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coryodaniel

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About coryodaniel

Co-founder and CEO of Massdriver.cloud.

Always happy to chat about cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, elixir, golang, tacos, or postgres.

cory @ domain name above

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    Comment #47199462

    Don’t just cancel, flood them with CCPA requests.

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    Comment #47199425

    There is value tied to free users, but also, not sure I want my work and data in a product that’s OK with DoD mass surveillance and I’m not sure my customers would want their data …

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    Comment #47199297

    I think it’s called being a “shithead”

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    Comment #44951085

    One of my neighbors has a fleet of solar-powered, zero-emission, self-fertilizing, biodiversity-boosting autonomous lawn-care bots. He calls them tortoises.

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    Comment #44724657

    Yeah that’s at odds with its sycophancy, but also “what is ‘good’ thinking” and who controls that seems like a problem.

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    Comment #43163504

    Appreciate the feedback! We actually just changed our pricing about a week ago. We used to do individual seats, but we found that smaller teams—especially those without a dedicated…

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    Comment #43131955

    Thanks, I appreciated the questions!

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    Comment #43131591

    It is a single source of truth, but only what is managed through the platform. Private cloud isn't the best experience right now, its possible, but it requires our platform being a…

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    Comment #43131413

    I love the idea of high-level intents and abstractions. They’re tough to get right, but when they click, they make dev teams move way faster. Cloud APIs mix operational and develop…

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    Comment #43131300

    I've never seen this. Very cool!

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    Comment #43131046

    Hey! How's it been? I followed you on bsky a few days ago! Glad you liked it! Yeah, the typed connections are a big part of what makes Massdriver powerful. It makes sure infrastruc…

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    Comment #43130964

    I'm here for the questions! > * You want to simplify infrastructure, but there's a new learning curve here. Why did you decide to go with diagramming as a solution? What other meth…

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    Comment #43130814

    Yeah, there definitely is. Ping me @ cory @ massdriver.cloud

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    Comment #43130802

    It hits our public health check. We don't have a dedicated page for our different systems, but this is on our radar.

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    Comment #43130789

    Hey, we're just trying to accelerate your launch ;) I actually have a boilerplating tool I use to set up projects and it picks a random name from a text file at ~/cool-names.txt ..…

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    Comment #43130777

    Seats are for any user of the UI and they aren't bound to a person, so you can reassign them as necessary. For larger teams we do buckets of seats with price reductions per-seat as…

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    Comment #43130352

    If I become a billionaire from this, that's my next startup.

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    Comment #43130295

    Thanks! And ... you're right! Massdriver isn’t aimed at pre-funded startups. Early-stage teams are often better off with a PaaS or setting things up manually until ops challenges b…

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    Comment #43129703

    Thanks, restructured the docs site recently. Updating now!

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    Launch HN: Massdriver (YC W22) – Self-serve cloud infra without the red tape

    Hi HN! We’re Cory, Dave, and Chris, the founders of Massdriver ( https://www.massdriver.cloud/ ), an infrastructure automation platform. Massdriver enforces organizational standard…

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    Comment #43108456

    Staying on my 13 mini until someone makes a dumb phone that doesn’t suck.

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    Comment #42807917

    Trust em or not … had that happen to someone else using Cursor a few weeks back. I ran a prompt for refactoring a function and all of a sudden it started dumping someone else’s dir…

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    Comment #40138915

    Im on team tofu. Come to the webinar tmrw, not quite a scripting engine but multilang no-custom-provider custom function support https://www.linkedin.com/posts/opentofuorg_native-l…

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    Comment #40138883

    This is tight!