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I personally enjoy the software side too much to be a solo founder. When I'm in a place where I'm able to start something new, I'm going to look rather aggressively for someone to work with who can round out my shortcomings.
Is it bad that the first metric the author shares is a borderline vanity metric (Github stars)?
For the sake of the article though it's a hook I figured might encourage folks to keep reading. :)
Is it bad that the first metric the author shares is a borderline vanity metric (Github stars)?
Keep in mind the realistic alternative in practice is number of users paying for a yearly subscription. Which would you rather see more often as an engagement metric - subscription plans, or open source users? It would be a sign of vitality for the open source community if github stars were a metric that VCs sought more often.
All metrics for pre-seed startups are based on popularity, that’s what VCs ask for: indicators that people want to use your product, whether it’s monthly active users, monthly recurring revenue, or github stars.
When someone is trying to build it via open source rather than a subscription model, github stars might be the best, or even only available way to track engagement reliably. Also, part of the story was about how long it took to reach a certain number of stars, and they compared it to other projects that got as much engagement more quickly.
If you can, it is always better to go full time. If you hourly rate is 150$ (in the market), and you can work 300H a month (including weekend) (It should be 400 hours - 13 hours a day). Than you are basically making around 70-100K a month (in value), but paying only 4K (in cash, your living expenses). Of course, if you are 2X, 3X , 4X engineer , you are basically making 300K a month for 4K cost.
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I think Pachyderm[0] is exactly what you're describing. [0]: https://www.pachyderm.com
We used pachyderm before MLOps was even a thing, sadly, back then they tried to solve everything at once while failing with the most basic needs. If your data versioning "Utilizes a Git-like structure that enables effective team collaboration through commits, branches and rollbacks", then it means you can only consume one version at a time in your pipeline. This is, unfortunately, a fatal flaw. Especially when workin…
Is it possible to do more SQL over CSV in the browser? I'd love a simple browser app that I could drop a CSV file into and write SQL against. Right now I use `j`, but its a bit clunky.
Yeah! app.datastation.multiprocess.io supports this! Here's a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7LEV3ZeQWU&feature=youtu.be
Does this work with larger datasets (10gb+)? Does it upload the data to a server?
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Yeah! app.datastation.multiprocess.io supports this! Here's a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7LEV3ZeQWU&feature=youtu.be
Ooo! that is cool. The UX took a second to get used to, but it meets my needs. Does this work with larger datasets (10gb+)? Does it upload the data to a server?
The DataStation desktop or server app will work better for larger datasets but it takes a while to handle data larger than 4GB. It should handle 10gb+ eventually but it will be slow.
Advice regarding VCs: Don't ever talk to them if they randomly approach you saying they "really like what you're doing". They will gladly sent an associate to talk with you about your business in the greatest detail and ask you to share presentations, demos and metrics. Anything you give them will then get passed along to their own portfolio companies in your space. So don't feel flattered when they feign interest in…
A VC seems impressive but they are just another company trying to make money. It's the founder version of getting LinkedIn Recruiter Spam.
Is it bad that the first metric the author shares is a borderline vanity metric (Github stars)?
I reacted to this as well. I hope he/she gets real value for the work they put in. Having worked as a developer and consumer of open source work (for huge finance institutions), it pains me to see how devs pour their souls into open source projects, and consumers (our bosses) don’t even know or care who wrote the code everyone is using.