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There are plenty of great frameworks for single-pages applications (Angular, Ember, Backbone, ...) that each offer their own interpretations on how to develop. Take Ember for example (only because I am familiar with it). It provides you with all of the scaffolding and plumbing you need for most SPA requirements. It is opinionated on how to structure and build your application and offers tools and abstractions to do so. I like this as it takes a huge number of decisions out of the process when building a new app so that you can concentrate on being productive.

When building vanilla websites though, you are largely left to develop that structure yourself. These websites need Javascript but aren't entirely powered by Javascript. You can use tools and libraries (Grunt, gulp, bower, SASS, coffeescript, ...) but how you use them is really up to you. When the website gets large enough, these home-made solutions generally get complicated and difficult to maintain. There doesn't seem to be a framework or approach aimed at plain websites that don't want single page functionality.

How are you creating your website frontends?

I've noticed this trend now where you are first asked for your username or email first, then the page reloads with the password box separately. This is really annoying if you use a password manager as you sometimes have to open it twice. Where has this come from? Is it safer?

I signed up and verified for a current account with Number26 today. They're a EU (in 6 countries) online-only, mobile-first bank:

- https://number26.eu

I have to say I'm very impressed with this. I was able to sign up within 10 minutes and have an IBAN. This involved using the app to start a video call with a representative and take a picture of my password as well as verifying some information. I'm now waiting for my Mastercard to arrive.

Has anyone else set up and used an account day-to-day?

I live in Europe. When working for clients in The States I charge in USD. This means I have to up my rate to take the exchange rate etc. into account. I've been considering changing and charging solely in Euros from now on (and lowering my rate accordingly). Thoughts?

I'm a programmer who want to start a business (app or service). I have a potential partner to work with. I want to bootstrap. What books should I read?

I'm a developer that has been tasked with helping an online e-commerce client make their first permanent tech-hire (in an existing non-technical team of 4).

This person will have broad responsibilities in a company that is looking to expand their tech rapidly

Anyway, I'm having trouble with how to approach the job description. I understand it's difficult to ask for advice with such sparse details but it would be great to get some general tips of people who have written job description and hired. What worked, what didn't work, what tone should be used, how should responsibilities be addressed etc.

I'm a freelance web developer. I primarily develop locally using Sublime Text 3 but I'd love to change this and be able to develop entirely remotely on a VPS. I've tried a couple of times to get into using Vim but I've found it quite difficult.

How many others are developing like this and what tools and resources can you recommend?

I'm a freelance web developer and I'm planning on putting together a general purpose web development contract for future projects. I was hoping to get a feeling of what I should be covering in the contract. I'd love to make a easy to read, non-legalese contract that covers the basics (payment, ownership, expectations, work hours etc.) which would give a client an introduction to my terms and be tweaked on a per-project basis.

I understand that I/WANAL & YMMV etc. but it would be nice to see what people are using themselves.

I'm a recovering freelancer that recently picked up "Start Small, Stay Small"* from a thread here on HN and it really resonated with me.

I have been freelancing very informally over the last few years but I find myself totally unable to progress. My contract work has fizzled out and I haven't been able to get the energy or passion together to replace it with more. I've gone through numerous cycles of trying to love freelancing followed by total burnout & disillusionment. Put simply, I feel like I'm stagnating.

I'm a good all-round web developer and communicator so I would like to draw on this and work on my own stuff. I love the freedom of freelancing and I can't see myself working for somebody else (nor would my CV allow for it at this stage). Due to unfortunate family circumstance I'm living back in the family home which gives me the opportunity to try things while still living rent-free so I'd like to grasp that.

I'm sure there are many others here on HN that are making their living via their own software so I'd love to get some advice and resources to help get me motivated and broken-in?

- For those who didn't have breakaway successes upfront, how did you get started and, in particular, motivated?

- How did you generate ideas and then focus on them?

- How did you fail? What ideas didn't work and how many of them did you have?

- What resources did you use? Lectures, classes, sites, books, blogs etc.?

* http://www.startupbook.net/