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Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by npinsker »

jumperabg wrote: post #8

Pretty nice, 1 dev 3 team members in total and 1 million users? Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase? Does this scale and when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it?

Mobile games can often scale to eye-popping numbers. Among Us has over 1 billion downloads and was made by a single programmer. Plenty of other examples -- e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.JindoBlu.O..., a solo dev who has multiple 100MM+ download small games.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by vwkd »

Ah, that's one of those websites that accept a password of any length without error, truncate it, and show you a "wrong password" the next time you try to log in. Then you go through password reset roulette until you find a short enough password that works. Don't do this.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by davedx »

vwkd wrote: post #232

Ah, that's one of those websites that accept a password of any length without error, truncate it, and show you a "wrong password" the next time you try to log in. Then you go through password reset roulette until you find a short enough password that works. Don't do this.

Wait wait. Why would you truncate it after input unless... you're storing it in plaintext?

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by skrebbel »

bwb wrote: post #31

Nadia does a great weekly dev log email that I enjoy as well. I highly recommend it -> https://buttondown.com/nodunayo

I simply don't understand how she codes the app and writes the newsletter and does social media marketing for StoryGraph and flies all over the world to do keynotes at ruby conferences. I'm very impressed.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by qup »

ziddoap wrote: post #189
qup wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it implies that calling attention to things done by women is a trigger for gender discussions. I think trying to make arguments about why they are triggering requires you to make a lot of assumptions about people who aren't yourself.

> discussions That is a charitable way to read the flagged comments.

What about your comments?

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by culi »

morkalork wrote: post #102
culi wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Male is the default gender and anything that goes against the defaults of society triggers people. That's it.

People don't notice the word "man" getting shoved everywhere but if you dare to replace it they definitely take notice. Sociological Images did an interesting collection of these defaults

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/05/04/default-ava...

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by zja »

davedx wrote: post #233
vwkd wrote: post #232

Ah, that's one of those websites that accept a password of any length without error, truncate it, and show you a "wrong password" the next time you try to log in. Then you go through password reset roulette until you find a short enough password that works. Don't do this.

Wait wait. Why would you truncate it after input unless... you're storing it in plaintext?

You truncate passwords to prevent DOS

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by lesuorac »

zja wrote: post #237
davedx wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait wait. Why would you truncate it after input unless... you're storing it in plaintext?

You truncate passwords to prevent DOS

Why not either show an error or do a client-side hash so there's a fixed length?

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by orblivion »

lesuorac wrote: post #238
zja wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You truncate passwords to prevent DOS

Why not either show an error or do a client-side hash so there's a fixed length?

Showing an error is probably the right thing. Client-side mitigations wouldn't prevent a DOS.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by orblivion »

davedx wrote: post #233
vwkd wrote: post #232

Ah, that's one of those websites that accept a password of any length without error, truncate it, and show you a "wrong password" the next time you try to log in. Then you go through password reset roulette until you find a short enough password that works. Don't do this.

Wait wait. Why would you truncate it after input unless... you're storing it in plaintext?

Maybe the KDF gets really slow with a super long input.
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