Solo Entrepreneur | Lead Software Architect
The value hypothesis We defined the value hypothesis for Stark some time ago. We hypothesised that customers wanted a quick way to get professional interior design ideas. In fact, we proposed that customers would forgo Pinterest and pay us to get personalised design tips. MVP To validate our initial hypothesis,...
When we launched Stark, the target market was young professionals who had just bought their first house. We hypothesised that our potential customers would be searching for ideas by room. Using our extensive experience (aka a chat over a couple of soy latte’s at the local hipster cafe), we came...
My partner and I bought a house in Norwich, UK almost exactly two years ago. We were looking for a project. Something that allowed us to flex our creative muscles and really put our mark on it. Two years on and we’ve almost finished our home makeover, but it didn’t...
I recently had to copy an S3 bucket from one account to another. Here”s the steps required. In the AWS account you want to copy from, allow the account you want to copy to access. { "Version": "2008-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Sid": "AccountBAccess1", "Principal": { "AWS": "XXXXXXXX" },...
Here’s a little bash script I’ve been using to backup ec2 instances #!/bin/bash #Before running this script, add the following to your ~/.bashrc #export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=your_access_key #export AWS_SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key #export AWS_REGION=eu-west-1 # initialize the EC2 environment [ -e /etc/profile.d/aws-apitools-common.sh ] && source /etc/profile.d/aws-apitools-common.sh # load the access keys source ~/.bashrc # locate...