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

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

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As a software SaaS CISO, who also pentests and determines partner risk - I take the approach of not sharing such in depth details. Articles like this are fantastic fingerprinting recon for those that look to compromise sites.

I've often worried about that; in fact its really kept me from blogging about our infrastructure at all. Am I too paranoid? I've often thought if I were to do so that I'd set up a honeypot; but who has the time for such games?!

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

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Just because I saw you (wenbin) in this thread I thought I'd be helpful: On https://www.listennotes.com/api/pricing/ There's a typo: "Instantly access to 771,769 podcasts" Instantly -> Instant Really enjoyed the post, thanks for sharing.

That's not a typo. They are two different sentences with slightly different meaning. Access as a noun or access as a verb.

Out of curiosity and please forgive me as I'm leaning ESL, but shouldn't it be either

"Instant access to x podcasts"

or

"Instantly access x podcasts"?

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

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post #49

I love these stories. I'm a one-person company too: contribsys.com. My production server stack is Apache + some Ruby CGI scripts, to serve static files and handle billing webhooks. I spend less than an hour per week on devops maintenance. KISS is the #1 principle when scaling a solo operation.

sidekiq! Interesting wenbin also wrote a task queue system... must be something about that type of engineer that leads to this pragmatic tech strategy.

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

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post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I disagree. This isn't Tech Business News or Startup News, it's Hacker News.

Hacker News was originally called "Startup News". At launch it was exclusively about startups.

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

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

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I really like the idea of monolithic repos but can see some downsides when there is more than one person working on a project. It would be cool if there was a simplified way to have an entire business operate under source control.

This interests me. Can you elaborate on what downsides you see? Even in a small team we're often working within the same repo at the same time without any issues.

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

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Your mileage may vary but there’s a real opportunity for the latest technologies to save you work and headache.

My own one-man startup Trunk[0] is very infrastructure heavy so I’m super thankful for technologies like Docker. You don’t have to go full-blown Kubernetes but there are various small wins you can still have. Need to upgrade a piece of your stack? Just build a new container a deploy it! Need to bring up all your services in development? `docker-compose up`! And with Docker Swarm, it’s super easy to scale up background job and application processes across multiple cloud instances. I can’t imagine doing this without Docker.

When getting a business off the ground, it’s extremely important you do customer development and not new technology development. When running a business however, new technology can become a competitive advantage and help you move faster. Just make sure it’s really doing that.

0. https://trunkinventory.com

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

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Just because I saw you (wenbin) in this thread I thought I'd be helpful: On https://www.listennotes.com/api/pricing/ There's a typo: "Instantly access to 771,769 podcasts" Instantly -> Instant Really enjoyed the post, thanks for sharing.

That's not a typo. They are two different sentences with slightly different meaning. Access as a noun or access as a verb.

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