Career, commerce and project / task management in questions and answers at the Toaster

Especially for the readers of “Megamind”, our editorial board decided to collect and summarize in one place the most interesting questions on the whole range of topics related to our resource, for the last calendar month - September.

It turned out a lot of them, as well as answers on the most acute and topical issues posed and resolved by users of the community.

Want to find out what is being asked on the “Toaster” and how to answer questions in the field of business, career and project management?

Section "E-commerce"

Interest Ask:
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- “A question to those who work as a PI for a currency - at which bank do you have an account?”

Hello!

Question to people who work in a foreign market (upwork, appstore, etc.) and report as an individual entrepreneur:
1) In which bank do you have an account?
2) If you wanted to change the bank, then which one would you change? Why?

Thank!

Who cares?
The bank is chosen according to the convenience of its location, the electronic bank is now available to everyone, the service costs + - the same.
Let's say you live in Moscow in the south, that you will go to a bank in the north across the whole of Moscow on the recommendation?
For the most part, you have to go to the bank near the house and just see whether they are satisfied with you or not, well, if they work with currency control.

I use Alfa-Bank, Raffazen Bank and Sberbank.
In the case of Sberbank, I do not recommend it, a couple of times they made me run because of all the paperwork and their assurances. Scans and other crap in a foreign language is not accepted.

Alfa-Bank has a crap service, but it is a very good online office, there were no problems.
Raiffeisen Bank had no problems at all, brought them basic waste paper on the contract, PayPal accounts and others. Accepted, everything is OK.

- “3-6 separate IM sites or 1 large?”

If there are a lot of product names and child categories planned, then it may make sense to use subdomains as in your first variant.

Adjacent services on a separate site are not required to be removed, just use your own section of type / services for them

Section "Finance"

Interest Ask:

- “How to restore access to PayPal?”

Access to the email address specified in PayPal is lost, but there is a mobile number tied to the account, when trying to restore to which it writes:

For the security of the selected phone number can not be confirmed. Select another phone number.

The problem is that a bank USD account is tied to PayPal Privat24. Actually, is it possible to link the same dollar account in the same bank to a new PayPal account with confirmation ($ 2.95, it seems) if it has already been confirmed to another PayPal account?

You can add a bank account at one time. However, if approved, you must be able to pay. You will be informed when you have been approved.

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Why don't you solve your problems with a stick caliper?

- “How easy is it to get paid with AdSense?”

The most convenient option through the service Rapida

Rapida is currently the most ideal option. I deduce through it to an ordinary Sberbank salary maestro.

Section "Jurisprudence"

Interest Ask:

- “What can you attract?”

Good afternoon, let's say I want on my server that is at home to launch a torrent tracker. What will the police be able to attract if, when looking for equipment, everything turns out to be encrypted.

To nothing.
Only here the presence of files and services on your server is not the only way to prove guilt, if there is one.

- “What documents are needed for registration of copyright on the site design?”

A site is a complex product, various elements of which may be protected by various legal instruments (ie, as trademarks, inventions, industrial designs, computer programs, databases, other objects of copyright).
To document the rights to the RID (results of intellectual activity) that belong to you as a customer, state them explicitly in the contract, and after the work is completed, detail the result as much as possible, for example, as an attachment to the Act of Work Acceptance, which may contain screenshots site flowcharts, listings, user cases, etc.
Then you will have a certain time to decide on the method of patent protection of IP (six months for an invention, twelve months for an industrial design). As inventions, it is possible to patent the algorithms for obtaining and processing information, as industrial designs, graphic design elements.
The rights to textual and some graphic elements of the site can be documented by depositing with a publication or without publishing in the depository objects of copyright (for example, such a service is in the Russian State Library).
Computer programs and databases can be registered with the patent office by partial deposition in text form.
Logos, names and slogans can be tried to be registered in the patent office as trademarks (including, volume, sound, etc.).
However, the main thing here is to decide whether you need it all, since the cost of a set of measures for the protection of rights can repeatedly exceed the amount indicated by you for development (about 120-150k).

"Copyright" section

Interest Ask:
- “Domain and name LLC are the same as the company abroad?”

Dear!
Going to register an LLC
I registered a domain for the company, xxxx.ru, despite the fact that there is a similar domain for a company in Ukraine, but in the xxx.com.ua zone
The name of the LLC should be in Russian and in the foreign language - if desired, what if you use the English version of the name XXX, if there is a company with the same name (in English) in Ukraine?
In Russia, it is not, completely.

The name of the LLC and the domain name are different things.
LLC "Cornflower" in the Russian Federation can be any number, the TIN will only be different. But you need to take a closer look at the domain name and not register something very similar to other brands (google help), otherwise they will be taken away (read about xerox and how they don’t consider similar domains).
You can protect a domain starting with Rospatent (registration and obtaining a certificate for a domain name without .ru or .com). And do not confuse this with the registration of a domain with registrars - they, in other words, only rent a domain without the rights to it.
Here, read: "How to choose a name for an IT product and an IT company . " After this article, I picked up the title for a month, and waited another year and a half for a certificate for a domain from Rospatent

Section "Internet advertising"

Interest Ask:

- “How much can you earn on a startup blog?”

Good day, friends!

Maybe my question will be a hackneyed topic, but when searching the Internet I found only blurred information. There is no specific data anywhere. And interested in the following. How much can you earn on a blog that 2 people will keep trying to post interesting author articles (2 - articles per week at least each) about creating your own startup and programming questions for a startup application? Notice, I'm not talking about attendance, it is not known, but it is known that 4 large articles per week will be laid out. It is planned with the help of this blog to collect a certain community before launching the project, it is possible to find intelligent programmers and raise initial capital for the development of the project. It seems to me that this idea is taking place, but we have problems with the calculation of profits and, accordingly, the prediction of costs and break-even point in the business plan. Yes, and you yourself want to know what to expect. Who is blogging, please share your experience. I know that it will take about half a year to promote a blog, I know a little about SEO promotion, but my further knowledge at this level ends. Thanks in advance for your replies.

Somehow one person asked me: can I earn on my blog a paid university tuition? This is 50 000 rubles a year then. 50 000/12 = 4166 rubles per month. I said - yes, how much money can be earned on a blog. But it will be the only 4166 that he will receive per month.

Look for another way to make money, run a blog from the heart and in the case. Maybe sometime in your blog will accumulate materials so that the banner network, or even individual banners will begin to bring some income.

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It is planned with the help of this blog to collect a certain community before launching the project, it is possible to find intelligent programmers and raise initial capital for the development of the project.

Target audience and seed capital are more effectively sought in other ways. Through already known popular sites where the target audience already lives. Through exchanges where developers live. And through the sites where the capital lives. I will say that only a blog, especially in the first six months, will not give any audience or capital.

However, the success story of startups were different and information about this could be absolutely inconsistent.
Some started from scratch, made only a promotional site (conventionally, like a blog, but with a stretch - there are very few pages) with reliable and high-quality information about the idea and at every corner shouted about their project, attracting audiences and capital. If the audience was going, they started to make a massive product.
Some made a high-quality product for a limited audience, a small batch, prototypes, and only then engaged in promotion, having a real product and real reviews. At this moment they created a blog or a promo site.

It seems to me that this idea is taking place, but we have problems with the calculation of profits and, accordingly, the prediction of costs and break-even point in the business plan.

I do not want to stop the flight of fantasy and the fountains of enthusiasm. On the uplift a lot of good things have been done. However, I think someone from your team needs to surf the Internet and buy books on the organization of their business, that is, about startups, business models, business plans, marketing, project management. In fact, this is a very interesting topic for self-education.

Google Analytics section

Interest Ask:

- “How to remove a canceled order from Metrics and Analytics statistics?”

Good day,
The metric is integrated with the site. E-commerce is set up in Anlytics.
As soon as a person transfers from the site to payment, the amount of his order is recorded in the statistics and displayed in the "Revenue" column.
There are those who have not paid. Their amounts are substantial and spoil everything.

How to manually delete canceled orders later? To their amount disappeared from the "Income".
A) to Analytics (I've heard for a long time that you need to send the same request, only the order amount should be with a minus).
B) in Metric

Maybe someone solved the problem.
Or met the link where it is described in detail.
Or give a piece of code, instead of a thousand words. The programmer will figure it out.

1. GA: https: //support.google.com/analytics/answer/601486 ...
2. Metrics can not yet

Section "CRM"

Interest Ask:

- “Easy project manager with a full Russian version with a thoughtful / logical / simple interface?”

Please tell the project manager based on important requirements:

1. The possibility of a simple guest access to the project, without restrictions on their number (number of guests). In this case, the guest by the link should immediately get on the project, without registration. View, comment, download everything.

2. Guests are Soviet accountants and sometimes managers. Very often in quite respectable age. They often have ie 6 and stupor at the sight of the drag n grop functional. I would like all the tools and buttons to be as simple as possible in Russian. Maybe the interface will be a bit clumsy, but understandable for this category. It is important that there were not only buttons, but also inscriptions nearby: download, comment, and so on. I would like the page to load as quickly as possible, with a white background and a minimum of graphics. And she didn’t demand anything from the guests (no registration, no confirmation of the address and God forbid, or whatever).

3. It would be possible to bring the project page as much as possible to the corporate view (even for money): put a logo, remove all unnecessary links on the basis of what and by whom the manager is made.

- I watched several large projects: trello, slack, asana, podio, basecamp, google-drive, todoist, github, smartsheet. Sometimes there is no Russian localization, all the tools are very overloaded, very complex guest access, almost always requiring something from the user. The podio seemed the closest to everyone, and I am now exploring its possibilities, but I would like to ask you about your personal experience.

Confluence ;)

Section "Internet"

Interest Ask:

- “How to divide shares in the project?”

I have a project. I coded it myself, and recently received the first PR, and the first 900 registrations. Now I have found people: a programmer and a PR marketing specialist. They are ready to work 2-3 days a week, for a share. (The programmer is studying, the marketer is working on the job, ready to go full-time in the case of salary.)
After two days, must make them an offer.

To what share to give?
And what if you have to sell a share to an investor? Should we sell equal shares from ours, or only from mine?

As for the precautions to be observed: I think the period of vesting will be set for three years, and the cliff for one year.

And what if you have to sell a share to an investor? Should we sell equal shares from ours, or only from mine?

As you decide at each stage, so be it. Yes, usually proportional.

To what share to give?

It depends on what the expected contribution at the stage to salaries, and in general, how much you estimate the possible contribution of each.
You can hardly offer concrete numbers at all now, firstly you didn’t see people in the business, secondly, especially about the marketer, you may have to try different people with different approaches, thirdly, it’s unclear how long the work without salaries and etc.
If in principle sales are planned, depending on the marketer, his income can be made dependent on sales.

Startups section

Interest Ask:

- “How to start developing a large service?”

Friends, I encountered such a problem: for more than 2 years I’ve been carrying out the idea of ​​one service, about 2 years ago I started writing the first version of the application for it, but when the working version was almost finished, I realized that applications aren’t being written this way and this version cannot be supported (and the development process has come to a standstill). I wrote the first version without using frameworks, just in PHP, JS, etc. Since then, I have learned programming and I want to write a new version of the project using Laravel 5.1, bootstrap-3, etc., but now I’ve written an application, I realized that I don’t know where to start development. I have an old application on the network: sprashivai123.w.pw/profile.php?userID=3 (I ask to abstract from the very idea and implementation, the question is not about that). I want to implement at least the same functionality for a start. The question is: where do I start developing a web application like mine? In my work, I will use the PHP framework Laravel 5.1

how do i start developing a web application

Begin with functional decomposition. I recommend, for simplicity, to create a story map project: storiesonboard.com

Then divide everything into releases, select those features that should be included in the MVP (not yet a finished product, but that minimal set of features that makes the product already minimally useful).

Well, something like this. As far as I understand, you want to do something in the spirit of ask.fm or similar nonsense, and therefore there will be nothing super complicated here. The only question is the sequence of how you will organize the development process itself. If the service starts to grow (“big” service is a very subjective thing) - you can think about microservices.

By experience I will say this:
1. Read what schemes of the application already exist.
2. Draw a basic diagram of the interaction of application components.
3. Think over the logic of each component and connections on the leaf, in a notebook.
4. When the figure shows that all components are marked, all the connections are drawn, and the scheme as a whole is finished, then ONLY then start programming the components.

start with API. Some functions should be API.
some data must be objects.
what kind of functionality should be the core
some must be modules

Section "Project Management"

Interest Ask:

- “With the help of which program you can monitor the work of a freelancer?”

I will need to show the client that I do not browse the sites of 18+ (and others off topic) during work. For this, I know a program from an appork, which randomly scrolls the screen every 10 minutes. But the problem is that I do not want to pay through the apvork because of the 10% that they withdraw. There is an option: let the time drips, and the client pays separately. But, as far as I know, it will negatively affect my reputation. If, all of a sudden, I have several thousand unpaid hours.
Attention, question:
1) Do unpaid hours of upwork affect a freelancer’s reputation?
2) What good, preferably free, programs for “spying” for a freelancer do you know / use?

They do not withdraw 10%, but provide a whole range of services that frees the freelancer and the customer from administrative bosses, and also helps the freelancer in his promotion. It is better to kill the toad and invest time and energy in a positive direction.

By this, you violate the rules of the apvorka, as soon as this emerges, you will receive a life ban without the right to rehabilitate and register another account.

2. worksnaps.com - worked with this program. Makes randomly screenshots and shows the time of your work.

Services Section

Interest Ask:

- “What was the name of the site where you could get a picture of your site on different devices?”

Remember the website on which there were photo templates with devices and you could get a picture of your website on this device directly on the image template and download it?

frame.lab25.co.uk - often used it

Section "Analytics"

Interest Ask:

- “What is better to study for the future business analyst?”

The preamble is this: I am a third year student; One of the possible options for future employment is a job as a business analyst; there is a craving for programming, but on a serious level I never did it, (at the university there was a little python, pluses, sql, vba, web development).
Well, now the essence. Now the choice of coursework begins, which can to some extent determine topics and diplomas, well, the main thing will help to get some skills to work. I consider two options; Take a topic to implement, which can be done using qlikview or similar tools, or else there is a topic related to hierarchical
clustering and implementation in python. Need your advice, what's more useful in the future? Does it even make sense to bother with a python? How relevant is it in the field of analytics and just not for pure programmers? I really need advice from people who understand this business.
PS Sorry, if there is a lot of text, it really bothers me

It seems that the answer to the question posed is better to be found among those who, at work, constantly analyze data, and not among pythonists.

A Google search for the phrase “python data analysis” already shows, and that python is used for this much more often than, say, C ++, java, php, and others, and yes, python, due to the low threshold of entry, is popular among non-professional programmers.

From free funds, the python competitor in this business is r (in search engines it is better to search by “r-project”)

Career section

Interest Ask:

- “Is nutrition really important for a programmer’s brain (from a scientific point of view)?”

Hello!

1) Often I see articles, saying how important it is to eat programmers and other people of mental work correctly, eat more fruits, nuts, juices, wholesome fish and other vitamins / minerals. And also to exclude fatty foods, alcohol and smoking. It seems that from the point of view of science this is all justified, and if you don’t listen, your brain works inefficiently and is aging even faster.

2) On the other hand, I see a bunch of programmers sweating dead on Fridays (and sometimes not only on Fridays), drinking beer at work (if at home), smoking in offices, eating a fat kebab, fast food and who also seem to be working fine too , Solve quickly assigned tasks and "do not soar." And they do not care about scientific articles about cholesterol, which clogs the blood vessels and prevents blood from delivering oxygen to the brain in the right quantity, they do not soar at all, that alcohol / nicotine destroys any spherical neurons of the brain in a vacuum. And I’m sure if you ask these people how you live, work normally, don’t get sick, you’ll probably get the answer “yes, I’m just not worried, and you don’t worry, have a better beer” or you need to rest, go shish kebab with vodka Khryapnya on weekends "

Where is the truth?)

On the other hand, I see a bunch of programmers thumping on Fridays to die

Some little explanatory among them somehow.

they do not soar at all that alcohol / nicotine destroys some spherical neurons of the brain in a vacuum

Yeah, and more recent studies say that Nicatin kills only weak and diseased brain cells, thereby reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease. So it is questionable whether it is harmful. Of course there are resins and carcinogens, which lead to cancer, etc. but this is the subject of a separate dispute. .

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Interest Ask:

- “What program to choose / adapt to control the development of recipes?”

Comrades, I appeal for your expert opinion for the creative solution of the problem:
One cooking studio asked for help in order to systematize their unrestrained creative process of creating recipes. More than 500 dishes that are constantly updated, become obsolete, and new ones are added.

Need a system with the ability to:
a) Track the “development” and “release” stages step by step (statuses)
b) return ready meals for revision
c) Link documents (photos, tables, texts, checklists), add comments, links, etc.
d) to conduct joint development online, since people can be in different cities and countries

Desired system requirements:
- can be used remotely or through the application (iOS)
- you can allow and restrict access to third parties
- maximum interface simplicity
- democratic price tag
- communication with other systems (1C and CRM Tallanto) whenever possible
- rus / eng interface
- building reports

I suggest a connection with Jira Agile and Confluence. Perhaps you would think of something more appropriate?

If money allows - your choice is quite ok. In principle, you can still try redmine.

Look at PlanFix .
a) Customizable statuses
b) return for revision = transfer to one of the previous statuses, if I correctly understood the task
c) everything develops into one entity (by the ideology of the system it is called a task) and is stored there in a convenient form, with a preview, etc. Additionally, you can conduct analytics in different sections that are configured by the administrator.
d) this is implied by default, as Plan Fix is ​​SaaS

According to the list of desired requirements:
- there is a web and mobile version. well adapted for smartphones and tablets
- very flexible system of access rights, if you wish, you can even close a separate comment
- evaluate the interface yourself
- the price tag is democratic
- communication with other systems through API
- interfaces Russian, English. Ukrainian. moreover, they are configured for each user separately - people with different interface languages ​​can work in one account
- custom reports for tasks (dishes), including additional details created by the users themselves, actions (comments, etc.), analytics.

Section "Organization of work"

Interest Ask:

- “From freelancing to your studio: 2 ways. Where to go? ”

Essence of the question:

A few years in freelancing, scope: copywriting with integration in seo-promotion (last few months). I want to open my studio.
Which way to go:

1. At the first stage to hire an assistant, then develop, in the process of hiring employees;
2. Immediately hire several employees, among them - a sales manager, an accountant (incoming);
3. ...

Interested in real experience, possible risks, work organization and related questions. Tips are welcome. Thank)

PS Copywriting - in a broad sense, not only seo-copywriting.

Hire first one, then the second, and so on, do not immediately need, the best in turn.
An office is not needed (at least for a start); many people who are familiar with offices have long since moved to Udalenku together with their employees. Open the PI for the bank transfer.

If there is management experience, then the second way is immediately more profitable financially, if there is no experience, then the first one.

For the beginning of a universal-multi-hand-multi-legged assistant, to help everywhere, then further in turn other employees. I think at the beginning it is necessary to keep orders in stock because:
1. If there are no orders, employees can stupidly sit2
2. This will be insurance, and the staff will have nothing to pay.
Accordingly, if these spare orders become a lot, you must already hire additional employees.

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