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This doesn't really follow the usual battery scam pattern, does it?

Like, EEStor or Nikola with big claims, timelines pushed years out, raise a ton of money, delay forever. Donut announced at CES and said bikes ship Q1 2026 which is weeks from now. They've raised ~€25M total (QuantumScape has burned through $1.5B+). And apparently they're not doing a big fundraise right now either.

If it's a scam it seems like a really bad strategy? You're basically setting a timer on your own credibility.

I've been reading around and the thing I keep landing on is the Nordic Nano connection. They're a Finnish nanotech company Donut invested in, and they published specs for a "bipolar electrostatic capacitor" with basically identical numbers - 400 Wh/kg, 100k cycles, fireproof. Does anyone with more battery knowledge know if this could be some kind of supercapacitor hybrid being marketed as a solid-state battery? The VTT report confirms fast charging works but doesn't say anything about energy density, cycle life, or what this thing actually is.

Seems like the energy density and cycle life reports (supposedly coming in the next few weeks) are going to be way more interesting than this one.

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned around.co yet. They've had this feature for years which was the main reason our team has been using it. Good to see other services catching up.

Just want to heap on with the praise here and say that this was definitely the best experience I've had with any tool trying to add monitoring for a Next.js full-stack application. The Client Sessions tab where I, out of the box, can correlate front-end actions and back-end operations for a particular user is especially nice.

Great job!

You can read more about this way of thinking in 37signals' book Shape Up:

https://basecamp.com/shapeup/3.4-chapter-13#work-is-like-a-h...

1000 euro/day

Where and how does one get 1000 euro/day as a DevOps Engineer?

Have you tried sanity.io (a headless CMS)? I used it in conjunction with Gatsby and have had a great experience overall.

It doesn't have to be scalable when it only has to work once.

Thank you! If I may ask, how did you go about finding a mentor to help you on your journey?

Hmm, then I must have come off wrong. That being my final goal does not mean that I care less for what I do. I try to find meaning in my every day work by optimizing for the value I create for the end user and can not be less motivated than when I only work on something because "I have to" or it "being the only way".

If you pull it off, however, the business will give you back that time with freedom as interest.

That's a wonderful way to put it. I will definitely check out his comments. Thank you!

Thank you for your insight, it is great to get to hear from someone in the trenches and an "average SAAS Joe" as you call it. The keyword in my opening statement is "eventually" as I do understand the need to hustle initially, potentially for a long time. When work is fun it is no longer work, as someone smart once said. What is hard to motivate for me is doing all that work for (mostly) someones else gain and for a product that I personally wouldn't work on on my own time, like I do now in my day to day. Thanks again!

Thank you! I've seen that youtube video previously and it was exactly the kind of advice I was looking for. I will put "The Mom Test" at the top of my list as I've seen many recommendations of it elsewhere too.

Absolutely! This is something I've seen many people emphasize so it is something I will keep in mind for every decision I make.

I do indeed have high aspirations for my life. Given my career of choice and what I've read so far regarding other people's experience starting a SaaS, I definitely feel it can be a viable way of achieving those aspirations.

This is great, thank you!

I did see "Start small, stay small" being recommended but was put off a bit by its age. But you would still recommend it today then?

This is really cool! Is there any particular sorting on pages like https://mapfilterfold.com/articles/early_founders or is it just whatever order you put them there?

Where are you getting 1.1 MB from? I'm getting 223 KB over the wire, which includes a 100 KB image.

Five seconds is enough https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525878

Honestly, as long as the wages before tips are fair, then there's nothing wrong with tipping as a concept.

Do you wish tipping as a concept would spread to all customer-facing industries?

I believe one of the main selling points of the upcoming 3.0 version is indeed to make the cache more usable with manual evictions, etc.

Fundamentally, it cannot work well because the whole premise of GraphQL is to allow clients to request as many different permutations of the data as they want.

What kind of client are we talking about here? If you run a web app then all your queries will be predefined in the code which means that the only variables are just that, variables. If you are talking about other apps consuming your GraphQL API then yes, they can request whatever permutation they want. But realistically, what client that consumes your API would keep changing the shape of their request all the time? And if they do then just revoke their access. Abusive clients is not a problem exclusive to GraphQL.

They shouldn't, but they do.

We do not rebuild the tower of abstractions for every site that uses them. I do not personally implement React from scratch when I use it for any of my sites. I get all of the benefits for none of the effort. You do not seem to acknowledge factors other than straight up performance, as is evident by what you are picking and choosing from my comments, so obviously it is not attractive to you.

It is built on a static site generator based on React, it's called GatsbyJS.

Real life is not code golf. We do not build things entirely for ourselves. We build things for our employers, for our co-workers, for our family members and for our friends. We build to create value for someone and value is not a one-to-one correlation with the weight of a site in KB.

If I can make it easier for me and anyone working with my site in the future by sacrificing 50-150 KB then I will take that deal any day of the week. That is what abstractions are for. That is why we do not work in byte-code. We pay for convenience in clock-cycles and disk space.

Perfect! So we can have the DX of React with no downside for you. Win-win, right?

You put "improve" in quotes as if instant page navigation without flickering is somehow worse than the alternative. Browse around this [1] website and tell me it is not a better experience than your bog-standard html + vanilla js concoction. Also every time this is brought up the developer/content editor experience is entirely neglected, when in reality it is a big consideration when creating something other than your own dev-blog that you update once a year.

[1] https://reactjs.org