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I know this article is about the stack, but I'd like to point out that the success of the author has probably more to do with their marketing/sales strategy than their choice of technical infrastructure.

Something to remind to many tech folks on HN

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100% true. I ran a top 10 most visited Spanish language site on a Pentium III server. I have the technical chops to do all the articles says.

But 10k MRR sounds to me like travelling to Mars. I have 0 ideas and 0 initiative to push them ahead.

Yeah, 25 years in the industry, zero business ideas right here.

I can build whatever, I just have zero clue whatsoever what to build. Never have.

What has your career looked like? I'm interested because I've spent 20 years in applied research and I've only more recently realized the continual stress that I've felt for 20 years from trying (and mostly failing) to innovate in the "what to build" space.

Working for a salary on other people's ideas, LOL. Mostly incredibly boring ones. One interesting ones that fizzled due to too-low investment and too-safe management (odds are it would have fizzled anyway, of course, though I do think if that one had had the eyes of the right investors it probably could have done a "successful exit"—this was like 15 years ago though)

Same as 95+% of people.

Let me just join in into the most relatable thread I've seen.

The real business ideas were the friends we made along the way.

For me it has been just saying "yes" when I was offered a job and when that one was getting a bit annoying someone happened to offer me another and I said "yes" too. I have ended up a bit underemployed and underpaid, but life's comfortable and safe and I have ample time to stress over hobbies instead of work.

So comfortable that lately I have declined offers for interesting and much much better paid work, because I can no longer be bothered to take any risks or alter my lifestyle.

But sometimes I wish I could have been the guy managing to get 10k MMR using knowledge I've got in spades.

Are you guys interested in some ideas?

It seems to me that I am getting much more good ideas than I can carry on.

Sure fire away maybe this time something clicks for someone :)

Well for example this is very unique idea and even in the current state it has been very useful at a customer. Almost completely vibe coded but idea is fully mine.

https://github.com/mikko-ahonen/arch-ascent/tree/main/doc/de...

Is it success or is the author running a 20k ad program to get 10k MRR. Such a useless metric.

Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity. Such a great adage.

Since I'm in finance I would say, Turnover is vanity, positive cashflow is sanity...but its not nearly as catchy

True. But he’s able to do marketing because he has the money, time and sense of priorities to do so.

The moral of the story is: Don’t be (another) fool, your tech stack is not your priority.

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