Weikiat.NET: My outdated musings

  • To Juniors: Graduating liao? So? What’s next?

    [post_intro]For the past few days, my Facebook was filled with various declaration of triumph: “Graduate loh! Last presentation loh! Last class loh!” Many of you will be graduating with crazy internship stints, various positions in CCAs and ex-co, or even with crazy GPA and think that your future is secure. Some of you who are…

  • Growth Hacking: How I Acquired 2,000 Sticky Users In A Day With a S$36 Budget

    [post_intro]As shared in an earlier post, growth hacking is something that I think all startups should do. This is the story of one of my experiments.[/post_intro] I used to run a textbook marketplace (BookINBookOUT) that was used by more than 70% of all undergraduates at Singapore Management University. When I first started, there were just…

  • 30 Pilots And Flight Attendants Confess The Best Kept Secrets You Don’t Know About Flying

    Viralquake posted a question to readers: Flight Attendants, pilots, or engineers, what are some secrets that passengers don’t know when you ride on planes? Read more

  • Relationships are built through hardships, not on a bed of roses. The former forms a lasting bond, the later just makes you fall in love the concept of being in love. -weikiat

  • The One Thing That All Entrepreneurs Should Know – Growth Hacking

    [post_intro]You have an awesome idea. You think it will work and people will love it. 3 months later, you’ve built the product. But no one is coming. What’s missing? [/post_intro] Growth Hacking. What is “growth hacking”? Why the word “hack”? Is it illegal? Wikipedia defines it as [hl]”Growth hacking is a marketing technique developed by…

  • Facebook Hack is official.

    [post_intro]Sorry to get your hopes up, but this post isn’t some breakthrough new way of hacking Facebook.[/post_intro] What this is about, is this: Today we’re releasing Hack, a programming language we developed for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while…

  • An Advice From a Local Managing Director to Fresh Graduates

    The founder & Managing Director of a publicly listed F&B company shared this about his younger days: When I was a fresh graduate, I did 3 times the amount of work I was paid for. I involved myself in everything. I have this friend who joined the workforce the same time as me, but he…

  • 26+1 Telltale Signs That Your Startup or Startup Idea is Going to Fail

    [post_intro]As a developer and an entrepreneur, I often come across startups that exhibits certain telltale signs that cause me to think they are not going to make it. Here are the signs. [/post_intro]

  • Earnings and success

    “How much you earn is not a measure of your success. It is a result of the things you are willing to do for money.” – weikiat

  • It’s time

    “It is time to start blogging again…”

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