What's funny is that I would also have subtracted 0, because legless is local slang for 'drunk', so the legless elephants aren't, under that interpretation, missing any legs.
Personally I've seen quite a few of up and downs in my market (UK contracting), this might be a bit longer than usual, but not a permanent situation.
An encouraging sign I'm seeing is that there's more permanent positions advertising higher salaries than in the past (maybe just the +20% of inflation from march 2020, but still!).
The market will change again... software is still eating the world, there will be shortage of SKILLED developers for the foreseeable future.
And even if I need to make 25% less of what I used to at the peak of pandemic hiring, it's not that bad really!
8 months ago all the usual recruiter spam emails I got disappeared. 3/4 months ago I started getting recruiter spam again, but at lower salaries than before, this month I'm starting to see decent salaries again in that spam.
I've not tried myself, but the UK market looks like it's recovering to me.
About 2 years ago I found myself once more checking my phone while on the toilet. I decided that was enough, I don't want to be an addict.
Since then, all my devices (phones, laptop) now stay in a specific room of the house: the office and they never leave
If I badly need GPS to get somewhere I take the dumbphone with me, the phone with the apps simply never leaves the office. But I'll look up the road before instead unless absolutely needed.
If I need to meet someone I tell them be on time where we agreed to meet, I won't have a phone with me
It's scary to notice how as soon as there's a phone in my pocket the old addiction kicks up
I had a tangible feel for this "addiction" one time when I let my phone run out of battery and I had it next to my laptop. Whenever there was a lull at work or something got hard and I needed a mental break I'd reach for my phone only to pick it up and find an unresponsive black screen. I must have picked it up some six times before it finally hit me how frequently I go to pick up that thing. Somehow the shock of rediscovering the off-state repeatedly and forgetting it really sunk the frequency of the formed habit into my mind. The habit was tangible in that moment.
The big cloud providers attempt to detect and stop crypto mining. I'm not sure if there are ways around it, but if so, they probably involve mining incredibly inefficiently.
Personally I would look into standing up one of the popular AI models like stable diffusion and running a paid service on it.
I think this was a lot of people's first thought as well, but maybe we can brainstorm some other uses that provide a more direct benefit to persons in need, dare I say to society.
Absolutely gold suggestion. This might just be the future for most internet-connected device use, and particularly for children/supervised use like you're describing.
Hey this is great and something I started on working myself.
Just a note that if you pin the extension on the extension page itself it gives a very, very confusing message of
"SuperFocus works on Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
SuperFocus is not yet available for
dboceidahklphhjpfbpnicodnbkoiokn."
thought it was a bug before I realised that must be the chrome extension id, but it's quite likely people will first open the extension on this tab as that's where you teach them to pin it
Great work! I think apps like this will be seen as pioneers in the age of getting back our attention.
From somebody else very interested in the topic, with a pending HN application for a startup app in the same space
This can be a blog post, hell, may be even a book on its own.
For quick starters, look for someone who tinkered, cobbled, hacked, juggard[1] his/her way through an MVP with no-code, low-code, dump-code, Figma-ed, etc. Better yet, s/he had tried selling that idea, napkin-diagrams, to customers. Avoid anyone that smooth talks with nothing to show for (MVP/Customers/Prospects).
While talking (do this for as long as you are comfortable moving ahead), watch out if s/he can articulate and build an idea maze[2] of what his/her current thoughts are.
Look for people who have revenue and traction, not just an idea. Some of the best non-technical Founders I've worked with:
- Built a business trip packing / iterinerary recommendation system, using just Google Sheets plugins
- Built a video transcription + recutting service in Bubble.
Each of these made five-six figures of revenue with the MVP. The Founders couldn't code, but they used every tool at their disposal to get enough $$$ to find someone who can code. True grit!
I'd say 0.1:1 from personal experience. Often you see founders who want to build facebook-but-better type of stuff from day 1. My advice is to avoid first-time tech founders, it's very hard to coach them into adopting the lean startup mindset until they feel the pain.
