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Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by joshgachnang »

thesizeofa wrote: post #34
christophilus wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The fact that I keep reading posts on HN about how successful HN is makes me wonder how soon will this forum die off, infested by cultist "contrarians", wanna be philosophers and alt right fantasists, in favour of reddit - where most of the times I read either the exact same comments as here on identical posts, or better quality comments with far more evidence and without the usual non sense downvoting of dissent. Bu…

What subreddits do you frequent? I've yet to find any that match HN's comments and content, but I haven't tried super hard.

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Post by CharlesW »

Insanity wrote: post #71
christophilus wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's a single lisp file? That's pretty cool, Is this public somewhere?

The source appears to be http://arclanguage.org/install.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by cblconfederate »

vmception wrote: post #117

I 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…

what bootstrap version?

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Post by blantonl »

gargron wrote: post #6

I don't think it's at all surprising that there is no relation between tech stack and business success. End-users don't care if you use a single PHP file or a Go binary, they never get to see that anyway. So I don't really see "it was all a single PHP file" as a gotcha. The whole thing could've been coded in Assembly, the difference is in the effort required for development, ease of maintenance/scaling up and how wel…

If there is one thing I've learned in this business it is that when your tech stack becomes an "issue" for your business success, you've probably "made it" success-wise.

So many technical folks lose site of the fact that no matter how many "cool" technologies you deploy out of the gate, it really doesn't matter if the market and customers aren't paying you revenue. Period.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by jamie_ca »

DZittersteyn wrote: post #32
Pete-Codes wrote: post #19

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hey, I posted the article. Good to know! I'm sure I had read it somewhere on their site. Maybe it was just from other developers that I got the impression it wasn't meant from production. Thanks

I also used to have this impression, I think I got this from Rails and Django docs, maybe you read something similar? > Rails comes with built-in support for SQLite, which is a lightweight serverless database application. While a busy production environment may overload SQLite, it works well for development and testing. Rails defaults to using a SQLite database when creating a new project, but you can always change i…

The Django docs word it better - the chief problem with SQLite is that it's a _local_ database. If you outgrow a single server, you will now need to also migrate your database to something that can handle multiple external clients, or else figure out another way of making writes on one server be available to read on the other servers.

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Post by chiefalchemist »

xchaotic wrote: post #82
chiefalchemist wrote: post #51

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Yes and no. The tech doesn't matter but that is The Point. That is, your tech won't save bad product. Using the latest cool kids framework or buzzwordy tool won't save bad product. Yes, the business you're in matters. No, it doesn't matter how you build them - as long as it's quickly. If you outgrow you're overly simplistic stack, that is a _great_ problem to have.

Arguably Pieter might be at this point already and he doesn’t care. With the right tech and more people he could scale some of his businesses further but he deliberately doesn’t want that as its diminished returns for him, personally.

Right on. With complexity also comes responsibility and commitment. Sometimes less is more. It might not be sexy. It might not win awards. But that can mean less stress and less risk.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by vmception »

cblconfederate wrote: post #124
vmception wrote: post #117

I 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…

what bootstrap version?

3.3.4 from 2011, but this was in use for a very long time before the real flurry of upgrades started coming out. I've been using a template since 2014-2015

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

nickjj wrote: post #89
sdoering wrote: post #13

> 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…

Yep. I recently had Jon Calhoun on as a guest in my Running in Production podcast the other week where he talked about using SQLite to power his video course platform (it's focused on Go development). He has 15,000+ active users and talks about how SQLlite hasn't been a performance issue. His whole stack is on a $5 / month DO server. Here's a direct link to the SQLite part: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/42-…

Thanks for sharing this, your podcast sounds really interesting - subscribed :)

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by znpy »

mytherin wrote: post #98
weddpros wrote: post #88

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HN: "A single server with SQLite is perfect for typical production workloads, it's so robust" Also HN: "Database X can fail in Jepsen tests during partitions, it's unusable" I see HA as a mandatory part of what makes a system production ready...

I'm not sure how those are comparable. Most people don't need extreme HA for their websites. It's totally fine if a standard webshop goes down from 2AM-3AM, or if a personal blog is down for a minute because an S3 VM crashed and needs to be rebooted. Most websites are not Google or Amazon, and gain very little from more 9's past the initial 2~3, which is totally manageable on a single server. Why spend thousands sett…

Yes, people should evaluate ha needs in terms of business needs: what happens if my website goes down? Will I lose money? How much money?

"How much money?" Is probably the most import question, as it actually helps in evaluating if there's a business case for investing into the financial commitment, engineering effort and maintenance burden of an ha solution.

On a different note, I've seen mysql-based multi-master setups and it's really a joy to be able to treat a mysql crashing as a minor annoyance instead of a call to fire-fighting.

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