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mquentin commented on Ask HN : Name for a geeky newsletter ?    · Posted by u/mquentin
matt_s · 9 years ago
If its for geeks, your design won't matter, content will matter. Unless you plan on covering news about design, in which case you will get feedback from designers :)

What will differentiate you from other web/geek news sources? Maybe your name can be discovered in figuring that out.

Some names:

* GET News

* The /index

* Blinking Lights (looked at my router - there's always something being transmitted)

Try writing 30 days of content first before doing it, circulate it to friends that would be interested. Writing daily content will take a lot of work.

mquentin · 9 years ago
I'll do ! but the point is that I have nothing to write except some excerpts _ I owned a blog and don't have time for this anymore
mquentin commented on Ask HN : Name for a geeky newsletter ?    · Posted by u/mquentin
golemelog · 9 years ago
daily stdout, stdout daily, stdout times, stdout post, ... yeah i know. i'm suck at naming things.
mquentin · 9 years ago
definitely yes :) thanks for the ideas anyway ! a bit too programmatic for me
mquentin commented on Ask HN : Name for a geeky newsletter ?    · Posted by u/mquentin
indescions_2017 · 9 years ago
Don't discount the appeal of foreign language terminology to native English speakers.

For example:

"Urawaza", which is a Japanese word for life hacks. Or "wabi sabi," a kind of organic design aesthetic.

In Danish the concept of "Hygge" or Scandinavian coziness through small pleasures definitely got some traction.

There's probably tons of French and Parisian slang you use everyday and take for granted that would make fine brand names. I always like the way people use the word "Mec" on the streets of Paris, loosely translated as "Dude" in popular American parlance. "Zarb" is another good one. "Fric", "Gnac", "Kif", etc.

Bonne chance!

mquentin · 9 years ago
Nice idea ! I'll explore this direction, definitely ! merci beaucoup
mquentin commented on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?    · Posted by u/mdoliwa
csallen · 9 years ago
Back in August I launched https://IndieHackers.com, a site where the founders of profitable online businesses share their stories and revenue transparently. I actually got the idea after reading lots of threads like this one on HN :D

Indie Hackers is my full-time job now. Is it "successful"? I think so! I've done over 90 interviews, and they've been read over one million times in the past 5 months, largely by you guys! I also made $2239 in December and hope to grow revenue another 50% in January. (As I do every month, I just blogged about that here: https://IndieHackers.com/blog)

I'm working on a podcast as well that I'm really excited about, as I've found it's a bit easier to get famous founders to agree to that format and to speak transparently about behind the scenes details.

mquentin · 9 years ago
Man I love your website - so inspiring !
mquentin commented on Usefule online notepad with LocalStorage   webep.fr/projets/n/... · Posted by u/mquentin
mquentin · 11 years ago
Feel free to submit any recommendations / improvements. thanks!

u/mquentin

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