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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
> "I also never seen an eng org where substantial part of it didn’t do useless projects that never amount to anything" Bootstrapped companies generally don't do this btw. This is a symptom of venture backed companies.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
It might be niche for HN, but in muggle world its enormously popular.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
One option (the one that I took) was to own both companies - in this case an agency that gave birth to the side project that became Flagsmith.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
Yeah they did at the time for sure. When the A500 was released PC games were generally CGA/EGA. The A500 was way ahead of its time, especially when you account for how much they cost.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
This is a proper disgrace to software as a discipline. Who writes this?
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
Arch Elite is the pinnacle for sure.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
We are building out real time streaming and do have it in beta on our JS SDK currently (hit me up if you want to get onto the beta). HOWEVER! In our experience, it's one of those features that people think they need, but then when you
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
(Author here) That's a great, great question, and it is difficult. I think I might write this up as a separate post as there's a lot to unpack. There are pros to working for a bootstrapped company, but they less concrete than the
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
It's much easier if you also have paying consulting clients to bring in revenue alongside the bootstrapped project.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
Thanks for the kind words. A LOT of the Flagsmith design and approach was built around solving problems that our consulting clients had (basically big UK blue chips doing cloud transformation). Starting with an agency can be a bit like enab
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
When you bootstrap, there can be room! We don't have half the board demanding 50% market share...
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
Haha we (Author here!) thought feature flags would be a pretty simple product to build 6 years ago. 6 years later we are still hard at it!
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
EVs do 100% need to get lighter. They are still quite a bit heavier than their ICE equivalents and tyre wear is (IMO) underappreciated as a toxin/pollutant.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
As someone who much prefers bootstrapping businesses, this seems like a just insane amount of money to raise. If you had a growing popular product like this, why on earth would you raise that amount of money? This isn't a rhetorical qu
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
For those that dont know about the project, check out Open Feature https://openfeature.dev/ which is sort of like Open Telemetry but for feature flags. Helps avoid vendor lock in. We're a young project and looking for
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
This depends entirely on volume IMO. We [1] use Discord for this, and its great, but we don't have a large message volume. Discord seems way better than Slack for this use case as there's a single login which is built around conne
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
Be interested to know how/where it's deployed!
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The Enshittification of Digital Design. Specifically, the Slack Redesign(flagsmith.com)
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
What's the cost of additional read regions?
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
What a wonderful reply. Thank you and kudos!
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
This is peak HN
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
There are thousands and thousands of private bootstrapped business where the founders are banking 1-10M EBITDA every year. You almost never hear about them.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
Sorry yes - thank you - I meant bootstrappers are far more common. My main point is that there's an enormous amount of survivor bias with VC backed companies. Bootstrapped: not so much.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
What evidence do you have that it is "staightforward"? If it was, everyone would do it.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
Without question the bootstrapper. You almost never hear about them but there are thousands of them out there. They don't have huge PR VC teams behind them, hence you never hear about them.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
"It is straightforward to get a body-shop consulting business to mid-7-figures." Sorry, no. This is demeaning. It's not easy and it's not straightforward. disclosure: Been running a "body-shop consulting business&qu
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
Not sure why this is being upvoted. They are launching mass into space at between 1 and 2 orders of magnitude lower cost than anyone else. The R+D costs on that is insane. And they are almost profitable. I 100% agree that du-jour saas compa
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
How is this still a thing? Absolutely nuts. What happened to the www.
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by dabeeeenster 3y ago
It's way higher than 1M a year.
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There are loads and loads of alternatives

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