codegeek

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by codegeek 2mo ago
It is bad because you are deciding something for ME, the user. That's bad UX because I want to decide my own experience and scroll jacking is the worst thing you can do for UX. Stop doing this.
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by codegeek 2mo ago
I run a bootstrapped B2B SAAS (12+ years now) and I have seen it all, made all the mistakes possible and had enough wins over the years to keep going. The first thing to understand is that there is no one size fits all. You have to start so
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New Jersey Passes Garden State Balcony Solar Act(pluginsolarus.com)
3 points by codegeek 2mo ago|1 comments
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by codegeek 2mo ago
what is your objective ? Are you trying to learn how startups work and hence wanting to work at one ? Or are you trying to work at a startup and hopefully build wealth with equity (very unlikely). Then, The question is : how much equity vs
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by codegeek 3mo ago
They are not just some random 3 have decades of real db experience behind them. They also just got funded which gives them the ability to expand and stay longer in the game.
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by codegeek 3mo ago
"Why Us" => "I ran Postgres at Instacart, where we scaled the company 5x in April of 2020. The biggest problem we had was making Postgres serve 100,000s of grocery delivery orders per minute" Couldn't be a better
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by codegeek 3mo ago
Not the same comparison. Alphabet/Google has a solid 25+ year history. It's not 100% AI or not. It's about a Healthy and proven business model.
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by codegeek 3mo ago
Agreed. S&P 500 needs to be seriously gatekeeped. We need safer boring companies in there thatbhave been peoven over a long period of time. Nothing against these companies but they are not proven and ready for S&P 500.
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by codegeek 3mo ago
To be fair, it is done exactly to protect against accounts like yours. HN quality needs to be gate-keeped and new accounts absolutely need to be throttled. You may have meant well and be genuine but the bar is high now especially due to AI
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by codegeek 4mo ago
Sure but thats a very cynical way of seeing things. A company cannot exist without making a profit but there are plenty of companies that try and take care of their people. At least the ones that don't have investor or board pressure (
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by codegeek 4mo ago
Because of these shitty corporate companies that don't give a shit about their employees, the well is now poisoned for companies that do care especially smaller ones. Employees don't want to give their best anymore because they ar
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by codegeek 4mo ago
I wish all platforms did this specially reddit, twitter etc. I don't use AI to write comments on any platform and always wondering if I am replying to an AI comment.
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by codegeek 4mo ago
In my experience, any meetup > 10 people becomes useless because you cannot really make meaningful connections and large meetups usually have a fixed agenda where everyone is out there selling their own stuff. I now will not attend a mee
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by codegeek 4mo ago
Exactly. I hired someone who was a good developer but he was charging hourly and extremely slow for what we needed. I am a software engineer (and a founder) myself so I get what it takes to write good code but I am no longer waiting for a d
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by codegeek 4mo ago
This is bad. Even their own website is down at railway.com. Looks like total dependency on google cloud. Surprising for a company of their scale with all this VC money.
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by codegeek 4mo ago
I know a solo founder who got SOC2 certified. He is literally the only person running the product/company and is SOC2 certified. I found that hilarious to be honest. But he is trying to play the "win enterprise deals" game bu
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by codegeek 4mo ago
It depends on your target market. If you only sell to enterprise/large companies, you may need SOC2 sooner than later. If you sell to SMBs or startups, this advice works (I sell in this space mostly).
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by codegeek 4mo ago
I will add a few more things to this: - Document your data and security and share that with customers instead. You can say "We don't have SOC2 at the moment but here is all our security and data policy". It works 99% of the t
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by codegeek 4mo ago
I love Go. But I prefer .NET for web development that also compiles to a binary and has a great ecosystem of libraries and packages. Go is great if standard library works (and it can for many cases) but when you need to start looking into n
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by codegeek 4mo ago
I hear you. I also don't buy clothes unless really really needed. But I am hoping that if I do buy a Robot like that, it will do other things as well and not just folding laundry :)
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by codegeek 4mo ago
Some companies are building Robots for this already. for example https://figure.ai
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by codegeek 4mo ago
I probably used the wrong word. I meant more about managing volume property so we dont have data loss, backups, replication etc etc. I assume going managed is easier if you can pay for it (e.g. RDS)
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by codegeek 4mo ago
Do you prefer self hosting DB with container OR using a managed service liek RDS ? I guess both can work depending on your level of comfort and even though I am a big self host guy, db hosting is something that makes me nervous and I end u
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by codegeek 4mo ago
Yes thats why I also added SOC 2. I have gone through an ISO audit for our company so I know the process. The point is that these certifications are mostly a joke but you have to play the game to win "enterprise" deals.
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by codegeek 4mo ago
Really liked reading your blog. Bookmarked for future. One question: for databases, do you recommend using containers as well because in development, I love the ease of using databases in docker compose as well but I always worry about prod
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by codegeek 5mo ago
"There was no meaningful organization scoping, no tenant isolation, and no permission check preventing a low-privilege user from accessing other organizations' records." Let me guess though. They are SOC2 and ISO compliant ri
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by codegeek 5mo ago
sloth, cockroach, duck. Is there some sort of naming pact b/w these database products ?
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by codegeek 5mo ago
Yea also there are places like r/overemployed where they actively encourage how to cheat your employer by working multiple remote full time jobs. The trust is broken and even though there are plenty of great wfh people, employers wre n
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by codegeek 5mo ago
"It is more like 90% less quality." Depends on who is doing the work. If you are a junior who doesn't have any fundamentals and/or started career after 2022+, I wouldn't trust the AI code. However, if you were alrea
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by codegeek 5mo ago
Yes, first you have to accept that it doesn't take 7 months but rather years. It is really really really hard to build a business with real revenue (did I stress on the word really?). It is even harder to build it solo. Most of the sol

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