- Get legitimately thousands of job applicants on LinkedIn to apply
- When they apply, auto select the "Follow <companyName> on LinkedIn?"?
- 90% of applicants don't notice, and auto follow
No joke. That is the playbook. Do we really think 97,000 people are following DuckDuckGo because they're interested in hearing their marketing and culture posts? (no offense to DuckDuckGo, they're not the only one to do this)
Honestly, I think it's even more insidious: They're betting on the applicant following the company thinking it'll increase the applicant's odds of being "noticed."
+1 for chart.js - use it for most charting needs and even created a Wagtail app[1] that uses Chart.js on the frontend to render charts based on user input.
Ditto here. I thought I'd try Apex Charts on my most recent project and regret it:
- mobile support works, but is poorly done
- very heavy library to load
- RAM intensive; a few charts w/ lots (e.g. ~100) data points spirals out of control (e.g. memory spikes from 60 MB to 700 MB). On mobile this basically guarantees that the tab crashes.
- UI interactions feel laggy and lack responsiveness (e.g. panning is pure guesswork)
I thought the SVG vs canvas focus would be nice, but not at these costs.
You failed because you didn't follow instructions. I can empathize with this - I too went to college, and was very annoyed by stupid instructions.
I thought upon graduating, I would be free to basically do what I want. What a rude awakening starting at my first programming job was. The reality is the world is full of red tape, bloat, and processes that may appear inefficient to you. A lot of the world will just appear plain "dumb".
You can and should try to change the world for the better, but, maybe on things of bigger scope than the gui of your sql assignment. Some things you should just follow the instructions on.
It's just part of the world. Pick your battles. For a SQL homework assignment, just do what the professor asks.
While I tend to grade generously when instructions aren’t followed, it is a real pain. It takes a lot more time to grade an assignment when someone does not follow the requested protocol. It’s likely to me that the prof saw a mess of printed code, said “I don’t have time to untangle this and grade it properly,” and didn’t give credit. Hell, I’ve wanted to do that on many an occasion but a fault of mine is that I am not respectful of my time and will try to help the student out by finding a way to award them points even if it takes 10x longer than it should have if they followed instructions.
I can sympathize that bad assignments are tedious and you might know a better way to do them, but you can’t expect to get credit when you don’t follow the instructions.
Just to provide a counterpoint, my experience was that there was far more stupid bullshit in high school than in college, much of which we were told would prepare us for college. By this I mean petty, overly complicated processes and nitpicky rules. There was also more stupid bullshit in college than in the workforce that we were told, again, would prepare us for the workforce.
Did Jeff's grandmother give up smoking and live a long age though as a result? Then Jeff was kind and clever. It is kind to seem to be nasty and take a personal hit for the greater good. Few understand that! Probably every freedom we have is a result of someone being an "asshole" in history!
I run a SaaS to help site owners get their content indexed. We're seeing an influx of users, I think a lot of the issue is simply because of AI.
New web page additions were pretty linear over time, and then AI copywriting tools came out. Suddenly page additions basically went "hockey stick"/vertical.
Now, you can publish thousands of pages in a few minutes, and it's created a huge backlog in Googles crawl queue, thus increasing overall time to get indexation, disproportionally affecting smaller sites.
> I run a SaaS to help site owners get their content indexed. We're seeing an influx of users, I think a lot of the issue is simply because of AI.
I think that google just isn't interested in putting resources into their search engine anymore. They used to need it to gather data on people and what they were doing online, but chrome gives them people's internet histories now and android lets them collect endless amounts of data on people's lives offline. Google doesn't need search to spy on us anymore. It's only natural that they'd let it stagnate.
Most of my internet dollars in the past have come from ads and affilates on various blogs I run.
My first real "somebody paying me for my product" dollar, came in January of this year. I launched IndexGuru - solves a super common issue I had been dealing with on my blogs. Posted it to show HN, and had two separate people sign up and pay me money :)
Pretty great a-ha moment. Business is doing well, but nothing to write home about, I unfortunately do not have yacht money yet.
Let me tell you a story you might get some value from.
August 2022 - November 2022. Built the application.
November 2022 - January 2023. Tried to plug it on reddit wherever I could. Got maybe 6 users.
February 2023. Gave up, stopped working on it, but maintained it.
August 2023. I see a clone of my app on twitter. The guy making it is publicly broadcasting how much he's making: several thousand dollars per month! First, I was mad, but then got over it. Can't blame the guy - that's just the game. But, it inspired me to get back to work on the product. It's good enough, just wasn't marketing it as well as him, so I stepped it up.
August 2023 to now:
- I have been marketing TF out of the product. I have grown to nearly $400 MRR in a matter of weeks. I know 400 MRR seems small, and it is, but if it continues at this, it will be pretty substantial in a few months.
My marketing channels:
1. I monitor subreddits related to my product. I try to give helpful responses. Every other response or so, I'll merely mention the name of the product without a link. (Kinda like I did here). If they're interested, they can find it on Google.
2. My product is very much for people that own websites. A huge niche of website owners is the #buildinpublic community on twitter. So - I've been responding to people on twitter, being heavily involved and sharing any info I know. People click on my profile, they see the link to my site, and click on it because they're curious. Then, the landing page either works or it does't.
TLDR:
- I worked on an idea that was good. Did bad marketing. Somebody did the same thing I made, but did good marketing. They made a ton of money. Don't be like me. Market.
- Plug your product on reddit. Don't be super egregious. Provide value. Don't plug it every single time you comment. Reddit is super unforgiving in this - mods love to ban self promo users.
- Get involved in the relevant community for your niche. I found it on twitter for mine, and it's been working great.
- Perceptions matter. A lot of Americans think it's best here. Those that say how bad it is here, tend to not be the types that would be qualified for EU visas (i.e, you're not going to move to EU on a skilled worker visa if you're an unskilled, unhappy worker in the US)
- Family matters. People leaving family usually emigrate for more money, and US -> EU isn't a more money situation most of the time.
- It's not so easy to just emigrate. You need to be highly qualified or have ancestral ties. If you're highly qualified though, you can probably earn better money in the US. For the wealthy, US is subjectively "better".
I think ultimately it's just a matter of opportunity. If people are generally comfortable with their life, why would they move? They will only do it if a fantastic 10/10 opportunity presents itself; there aren't many 10/10 obvious opportunities to emigrate to Europe for.
- Post a fake job, fully remote, 6 figure salary
- Get legitimately thousands of job applicants on LinkedIn to apply
- When they apply, auto select the "Follow <companyName> on LinkedIn?"?
- 90% of applicants don't notice, and auto follow
No joke. That is the playbook. Do we really think 97,000 people are following DuckDuckGo because they're interested in hearing their marketing and culture posts? (no offense to DuckDuckGo, they're not the only one to do this)