<story><title>Bootstrapping My Side Project to $6k/Month</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/@EO/how-i-bootstrapped-my-side-project-to-6k-mo-hating-everything-it-stood-for-43c35faa25</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acangiano</author><text>This literally happened to Max Howell, the guy behind homebrew.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mxcl&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mxcl&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jcadam</author><text>Depends... how fast can he implement an AVL binary search tree on a whiteboard?</text></item><item><author>stillsut</author><text>This guy: A.) makes stuff, B.) The stuff works and is useful to other people c.) Challenged himself to drill into the &amp;quot;crass&amp;quot; business side to make himself far more profitable.&lt;p&gt;But would anyone here in a cool startup hire him?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jliptzin</author><text>Something similarly hilarious happened to me. I sold an app I built to a company in the 6 figures. I was the sole developer on the app. The sale had already gone through and they (obviously) needed someone to help maintain the app. Rather than just offer me a job, they insisted I go in for a technical interview with their engineering manager -- after buying the app I had built 100% myself. That and a few other clues scared me away and I ended up working for a competitor which went on to become much much more successful.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bootstrapping My Side Project to $6k/Month</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/@EO/how-i-bootstrapped-my-side-project-to-6k-mo-hating-everything-it-stood-for-43c35faa25</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acangiano</author><text>This literally happened to Max Howell, the guy behind homebrew.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mxcl&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mxcl&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jcadam</author><text>Depends... how fast can he implement an AVL binary search tree on a whiteboard?</text></item><item><author>stillsut</author><text>This guy: A.) makes stuff, B.) The stuff works and is useful to other people c.) Challenged himself to drill into the &amp;quot;crass&amp;quot; business side to make himself far more profitable.&lt;p&gt;But would anyone here in a cool startup hire him?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guessmyname</author><text>It was clear from the very beginning that the decision was more on the &amp;quot;culture fit&amp;quot; side than the knowledge. His attitude shows this and then is confirmed after he quit Apple &lt;i&gt;(who hired him no long after Google&amp;#x27;s rejection)&lt;/i&gt; and he — himself — stated in a message via Twitter that Apple&amp;#x27;s work environment was not for him.&lt;p&gt;Reversing a binary tree is not that difficult, and a good interviewer &lt;i&gt;(specially the ones at Google)&lt;/i&gt; already know this, but if the interviewee shows an angry face out of frustration and doesn&amp;#x27;t ask for help or doesn&amp;#x27;t communicates his inability to proceed with such task, then what does the interviewer says? Rejection!&lt;p&gt;Interviewers also evaluate your communication skills.</text></comment>