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by danjac 6y ago
That assumes all tickets are the same. A developer might take on a very difficult task with a lot of hidden technical complexity that ties them up for weeks. Another might pick up little bugs and small text updates. With no other insight, t
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by danjac 6y ago
I'm sure it's a comfort to the victims of the Rohingya genocide that your mother has a platform to share photos of her grandkids.
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by danjac 6y ago
See also: Reddit.
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by danjac 6y ago
Maybe a search engine that doesn't quite work and pushes a lot of unwanted crap at you on the offchance you'll buy it on a whim benefits Amazon, if not the customer.
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by danjac 6y ago
Yes but we're still going a long way from "just use React". One benefit of the "JS sprinkles" approach of Turbolinks+Stimulus is that you have a far simpler and more productive stack: Rails (or other framework) rend
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by danjac 6y ago
The thing about React is not the library itself but the ecosystem, which feels like building on constantly shifting quicksand (e.g. react-router).
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by danjac 6y ago
Sure, but where is your data and business logic going to live? If the answer is "just write it in JS" then it's no longer a question of "just use React" but "let's replace our entire stack with Javascript&
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by danjac 6y ago
It's easy to use with django, I use it with some side projects: https://github.com/danjac/localhub https://github.com/danjac/kando https://github.com/danjac/django-saas-s
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by danjac 6y ago
I like these libraries but have the same concerns. One alternative that might be worth a look is htmx (the new library based on intercooler.js): https://htmx.org/
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by danjac 6y ago
> But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business Why is an inferior UI good for any business? Unless it's about some dark patterns?
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by danjac 6y ago
Agile/Scrum was the biggest bait-and-switch con out there - developers thinking the methodologies would empower them while in fact being a vector for the worst excesses of micromanagement. I feel less empowered now than I did in my ear
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by danjac 6y ago
Yes because how else will Google employees get their bonuses? The question is whether the products started in 2021 will last until 2022...
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by danjac 6y ago
Productivity is relative. A tech stack that might give you some easy early gains might fail you at 3 a.m. when the site's down and you have no idea how to fix it. Your code might contain some basic security errors that you would have a
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by danjac 6y ago
Startups fail for a number of reasons. Success depends on removing as many of those reasons as possible. One of those reasons is building on an esoteric tech stack that, while perhaps interesting to the developers, consumes time, energy and
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by danjac 6y ago
Yes. Often times tech founders - especially if inexperienced - let the freedom and power of a complete greenfield project with no management oversight go to their heads. They've always wanted to build something in $cool_tech and now no
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by danjac 6y ago
Most of my side projects never go beyond needing heroku free tier, and if they gain some traction the basic tier is usually sufficient.
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by danjac 6y ago
This. You will want to focus on product design, customer acquisition, financing, investment etc etc. These alone are more than enough for a team, let alone one person. You don't want to be wasting your time and energy fixing server iss
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by danjac 6y ago
https://github.com/dokku/dokku
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by danjac 6y ago
DigitalOcean also has managed databases+backups. I'm not sure how it compares on price/reliability though.
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by danjac 6y ago
You can deploy Docker containers to Heroku. I've done this (just requires a simple heroku.yml file and heroku stack:set container ). If the project grows to the size where Heroku's costs become prohibitive, I can easily switch ov
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by danjac 6y ago
> FBI documents accessed by journalists via a freedom of information request revealed that HubSpot attempted "multiple failed attempts to manipulate and extort people” with the intention of stopping the book's publication. Ouch
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by danjac 6y ago
> Just make products that excel at every aspect of what it does and make sure there is a demand for such a product Or, just make a mediocre product and make sure you have a big enough moat that competitors don't stand a chance.
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by danjac 6y ago
You write to and read from a data store? That's what CRUD is, and it predates web apps. It has zero to do with CSS or react or any other presentational technology.
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by danjac 6y ago
With some exceptions, most appear to be developers selling developer stuff to other developers. It's like a microeconomy based around people trying to make a living by taking in each others' laundry. If I'd hazard a guess, it
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by danjac 6y ago
Well obviously not, but that's the point - it seems a few products in this list actually do provide something valuable but are either not being sold to the right customers, or if they are are being sold for peanuts given their worth.
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by danjac 6y ago
There's one which seems to be a planning tool for junior military officers: https://mgrs-mapper.com/ I mean the Pentagon spends billions on things like latrines and office supplies. Assuming this does what it says it d
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by danjac 6y ago
Not a bad place by any means, but employers can't have it both ways. If they want to stay in a location where people aren't likely to move to, that's fine, but then they have to accept that remote is the only way they'll
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by danjac 6y ago
So a bit like microservices?
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by danjac 6y ago
I remember years ago being approached about a job for a company in Exeter, a town stuck out on the western tip of England, with no possibility of remote. The job required very specific tech skills. When I told the recruiter I had no intenti
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by danjac 6y ago
My experience with startups has been that "tech debt" is more the result of people not knowing what they were doing. Not so much "we haven't quite found market fit and need to try different segments" but technical i

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