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what / where is "the edge", in your mind?

by hejja 6y ago

dustingetz 6y ago
it’s a git repo sitting unused on some 20-something’s laptop, because anybody rich enough to market it doesn’t know enough to recognize it
- realtalk_sp 6y ago
  Can you point to some worthy examples of this as proofs of existence? And I mean something truly novel, and not simply a different way to do something we already can do.
  - RNCTX 6y ago
    https://github.com/steve-chavez?tab=overview&from=2016-10-01&to=2016-12-31 https://github.com/steve-chavez?tab=overview&from=2016-10-01... https://github.com/begriffs?tab=overview&from=2016-10-01&to=2016-12-31 https://github.com/begriffs?tab=overview&from=2016-10-01&to=... How many projects are there to automatically API-ify a database with auth boilerplate today? At least a few well funded ones, one recently funded by YC even. They came up with it in 2015? 2016? and still have a thriving project going with it. Looks like less than 10 people have more than 10 commits in its history: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/graphs/contributors https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/graphs/contributors
    - jkachmar 6y ago
      Having followed the PostgREST project for years, it’s been wild to see the recent explosion of similar sorts of projects (as you describe); I’d very much believed this was a “solved problem”.
      - imtringued 6y ago
        CouchDB is a database from 2005 that can _only_ be accessed via a REST api.
        RNCTX 6y ago
        And Solr in 2004, but a json store returning json is not really the same as building a highly performant SQL client that works over http with support for operations on ~45 to 50 data types.
    - pathseeker 6y ago
      >How many projects are there to automatically API-ify a database with auth boilerplate today? That's a really vague statement but you described phpmyadmin, django, wordpress with a plugin, etc. Most successful CRM companies essentially have some framework doing this underneath as well.
- gen220 6y ago
  I’ve only seen a couple of repos like this, but I’ve seen enough to agree that this is totally the right answer. To people who doubt it, keep in mind that 10 years is a very very long time. Rust is not yet 10, Go is just barely 10. React is 7 and jQuery is 13. Cloudflare is 10, Stripe is 10, Hashicorp is 8 and Docker is 7.

what / where is "the edge", in your mind?

by hejja 6y ago

what / where is "the edge", in your mind?

it’s a git repo sitting unused on some 20-something’s laptop, because anybody rich enough to market it doesn’t know enough to recognize it

realtalk_sp 6y ago
Can you point to some worthy examples of this as proofs of existence? And I mean something truly novel, and not simply a different way to do something we already can do.
- RNCTX 6y ago
  https://github.com/steve-chavez?tab=overview&from=2016-10-01&to=2016-12-31 https://github.com/steve-chavez?tab=overview&from=2016-10-01... https://github.com/begriffs?tab=overview&from=2016-10-01&to=2016-12-31 https://github.com/begriffs?tab=overview&from=2016-10-01&to=... How many projects are there to automatically API-ify a database with auth boilerplate today? At least a few well funded ones, one recently funded by YC even. They came up with it in 2015? 2016? and still have a thriving project going with it. Looks like less than 10 people have more than 10 commits in its history: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/graphs/contributors https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/graphs/contributors
  - jkachmar 6y ago
    Having followed the PostgREST project for years, it’s been wild to see the recent explosion of similar sorts of projects (as you describe); I’d very much believed this was a “solved problem”.
    - imtringued 6y ago
      CouchDB is a database from 2005 that can _only_ be accessed via a REST api.
      - RNCTX 6y ago
        And Solr in 2004, but a json store returning json is not really the same as building a highly performant SQL client that works over http with support for operations on ~45 to 50 data types.
  - pathseeker 6y ago
    >How many projects are there to automatically API-ify a database with auth boilerplate today? That's a really vague statement but you described phpmyadmin, django, wordpress with a plugin, etc. Most successful CRM companies essentially have some framework doing this underneath as well.
gen220 6y ago
I’ve only seen a couple of repos like this, but I’ve seen enough to agree that this is totally the right answer. To people who doubt it, keep in mind that 10 years is a very very long time. Rust is not yet 10, Go is just barely 10. React is 7 and jQuery is 13. Cloudflare is 10, Stripe is 10, Hashicorp is 8 and Docker is 7.