,"text":"I'm curious if anyone is aware of good textbooks for self learning high school maths, algebra two specifically. Khan Academy is good but I particularly like going through physical books.

Most textbooks seem focused on teaching for a test with lots of cruft. I want good examples/descriptions that teach an intuitive understanding of concepts, plus a lot of practice problems.

Does this exist anywhere?","time":1547849669,"title":"Ask HN: What are the best textbooks for high school level math?","type":"story"}],[18857175,{"by":"mblayman","descendants":1,"id":18857175,"kids":[18857278],"score":1,"time":1546967276,"title":"Local web development vs. Vagrant vs. Docker: What’s right for you?","type":"story","url":"https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2019/web-development-environments/"}],[18823272,{"by":"jovisjoseph","descendants":1,"id":18823272,"kids":[18825799],"score":2,"time":1546601440,"title":"The self-doubt and depression hit after completing an MVP development","type":"story","url":"https://200wordsaday.com/words/post-development-depression-24135c2ef326b02d3"}],[18664218,{"by":"rufugee","descendants":32,"id":18664218,"kids":[18670712,18667789,18666527,18666330,18670271,18665086,18665110,18667709,18665192,18667034,18670850,18664772,18667070,18666129,18668310,18669073,18668725,18668923,18667774,18672422],"score":19,"text":"$16","time":1544625445,"title":"Ask HN: Choosing an entrepreneur's stack in late 2018?","type":"story"}],[18652101,{"by":"onlyrealcuzzo","descendants":7,"id":18652101,"kids":[18653251,18652688,18655960,18664960,18652396,18668019,18652219],"score":17,"text":"For anyone who wants to start a business, what are the most important things they should know that isn't common knowledge?","time":1544484870,"title":"Ask HN: What should first-time entreprenuers know that they probably don't?","type":"story"}],[18656316,{"by":"sethx","descendants":3,"id":18656316,"kids":[18656556,18667809,18656451],"score":4,"text":"$17","time":1544545039,"title":"Ask HN: Being afraid and not knowing how to start building a startup concept","type":"story"}],[18603640,{"by":"rgill2000","descendants":2,"id":18603640,"kids":[18603768,18604399],"score":4,"text":"Ive built a SAAS product aimed at small take-away/restaurants. It provides EPOS, website and online ordering in a single package. Not revolutionary but works well. Android tablet and online based.

I have a single client (family member) who has been using this product in their business reliably for over a year as Ive gradually added functionality.

The product is still rough around the edges, but a lot of this is cosmetic or usability in certain areas.

What Im now stuck with is how to move this forward to get some proper customers. Theres maybe some mindset issues here whether i'm worried about whether the product is polished enough or how to actually get people to want to use it.

Any help, advice or starting points would be appreciated.","time":1543957950,"title":"Ask HN: Help on how to start getting customers","type":"story"}],[18597792,{"by":"InGodsName","descendants":1,"id":18597792,"kids":[18600896],"score":4,"text":"Is there any such thing?","time":1543915313,"title":"Ask HN: SaaS builder community","type":"story"}],[18599811,{"by":"throwaway8891","descendants":8,"id":18599811,"kids":[18620453,18618610,18601108,18606930,18600595,18600009,18613468],"score":23,"text":"I want to build a side project. Especially, one that makes money. Even if it brings in $100, I feel that it will provide more satisfaction than my current job.

I can code in python with some help.

Can you provide some ideas on where to start? What are some simple things I can build by myself? Any ideas?","time":1543934865,"title":"Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?","type":"story"}],[18569871,{"by":"uvu","descendants":9,"id":18569871,"kids":[18570188,18569915,18569947,18570070,18569921],"score":7,"text":"I created 2 side projects.

- https://myanpx.com and\n- https://www.myanmardevjobs.com

Added Google Ads. Since the traffic is very low I got a few dollars only. But, every day I read about all those indie hackers who got so much traffic and got lots of money and living by themselves. But, how did they do that? Why it's so hard to get income from the side projects?","time":1543592693,"title":"Ash HN: Why it's so hard to get money from side-project?","type":"story"}],[18509423,{"by":"suann","descendants":2,"id":18509423,"kids":[18510765],"score":3,"text":"I'm sure many of you have launched before a product targeted at fellow developers. I wanted to ask if and how did you manage to get it off the ground before you raised any money?

Let me give you some context first. I'm working on a product for web developers which:

- is free and we intend it to keep it so\n- is serverless and we host all the necessary backend for it\n- has a JavaScript library as its frontend\n- is relatively easy to understand and use\n- isn't open-sourced (at least not yet)\n- is ready for a private beta

I guess a reference product you could compare it to is Firebase.

I've always thought the best way to gain the first users would be through tutorials. But it seems these days that if you post somewhere a link to a tutorial of a free product some (many?) will consider it a shameless selfpromotion. At the same time, the web is full of similar content about established products.

What marketing strategy did you use to get your first 10-50-100 beta testers?

thanks,\nAnn","time":1542887311,"title":"Ask HN: How do you promote a dev tool and build community around it?","type":"story"}],[18452874,{"by":"Mc_Big_G","descendants":32,"id":18452874,"kids":[18453603,18454910,18455965,18457319,18468968,18454286,18454323,18455649,18456974,18454860,18461967,18454706,18454643,18457684,18456295,18453372,18455361,18454492,18459855,18456131,18460639,18455529,18457437,18452930,18459663,18473922,18456288],"score":45,"text":"My son would like to learn web development on his own, part-time after work. His goal is to get an entry level job within a year. He's currently working as a computer / electrical tech at an industrial fan company and doesn't have a degree or desire to go to college.

I'm a web developer and can easily google various resources but I'm looking for opinions from people who have actually done it and which resources turned out to be the best for them.

Ideally it would be a progression of HTML/CSS => Javascript => React","time":1542222754,"title":"Ask HN: Self-taught devs, what are the best cheap resources for learning webdev?","type":"story"}],[18140169,{"by":"rigpa","descendants":4,"id":18140169,"kids":[18140393,18150470,18140419,18140703],"score":4,"text":"I'm looking for a productive, minimal headache inducing stack for a solo developer. It will involve a web app, and quite possibly a mobile app down the line. It will involve a lot of interactive content (delivering interactive educational material), but minimal technical complexity, and no scaling issues (very niche topic - never going to have a lot of requests per second).

Obviously makes sense to stick to a language I'm comfortable in - Ruby, Python, C#, Elixir, PHP, JS. Any thoughts/advice on productive solo development?","time":1538663359,"title":"Productive stack for a solo developer","type":"story"}],[17939595,{"by":"paghdv","descendants":24,"id":17939595,"kids":[17940388,17940183,17955078,17941057,17940500,17959743,17941891,17942801,17939638,17940126,17943635,17953329],"score":47,"text":"Most startup stories describe how the founders at some point were not getting any salary, sharing rooms, sleeping in a couch, and barely sleeping. Is that the only way to be successful in a startup? What if you have two kids, a wife and a mortgage, should you just trash all your startup ideas and forget about starting one? What's your opinion and can you share any relevant story?","time":1536385167,"title":"Ask HN: how to start a startup when you need a proper salary","type":"story"}],[17478606,{"by":"ducktail5765","descendants":78,"id":17478606,"kids":[17479099,17478955,17478849,17479053,17478901,17479001,17479072,17478965,17479040,17479138,17479147,17478739,17478766,17479129,17479079,17479207,17482833,17478966,17479038,17478926,17479106,17479067,17479076,17484251,17479031,17479013,17479164,17478930,17479532,17479034,17487793,17479118,17479009,17478861,17485880,17479083,17479729,17479102,17478914,17478954,17485210,17486708,17478995,17478932],"score":59,"text":"1. It's Saturday morning.

2. You start coding in your side-project.

3. A couple of hours go by.

4. You feel like, "I'm tired. Let's do this tomorrow.".

5. You also would like to ship it ASAP too.

What do you do?","time":1530973829,"title":"Ask HN: What do you do when you suddenly feel like not working anymore?","type":"story"}],[17207785,{"by":"arisAlexis","descendants":19,"id":17207785,"kids":[17214888,17208688,17208182,17235217,17210821,17210893,17212370,17209800,17234864,17216500,17210110,17210286,17207984,17211271,17213976],"score":29,"text":"So I quit my job and started working while travelling. I change place every month so setting up a whole office in every AirBnB is not a option.In my past office I used to have a nice ergonomic desk with lifted screen and a good chair.

Now I work with my laptop. Since I started doing it some months I have back and neck pain and tingling hands. I do exercise but doesn't help much.

Please share any tips?","time":1527874234,"title":"Ask HN: How to work remotely ergonomically?","type":"story"}],[16699758,{"by":"triangle_delta","descendants":1,"id":16699758,"kids":[16701905],"score":1,"text":"I decided a few months ago to spend my last summer before graduation (Undergraduate CS) learning about tech entrepreneurship. My current plan is to learn by developing a simple product. However, after a few months of exploring MVP ideas, I'm starting to feel unsure about the direction I'm taking.

With that in mind, how did you start learning about tech entrepreneurship?\nIs there any advice you would have given yourself when you were first starting out?

Thanks!","time":1522257896,"title":"How did you start learning about tech entrepreneurship?","type":"story"}],[16663526,{"by":"andygcook","descendants":47,"id":16663526,"kids":[16663680,16663908,16664248,16665039,16667188,16665155,16667522,16664150,16664169,16664607,16664292,16664317,16663556],"score":97,"time":1521847325,"title":"A letter from Drew and Arash","type":"story","url":"https://www.dropbox.com/s/ojgr88g4h8z8ka9/FounderLetter.pdf?dl=0"}]]

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