I have the same issue I used the site glitch to learn Hopefully it works for you

The book that have an impact on me is “so good, that they can’t ignore you”.

I started reading this book after my startup failed. I was looking for a job and I have this mindset that I need to find this perfect job to fit my passion. So the job hunting took sometime.

Picking up this book helps me understand there is not much need for passion but more on the development of my talent and skills. It’s listed as a self-help book so some might dislike it.

However the book did shed a different light on me. I’m in my new role for about two years now and within this period I gotten a double promotion.

Do I love the work I do? Not really, it’s product ops mainly so people find you to fix “issues”. However it does improved my skills a lot especially in the area of managing cross functional teams .

I think this book is great for people going through career transition. And it changed the way I view passion.

Hi there

My name is Bryan and I'm one of the co-founders of a local company Intraix. Our company has been selected to be one of the vendors and is involved in the HDB Smart Home Trials with a local Telco - M1. I am pretty sure I would be able to paint out perspectives from different spectrums of this conversation.

In term of data protection and ensuring security,

The agencies involved in the smart home trial did put in a lot of effort to ensure that all companies in the program complies to the [Personal Data Protection Act] (https://www.pdpc.gov.sg/legislation-and-guidelines/overview) with very stringent criteria to data handling passed down to all the vendors.

As a matter of fact, our system had to face penetration tests conducted by Ernst and Young, a big 4 Auditing Firm before we can even get past the initial gates of entrance. I’m not saying that these measures are perfect but I believe the agencies, especially the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) is really serious about data privacy.

> As a matter of fact, our system had to face penetration tests conducted by Ernst and Young, a big 4 Auditing Firm

Auditing is not about security. It's about checking if proper procedures are in place, separation of duties, there's "access control", etc.

One thing it'll miss out on is the security of the system. You say that they performed penetration tests, but IMO saying that E&Y performed it makes me doubt the security.

FWIW, company I work for also has the big auditing firms (all of them) come along and perform audits.

>As a matter of fact, our system had to face penetration tests conducted by Ernst and Young, a big 4 Auditing Firm

I really can't tell whether this is serious or just Poe's law in action.

Hello there, My name is Bryan, I run a small business in Singapore. Have been using Linode Cloud Services since 2013. In the last 4 months, I have gotten 6 emails regarding physical hardware issues from Linode. Each email it states the following:

Our administrators have detected an issue affecting the physical hardware your Linode resides on. We’re working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and will update this ticket as soon as we have more information.

The frequency of the disruption is affect my business and the post above shares what exactly happens. I also have some questions in mind that I like to hear your views.

1. There are many independent business owners and startups founders here who are using Linode services too, are you having the facing the same problem with the physical hardware issues?

2. Am I wrong to ask for 2 months compensation? Although the might be "short" but it is frequent. I believe that having frequent disruption is worst than the time that it actually occurs

3. If 2 months is wrong, what is a good compensation to ask for? Or should I just change the vendor (I did not want to change because Linode used to give very good services) until now

Thank you and looking to hear your advice.

We've also had some reboots in our server fleet. Problem is their e-mail is send in such a short notice we cannot anticipate the problem.

We've had servers in LInode without any issue for almost a yer, but this hardware related reboots have started to become a real problem for us in the last frew weeks.

This is for me a clear no-no regarding choosing Linode as a production platform for some of our clients. They better get their act together, as one can envision a lot of users migrating to the likes of AWS or Digital Ocean.

I don't use Linode, but isn't this essentially what you expect when you're using shared hosting on a budget?

If there's an issue with the hardware, they need to migrate the VMs.

Hi, but Linode is not a shared hosting service. It is offers virtual private server services. you can say it is like a kind of VM.

> A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. from wiki

Quite right, but you are sharing the service and hardware with thousands of other users.

You are also sharing hardware in AWS and there hardware issues have less frecuence and much less impact, is a problem in Linode, not in VPS technology, imho.

you are right, I might be getting ahead of myself. Because tbh I only have 30 users right now :D But I thought it would be good to have a propose business model in mind before moving deeper into the project.

As for the site to allow users to repost their image > I like this. Maybe I can create a tumblr site and allow users to submit photos.

Thanks for the suggestions.

hey :D amazon affiliate link is a great idea too, and you are right that I would need to make it transparent for the users. Maybe I could also test on the following hypothesis that "people who loves using-smart phone for photos, might be interested in camera pdts as well" - I could be sharing some of the camera items I brought off amazon.

And I really like the way you rephase my question."How can I make these emails absolutely delightful to users?"

Thanks

thanks for the reply and suggestions. I agreed and feels that sponsorships (in this case) might work better for me. JV is definitely something interesting for me to try out too.

I realised that dkokelley and you shared a common advice for me and that is to grow the users first. I totally agreed with that.

This is my first web app too. So I also I like to ask in your opinion and dkokelley how long would you give your pdt/service a chance to reach product market fit? Currently I have on 30 signups. What if after 3 months it stands at 300 users? Do you use number of users as a metric?

Thank you :D

Sign ups will help you determine your cost to acquire a customer and how predictable that can be.. I'd look at that more than raw sign up numbers.. Also, how many people do you need to make money?

yep. just check them out. there is no business model for the users. How do you find the service Ben? I read a post that they used to send daily emails. Do they still do that?

I get daily iOS notifications. I have a feeling if I didn't open the application then I would get an email which is a really nice way of handling notifications.

oH. Did not know of Timehop. Just check them out. I would say the service is much similar, just that Timehop is a mobile app. While mine behaves much like a newsletter.

Thanks for sharing.