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kegan_myers_asyon Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor

You are a defective faucet. Every time you contribute you are sending a droplet. Content creators are a drain.

This analogy isn't getting any better.

kegan_myers_asyon Show HN: CloudBoost – Open-Source Parse, Firebase and Algolia Combined into One

> CloudBoost runs on MongoDB and Redis. You're responsible for managing the uptime, replication, sharding, backups of your data in each of these databases.

Yeah, no thanks. I'd much rather use Firebase/Algolia because a large part of their value proposition is that you don't have to worry about the hard things like replication, sharding, and backups.

kegan_myers_asyon Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’

VH1 rises again.