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by ericsilly 4y ago
https://www.Kandoop.com , a productivity platform (better Evernote + Trello + WordPress-ish for custom feeds). It does a bunch of good stuff. AWS, PostgreSQL + Redis + S3, BE is 100% Python-based Lambda functions, FE is browser-
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by ericsilly 4y ago
My new product, Kandoop (at https://www.Kandoop.com and on the app stores). It uses a cards-in-boards model, and is intended to be full life-cycle from an individual with an idea, to team task/project management, and curat
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by ericsilly 4y ago
My app CardBoard ( https://www.cardboard.team/ ) is no-framework vanilla js. This is a large-ish codebase with a lot of functionality, and the same code is wrapped with apache cordova for both iOS and Android apps. In 2022,
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by ericsilly 4y ago
The difference between an agency/consultancy (selling services) and a product company is enormous. There are other advocates here for product, but since the $100k you mentioned is probably for a services engagement (you don't hav
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by ericsilly 5y ago
Agreed on the hit-the-ground-running problem. Related to your final point, assuming that you're not coming into a situation well-known by all parties to be a shit show, I think there needs to be a Minimum Patience Period (probably rel
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by ericsilly 5y ago
Off the tools topic, but IMO the most important consideration: the mindset should be entirely about understanding the existing approach, conventions and philosophy, vs a critical assessment leading to "this needs to be modernized&quo
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by ericsilly 5y ago
Great write up!
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by ericsilly 5y ago
Great question. WC doesn’t provide any architectural structure beyond code encapsulation for your UI widgets. But this alone gets you per-feature sandboxing, even more strictly if you use the shadowdom to get runtime isolation as well (I
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by ericsilly 5y ago
I’ve been working on an SPA built with no frameworks, a lot of WebComponents, and almost zero 3rd party code, and it’s fantastic. Package managers and frameworks have a lot of holdover momentum from an era when they were far more necessary
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Humor: Google Play test acct using our app off-hours(cardboard.team)
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by ericsilly 5y ago
One yet-to-be-mentioned element here is the dynamic of developer preference and resistance. As systems bifurcate into relatively cookie-cutter "lego"-like technical components (the Wixification of the entire stack via cloud, fram
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AWS launches macOS on EC2, hilariously(my.cardboard.life)
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