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Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by tptacek »

margalabargala wrote: post #348
tptacek wrote: post #123

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We got this off the Loudoun County website! We do our research for these things!

While "where tradition meets innovation" is a set of words that the county puts on their logo, and appears to meet the definition of a motto, the parent is correct that the Official Motto is indeed "I Byde My Time". https://www.loudoun.gov/177/Coat-of-Arms "Where Tradition Meets Innovation" appears to be a branding push by the county dating to 2019 rather than an official motto. https://www.loudoun.gov/ArchiveCenter/…

People wonder why I'm so addicted to this site, but I mean, it's obvious right here, isn't it?

Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by maliker »

duxup wrote: post #228

"We raised a bunch of money" Generally speaking (I'm not a fly.io customer) at this point that phrase WORRIES me as a customer of any service. It makes me think that the company exists just on a constant flow of VC or similar money and what I'm using or paying for isn't a realistic or future cost and I'm involved with a system or platform that is getting stretched larger and larger regardless of income and the more m…

Probably a couple more years of good service until they get acquired. They're leaps and bounds better than the container services on AWS and Azure, solidly better than the GCP one. Seems like they could sell to get their exits before too long. Although I would be very happy if they had the pain tolerance to continue as their own company.

Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by ignoramous »

maliker wrote: post #352
duxup wrote: post #228

"We raised a bunch of money" Generally speaking (I'm not a fly.io customer) at this point that phrase WORRIES me as a customer of any service. It makes me think that the company exists just on a constant flow of VC or similar money and what I'm using or paying for isn't a realistic or future cost and I'm involved with a system or platform that is getting stretched larger and larger regardless of income and the more m…

Probably a couple more years of good service until they get acquired. They're leaps and bounds better than the container services on AWS and Azure, solidly better than the GCP one. Seems like they could sell to get their exits before too long. Although I would be very happy if they had the pain tolerance to continue as their own company.

> Probably a couple more years of good service until they get acquired.

(not privy to inside information) As a customer that would be a catastrophic outcome. Reckon Fly.io could avoid the temptation better than most given the founding team has already had one exit (mongohq/compose.io) and might not feel the urge to sell out again.

Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by snowstormsun »

duxup wrote: post #341
aeyes wrote: post #340

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Also the guy who you hired to cut your grass now also lugs around all the tools to take care of your pool, your car and your house. Take all or nothing.

And your lawn guy’s office has a pool.

Also, the lawn guy now has a pricing tier for different grass heights that all in the end take the same amount of work.

Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by sriram_sun »

I really like the "Here's what's not changing" section. Honorable mention for Twilio. Also, the kind of platform companies where you sign up and play tend to get acquired and become the kind where you sign up and a sales person calls you!

Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by rco8786 »

tjoff wrote: post #140
rco8786 wrote: post #113

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> My new heuristic is that I avoid every single company that raises venture funding. What about posting on a forum owned and operated by a venture firm? Do you use Google? Slack? Facebook? The list of venture backed tech firms is endless. I don't even disagree with the general sentiment...but your resolution seems particularly short-sighted.

> Do you use Google? Slack? Facebook? The list of venture backed tech firms is endless. Not a convincing list of companies there...

I chose those because they are ubiquitous and downright hard to avoid. What do you want to bet OP made that post on a Chrome browser? Or an Android/iPhone/Macbook? Is there even a way to purchase a computer of any sort that doesn't involve supporting a venture backed company? The list of venture backed companies is so long, it would be exhaustive if not impossible to avoid using them without going off grid.

How many venture backed companies do you think are involved just in me pressing the "reply" button to send this post?

Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by ignoramous »

lawrencechen wrote: post #22

> There are two kinds of platform companies : the kind where you can get your Python or Rust or Julia code running nicely, and the kind where you find a way to recompile it to Javascript. Playful jab on Cloudflare and Deno. Would be interesting if Fly took up hosting "WASM containers" in addition to Docker containers.

That's a jab at wasmer, fermyon et al (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36508077), me thinks.

I think, the jab on Cloudflare was the "get a salesperson to call" part.

Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by logifail »

esafak wrote: post #339
killthebuddha wrote: post #271

It's always seemed to me that Fly has a really awesome, modern perspective on software engineering and that they'd be a great place to work, but I've also always felt like there's a glaring inconsistency between their marketing and product. What I mean is it seems like their marketing (and docs) are all about how trivial it is to spin up globally distributed app servers but the only customers who would need globally…

It means you can pick them without worrying about whether your startup will have to migrate once it scales.

> without worrying about whether your startup will have to migrate once it scales

... except "once it scales", you realise that you're paying through the nose for cloud services "because growth", so you end up looking at on-prem again, and finally decide it's better value?

Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by snowwrestler »

eduction wrote: post #44
fishtoaster wrote: post #31

"Why do startups write announcements like these?" I've been at a bunch of companies with a bunch of raises. 100% of the time, the announcement was an excuse for press. If you can come up with any excuse to get an article published in a bunch of tech press (other than "CEO arrested for embezzlement + harassment at the same time"), you get a bunch of free advertising. Bonus points if your target customer tends to read…

Saying it's "for press" just kicks the can down the road, raising the question "why do startups want press on announcements like these?" They do it to get out a certain message and leave a certain impression, usually of the mercenary sort the post outlines. Although I see your point about it just being to get the name of the company out there, that's definitely one mercenary motivation that the post maybe did not men…

Startups want press in general, and closing a funding round is reliably something that the press will cover. (Unlike, for example, product or feature releases.)

Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by benzible »

yolo3000 wrote: post #142
phaer wrote: post #24

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I think fly.io believes that they can allow the bookstore to do so in less than two hours for a price where it's still important enough for the bookstore and profitable - in aggregate - for fly.io. I personally believe that could be true, but their investors going to find out ;)

So change your infra to save a few hours :D I guess they have other compelling features.

Tell me you've never without telling me etc...
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