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How did you decide to build your one sync engine instead of use an off-the-shelf solution? We’re exploring Zero (by Rocicorp), PowerSync, ElectricSQL, and a few others

After the recent NCAA settlement, college athletic departments will (in the next year) be able to distribute as much as $22M+ to student athletes — aka revenue sharing We’re buildi…

This is entirely anecdotal, but reading the comments here it feels like compensation for the bottom 50% of creators has gone down in the last 5-ish years I ran a Minecraft YouTube …

I understand the justification for UBI from a labor perspective if all “mundane jobs” are automated, but where I haven’t heard convincing justification is on the more abstract “lif…

“You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain”

Not to be anti-capitalist, but you’re describing capitalism lol

I swear I’ve seen this article title a dozen times over the last dozen years

100% it is - wealth is a predictor of “risk-taking” in general (in quotations because the relative risk is actually fairly small when you’re wealthy)

Congrats! What are you focusing on to differentiate yourself from Supabase?

Your sentiment is not specific to the tech industry. Many who work in tech are quite blessed to have careers that, despite the supposed realities you mention, give them a quality o…

Interesting about the reading text… I can’t recall ever dreaming about written word in any form

Random thought dump here.. it’s kind of crazy how we all discuss the implications of the internet and social media on society and culture whilst all seeing dramatically different “…

complains about six-figure pay while sitting at home at computer eating a snack while waiting for someone to review their pull request

The target market (for now) is probably their existing customers looking for better risk management by checking balance data through an authentic bank connection before initiating …

This isn’t always the case, but sometimes I find myself naturally skeptical of people who seem overly interested in what’s going on in my life and overwhelming positive and complim…

Does the green check mean the ban is or isn’t being applied?

I don't think it's fair to assign blame to "positivity" and "optimism" as others in the comments have. It takes an incredible amount of positivity to start or join a small startup.…

Hey, no need to lump Sgt. Pepper’s into this conversation!

You should pivot to providing a simple API for other developers to integrate their users’ sports getting data into their own apps - I could see that being a really useful thing

To be fair, those are a few exceptions that buck a greater trend of Presidents and lawmakers almost universally attending expensive and prestigious undergrad and graduate instituti…

Not that this is super relevant to the article’s thesis, but regardless of necessity… people still like going to college. People will continue to value a college education because …

Not to shill in this thread… but I’m 23 and thinking through a lot of the things you’re thinking about right now. I realized recently that there are lots of “unknowns” in my life t…

There are a lot of cool private companies, especially tech-focused ones, working to disrupt the public sector bureaucracy you’re describing. Might be worth exploring those options?…

I'm working on an application that will provide appointment scheduling to many B2B clients. Each of our (siloed) clients will provide unique scheduling options to their customers, …