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I mean...you should probably hire good enough engineers that a website can withstand a pretty small amount of HN attention... ...I kid! But seriously, though, how is it possible in 2025 that websites can still collapse from the relatively minuscule traffic that an HN front page sends? Are people upvoting this submission without having actually seen it? EDIT: For the "works for me" people, the site's host, framer.app,…
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This is just true on its face. Imagine you were building a new CPU architecture and the head engineer was just not at the office. Maybe people would agree if we change the word “best” to “most responsible” or “most accountable”.
- Sense of value and worth to society? Go volunteer.
- Wanting to help make someone else's dreams come true? Probably not.
- They pay us!
Ummmnnn. I may or may not be a top engineer. But, in large part for most people the big reason is: They get paid.
This is the late game, why would an engineer work for a fraction of a percent of equity and a below market salary when they can take a job at FANG?
You've got to be offering something really, really valuable like remote work, an interesting problem, and/or a new experience. Otherwise the math doesn't math.
Counterpoint: You want to hire the best engineers and empower them to work how they are most effective, remotely or not.
The best companies hire relatively green engineers and develop them.
The fifth engineer can be a junior. Once you've built a base you can start expanding and hiring on potential.