marcospolanco

I always translate specs into Gherkin BDD scenarios and drive the tests off that; without this linkage test coverage diverges from user flows.

That stands to reason...the human labor per line of code is plunging...my own delegation to overseas engineers is way down.

Anything in life can be turned into wings or into a prison. The author chose the latter.

You are bringing a senior consideration to the table; they can and do change their pricing at any time for any reason. Also, every single day you rely on them is a day that your architecture grows on that volatile cornerstone. Would look at https://parseplatform.org/ or https://postgrest.org/ as alternatives; turnkey, hosted solutions are available for each.

They have developed a robust release cadence; it is for real and used broadly in production. https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/releases

How is your product different from the regular dashboard?

This would work well if it were also a storage service...charge for storage, rent to offset costs, send me the difference.

Reasonable concern. A credit card hold or a cash deposit could solve that. What solutions have been used for other 'sharing economy' startups?

Super gorgeous...love being able to visit communities and get a pulse of the World of Kickstarter. Congrats!

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