meowtastic

Former S&P employee. The incoming CEO is ex Accenture. Friends rewarding friends :)

With the most likely outcome being 0.

Already posted 3 months ago https://www.buysellstartups.com/

this made me chuckle

I'm stuck in a similar rut. And yes, I know there are people out there way worse off than me.

It's okay to be like that. Just take a small step towards something you'd like to achieve. It's okay if it doesn't work out, be proud that you've taken that small step. That's how many success stories actually started, from small steps combined with a huge amount of luck - but few will admit. And you might not succeed no matter how many times you do it - you should still be proud that you tried.

And remember - you only hear of success stories in social media.

> being relentlessly helpful to others, even in things that aren’t strictly your responsibility, keeps you as someone everybody wants on the team

I often see this advice, but to me sounds like a speed run to burnout. I've seen tech leads leaving the industry because of this too.

Can't be bothered paying for the games, buying gaming rig abd investing time.

A blog/newsletter of TikTok content ideas that have proven to work on the platform: https://tiktokexamples.com

Would be nice if it was mobile friendly.

You've got further than me! I've spent evenings and weekends over the past 15 months trying to start an online business with 0 revenue to show.

I've also been burned out trying to follow what I've seen other people on Twitter, or even those in my local meetups.

I've come to accept that there's no single set of steps that will guarantee me success. I have to keep trying and seeing what sticks; I still look at what's worked for others, but I also consider my circumstances and adapt to them.

You have to enjoy the journey as well. Just look back at how you were 8 months ago; I'm sure you'll feel proud of all the things you've learned!

My team wants to do that. Only because the rest of the org uses Java.

Performance and dev experience yes. Simplicity-wise I guess one could argue that Django takes the crown as long as you're okay with the compromises you have to make. I not sure what you mean by value, if it's cost of hosting the service then I'd say yes again because it requires less resources than all the other alternatives.

Astro SSR web app, Tailwind, and Drizzle ORM. Use Postgres. Both hosted on a single Hetzner instance for about $6/month. I've tried Django, C#/Blazor, React/Go+Gin, Next.js, none came close.

Ads. I've seen other people do it with similar ideas, and it sure beats slogging away for 6 months on another SaaS for me.

Isn't AWS App Runner similar?

Astro - you can build pretty complex sites with their SSR mode these days.

I actually have adblocker off on Google because I'm curious who pays for ads :D

https://tiktokexamples.com - website collecting TikTok case studies. It's my first attempt at a non-SaaS product, I'm really curious how it's gonna turn out.

Surprised to see insurance > banking. But then again I'm not familiar with US markets.

Doubt it. Software engineering is such a silly career.

I use Umami. It's a plugin on Caprover, which is an open source Heroku like

SaaS sales / sales engineers. Much easier to get there compared to SWE as well.

Astro SSR, deployed with Caprover on Hetzner Ubuntu machines. Tried Django, Next.js, React+Go/Gin, Blazor. Never been more productive in my life.

Astro SSR with React components when in need (rarely). A joy to iterate upon since you don't have to worry about coordination between the frontend and backend. Easy to dockerize and deploy wherever you want (I'm looking at you Next!). Never been more productive in my life. https://astro.build/

Nice website, but there are quite a few businesses in there that I wouldn't categorise as boring or simple to execute/replicate.

Hetzner.

There's ways to manage it in the short run (increasing caffeine intake for me) but it's not a good idea to ignore the signs too often. If you need to take a rest, take it. No matter what others say, you know your mind/body best. You'll be surprised how little people around you care that you're not releasing features as fast.

> In the UK, you can access a psychologist for free

I've used one of the free NHS therapists and frankly it was worse than talking to a chatbot. They clearly follow a script and don't exhibit empathy. They hurry you through the stages in their scripts so that they can say they're done with you as quickly as possible. I've spoken to a few close friends and they had similar experiences.

I can't even get angry at them, because I know how under-resourced the NHS is. The reality is that mental health services are just too expensive in their current form.

I wouldn't say r/startups is that niche. I think it's worth investing more time in some even smaller communities. Otherwise people will think they could do the research themselves.

You can already achieve that by taking VC funding, no?