Russell Smith

Auto Auction Life

Side projects are fun, especially when they scratch a personal itch. Bring-a-trailer-map is such a side project; starting as a…

Bring a trailer…map.

If you’ve not heard of BringATrailer.com, then you’ll likely not be into cars too heavily. It’s a pretty simple concept —…

Bad vs Good metrics

This is part of a series of posts taken from me moderating a group for Y Combinator Startup School. If you’d like more…

Startup School 2018

For the second time running, I’m giving time to moderate a group for Y Combinator’s Startup School. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s a 10-week online course starting on the 28th of August. This time my group will be Group 58.

The (actual) art of over-engineering your side projects

This morning I read this post — “The art of over-engineering your side projects” — and I think it’s missing a few things. Liam’s post covers (imho) what it takes to have a successful side project that-might-be-a-actual-thing-one-day…

Fun with Toshi: Building a Simple Ethereum Faucet Dapp

How to compose Great Meeting Requests

How to make it as easy as possible for someone to say yes to your meeting or call

If you’re trying to meet with someone more important than you, or just want a higher chance of someone…

What are the top challenges as a QA tester in software or web development?

From what I’ve seen at Rainforest QA and before these are the top 5 most common challenges:

1. Getting good, solid requirements from product or engineering — this is never easy…

What is the cost of hosting a website with Google Cloud?

I’ve been asked this a number of times. It’s another “it depends” question. Hosting a website could be near free these days, especially if you’re just serving some HTML and Javascript. However, if your website is Netflix, then it’s…