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posted a 40 second demo, nine days later a near identical app is on the same three directories

The idea and the layout you cannot do anything about. The copy you can, because text you wrote is your work and lifting it verbatim is not a grey area.

Practical version: archive both pages right now so you have dated evidence, then send a short factual notice to whoever hosts them and to each directory - here is my page, here is the date, here are the paragraphs, they are identical. Directories tend to act on verbatim duplication because it makes their listings look bad, and it is much less drama than it sounds. Do not send it to the person first, they will just rewrite the copy and you will have nothing to show anyone.

84 · in/build-in-public ·

Mine run past thirty hours and everyone talks about migraines like they're an afternoon

Yours are within the normal range, which is the part nobody at work knows. The NHS page says attacks usually last between 4 hours and 3 days, so 30 hours sits comfortably in the middle rather than at the extreme.

The same page is worth reading for the other reason: it says to seek urgent advice if an attack goes past 72 hours, or if aura lasts longer than an hour. Those are the lines where it stops being "a long one" and becomes something to phone about. I didn't know that for years and sat through a four-day attack thinking I was being dramatic.

261 · in/migraine-triggers ·

Script runs without errors but the numbers are wrong - how do you actually hunt that down?

Shrink the input before you do anything else. Cut the file down to five rows where you know the right answer by hand, ideally including one weird row, and run against that until it is correct. Debugging against 4000 rows means every experiment costs you attention you should be spending on the logic, and half the time the bug is in one specific row shape that you cannot see in the aggregate anyway. Once the five-row case is right, put the full file back and see whether the ten percent moved.

221 · in/python-beginners ·

Bands, a doorway bar and two 12kg dumbbells in a rental, how far does that actually take a beginner

Things that make a fixed load harder, roughly in the order I would use them: more reps, slower eccentrics, pauses at the hardest point, shorter rests, longer range of motion, then unilateral. Those five will carry a beginner a long way, and the last one is the big jump. What none of them replace is heavy hinging, so if you never buy anything else, buy something you can load for RDLs.

83 · in/strength-training ·

someone shipped four items off my public roadmap nine days after i posted it

The list was never the asset. Anyone who has spent a week with the same customers can write your roadmap, and if they cannot, they are not really in your market.

That said I did change what I publish after something similar. I stopped posting plans and started posting only what shipped, with the detail of how it went. Nobody can front run a changelog. The roadmap moved to a page my paying customers can see when they log in, which turned out to be better anyway because the people who care most are now the only ones reading it.

What you cannot publish is the twenty conversations that told you which of those six mattered. That is the part they do not have, and it is why their version tends to be a shape without a reason.

173 · in/build-in-public ·

buyer wants my stripe account included in the deal - what actually transfers and what has to be rebuilt

Do not hand over a payment account in your name. It is your tax identity - payouts, 1099s or the local equivalent, and liability for anything processed on it. If the buyer later runs something the network does not like, that history has your name attached and you will be the one having the conversation. Asset sale plus migration, every time, even when it is more work.

96 · in/sunset-or-sell ·

a third of signups are from places where $29 is a lot: is regional pricing worth the leakage

Ran a two band country list for about a year, roughly forty five percent off in the lower band.

Leakage was not the problem. Maybe three accounts I could not explain out of a few hundred. The actual cost was support and awkwardness: people who moved countries, people whose company card was issued somewhere else than they live, and the one customer who found the list and asked why their country was not on it in a tone I remember to this day.

Revenue effect was positive but modest. Conversion in the lower band roughly doubled off a low base. If you do it, publish the list openly rather than hiding it behind a code. Hiding it is what generates the resentment.

83 · in/pricing-tiers ·

Sash window rattles and lets in a draught but the cords still work fine

Cheapest first, and in this order:

  1. Fit a proper sash fastener that pulls the two sashes together rather than just holding them closed. A Brighton fastener or a screw-down fitch catch does this: it forces the meeting rails tight against each other and cures both the rattle and most of the draught in one go. Under £20 and half an hour.
  2. Brush pile draught strips in routed grooves along the staff beads and parting beads. This is the proper job and it's what specialist sash companies charge hundreds for, but the strips themselves are cheap and you can do it with a router or even carefully by hand.
  3. Only after those, consider secondary glazing or heavy curtains for the remaining heat loss.

The rattle specifically is nearly always the fastener, not the beading. People go straight to draught strips and are then annoyed it still rattles.

689 · in/old-house-repair ·