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Post by asim »

sublimefire wrote: post #273
asim wrote: post #117

Happy to help anyone starting up. I raised a couple mil in seed funding for an open source project after bootstrapping for a few years. I'm sure the YC crew would be more helpful but I got rejected by YC like 8 times and took the direct route to funding. We built this https://M3O.com . It was based on this https://github.com/micro/micro Just happy to help given my own tough experiences. Pitch deck reviews, intros, et…

It is an interesting approach to developing services. The company did not survive though, found this in a blog: > Jan 12, M3O was developed as a VC funded company. There is no longer a path to towards a sustainable outcome or further funding. For this reason we’re not able to support the platform any longer.

Yup company is defunct but I left the product running while I push it toward something else. Basically why does every saas service need to be backed by a corporation. Why can't we have something community led. We have open source which many people can contribute to but not running services. So it's an experiment.

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Post by jdlshore »

SassyGrapefruit wrote: post #305
jdlshore wrote: post #304

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37signals disagrees. They’re moving off the cloud and have published several blog entries about the process and the approx ~1mm/yr (fully loaded) they expect to save. I don’t have a horse in this race, but it’s interesting that your experiences are so different. Would love to hear your take on their numbers. The most recent article, with lots of hard numbers, is here: https://dev.37signals.com/our-cloud-spend-in-2022…

Where are the numbers and how do they calculate them? This article lists their cloud spend in detail then "waves hands" at the Datacenter costs simply saying "it will be far far less". Ok why not break it down? I don't understand how they are going to achieve that. Does it include routers, switches, IPS's? What about the costs associated with having a physically wired network instead of a software defined network. Al…

Here's their article. "We stand to save $7m over five years from cloud exit."

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-year...

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Post by noloblo »

whateveracct wrote: post #252
flangola7 wrote: post #247

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Isn't LinkedIn basically social media? I will have no part in that.

You can basically port your resume to it and do nothing else and it can get you the occasional lead on a job. 3/4 of my last jobs were from LinkedIn recruiter outreach. One of the recruiter I told I wasn't ready, and then months later I pinged them and got right into the interview process and eventually got a new job.

please email me for haskell help if you do not mind

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Post by almet »

bluGill wrote: post #80
almet wrote: post #45

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Aren't startup made to be bought by the tech giants? Until there is a shift in their goals, I can't see thé gafam losing here.

Some are, but a lot of them are also made to be successful long term companies. Small business is still a large employer overall. Some businesses need to be very big, and if you want to be "filthy rich" you have to be in one of those. However you can be nicely wealthy at a small company.

I still have a hard time understanding what's going on with startups : the power of money makes it too attractive to sell and "call it a life" I guess. That's why even if they don't plan on doing this, startup might actually accept being bought. I guess.

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

pkdpic wrote: post #230
HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #189

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OTOH, if you are job hunting, be sure to keep your LinkedIn profile up to date.

Thats helpful (but rare) to hear. Does anyone have any concrete anecdotes reinforcing the importance of keeping linkedin looking fresh? Also what matters? Artful descriptions of past positions? Activity on timeline? Upvotes on skills? Links to projects?

I got my current job in mid-2021 after a "cold" reachout from a recruiter who just happened to have a position that was perfect for me. I wasn't looking, but was open to suggestion.

My profile at that time probably hadn't been touched in about 5-6 years. After talking with her I cleaned it up a bit, but it's nothing more than a basic resume and a list of past positions going back about 10 years. IME, all they care about is that you provide enough context that they can compare against the openings they have. The "extra" skills, projects, etc., can come out when you have a pre-interview discussion.

I've been in industry 30 years and every position except my first has been through a recruiter. They're good at this (some of them anyway): make them do the hard work.

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Post by icedchai »

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #99
whymauri wrote: post #53

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The junior dev market has been terrible since the COVID lockdown.

Remote is hard to make work with juniors, unfortunately.

Tell me about it. I don't mind helping someone, but when they don't pay attention the first time and I have to have the same exact meeting again, it's kind of a bother.

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Post by lsferreira42 »

asim wrote: post #319
lsferreira42 wrote: post #316

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Happy to see you here, i love the idea of your app, but on my tests i had a poor experience, with latency, speed of execution and with your responses. it seem unmaintaned, what is tha state of the company today?

Product is on autopilot, company ran out of money and couldn't raise further funding. I'm not offering help to find product/market fit and not showing these things to sell the product. Just offering help to fellow founders trying to get something off the ground. I managed to do that part. Btw sorry for your issues with the product. We were a small team, we raised $2m in 2019, but didn't launch that product until 2021…

Not a problem, it's a good idea and a good product, i hope you find a way to continue this adventure, but if you want to sell it you can reach me throug any social media platform that is on my profile

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Post by conductr »

francisofascii wrote: post #297
conductr wrote: post #129

Friendly reminder that the “web 2.0” era was born out of the dot com bust.

Except that these layoff companies aren't exactly busting. They are still very profitable.

The excess labor seeking productive pursuits is a driving force more so than the state of the companies doing the layoffs.

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Post by green_man_lives »

seattle_spring wrote: post #97

How does someone currently unemployed by choice with a good financial cushion take advantage of this if I don't have any startup ideas I'm deeply passionate about? I've kept an eye on the startup market and all I see are exceedingly boring ideas with mind numbing pitches around them. "Democratizing shipping!" "Disrupting the collaborative saas text editor market!" Edit: wow the ideas in OP are dumb as hell too.

I wasn't laid off, but I quit about a month ago.

I have a few ideas. None are really monetizable, but I want to do them, so I am. Once I get them out of my system I'll probably go back to being an employee.

I think if you are interested in making something, you should make it. If you are interested in making money, then look for a job.

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Post by never_inline »

Salgat wrote: post #312
never_inline wrote: post #264

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We are all docker containers running on a kubernetes cluster. Can be upscaled or downscaled as needed.

That's a horrible analogy since it assumes that a brand new hire is instantly as productive as any other employee.

That's not an analogy. It's a polemic.
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