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I built and launched 9 startups in 1 year

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Re: I built and launched 9 startups in 1 year

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Post by pedalpete »

hcks wrote: post #8

These are not startups, most aren’t even products.

That was my first reaction, but then on further consideration, some are start-ups, some are features.

How many people would have said Docusign, Okta, or even GitHub weren't start-ups, but just wrappers around existing technology.

Re: I built and launched 9 startups in 1 year

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Post by matteoraso »

I'm struggling to think of a way that GitHunt service can be used in a way that isn't malicious. I say that because a common grey market is to sell email addresses to spammers, and that's the only target audience I can see using it. Not trying to be a dick, just worried that this service can be harmful for a lot of people.

Re: I built and launched 9 startups in 1 year

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Post by coif »

matteoraso wrote: post #13

I'm struggling to think of a way that GitHunt service can be used in a way that isn't malicious. I say that because a common grey market is to sell email addresses to spammers, and that's the only target audience I can see using it. Not trying to be a dick, just worried that this service can be harmful for a lot of people.

Agreed, I searched for "elixir" and the first person returned on the list was a self-identified minor from Europe and the e-mail that was listed (partially redacted) was not the e-mail publicly listed on the persons GitHub page in the "Contact Me" section.

The list appears to be non-deterministic as it changed slightly on re-running the search query, but selling the e-mail addresses of people in GDPR protected regions seems like a not-great idea.

Seems like a cool idea with a risky implementation.

Re: I built and launched 9 startups in 1 year

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Post by janalsncm »

I’m more interested in the tech behind these products. I have a dozen or so “apps” which amount to a python script or localhost site, but deploying them online has been a complete pain in the ass. I will spend ~8 hours perfecting a python script only to spend the next weekend figuring out how to deploy it behind a url. It’s extremely frustrating.

Maybe it’s because I’m not an AWS expert anymore but frankly I don’t want to be. I don’t care. I want to spend my time figuring out the business logic of the app, not tuning obscure IAM configurations so that one part of my app can talk to another.

What I want: take my flask app or node app and my frontend files and run it from a temp url. Include some hosted db. If everything looks good, sell me a domain name. Bonus points if this can be done from terminal like surge.sh can for frontends. And let me cap my monthly spend.

I noticed that one of the apps uses Netlify, are there better options or is that generally considered the best?

Re: I built and launched 9 startups in 1 year

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Post by intelVISA »

pedalpete wrote: post #11
hcks wrote: post #8

These are not startups, most aren’t even products.

That was my first reaction, but then on further consideration, some are start-ups, some are features. How many people would have said Docusign, Okta, or even GitHub weren't start-ups, but just wrappers around existing technology.

> just wrappers around existing technology.

so 99% of SaaS?

Re: I built and launched 9 startups in 1 year

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Post by chrislh »

janalsncm wrote: post #16

I’m more interested in the tech behind these products. I have a dozen or so “apps” which amount to a python script or localhost site, but deploying them online has been a complete pain in the ass. I will spend ~8 hours perfecting a python script only to spend the next weekend figuring out how to deploy it behind a url. It’s extremely frustrating. Maybe it’s because I’m not an AWS expert anymore but frankly I don’t wa…

I've been impressed by render so far (using them at work, no other affiliation) https://render.com/

Pretty straightforward infra-as-code -- this spec is basically all the documentation you need https://render.com/docs/blueprint-spec

Re: I built and launched 9 startups in 1 year

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Post by tjhill »

janalsncm wrote: post #16

I’m more interested in the tech behind these products. I have a dozen or so “apps” which amount to a python script or localhost site, but deploying them online has been a complete pain in the ass. I will spend ~8 hours perfecting a python script only to spend the next weekend figuring out how to deploy it behind a url. It’s extremely frustrating. Maybe it’s because I’m not an AWS expert anymore but frankly I don’t wa…

I also felt this way about hosting simple projects on AWS. I tried https://fly.io and I think the experience there is exactly what you’re looking for. Super simple to deploy anything that is dockerized and setting up domains/ssl is the easiest I have experienced from any hosting provider.
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