I don’t usually like to toot my own horn, but I make $600k/year off a plain HTML static site that isn’t even coded well, in-line CSS, many pages not responsive, broken links, etc.
Most likely an adult or gambling site.
Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK
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#112I don't get it. One guy makes a job board and makes 300k/year. Not exactly a hard problem to solve.
What's stopping a proliferation of job boards to arbitrage away his revenue?
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't get why the fact a high successful venture is using such a barebones tech stack is not noteworthy, you must be following a different tech industry than I am
I mostly follow HN, a successful tech forum that is written in a single lisp file and runs on a single server. It’s not surprising to find successful projects run with a simple stack. The opposite is more surprising.
Surprising and noteworthy are not the same thing, but pretending they are definitely lets you make your non-sequitur reply seem like it addresses mine...
It's noteworthy when tech projects are successful and simple, because in the industry there is a widespread tendency to try and replicate what "the big guys" are doing, and often times what they're doing is extremely convoluted.
In other words, it is significant when projects buck this trend, because it goes against the mistaken belief that the only way to be "web scale" to replicate some of the most complicated tech stacks out there, making it worth calling out. Significant being a synonym for noteworthy in case that needs to be clarified...
HN being an example of this doesn't somehow make every other example not noteworthy either if that was what you tried to say?
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This concept has come up so many times I am, again, surprised anyone who is in the same tech industry as me does not realize it's a thing:
https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb...
https://programmerfriend.com/not-google/
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-31646-...
Especially on Hacker News, a place where an immense amount of gnashing of teeth has happened over what the latest complicated tech stack that people convince themselves they need to make software that scales.
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#114Something jarring about the 'Dracula PRO' colour scheme unlabelled advertisement in the middle of the article.
Yes it was really out of place. Same with the No CS Degree job advertisement. It was even more out of place since the main article was about a guy creating job boards, I thought perhaps Pieter had made a new one?
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#115> sqLite - This is described as being unsuitable for > production by it's makers. I would doubt that is what the creators of SQlite intend one to take away from their documentation: "SQLite works great as the database engine for most low to medium traffic websites (which is to say, most websites). The amount of web traffic that SQLite can handle depends on how heavily the website uses its database. Generally speaking…
SQLite is incredibly ubiquitous and used in BILLIONS of devices and applications around the world.
Just because it's not used in web applications as much doesn't mean it's not production ready. It's used in many hardened systems, which I think they'd avoid if it wasn't production ready.
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#117I have a broken bootstrap template that I've recycled for over half a decade to make landing pages for new products.
It's always funny when junior developers come to support the product and balk at the code.
Yessir, its a one page static website that just got me $1,000,000 in three weeks and your attention and ability to pay you.
Funnier because I used to be that junior developer.
The memes that recognize this are so good and spot on: the pedantic guy with glasses and out of place bowtie complaining about some irrelevant best practice, while money printer go brrrrrrr
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#118Pieter's businesses are impressive, but IMO not using React nowadays is actually harder than using it. Building stuff vanilla takes more time, effort and knowledge.
> not using React nowadays is actually harder than using it
For a solo dev, the only thing React makes simpler is dealing with JS that has to manipulate a lot of HTML. If your app doesn't do that (IDK if nomadlist does or not), then React is overkill and unnecessary. Even if you want reusable components, for many simple usecases the React lifecycle is complex and unnecessary.
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#119I don't get it. One guy makes a job board and makes 300k/year. Not exactly a hard problem to solve. What's stopping a proliferation of job boards to arbitrage away his revenue?
Network effects. The value of a job board is the amount of companies and potential workers that use it. Being tied to his digital nomad community brings in a supply of workers and companies that work remotely.
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#120Well-deserved in my opinion. His no-nonsense and unpretentious way of building products, often out in the open, should be a source of motivation for others who can come up with a dozen reasons why they shouldn't attempt to do X. His blog-posts and Tweets are not hustle-porn but just straight-up "works for me, I honestly don't care what you say". A quote that I recently read applies to him very much: "Pessimists sound…
Yeah a lot of people get stuck in the loop of worrying whether they're using the right framework or programming patterns or whether their blog will scale to 1 million daily hits. They rarely ship anything. If you never put your work out there, you'll never be successful, so the key is to stop messing around and just build. If it's shit, it's shit, no one can see the code, if you want to rewrite it then ship it and do…
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