If you’re using free Heroku dynos, the first visitor in a while will experience long load times because the dyno has to be spun up. This is a pretty bad experience. I’d spend the 7 dollars each month to make sure your dyno is always up.
A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
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Re: A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
#72I am the CIO of a mostly remote, cybersecurity startup (50 FTEs). I balance between not single-threading all choices through me and not letting things get too out of hand. That means no one is every really happy. E.g., we use Uberconference for videoconferencing. We thoroughly looked at a bunch of others and chose UC for its functionality, price, and simplicity (every conference gets a simple phone number, no stupid…
This is fucking gold. Thank you.
Re: A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
#73SoftBank invested something like $24bn in WeWork, which went to the real estate bubble plus free beer for techies. There is an astonishing amount of money out there. In the case of the Saudi investment through SoftBank, it's practically a moral imperative to relieve them of it.
Enjoy it while it lasts. Voluntary redistribution through loss making startups is the comfortable alternative to wealth taxes.
Re: A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
#74I am the CIO of a mostly remote, cybersecurity startup (50 FTEs). I balance between not single-threading all choices through me and not letting things get too out of hand. That means no one is every really happy. E.g., we use Uberconference for videoconferencing. We thoroughly looked at a bunch of others and chose UC for its functionality, price, and simplicity (every conference gets a simple phone number, no stupid…
The individuals in aggregate may be toddlers, but unfortunately the C-suite as individuals are often also toddlers, at least vis a vis their responsibilities. Tasked with providing IT infrastructure that works for the company, they seem to largely shirk their responsibility and choose IT infrastructure that best serves them, the needs of others be damned. CIOs will seemingly gladly choose something that provides a good UX for one central administrator even if the UX for hundreds or thousands of others is "the software literally shoots knives out of the monitor and gouges out your eyes". Reports that the software gouges out everyone's eyes are roundly ignored.
I'm not sure to what degree this corporate disdain for quality of work environment is intentional or simply inability to grasp how other people may have different experiences using something, but I'm even more unsure how to solve it. What do we do when attempts to explain how shit sucks fall on deaf ears? Bring back pistol dueling?
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
True but you don’t pay subscription for your chairs. You do pay rent, but in many case the sum of SaaS subscription is in the same order of magnitude as the rent.
Is this only true for US-based companies? Where I'm from, I rarely see use of subscription services (especially ones that incur per-seat costs). Developers here tend to earn roughly the same number , but in a different currency , which makes all software and services several times more expensive. This results in preference of OSS alternatives and free tiers whenever possible. We use Discord for communication, Gitlab…
Lackrack is magnificent. First time i am seeing this.
Re: A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
#76Not exactly the same, but I have sometimes wondered how many startups are just burning other startups' money, and would collapse if VCs tightened the belt. For instance, startup X seems profitable but all revenue is from other startups not making money yet. Like a big ponzi scheme of sorts. Most products mentioned in the article are now mainstream, but for lots of them a few years back they were small and only used b…
If you think that's a ponzi scheme, allow me to introduce you to the world of Silicon Valley commercial real estate.
Re: A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
#77No VS Code? Really?
Re: A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
#78What is the benefit of paying for GSuite for such a small team? Also Github? You can now have private repos with up to three collaborators for free.
They are free for personal private repos. Team private repos aren't!
I think OP is trying to say they don't need to pay for the Pro or for the Team as there are just two collaborators, the free version includes 3 collaborators on private repos. https://github.com/pricing
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#79I feel like a big portion of the apps you accomplish similar things. To name a few, Airtable, Notion, and Trello can all do CRM funnel, product roadmap and issue tracking. Even though 2 out of 3 are free, you guys could probably condense them into a centralized spot.
They only spend $227/month in total. Why even bother centralizing? That's peanuts. I spend more than that on my personal AWS bill.
Funny and here i am trying to save 5 usd/month because my VPS is overpowered.
It really depends on where you live. 227usd is certainly not peanuts.
Re: A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this only true for US-based companies? Where I'm from, I rarely see use of subscription services (especially ones that incur per-seat costs). Developers here tend to earn roughly the same number , but in a different currency , which makes all software and services several times more expensive. This results in preference of OSS alternatives and free tiers whenever possible. We use Discord for communication, Gitlab…
Lackrack is magnificent. First time i am seeing this.
Lackracks have been around since the early 2000s at least, probably earlier than that, even. There's a whole range of Ikea hacks that exist (and dedicated websites for them). Highly recommend perusing the wide range of options if you like the Lackrack!