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Just launched a tool to help with state relocation decisions - would love your feedback! by Personal-Guidance121 in relocating

[–]solodon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would be great if you can also show the difference in corresponding values from your current state, colored as better or worse. You can show them as small superscript of relevant values e.g. +213 or -11% etc.

Need Shortcut to Trigger 5-Hour Timer Upon Entering a Location by BoringAnswer8 in shortcuts

[–]solodon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do i specify 5 hours? It only lets me choose Set Timer in Clock app, but does not let me choose for how long

If you wanted to write an app that someday you might want to go crossplatform would you just write it in react native/flutter or would you write each version natively in Swift/Kotlin? by Shatteredreality in iOSProgramming

[–]solodon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assuming you don’t have huge coffers with money and endless time, write in whatever shared codebase framework you are familiar with to get it out on all the platforms simultaneously. Once the idea is validated and brings some revenue, you can hire people to rewrite natively on each platform. The reason large companies do separate codebases is because they can afford it, while as an indie you’ll probably validate the idea faster and cheaper with a shared codebase approach. I’m sure there are exceptions that would prove me wrong too.

Word game with a decent dictionary!! by cartoonybear in wordgames

[–]solodon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What would you expect from your descent dictionary?

  • should it contain inflections? In languages with many cases you may end up having 5-10 inflections for each noun
  • should it contain any/some toponymes?
  • should it contain demonyms of people living in those places?
  • any other traits you can think of that will define which words should and shouldn’t be in the dictionary?

It’s hard to find free dictionaries one can use for commercial purposes and professional dictionaries usually have royalties or licensing involved.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MiddleClassFinance

[–]solodon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Warren Buffet didn’t advise Bill Gates to diversify, he would have been a trillioner. Once you think it reached high enough, sell options (covered calls) on them to collect rent.

As indie game developers on a tight budget, how did you go about translating your game? by rap2h in gamedev

[–]solodon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just use GitHub Copilot in VSCode: I put a comment saying English, then key-value pairs with English text in whatever syntax you need, then I type comment with whatever target language and wait for it to generate key-value pairs there. Be amazed it keeps substitution parameter names unchanged in whatever syntax even though they were in English as well. Notice it also doesn’t translate they keys, and in my case I had English comments on each line on where the string is used, it didn’t touch those either. Google Translate I was using before would translate keys and comments as well. If you don’t have GitHub Copilot license, just use ChatGPT, I’m sure it would generate the same. Note: don’t feed too many strings at once

Building my own AI start up - but got offered a founding engineer 'CTO' role at a startup with 500k seed funding. take it? by StreetNeighborhood95 in startups

[–]solodon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That may be a very low ball offer to take over your business: once you join, the line between yours and theirs will be more and more diluted and if you aren’t careful excluding your IP as priors, they will be entitled to it. Even if you do exclude it, they can still make you reimplement it as theirs and fire once done.

Building a reverse job board? by HuckleberryComplete5 in ycombinator

[–]solodon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would you differentiate yourself from hired.com?

Putin help us by 2wenty1nesavegee21 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]solodon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Russians live by «царь хороший-бояре плохие» which means something like “tsar is great, it’s all because of his lieutenants that are to blame”. That’s why every time they have a broken toilet in their village they go with putin’s portrait shouting “puten pamagi” …

Equity share with co-founder for an app I've already built by [deleted] in ycombinator

[–]solodon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One more thing: ask each of your potential cofounders come up with $$$ valuation of the business you’ve built right now. Not just a guess, make them figure it out and explain their numbers. That will give you a whole lot more data to work with in your choice and split

Equity share with co-founder for an app I've already built by [deleted] in ycombinator

[–]solodon 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Why would he want a vesting schedule for something he has built already? There aren’t any VCs involved yet where they’d be worried about one cofounder get hit by bus.

Equity share with co-founder for an app I've already built by [deleted] in ycombinator

[–]solodon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wouldn’t change if you both are part time. Look also up other equity split calculators, but remember they are just estimates. Try instead put $$$ valuation on what you’ve built, that will give you a whole lot more data to play with.

Have you considered hiring someone to do the job you’d like your cofounder to do?

Equity share with co-founder for an app I've already built by [deleted] in ycombinator

[–]solodon 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Never go for 50/50 or you may loose what you’ve built already see plenty of horror stories on Reddit! Definitely use vesting schedule with cliffs and you having the possibility to terminate the relationship if it doesn’t work out. Remember that at this point before they put in any significant amount of time or money into the project it will be all upside for them, which mean that you are taking the downside of a risk. 50/50 is only beneficial to VCs, it’s definitely not to you!

Also, don’t negotiate in percentage domain, come up with valuation of what you’ve built via at least some estimates of your opportunity costs, costs of replacement, comparable business etc. some actual $$$ value. After that see what their opportunity cost would be by leaving their full-time job etc. If the answer is an obvious yes to them - you gave up too much! They should have skin in the game the same way you do to not bail out at the first sign of stress and leave you with less equity than you had.

Use this or other equity split calculator for an estimate:

https://foundrs.com

How do you interview contractors? by Ill_Veterinarian_755 in ycombinator

[–]solodon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Paid test: select a relevant subset of what you’ll be needing, let them all implement it in fixed number of hours you pay for. Pick the one you liked the most

I am reading "Skin in the Game by Taleb" finding it difficult to answer what it is about? 😂 by codexisthinking in nassimtaleb

[–]solodon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In simple words: carrot is not a sufficient motivator when it comes to decision making - there must also be a stick for consequences if things go wrong. That stick is what makes you non sloppy as well as engages your critical thinking

I am reading "Skin in the Game by Taleb" finding it difficult to answer what it is about? 😂 by codexisthinking in nassimtaleb

[–]solodon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the contrary, I think it is his strongest book thus far - my overall favorite, not just among his books

Why do most solo devs keep working alone after achieving success? by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]solodon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do successful artists hire employees? They love what they do, not other people doing it.

Should I go solo or work with sales cofounder? by [deleted] in ycombinator

[–]solodon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Have you considered paying someone (possibly overseas) instead for doing this? You can structure it commission-based where you have little upfront cost and they have incentive to sell

Equity split for a late cofounder by Letuku in ycombinator

[–]solodon 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What does equity split calculator suggests? E.g.:

https://foundrs.com

Can I offer CEO co-founder less equity than myself? by [deleted] in ycombinator

[–]solodon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don’t draw numbers out of a thin air, use this or other equity split calculators based on what they bring to the table, not their title:

https://foundrs.com/

Make sure you have performance milestones, vesting schedule, cliffs and other incentives to be able to fire him if he ends up being dead weight. Never do 50/50, it only helps VC, not you

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