The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

Post by laurex » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:06 PM UTC

jcroll wrote: post #82

I ran a small company like this quite successfully earlier in my career. If you think this is awesome what goes unmentioned is how lonely it can get. Also, any issues you have (business or technology) you bear the brunt of alone. A coworking space doesn't really help either imo, if you like working with others you will miss having coworkers. Just something I think worth mentioning if you think this is something you m…

Post by h0h0h0h0111 » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:08 PM UTC

wenbin wrote: post #76

avip wrote: post #30

First, that's a great stack and very well written/presented. One comment - he dismisses serverless as being overengineering . I think the correct POV, moreso for the single-man company, is that running a server to perform a task is the overengineered option. One can see from the snapshot the servers are indeed severely overprovisioned and underutilized. Building an api with api-gateway + lambda is less work than runn…

Good point! For people who have tons of experience with serverless, serverless is probably a better choice than running servers for some use cases. As a small business owner, there are two types of cost that I need to consider: Time: the time I use to do A is the time I can't use to do B. Unfortunately I haven't used serverless so far in my professional career -- in this sense, I'm not full-stack enough :) It takes t…

Post by outworlder » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:10 PM UTC

spookthesunset wrote: post #70

avip wrote: post #30

First, that's a great stack and very well written/presented. One comment - he dismisses serverless as being overengineering . I think the correct POV, moreso for the single-man company, is that running a server to perform a task is the overengineered option. One can see from the snapshot the servers are indeed severely overprovisioned and underutilized. Building an api with api-gateway + lambda is less work than runn…

As team of one, you have to be very judicious with your time. You often have to have a philosophy of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Yeah they could burn a week or two switching over to lambda and whatnot but is it going to have a higher ROI than all the other things they could be working on? As me how I know. When I was a solo dev doing my own thing, I'd spend way too much time working on things that really would…

Post by wenbin » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:12 PM UTC

jcroll wrote: post #82

I ran a small company like this quite successfully earlier in my career. If you think this is awesome what goes unmentioned is how lonely it can get. Also, any issues you have (business or technology) you bear the brunt of alone. A coworking space doesn't really help either imo, if you like working with others you will miss having coworkers. Just something I think worth mentioning if you think this is something you m…

Post by Scarblac » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:14 PM UTC

ademup wrote: post #59

twox2 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually it's not the missing info... because it's none of your business. It's a technical post about his solo founder and operator DevOps practice.

I respectfully disagree. HN is very much about the -business- of tech. Telling us how you made your mousetrap is all well and good... Having us ask how many mice it has captured is absolutely relevant. Germane even.