Ian999

Here are the properties I'm looking for:

- be able to transfer <$5 to lots of thousands of people

- get minimally intrusive information from users

- high user likelihood they can already accept it

Here are the properties I'm looking for:

- be able to transfer <$5 to lots of thousands of people

- get minimally intrusive information from users

- high user likelihood they can already accept it

We have a website that we are trying to monetize with ads. Google Adsense has been rejecting us due to Covid delays.

What are the best alternatives to Adsense? Has anyone done a proper study of CPM among the top ad networks? Everything I find online is so spammy and hard to ascertain legitimacy.

I’ve really enjoyed biographies in the tech space (Jobs, Bezos, etc). I’m working on a project more in the social media space. Are there any good books on Facebook or Instagram focusing more on the startup process than the drama?

I'm looking to give away even something as simple as $5 or a video game card. I want to giveway this daily. But most giveways require getting a bunch of information from users or taking a lot of time to order 100+ of them.

If I think a youtube video will get popular, is there anything I can do to buy ads/sell ads to monetize that. Or any other way?

Hi, I work in quant finance and spend a lot of time with data. I also get headaches 3-4 times a week. I would like to collect data on myself with various sensors. I know there are simple things like a fitbit to collect data but how can I discover what other data I can collect?

Often people think crptocurrencies can be valued with this formula. Having trouble conceptualizing this. Can someone come with a simple example of a currency with 10 units that a brand new tiny country of 2 people use and how this would play out with the value of the units?

If I have an Instagram that I truly believe has great content but doesn't have many followers. What paid resources or mechanisms do people suggest? I have tried promotions within Instagram but I don't get many follows, just likes and comments (people enjoy the content).

Everything I google search for is the epitome of the shady internet. Was hoping the Hacker News community could provide some legitimate sources. I don't want to directly pay for fake accounts but genuinely help advertise the account. Thank you.

I understand crypto can work with micro transactions but it's unclear to me that usd would not work. I know it's expensive through the credit card model but surely some version of mobile could be adopted.

I see all these new y combinator companies/things people post on hacker news that would greatly help with various projects. For example, maybe I would like to use Stripe for my payments or Amazon S3 for storing data. But then there are less known companies like RankScience (randomly googled) that can help with your product. Is there a site that can help you find these more nuanced services?

I often read through new y combinator companies and think - oh I could use that, that would be useful. But I'm sure there are plenty of more established services that I just don't know about and wouldn't think to google but are super useful.

I have a project I want to work on. I need to use Amazon EC2, S3, webscrape, and a couple other things. I don't mind spending money to get the work done but I would also like to learn to do it myself. I've been going through resources online and it's a bit much to learn given I also work. Is there a site I can list out what I want to do or the skill set I need and have someone instead of do it, guide me through the process? Almost like a hands on consultant who could otherwise do themselves but I would also get a teacher.

I have some experience programming but want to work on a side project that would require me to have Reddit pages stored every minute. I would probably just work with the top subreddits to start.

I basically want the titles, # upvotes, # of commments stored every minute. I want to do this on new, rising, controversial, and hot.

I've done some research and I can only find people have pulled the data at one point in time vs continuously which I need.

Questions: 1. Do any of you know if this has been done somewhere (don't want to reinvent the wheel)?

2. If I were to do this, what languages/resources should I use? (I will be interacting with their API)

3. I would be willing to spend a couple thousand dollars to store the data on the cloud (I have no sense of how much it will cost). I figure if I build and run for one day, I can get a sense but if anyone has any sense before I do, if this will cost way more than that, please let me know.

4. Any other advice is welcome.

Even though I would be willing to spend that money on a server, I don't want to pay someone to do this for me, I want to learn. If the data is somewhere already, in that case I may entertain paying.

Did some Googling for learning VBA for Excel and didn't find any standout resources. I know some java and python. Anyone have any suggestions of resources they have found useful. Thank you!