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How well does it work for non-English languages? I just tried it out for Swedish and had issues finding relevant results, especially searching for things like restaurants or hospitals.

It has the added benefit of both laundering money and acting as advertisement for criminal gangs. Most of the largest rappers were associated with gangs and the artists even got invited to interviews and got played on radio. Plausibly all this made possible by getting the initial publicity through Spotify.

I'vve consulted for companies of all shapes and in many different industries and when it comes to container orchestration there are many hard requirements that platforms like Heroku or Render don't address. If you can carve out a niche for SMBs then great. Maintaining that lead in such a competitive segment with price sensitive customers is hard.

I have no doubt that fly.io is a market leader right now just judging just by optics, but I think it is hard to maintain that lead in this segment just as I think it may be difficult to go upmarket with this type of product.

I'm really struggling to understand fly.io's path to profitability considering the relatively low margins for SMB/hobby clouds. They could have the whole world on their free tier but what happens when it's time for EQT to cash out?

Can they build enough features to make fly.io a serious option for companies? I just can't see myself using it or pushing for it at any of the companies I've worked for unless it's a <5 person team with no need to scale in sight.

In what way are any of his points not constructive? He obviously speaks from authority and provided alternatives or feedback on all his points. I found it extremely interesting and would have loved to read even more.