StratusBen

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   by StratusBen 6y ago

   First off, congratulations! I've done a lot of pricing work for various developer tools products and at established companies like DigitalOcean and AWS. Feel free to contact me and I'm happy to help (both with pricing and attempti
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   Ask HN: How long did it take you to get your first customer?

   4 points by StratusBen 6y ago|1 comments
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   by StratusBen 6y ago

   Seems fine to me! If you want you can probably just run it all on one Droplet to save costs for now. If you're able, I'd recommend using a DigitalOcean droplet with dedicated vCPUs -- they're a bit more expensive but you&#x27
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   by StratusBen 6y ago

   Cloudflare is increasingly becoming one of the more interesting companies out there. I feel like they're shifting more and more from being a straight up CDN and trying to dip their toes into things that are closer to but not quite exac
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   by StratusBen 6y ago

   Very fair. We're about to ship a new marketing site with a features page that has more screenshots and feature explanations as well as a video demo on the home page.
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   by StratusBen 6y ago

   I work on a product named http://vantage.sh/ that provides something similar as a managed service specifically for AWS. I respect the effort that went into this!
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   by StratusBen 6y ago

   It may sound silly but I try to project forward to the end of the day and simply have my future self judge what my current self is doing. Would I be happy if I wasted time or would I be happy if I made progress on a project? That usually ce
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   by StratusBen 6y ago

   The CEO of MicroStrategy is either going to look incredibly smart or incredibly dumb as a result of all of this.
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   by StratusBen 6y ago

   That's because in a few years the AWS Console will require 29M people just to figure out how to do anything.
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    How to find all resources in an AWS Account(vantage.sh)

    1 points by StratusBen 6y ago|0 comments
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    by StratusBen 6y ago

    I would imagine because they knew this was coming.
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    by StratusBen 6y ago

    AWS can now see exactly how much of your workload is running on-prem :)
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    by StratusBen 6y ago

    Seems like a major new growth vertical for AWS and gives Apple the ability to vet this [if its successful] for potentially launching their own offering one day.
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    by StratusBen 6y ago

    It seems insane that AWS hosts their Service Health Dashboard in us-east-1.
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    by StratusBen 6y ago

    I think these guys are early but if you sign up for early access they're letting people in: http://vantage.sh/
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    by StratusBen 6y ago

    As for the AWS UI: I completely agree. I'm in the early access beta for a product being built that solves almost all of its problems and felt you might want to see it: https://vantage.sh/ Pretty sure they said they&#x2
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    by StratusBen 6y ago

    I use http://iexcloud.io/ for this...you'll have to code around it a bit but you can get the information you want.
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    by StratusBen 6y ago

    One other API I've found that includes foreign exchange (as well as a bunch of other different asset classes) is http://iexcloud.io -- they have a free tier that is pretty generous.
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    by StratusBen 6y ago

    The AWS Management Console.