Dear Hackers, Welcome to November! October was a good month for Hacker Noon. We published , and exceeded 10 million minutes reading while averaging 128,722 readers per day. I’m debating how to triple those numbers because three’s a great number. If you have any ideas or would like to work together, . 791 tech stories message us One tech thought for your week: It’s easier than ever to start a tech company (build a decent product, gain traction, make $$$), but it’s near impossible to scale a tech company without a dependence on FAAMG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google). 💻 💻 Onto This Week’s Top Twenty Tech Stories: 📈 💸 Crypto Columns by We already know blockchain’s killer apps Haseeb Qureshi by What Will Bitcoin Look Like in Twenty Years? Daniel Jeffries by The Coming Era of the Zombie Token? Eric Risley 🌊 🎓 Deep Learning by What is a CapsNet or Capsule Network? Debarko De 🦁 🐱💻 Hackathon by Proffer announces Blockchain Hackathon with Govt of India, Coinbase, Microsoft, IBM Anshul Bhagi 🤔 🚗 IoT by Four options for building an IoT hardware product as a Fortune 500 company Mindtribe by Smart Car Hacking: A Major Problem For IoT DeviceHive ⚒️ 🌐 Software Development by A Guide to creating Web Applications with React and Redux Angelos Chalaris by Angular v5 is Out! Here is How to Explore It Dor Moshe by How I landed my post-bootcamp software developer job in just seven weeks Sophia Ciocca by How software projects got their name Amit Merchant by Silicon Valley’s Top Product Managers Use Feature Flags — And You Should Too Justin Baker by The Services Stack Quickly spin up a microservices stack on AWS Randy Findley 🤔 🤑 Startup Life Founder Interview (w/ our weekly sponsor ): Building the First Independent Marketplace for Developer Services by How to validate assumptions for your product before you even launch jordangonen by Paperclips Anonymous: Startup lessons from a virtual stationery entrepreneur Tim Dempsey by Student Founders, Here’s How to Ace your YC Interview Natalie by Why Every Startup is Like an Indiana Jones film! Riz Virk 💵 💵 Venture Capital by Marketplaces and pricing An approach to building for growth through pricing Parth Sethi by Our Startup Fund is a Duck Not a Swan Bernard Moon Until next time, don’t take the realities for granted. Kind Regards, , David Smooke @AMI