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by e1g 4y ago
Unless the business is rapidly growing, it's already dead. There is a funding downturn, and Series A raises are incredibly competitive - only the highest achieving companies get funded, and still at small valuations by comparison to th
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by e1g 4y ago
I'm waiting for Envoy Gateway [1] to go GA before standardizing on that. A battle-tested core, simple deployment, and new packaging laser-focused on the modern needs of north-south traffic. [1] https://github.com/envoyp
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by e1g 4y ago
RethinkDB is effectively dead. If real-time is not your main goal, you’d be wise to use a managed Postgres or MySQL service and use your time solving the business problems you want to solve. Postgres/MySQL should by the default choice
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By default, and in the most common configuration, the Tailscale “idea” is to intercept all network requests made to a reserved IP range (100.x.x.x) that cannot have public services on it (similar to 192.168.x.x). Each of your devices gets a
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by e1g 4y ago
I imagine someone visiting my "home" cities using that strategy, and it's hilarious how wildly incorrect and poor their experience of these places would be. Like a local? Ok, just not like any local I've ever met living
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by e1g 4y ago
Yes, we all should choose the location based on what we are trying to optimize for. I run an enterprise SaaS, and I project that over the next ten years, being based in the global corporate hub will create optionality that's worth more
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by e1g 4y ago
Not proberts, but I followed that path. It's possible, but your odds of success are proportional to how legitimate the US business is. "Legitimacy" is easily verified by having substantial revenue, investments, co-founders, a
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by e1g 4y ago
Nobody here is betting all their worldly possessions. In my case, I run a profitable enterprise SaaS business with enough cash balance (from retained earnings) to pay the entire lease term upfront without a significant impact. I demonstrate
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by e1g 4y ago
Not proberts, but I take your question to be "I live outside of the USA, and want to work remotely for US companies. Can/should I incorporate to make this easier?": 1. As a non-US citizen, you can establish a company in the U
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No, so I can’t speak from experience for the rest of NYC. However, I suspect expensive and sophisticated pockets all across NYC will also insist on the same Good Guy guarantee. It’s just too easy to register an LLC/C-corp, and if too m
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by e1g 4y ago
Sometimes you don’t have a choice to do the right/safe thing. I signed multiple commercial leases in lower Manhattan, and had serious negotiations with ~10 landlords through our agent - the clause for personal/3rd party guarantee
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by e1g 4y ago
We use Socket and my favorite feature is when you highlight new dependencies with a post-install hook. It’s not always a problem, but almost always a smell. One feature request: please allow me to “suppress” warnings for a specific package+
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by e1g 4y ago
+1 to this, and use a URL prefix that’s unique to your app,so instead of “/api” and “/static” you have such as “/xyapi” and “/xystatic”. That alone will cut down noise 99% and what’s left is probably a targeted scan&#x2F
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by e1g 4y ago
"GitHub stars", like "the number of downloads", is a weak signal, rarely meaningful in traction talks unless there's nothing more substantial to discuss. Traction indicators for a low-code platform would be revenue,
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by e1g 4y ago
It’s perhaps worth highlighting how much of an outlier your experience was - having a social circle to intro investors, inbound interest, and closing a $1.5M institutional seed round within two weeks is a highly atypical trajectory for solo
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by e1g 4y ago
If you're looking for evidence in the public repo, consider what's not in there: one co-founder is missing, and so are the commits from the other author/co-founder for over a year. Not the signals you want in a dev-tooling pr
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by e1g 4y ago
Rome’s journey is effectively over - the founders couldn’t make it work after raising a VC round, and I wouldn’t expect it to go GA.
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by e1g 4y ago
No, but here is one of our service files for systemd to manage a Node.js backend instance. Could be a useful starting point to create your own https://gist.github.com/eugene1g/22aa2b2c8897a29a54fba876b0c... Many sandb
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by e1g 4y ago
Same - we now use systemd to sandbox our apps, set resource limits, hide the rest of the system, mount read-only FS, etc. Add a custom SELinux policy for your service, and you get a compelling alternative to containerization (at least at ru
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by e1g 4y ago
True. The latest financial report from Visa [1] says 164.7B transactions in 2021, or ~5,000 per second. This number is 3x larger! Mastercard is slightly smaller, but comparable at 140B [2]. [1] https://annualreport.visa.com/
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by e1g 4y ago
Capacity/peak vs average tps. Visa says they process "150 million transactions every day in 175 currencies" (see page 3 at https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visan.
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by e1g 4y ago
“a few thousand transactions per second” is all of Visa+Mastercard. Bitcoin is just “a few” and ETH is barely “a dozen”. Edit: Sorry folks, that claim was based on outdated data! The latest figures for both Visa and Mastercard are ~5,000 tr
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“envoy” is another popular option and they are building a gateway solution for API/inbound traffic https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway
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In that domain (accounting), the name refers to “doing the books” which probably predates the abacus.
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I abbreviated on the phone, but the respective full names are “X Enterprise Linux” and “X Web Services” which are literal description of what their thing is. “RedHat” and “Amazon” are generic, but the product names are highly specific. I me
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by e1g 4y ago
As a counter example, there are plenty of successful projects/brands with highly descriptive names: TypeScript, RHEL, GitHub, AWS, GraphQL, HAproxy, Sendmail, QuickBooks, …
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by e1g 4y ago
There is plenty of obscene profit generated in the US healthcare industry, but not within the insurance segment. Currently, health insurers are the only segment where profits (and “admin costs”) are directly capped via the ACA's MLR ru
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NYC, $2,500/mo, two adults + one child. We're expecting our second child, and it'll increase to ~$3,200/mo. We're in our mid-30s, healthy (run marathons), non-smokers, with no prescriptions. Not having insurance mea
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by e1g 4y ago
Other comments from X-Istence, vlovich123, and buzer are correct. If our apps/admins can get to client data, using their keys does not help to mitigate any plausible attack vector. If we become hostile or compromised, their data is toa
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by e1g 4y ago
We had cases when a prospect said we must use AWS (because that's what they use, and are comfortable with how our data bridges would work/integrate), and when a prospect said we must not use AWS (because they are in retail and

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