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One thing missing from the post was when the founder quit their job to work on this full-time (or if they've even done that yet?) Also they didn't mention if they were still a solo founder and developer.
Sorry, forgot to mention that. Im the sole founder and I didn't quit my job for it... So it's been a side project alongside my day job.
Just asking because it must be an awesome place to work if you're still there!
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We are paying $5000 per month to GCP and $1000 per month to Amazon, we've 300 users paying $300 a month each. Stack : Ruby, Go, PHP (for some integration), JavaScript (Stuck on Angular v1)
While, as others have pointed out, that with 100k non-paying users the $1,600 figure makes more sense. Your example still makes no sense to me, what are you _actually_ doing with all that server power?
This seems like it would really help solve my time tracking needs at work, but having this sending that data to their servers makes it a non starter. Time tracking is my #1 pain point at work right now and would signup today and pay if an offline version was made available.
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My read is that this isn't a productivity tool at all. It's a way to capture who to bill for your work (Billable vs. overhead time). "generate and send PDF invoices pre-filled with your coding activity." is in the future roadmap. And the pain of keeping track of billable hours is what drove him to write it to start with. Keeping track by program used is a nice-to-have, because then someone on the team could notice "h…
> "generate and send PDF invoices pre-filled with your coding activity." is in the future roadmap. I love the guy's success but man do I hate this idea. I'm billing for more than time in vim. If you're my client and I'm answering an email from you, I'm billing you for that. If we're on the phone, the clock is running. If we're on a Hangout, you're paying. Could you imagine if your employer only paid you for time spen…
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Can't speak for xstartup, but if the dataset is 100+ GB then EBS, S3, etc start to cost real money. I host an application on AWS for a single customer with 10 active users which costs about $1500/month because there are several TBs of data and the nature of the application needs a lot of CPU and RAM. In other words, it depends on the use case and data size.
What? I have a 16TB raid that only costs 800$ a month. You should look into how you store that information.
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Sorry, forgot to mention that. Im the sole founder and I didn't quit my job for it... So it's been a side project alongside my day job.
Whoa, that's surprising! Could I ask, what is your day job at the moment? There wasn't any current company listed in your LinkedIn profile. Just asking because it must be an awesome place to work if you're still there!
Congrats on this, loved the quote. >> The best startup book is one you never open because you're too busy marketing and building your product
This "I'm so busy hustling I don't have time to read no books" sort of machismo has become quite fashionable. I believe it's a mistake because there's a balance. No, you don't want to become the ineffectual intellectual, constantly learning but never doing. It definitely is easy to see books and learning as progress when you should to be out on the sharp end. But there are techniques you might use and mistakes you mi…
Yes I do. Can't afford it unfortunately, but an ineffectual gentleman scientist and man of letters sounds like the perfect life to me.
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> Am I missing something about this product in that it measures anything related to code quality? I think it is just a tool to be used as you desire. It can certainly be misused, like any tool or method, and promote bad results. If you have someone wanting to measure you by time alone you have bigger problems with that decision maker than just this specific tool being put in place. I was in a fitbit group challenge w…
Can you think of any way to use this tool correctly?
Also the private leaderboards tell me when I had an in-the-zone week or a week with too many meetings.