Dear Hackers,
Welcome to November! October was a good month for Hacker Noon. We published 791 tech stories, and exceeded 10 million minutes reading while averaging 128,722 readers per day. I’m debating how to triple those numbers because three’s a great number. If you have any ideas or would like to work together, message us.
One tech thought for your week: It’s easier than ever to start a tech company (build a decent product, gain traction, make $$$), but it’s near impossible to scale a tech company without a dependence on FAAMG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google).
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Onto This Week’s Top Twenty Tech Stories:
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Crypto Columns
We already know blockchain’s killer apps by Haseeb Qureshi
What Will Bitcoin Look Like in Twenty Years? by Daniel Jeffries
The Coming Era of the Zombie Token? by Eric Risley
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Deep Learning
What is a CapsNet or Capsule Network? by Debarko De 🦁
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Hackathon
Proffer announces Blockchain Hackathon with Govt of India, Coinbase, Microsoft, IBM by Anshul Bhagi
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IoT
Four options for building an IoT hardware product as a Fortune 500 company by Mindtribe
Smart Car Hacking: A Major Problem For IoT by DeviceHive
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Software Development
A Guide to creating Web Applications with React and Redux by Angelos Chalaris
Angular v5 is Out! Here is How to Explore It by Dor Moshe
How I landed my post-bootcamp software developer job in just seven weeks by Sophia Ciocca
How software projects got their name by Amit Merchant
Silicon Valley’s Top Product Managers Use Feature Flags — And You Should Too by Justin Baker
The Services Stack Quickly spin up a microservices stack on AWS by Randy Findley
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Startup Life
Founder Interview (w/ our weekly sponsor): Building the First Independent Marketplace for Developer Services
How to validate assumptions for your product before you even launch by jordangonen
Paperclips Anonymous: Startup lessons from a virtual stationery entrepreneur by Tim Dempsey
Student Founders, Here’s How to Ace your YC Interview by Natalie
Why Every Startup is Like an Indiana Jones film! by Riz Virk
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Venture Capital
Marketplaces and pricing An approach to building for growth through pricing by Parth Sethi
Our Startup Fund is a Duck Not a Swan by Bernard Moon
Until next time, don’t take the realities for granted.
Kind Regards,