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I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Post by p4bl0 »

satvikpendem wrote: post #301
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just curious but is it the case that you signed up here 16 years ago and you didn't know what MRR means?

I was also curious about that, I would've thought especially in 2010 the startup ethos would've been more prevalent on HN whereas these days it's more about AI and big tech.

There was always tech content. I'd say it was even a more important part back in the days, and it was more diverse. There were always some trends (Ruby on Rails, Rust, etc.) but it was never like these days with LLM-related content which is almost all of the tech content. Because of that I've gone back to Reddit like two years ago, and now spend even more time there than here, which hadn't been the case in almost 15 years before that.

Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Post by GorbachevyChase »

senko wrote: post #79

If this sounds like basic advice, consider there are a lot of people out there that believe they have to start with serverless, kubernetes, fleets of servers, planet-scale databases, multi-zone high-availability setups, and many other "best practices". Saying "you can just run things on a cheap VPS" sounds amateurish: people are immediately out with "Yeah but scaling", "Yeah but high availability", "Yeah but backups"…

Don’t forget that people involved in information technology procurement will pay very large sums of the company’s money to not have to understand anything.

Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Post by satvikpendem »

p4bl0 wrote: post #351
satvikpendem wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was also curious about that, I would've thought especially in 2010 the startup ethos would've been more prevalent on HN whereas these days it's more about AI and big tech.

There was always tech content. I'd say it was even a more important part back in the days, and it was more diverse. There were always some trends (Ruby on Rails, Rust, etc.) but it was never like these days with LLM-related content which is almost all of the tech content. Because of that I've gone back to Reddit like two years ago, and now spend even more time there than here, which hadn't been the case in almost 15…

Where on reddit? It's even more LLM heavy than HN.

Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Post by raincole »

faangguyindia wrote: post #177
raincole wrote: post #32

So what's the $10K MMR product, exactly? The lede is buried into nonexistence. Is it this one: https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ ...? > Here is the trick that you might have missed: somehow, Microsoft is able to charge per request, not per token. And a "request" is simply what I type into the chat box. Even if the agent spends the next 30 minutes chewing through my entire codebase, mapping dependencies, and changi…

It's already known. The trick is ms has very small context size. So it won't be much useful.

So in other words the author is plain lying?

> Even if the agent spends the next 30 minutes chewing through my entire codebase

How can a 'very small context size' do that?

Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Post by p4bl0 »

satvikpendem wrote: post #354
p4bl0 wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was always tech content. I'd say it was even a more important part back in the days, and it was more diverse. There were always some trends (Ruby on Rails, Rust, etc.) but it was never like these days with LLM-related content which is almost all of the tech content. Because of that I've gone back to Reddit like two years ago, and now spend even more time there than here, which hadn't been the case in almost 15…

Where on reddit? It's even more LLM heavy than HN.

French subreddits, coffee subreddits, free software and free culture subreddits, specific programming languages subreddits, computer science subreddits, and yes, general tech subreddits which are also flooded with AI stuff, but I feel that it makes a significant difference that users can still downvote links there, which hasn't been possible in years on HN (not saying that it's a bad thing, just that it's a significant difference).

Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Post by jayd16 »

senko wrote: post #79

If this sounds like basic advice, consider there are a lot of people out there that believe they have to start with serverless, kubernetes, fleets of servers, planet-scale databases, multi-zone high-availability setups, and many other "best practices". Saying "you can just run things on a cheap VPS" sounds amateurish: people are immediately out with "Yeah but scaling", "Yeah but high availability", "Yeah but backups"…

Hmm backups seems like an important one.

Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Post by cj »

jayd16 wrote: post #357
senko wrote: post #79

If this sounds like basic advice, consider there are a lot of people out there that believe they have to start with serverless, kubernetes, fleets of servers, planet-scale databases, multi-zone high-availability setups, and many other "best practices". Saying "you can just run things on a cheap VPS" sounds amateurish: people are immediately out with "Yeah but scaling", "Yeah but high availability", "Yeah but backups"…

Hmm backups seems like an important one.

“Guys, we need to postpone our beta launch! We need another week to implement a backup strategy with point in time recovery!”

You don’t need backups until you have customers.

Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Post by andriy_koval »

andersmurphy wrote: post #135
hackingonempty wrote: post #31

> The enterprise mindset dictates that you need an out-of-process database server. But the truth is, a local SQLite file communicating over the C-interface or memory is orders of magnitude faster than making a TCP network hop to a remote Postgres server. I don't want to diss SQLite because it is awesome and more than adequate for many/most web apps but you can connect to Postgres (or any DB really) on localhost over…

Sqlite smokes postgres on the same machine even with domain sockets [1]. This is before you get into using multiple sqlite database. What features postgres offers over sqlite in the context of running on a single machine with a monolithic app? Application functions [2] means you can extend it however you need with the same language you use to build your application. It also has a much better backup and replication st…

> Sqlite smokes postgres on the same machine even with domain sockets [1]

for inserts only into singe table with no indexes.

Also, I didn't get why sqlite was allowed to do batching and pgsql was not.

Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Post by jayd16 »

cj wrote: post #358
jayd16 wrote: post #357

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm backups seems like an important one.

“Guys, we need to postpone our beta launch! We need another week to implement a backup strategy with point in time recovery!” You don’t need backups until you have customers.

So go live without testing the backup in the beta at all?
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