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> Old and boring is still sometimes the best. It's not so much old vs new, or cool vs boring, but rather the thing you are most experienced with. If the goal i
by elmigranto 10y ago
> Old and boring is still sometimes the best.
It's not so much old vs new, or cool vs boring, but rather the thing you are most experienced with. If the goal is to just build the damn thing, go with a stack you would be most productive in.
- PerfectElement 10y agoExactly. I'm making 25k month with a SaaS that was built on boring ASP.NET+SQL Server+Angular 1 because that's what I knew. I host it on Windows because I know how to make it fast and secure. I'm happy I focused all my time on building the features that clients were asking for, instead of learning the latest frameworks or fighting an OS I'm not familiar with.
- throwaway29464 10y agoYes - I'm doing about 33K per month on a SaaS that is just Rails/Postgres/Heroku - the only javascript is some basic JQuery.
- whitepoplar 10y agoCool! Can I ask what your SaaS is?
- kowdermeister 10y agoHe is called throwaway29464 for a reason :)
- smnplk 10y agoAmateur. I make about 35k/month using only bash via CGI and some plain text files as database.
- vivekian2 10y agoSerious? or joking? :) If the former, would love to know more.
- Reedx 10y agoActually, I wonder if the creator of WWWBoard/FormMail/etc achieved that. It certainly would've been well earned. His stuff was everywhere (I used them a lot too).
- hvidgaard 10y agoPft. I make 42k/month using only butterflies like a real programmer.
- artursapek 10y agoWhat's your product? Have you written about it?
- fapjacks 10y agoYeah, just to second this idea, I would like to read about it, also, though I am totally unfamiliar with the technology being used.
- 31reasons 10y agoIs that 25k USD? :)
- timboisvert 10y agoSomali Shillings
- lacampbell 10y agoDoesn't it make sense to be specific with the currency you are talking about on an international forum? I realise the US is the worlds most powerful country with a very important currency, but it doesn't follow that we should always just assume that any currency spoken about is USD.
- verbify 10y agoIt does make sense to be specific, but I find the only people who aren't specific are usually Americans so we can assume these figures are USD. While this forum does have people from all over the world (I'm living in London), it also is a forum headquarted by a seed accelerator based in the US.
- mmanfrin 10y agobuilt on boring [...] Angular 1 Ah yes, the halcyon yesteryear of Angular 1.
- StavrosK 10y agoThis is a little-known fact, but Angular 1 was actually released on the same year as FORTRAN II.
- dgudkov 10y agoAs per Wikipedia FORTRAN II appeared in 1958 [1]. Don't remember Javascript being around at that time. Am I missing something? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#FORTRAN_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#FORTRAN_II
- g0atbutt 10y agoJust the joke :)
- jitl 10y agoYou're missing the joke.
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- kevinwang 10y agoSarcastic remark
- StavrosK 10y agoI was just joking, but I appreciate how carefully-worded your reply was :)
- dgudkov 10y agoAh, silly me :) I'm not that familiar with the history of Fortran so I thought maybe some cool Fortran reincarnation (hence II) was released a few years ago.
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- evincarofautumn 10y agoWhen I’ve seen people set out to learn something and build something, they tend to accomplish neither—but if they focus on just one of those, the other is often a happy side effect.
- kodfodrasz 10y agoThe golden rule in my experience is that you can have both, if being careful in the proportions. Usually I limit new things to 1-2 concepts/tools a time, and use well tried ones for others. This way I usually manage to get stuff done and avoid getting stuck in my comfort zone. Note: I have some hobby projects with minimal progress, where I ignore the golden rule and try new stuff all the time :)
- redmaverick 10y agoBut often, you only learn something by building something.
- lenjaffe 10y agoperforma prototype build of a thing you've already built. You'll gain the new knowledge in context, making it even more valuable.
- meric 10y agoOr you know, many set out to neither learn nor build, mostly to avoid chores and homework, and somehow end up having learnt and built and ended up with a good technology job.
- mooreds 10y agoAs a counterpoint, I recently built something in a framework (Rails) that was relatively new to me because the framework had large amounts of functionality available as open source components (info in profile). I reviewed other options, including technologies that I was more familiar with, but the risk of slower development while I came up to speed was outweighed by the increase in speed to market.
- aswerty 10y ago
- ProAm 10y agoSpot on, execution means everything.
- matwood 10y ago> It's not so much old vs new, or cool vs boring, but rather the thing you are most experienced with. If the goal is to just build the damn thing, go with a stack you would be most productive in. This exactly. Customers do not care what the product was written in, as long as it solves their problem. I find this is a hard thing for programmers as we are generally curious and want to be learning. It is important to remember the goal. If the goal is the learn, then go learn. If it's to ship some software to start a business, then use the tools you know and ship something.