Earlier quoted context omitted.
> IPv6 does not work on the only ISP in my neighborhood that provides gigabit links. I will not build a product I cannot use. Cool. Somebody else will, and will likely have a better price (due to the abundance of ipv6 addresses) and you’ll go out of business. > because we tried to use Tailscale to move data to them, which defaults to happy eyeballs Not gonna lie, to me that reads like “because we don’t know how to us…
Whenever I see a comment that says "if you don't do the thing in the most efficient way possible, someone else will steal your lunch", I think that people vastly overestimate the likelihood that this will actually happen. It's similar to "open source is the most secure because it has the most eyeballs on it", but in reality security bugs will exist for years with no one noticing because people vastly overestimate how…
Well you’re leaving behind both a serious pain point for your users AND you’re leaving in the open a clearly more compute- and money-efficient way to achieve the objective on the table.
It’s literally giving your eventual competitors (because there will be competitors, eventually) a competitive advantage.
Then sure, the market is very wide but… just look at stackoverflow vs chatgpt. As soon as a better alternative came on the market, stackoverflow died to irrelevance within months.