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Interesting...can you describe your process when you encounter a delusion that prevents you from continuing? Provide an example if you could.
by notastartup 13y ago
Interesting...can you describe your process when you encounter a delusion that prevents you from continuing? Provide an example if you could.
- imnotinsane 13y agoSure. One would be coming up with a design for a site that has 100,000 users. Then starting to code some of the screens and planning the infrastucture. So I will need a private cloud on Amazon with horizontal web nodes and a massive Postgres database master-master. Now how much is that going to cost... Okay, well that's well over my budget of $0. But I have a $50 Linode credit so maybe I can just use that to start out. What's this OpenResty that's doing so well on the web frameworks benchmark? Maybe I should use that. So setup an Arch box and get that setup. Find Lapis and MoonScript and so I'll use that. Now back to the coding. Strip everything I have done in Grails, using Lapis now. Except I have to spend a day reading the Lapis documentation and then it's been 5 days and I need a rest. During said rest I decide the whole idea is stupid because how am I going to get an audience on TechCrunch or whatever to promote this site? Come up with another idea on Monday... Except I'm totally drained and don't know what I should be doing.
- notastartup 13y agodon't scale in the beginning. If you have linode credit use that. Also reaching 100,000 users is a huge assumption, you may not even get there. Openresty and Lua is interesting but it takes time to learn those. Use what you already know. Take a rest, re-evaluate the tools you are familiar with and use it. Then when you have a prototype to show, you can email people at TC or anywhere else, you may not even get a reply but try it.
- imnotinsane 13y agoI guess it might be that simple eh? Thanks for the advice. I will definitely look into resuming with Grails.