steffoz

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by steffoz 1mo ago
Love it!
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by steffoz 8mo ago
A bit! By having a non strict published_at ordering, but grouping by author, I definitely feel like a know more about the people behind their blogs!
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My website is my custom feed reader(squeaki.sh)
2 points by steffoz 8mo ago|2 comments
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by steffoz 8mo ago
I like the idea very much! No code available yet? :)
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by steffoz 8mo ago
Great! And funny too, just posted about my personal take on the same topic: https://squeaki.sh/p/i-turned-my-website-into-my-feed-reader...
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by steffoz 9mo ago
There's some real gems in this comment. > we have paid off the mortgage on our premises and are decidedly boring We too like to call us boring :) This kind of boring is so good. > We incorporated in 2000. 25 years later, we are s
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by steffoz 9mo ago
For us it was a performance issue. We load tested DBs and servers with our real app and found out Heroku (notoriously known for being stuck in 2010) performed better then some more recent competitor.
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by steffoz 9mo ago
I don’t give employees (and stable freelancers/contractors) the minimum I can get away with; I give them a fair share of the profits on top of their regular salary. I’m not sure how common this model is in Europe, but it has certainly
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by steffoz 9mo ago
But employees get a part of the cake too! If profits are high, we all celebrate together! During 2025, 7% of the profits have been shared with our employees (and stable freelancers). In 2024 it was 6%. https://www.datocms.com&#x2
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by steffoz 9mo ago
Awesome to hear, thanks for sharing man! Enjoy! :)
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by steffoz 9mo ago
Not just huge companies.. lots of web agencies [1] and mid-sized businesses use us to manage their web presence, mostly for the same reason: building custom sites quickly without the hassle of maintaining software. We’re not really optimize
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by steffoz 9mo ago
Kudos to you! What’s your current venture, if I may ask?
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by steffoz 9mo ago
> I think you're leaving a lot of money on the table 100% agree. Also, I'm completely fine with it. Money is not the end goal to me. > you’re adding existential risk to the business with your current strategy. There's r
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by steffoz 9mo ago
Define “successful Italian agency” :) If breaking even every year with 20+ employees counts as successful, then yes—successful. But I think you may have a mistaken idea of the level of support and investment that the “incubating” company ac
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by steffoz 9mo ago
Totally! That’s the most important message. The numbers we’ve managed to achieve are beyond even the most optimistic outlook we had ten years ago, and we would have been (and were) genuinely happy and satisfied of what we were doing even wi
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by steffoz 9mo ago
> Anyway, if I had my shot again, I'm not saying I'd renounce funding. Bootstrapping for a short period to figure things out is great, but funding also creates opportunities where an immediate business model is not clear. Oppor
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by steffoz 9mo ago
E andiamo! :)
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by steffoz 9mo ago
That was one of our early fears. Wanting to continue to remain small, will we be swallowed up by larger competitors, who will devour the entire market? Turns out, it didn't happen. The websites space is really huge, I think there is st
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by steffoz 9mo ago
That is a really nice comment, thank you a lot
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by steffoz 9mo ago
Ouch, I'm a Firefox user myself, but this one slipped! Thanks!
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by steffoz 9mo ago
In general, we try to keep things extremely simple. And then we simplify some more. If you're very strict on this basic rule and apply it at every level, from the start, you can go a long way with a small but stable team. Regarding k8s
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by steffoz 9mo ago
ahaha, true. on the other hand, wordpress is more 20 than 15 now :)
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by steffoz 9mo ago
Noted, thanks! :)
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by steffoz 9mo ago
Sorry to hear. Why exactly?
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by steffoz 9mo ago
infortunately not.. too low self-esteem at the time to think that would have been interesting for anyone :)
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by steffoz 9mo ago
Totally agree, that's exactly what we did. As a web agency, we tried every CMS out there and struggled with all of them for different reasons (quality, maintenance, pricing, scalability, development speed), so we built our own. The key
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by steffoz 9mo ago
To be fair, it's rarely all for nothing for what I hear. Secondary stock sales [1] are very common and allow founders to take some big chips off the table. To me, it is more a matter of keeping things simple, manageable, safe and more
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by steffoz 9mo ago
Thank you! It was never an all-in bet for us, so we never struggled too much tbh. It slowly grew inside our web agency as a part-time side-quest, and only when we reached an OK level of revenues that could feed our families it became a full
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by steffoz 9mo ago
I know https://tinyteams.xyz/ but it's not specific to bootstrapped companies!
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by steffoz 9mo ago
Unicorn-level sounds extremely stressful, happy to pass the burden to someone else. I seriously can't imagine a sane lifestyle that requires more money than what we already have.

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