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I volunteered a few years ago and had a great experience.

I love the product but this is a really aggressive price update and makes me concerned they’ll try to gouge me in years to come.

That book is so painful to read because of that lol.

I did frontend before React, and it was a welcomed change. The core insight of UI being a function of state is a good one. It saves you a bunch of headaches from the jQuery days where you’d have multiple code paths per UI element (adding, removing, mutating). That said I think they lost the plot with hooks and things have gotten needlessly complex since then.

After reading Careless People and watching Meta’s metaverse and AI moves, Mark comes across as a child chasing the shiny new thing.

“What kids told us about how to get off cigarettes”

While I agree there’s a problem with how helicopter-y society is with kids these days, I think it’s ridiculous to expect kids to resist a device that is designed to be addictive. Teams of tens of thousands of the most highly skilled people in the world are laser focused on squeezing every second of attention out of _adults_ let alone kids. We need regulation, full stop. I don’t know what that looks like, but if you’ve ever seen a toddler scrolling TikTok like a zombie you should know what’s at stake.

I wasn’t justifying the move, just a related thought that came up after seeing a few articles about Neon and Supabase having an explosion of new apps.

I imagine there is a lot of new pressure on public APIs now that there’s an explosion of vibe coded projects accessing them (some probably quite haphazardly).

Why build your own community software? Sounds like a waste of resources, there are many off the shelf and open source alternatives.

Linear is the move. Do not consider Shortcut.

I understand what the author is getting at. It’s really densely written though, I’m hoping the intent is to express the feeling rather than persuade because (as some of the top comments show) I think it comes across antagonistic to that audience.

I think they’re better for most users without a password manager. I don’t see how your mother example would have a better experience with another password to remember.

I've been evaluating AI code review vendors for my org. We've trialed a couple so far. For me, taking the workflow out of GitHub is a deal breaker. I'm trying to speed things along, not upend my whole team's workflow. What's your take on that?

Congrats on shipping. Curious, why Slack? Is this intended for book clubs at companies specifically?

Grew up in the burbs. Downtown has transformed into a fun, walkable, thriving area. Covid took some of the wind out of the sails, but it’s still chugging along. Overall, it’s a good city.

I think the idea is that it’s a forum for programmers and you can probably self serve some solution (whether that’s using a plugin, custom style sheet, making your own, etc).

You’re getting a 100% return on your investment and keeping a piece of equity for upside. I’d say it’s more than fair, it’s generous. You will get diluted over time, same as all the other equity holders, wouldn’t worry about it.

For B2B, you line up calls and show mockups or clickable prototypes (Figma if you’ve got the skills / budget, Balsamiq or similar otherwise). From there, if it’s compelling enough, you should be able to get a contract signed (wouldn’t bother with LOIs personally).

Read an open source one. Here’s a Ruby one called Flipper.

https://github.com/flippercloud/flipper

I played around with this a bit. Doesn’t work amazing on my iPhone model (SE 3rd gen), but it’s pretty cool. I don’t think there’s an API to use it in apps yet, but I would love to make an eye controlled mobile game.

I ended up buying a travel bidet because I couldn’t install one at our house for various reasons. It’s basically just a squeeze bottle with an angled head. Works great!

The easiest way to jump into product is to be a very product focused engineer and make an internal transfer. I’ve been offered such a transfer because stakeholders knew me and that I was thinking about these things in depth. This overcomes challenges around trust and credentials you have cold applying with no prior experience in the role.

If it’s a requirement to close a customer, they’ll tell you. Just keeping going with what you have until it blocks a deal you want to close enough to implement it.

Is there an official client?

If you’re not worried about scale, I’d just use a database backed queue.

Why Hammers Make Builders Worse at Building

They provide benchmarks, before them was Radford. They’re just taking a tech-first approach of an age old product.

I was the technical cofounder of a logtech startup. Logistics has a lot deep problems that need to be well integrated for a smooth UX. I think this is why you tend to see people eventually try to pivot into building a TMS (and why it takes so long to build one). They start solving a specific problem. They realize it’s not worth much without the whole picture and nobody wants to let other players integrate.

If your specific problem is well contained enough, it could be a good fit for in house. You mention that you’re filling the gaps with a low code platform. You could perhaps experiment with moving that piece in house as a trial run. You also say that your existing platform is stagnant, perhaps you could acquire them or the specific IP you utilize. You might learn some valuable insights about what you’d need to do in house even if you don’t end up seriously engaging in an acquisition or if it ends up falling through.

I wouldn’t be concerned about attracting talent, plenty of engineers in logistics already and it’s a hirer’s market right now.

Anyway, the devil’s in the details as you mentioned, my contact info is in my profile if you’d like to chat, happy to give what perspective I can.

What’s stopping you from releasing it as is right now?

There are a couple, but the ecosystem is so fragmented that nothing gains a majority of mindshare.