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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...
One of these days y'all will switch over to lowercase SQL keywords, you'll see ;)
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?
You're able to safely post that stupid comment because of soldiers and Pax Americana.
> I made a lot of rookie mistakes over the years that limited Preceden’s growth including not focusing on a specific niche, not spending enough time marketing, not talking to enough customers, trying to do too much myself, and just in general picking a difficult product and business to build (something I didn’t give any thought to initially). This really resonates with me. I've been building a new social app, that's…
On that happy note, I wish you all the best with Sqwok. May growth come easier to your business than it has to Preceden.
Congratulations on the step and all the best in your journey. An idea could be to do an update after a year on how its going.
Learn GPT is brilliant. Thank you for this.
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…
>(maybe in 2 years for at least 10K, rite??) 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?
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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…
> you can get users / customers for free on social media Mostly you can't, especially if you're a b2b SaaS.
> I made a lot of rookie mistakes over the years that limited Preceden’s growth including not focusing on a specific niche, not spending enough time marketing, not talking to enough customers, trying to do too much myself, and just in general picking a difficult product and business to build (something I didn’t give any thought to initially). This really resonates with me. I've been building a new social app, that's…
Thanks! I will say though, people should give up sometimes. I gave up on a bunch of the other projects I started that time, and there's an argument that I should have given up on Preceden too and found an easier business to start. On that happy note, I wish you all the best with Sqwok. May growth come easier to your business than it has to Preceden.
That's true, then again hindsight is 20/20!
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You're able to safely post that stupid comment because of soldiers and Pax Americana.
What does the iraq or afghan war have to do with pax americana? Was 2003 iraq a real threat to the global empire?
If you do want to see my response about the endless wars:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34249354
But comment you replied to is about the 1A and the military that makes that possible.
To build what I just described into supporting a family fulltime is amazing.