pawelkomarnicki

You can also use the stammkapital right away but there are certain rules when you have to prevent insolvency. It’s really not that hard unless you want something wild

I never had any issue with Finanzamt being slow, they take my money with a proper disclosure ahead and also as quickly pay whatever I’m owed back

Germany is a different kind of joke but everything OP listed smells fishy and scammy to be honest. I have a German company and there costs are not that massive. It took one notary meeting and some bills but the way he sets everything up looks… weird and convoluted. So he had to pay arm and a leg.

Cubitoo journal: https://journal.cubitoo.com — a journaling web app with cool guided journaling programs

It will be hilarious to see this one play out because ChatGPT and Perplexity already do wonders for small-claim issues like tenancy laws, various personal letters, etc.

It's a not a real tarot deck but a set of 70 tarot-inspired journaling prompts. One of the 20 Guided Journaling programs in the Cubitoo Journal.

To celebrate the Mental Health Awareness Month, all new accounts registered before the 17th May will have their trial extended until the end of May 2026 for free. I want to let everyone improve their mental health and be more mindful

I'd like to clarify that "18+ guided journaling programs" means in here "18 and more coming", the app itself does not include anything NSFW :-)

I see your point and connecting places and people (and of course the ultimate goal of opening my own place) is on the roadmap. The thing is that I don’t want to either tie myself to a specific place or be dependent on specific area (apart from starting up in Berlin of course).

I’m not particularly worried about any stigma or anything. So far most people understand that it’s not “yet another another gaming club” but a community/place that is also for this particular purpose. Worst case scenario I can rebrand it later into something else.

I have realized that playing board games with other people makes my mental health better and started work on a community platform and at some point physical space to connect: https://GamesAgainstLoneliness.org

Also working on a journaling app but it’s still in the works.

Large teams were a norm because VCs REQUIRED IT, telling things like “we invest in people” and demanding founders to hire rooms full of “the talent”.

SEEKING WORK

A full-stack Ruby on Rails developer with experience in digital health, adtech, information systems architecture. Available for anything from small consulting to full-time, remotely from Berlin, Germany.

Location: Anywhere remotely

Technologies: Ruby on Rails (16+ years), JavaScript, Hotwire, CSS/SCSS, Postgres (too many to list each one)

Website: https://cubitoo.com

Email: pawel@cubitoo.com

Ruby on Rails full-stack developer here, available remotely for anything from short contracts to full-time. More about me: https://cubitoo.com

Location: Berlin/EU

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Hotwire, CSS/SCSS, Postgres, mostly anything that has API ;-)

Résumé/CV: https://cubitoo.com

Email: pawel@cubitoo.com

Yes I would. I’m running my single product building agency https://cubitoo.com and it often blows my clients’ minds how easily we can incorporate advanced features with high level work Rails enables. I’m with Rails since v2 and never looked back.

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE, PART-TIME

Location: Germany / EU Remote: Yes, not willing to commute Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Swift (iOS) Email: pawel@cubitoo.com Website: https://cubitoo.com

I am a Digital Product Builder, able to make a napkin idea into a production-ready product for my clients. Design, engineering, management.

To celebrate the release of 7 new journaling programs (reaching 18 in total) and the Christmas season, the app is free to try until the end of the year (down from the usual $4.99).

Give yourself some mental health support and enjoy clarity, mindfulness, and self-awareness this holiday season.

I feel like my app Howdy (https://howdy.cubitoo.com) has the most POSITIVE impact from all the things I have built lately — it's something that improves my life, my family's lives, and my friends'. I am not only using it myself but also super proud to do so and ABSOLUTELY LOVE working on it.

I found out that disconnecting from full time job and focusing on my own projects for a while (like a working sabbatical) does wonders to my enjoyment of work

If you are dealing with a lot of "empty databases" you can basically make something like a "core app" — attach cheapest paid redis and postgres to it, then copy the credentials between apps.

I have done this before — had one "X-core" app and "x-whitelabel-1", "x-whitelabel-2", and so on, connected to the same database while each app used different database name.

I have some experience with AWS ElasticBeanstalk that I used to migrate to my Heroku apps at some point.

With their Amazon Linux 2 they use the Procfile and it feels VERY close to Heroku with deployments (it has its own quirks though, like they have those managed upgrades that are sometimes breaking the app for some reason, etc.) but I am pretty happy with how easy it is compared to the previous AWS EB platform.

The problem is only the cost, i.e., when you have to pay for everything it is a bit more pricey (and settings are pain, those VPCs and security groups and whatnot, not fun)

I used to start my projects on Heroku because the first few iterations of the prototype can run on the free dynos, then hobby tier for the first production, better database when needed, and so on — slowly growing as it should be.

Now I will either replace it by some DigitalOcean droplet or Fly.io or Railway.app or whatnot. Whichever makes most sense for the growth of the project.

I am pretty sure some of my clients will stay on Heroku just because it's easier and they already pay for most services (so no free tier already) but it means NO NEW clients are coming to Heroku from me.

I don't mind paying their fees for production resources (e.g. they ALREADY force that for the Team accounts where no free tier dynos are available) but now they effectively killed any kind of experimentation and pipelines — now EVERY single app will have to use the paid Postgres, paid Redis, and paid dynos and that can add up quickly (basically $29 per app, no matter if it's production, staging, or a review app...)

Some of these concepts sounds like “management from hell” handbook. Sure it’s great if people want to follow you but that also makes you a massive liability to any company hiring you: people will FOLLOW you. How that is considered something positive is beyond me: one day you hear “yeah I got a new job, here’s my notice + 6 different people are leaving too, lol”. I have seen this happen, it really shook the “old team” when one of the guys took all his work friends and moved to another company.

Recently Beanstalk got upgraded to their "Amazon Linux 2" making it basically pretty much a Heroku clone, you even set up Procfile and services ;-) It still requires a LOT of hacking and insider-knowledge to do some funkier things, but it's a great thing

I am a solopreneur running my own and clients' projects and the best way to NOT do devops is using Heroku (for simple/early projects) and/or AWS ElasticBeanstalk (for bigger/complex projects) — nothing beats the simplicity.

Version 1.2.0 deletes the data, so it's not backed up in iCloud — the new version (1.3.0) submitted today should restore the data and sync between devices using the same iCloud account (but since it's iPhone only at the moment, it's a bit... limited). So the on-device data won't be unique, it will be per-iCloud-account unique.

I run my digital product incubator being a simple agency specializing in building startups from scratch coaching founders (https://Cubitoo.com) and to keep things simple here’s what I use:

Front end: plain JavaScript (as coffeescript) Back end: Ruby on Rails Host: $7 Heroku hobby dyno SSL: provided by Heroku Proxy: Cloudflare Database: Postgres Caching: Redis and memcached Indexing: full text search in postgres

I also do iOS apps, using native SwiftUI framework. My newest app is Howdy, a journaling app: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/howdy-journaling-reflection/id...

Howdy, I'm Paweł Komarnicki, creator of the Howdy app — I wanted to create a privacy-focused app that 1) keeps the data secure on the phone itself and offers privacy features like biometric lock, and 2) does NOT share anything with 3rd party, advertisers, etc.

Feel free to ask me anything, I'm looking forward to hearing from you! :-)

I did it, it was fun but made some problems with/for people working full time