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Brennan Dunn
Personal blog · brennandunn.comstartupsprogrammingbusiness
Brennan Dunn's personal blog at brennandunn.com covers startups, programming and business. Since 2008, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brennan Dunn's blog for freelancing and consulting advice, such as selling web design projects, pricing and raising day rates. One commenter says they learned a lot from it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-05-29
- /category/podcast/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-09
What Hacker News says?
patio11 and I had a great conversation about this a few months back: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/10/10/kalzumeus-podcast-3-grow... But basically, here's the trick to close more deals and make more money: Become an investment, not an expense. Spending money on technology (Rails, Wordpress) is an expense that implicitly doesn't correlate with any business "win". For most businesses, that win is making more money. Ho…
Comment linking /category/podcast/
on “Never Say WordPress When Selling a Web Design Project”- px · 2013-04-24
Submitted Optimizing Your Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Devops actually makes things a little easier I think. With Ansible, setting up a server on AWS feels a little like maintaining a vimrc file. Get a starter playbook from someone and run that to setup a server on AWS. Then you modify as needed as you go through your days as a developer. The great thing about Ansible playbooks is that it codifies the setup. You have a "recipe" that you can modify and run as needed. For…
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on “The Developer's Dystopian Future”Submitted PreferenceFu - easy way to add user preferences (boolean ones) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs a freelancer, you can put a great deal of time into carefully considering the needs of a new/prospective client, developing a preliminary plan for the project and preparing a carefully considered estimate. This is typically done gratis. It is in one's best interest to spend this prospecting time on the highest likelihood/value prospective clients. Behavior like the spam-and-ignore on behalf of some of these compa…
Comment linking /category/podcast/
on “Dear YC companies, I responded. You could do the same.”Submitted How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI would go even further and say that this model is a special case of the more general advertising/marketing model of "Give Valuable Stuff Away For Free". As an example at a smaller scale, content marketing (in terms of blog posts, videos, pdfs, and other informational content [1]) is a great way for businesses to get eyeballs on their page and establish themselves as authority in a particular subject. This even work…
Comment linking /episode-006-the-sales-pipeline/
on “Underscore Price Dynamics”I see no reason to be ashamed. If you think your skills are going to provide them a higher income, increase your rates and explain why you are doing it. I have learnt a lot from Brennan Dunn's blog: http://brennandunn.com/ I'm sure it will provide you some good insights.
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on “After working +1200 hours in oDesk”There's definitely demand, and you should be able to get decent wedge if you're any good at it. The reason why there's a race to the bottom on freelance sites is precisely because there's demand: a large number of people who are just in it for the money, rather than a love of programming, choose java because it's popular. To get your day rate up, though, you're going to have to build up your own network, so that you…
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on “Any demand for experienced java freelancers?”Submission I cannot stress enough the importance of reviewing the App Store Review Guidelines before submitting your app. My recent app got rejected because of a problem that I literally fixed in 5 seconds, but I have to wait another week before it will be reviewed again. Don't let that happen to you. https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guid... Marketing Think about how you will market your app.…
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on “Ask HN: What are useful things to know/do when launching your first mobile app?”
