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I know Matt from the data world where his SQL Style Guide[0] was always at odds with the one we maintained at GitLab[1]. :-D
Posts like this are great to show folks just how long it can take to do things. I love his story and am eager to watch Preceden grow!
[0] https://github.com/mattm/sql-style-guide [1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-technology/data-t...
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It's tough though. I've been slow-burning on a side project for two years. I'm unsure if I need to be patient and keep working on it. Or cut my losses and put my time and effort into something else.
Do you enjoy it?
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> We need more examples highlighted of entrepreneurs leading the slow-burn (in a good way) types of ventures. There will be a lot more example of this in the coming years because the costs of keeping a pre-PMF webapp online have basically fallen to zero. Whereas when Zuckerberg started Facebook, if it didn't take off right away then you had no choice but to shut it down. When you hear VCs and other folks cast doubt o…
Yeah it’s interesting reading the old pg essays where he says, VCs suck but they are a necessary evil. After all, racking reliable servers will cost at least 20k, paying a PR firm so that there’s a chance anyone will hear about your site will cost at least 20k etc etc Now basically every PaaS has a free or cheap ( It’s not strictly true because some projects use GPUs for ML , sometimes there’s some technical rot if y…
A product built by an ex-soldier who was part of an occupying force that committed countless war crimes? No thank you. Question for other HN users - would you use a product built by an officer of the Russian army who was part of the war in Ukraine? Edit: Those downvoting me, did I say anything that is not true?
Over this time, what have your most successful marketing/customer acquisition strategies been? How has this changed?
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> We need more examples highlighted of entrepreneurs leading the slow-burn (in a good way) types of ventures. There will be a lot more example of this in the coming years because the costs of keeping a pre-PMF webapp online have basically fallen to zero. Whereas when Zuckerberg started Facebook, if it didn't take off right away then you had no choice but to shut it down. When you hear VCs and other folks cast doubt o…
Yeah it’s interesting reading the old pg essays where he says, VCs suck but they are a necessary evil. After all, racking reliable servers will cost at least 20k, paying a PR firm so that there’s a chance anyone will hear about your site will cost at least 20k etc etc Now basically every PaaS has a free or cheap ( It’s not strictly true because some projects use GPUs for ML , sometimes there’s some technical rot if y…
Mostly you can't, especially if you're a b2b SaaS.
Out of curiosity, I see that the $16 pack gets you your own logo and branding. Is that kind of vanity something people actually ask for? Always sound weird to me :)
Hi Matt, thanks for sharing. Just a proof of my staying power, I saw your Preceden post on HN; and paid for a license 13 years ago promptly your v0.1 and I am still here. https://i.imgur.com/ejUm3Gh.png I had bought a license purely on a whim as I was browsing HN on company-time. I was in 20's, bored and ambitious with no concrete plans and I proceeded to play on company-time in my cubicle the rest of the day and pla…
grabbing the wheel and jerking hard left on the conversation, but this comment struck me as funny.
rite?? like getting a 10K raise in 2 years is a rite of passage that we should all be expecting to happen to all of us, right?
Very cool to see you on HN Matt! I know Matt from the data world where his SQL Style Guide[0] was always at odds with the one we maintained at GitLab[1]. :-D Posts like this are great to show folks just how long it can take to do things. I love his story and am eager to watch Preceden grow! [0] https://github.com/mattm/sql-style-guide [1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-technology/data-t...
As a consumer I loathe the billed annual option.