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But it surely will! It will! See, now that we're profitable, we're gonna become a _scale up_, go international, hire 20 developers, turn everything into micros
by LaGrange 3y ago
But it surely will! It will!
See, now that we're profitable, we're gonna become a _scale up_, go international, hire 20 developers, turn everything into microservices, rewrite the UI our customers love, _not_ hire more customer service, get more investors, get pressured by investors, hire extra c-levels, lay-off 25 developers and the remaining customer service, write a wonderful journey post.
The future is so bright!
- zwnow 3y agoHonestly, that's one of the reasons I never want to monetize my work and stay miles away from the software industry. Modern world is all web apps that require you to subscribe to 20 different 3rd party services to even build your app. So you rack up bills before your product is even remotely lucrative... Building an app with no third party dependencies seems impossible nowadays. At least if you plan to compete.
- LaGrange 3y agoI mean, you _can_ host your staging environment on a Minisforum PC hidden in your closet and then deploy to Hetzner, and probably save a _ton_ unless your service benefits from things like, say, autoscaling or global low-latency access. Niches where you can get away with that are limited, not just by technical challenges but because large parts of the social ecosystem of IT won't like that. But they do exist. There's also still things that aren't webapps _at all_, there's software that has to run without internet access. It's all far apart and often requires specialized knowledge, but it exists.
- zwnow 3y agoYea I mostly learned web dev so far but wanted to get into IoT stuff so I might find something cool to do in there.