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0xsnowcrashon Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

Do you have numbers?

i.e. what the "success" was like in each of the outreaches?

0xsnowcrashon Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

My product, TestSmithy (https://testsmithy.com/ ), automates testing AI-generated code (e.g. Vibe coding).

The way I'm acquiring customers is to offer a free Pro subscription worth over $100 to the first 100 early adopters.

0xsnowcrashon Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity?

By "ZIRP", did you mean "Zero interest-rate policy", "Zurich Integrative Rodent Physiology" or "Zimbabwe Idai Recovery Project" (top 3 results on DuckDuckGo)?

0xsnowcrashon Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

I'm regularly getting enquiries but I do DevOps (AWS, Kubernetes and Istio) so I guess my skillset is still in demand.

I guess what's more important for me is the type of work. I'm looking for startup work that's a bit more secure now, if that's possible, lol! Doesn't seem so easy to find.

0xsnowcrashon Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

Where does Amazon document that 24 hour minimum? I've just encountered this problem but been unable to find anything on that. It makes the On Demand cloud concept completely useless.

0xsnowcrashon The Beauty of Unix Pipelines

Aka The Ugliness of Powershell. Would be fun to see equivalents to these in Powershell.

0xsnowcrashon Roguelike Tutorial: Up-to-Date and Literate

Where's the actual game?!

0xsnowcrashon Google One

Another typically badly explained Google product.

You arrive at one.google.com and all it says is something about your storage. Is that what it's all about?

Here's what it says in the Google Description (you have to Google what one.google.com is to find out what it does - hilarious!).

"Get expanded cloud storage, access to help from Google experts, and more benefits — in one simple plan that you can share with your family."

So, from this it's storage + experts + some mysterious other benefits - and it's about sharing it with your family.

Why don't they at least say that on their front page?! The reason, cos Google don't employ any decent usability experts.

0xsnowcrashon DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017?

Rails, as any backend system such as Drupal or Symfony, is inevitably a dead end technology.

The web is increasingly moving frontend and the system of 2018 onwards will simply be the M in MVC.

Note, I'm not saying Rails is not worth learning. I'm just saying it's now the Cobol of web technology.

0xsnowcrashon Viral.js – Peer-to-peer web app distribution

Yes.

Happy to argue this ad infinitum but, basically, nothing (let me repeat that - NOTHING) is private once handed over to Facebook.

And that extends to data your friends upload about you.

I'm not talking about anonymous, aggregated data. I'm talking about actual personal private data.

0xsnowcrashon It’s cheaper to build multiple native applications than one responsive web app

I think this is a bit of "grass is greener" syndrome.

I developed web apps for 14 years before building ios apps for 5 years.

The last couple of years I've worked on both native apps and responsive web sites.

Both can be pains in the ae. But the pain points are different.

Both are moving rapidly. eg Ios: having to rejig xibs to storyboards was annoying.

Css: Supporting older versions of IE has been a pain.

I could go on at length but plenty of people have already done so.

0xsnowcrashon Five Pacific islands disappear as sea levels rise

It's a problem that's been recognised for some time. In fact the United Nations had the third conference on this back in 2014. http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/sustainable/focus...

0xsnowcrashon The Internet Economy

Arguably not. But even with this use case, the Web has got significantly more complex. Local Storage, local databases, GPS access, gesture detection to name a few. That all hits Web performance hard especially on earlier mobile devices.