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This looks really awesome, 'danenania. Secret management has been on my mind lately, and this really fits a sweet spot for what I'm looking for. I know things HashiCorp's Vault do basically the same thing, but Vault is complex enough that sometimes I barely understand exactly what it does. Good luck!

I'd argue that if you're worried about a thousand dollars a year difference over the course of a year, you're not a customer worth having.

I don't get what the issue here is. Guess at which plan you'd need and go about your business. I'm sure they're reasonable about upgrading and/or paying for additional usage if you go over the limits. Even if they weren't, what's the risk here? That you'd end up owing a couple hundred extra dollars? If you're worried about that, you're probably not a customer they want. This sound like standard developer cheapness.

This is how you write a job description if you want people to come and work for you.

I second this. Look into GiveWell and effective altruism, if you're not familiar with them. Also look up the term "earn to give". There's some truly amazing opportunities to deploy capital in the service of the less fortunate, particularly in places like Sub-Saharan Africa where e.g. $3500 buys enough mosquito nets to result, statistically, in one life saved. $3500!

Why won't you work with the military? (genuinely asking)

This seems like yet another example of how tech’s ridiculous focus on ambition and growth are going to kill something that’s just fine the way it is. I’m a fan of Meetup.com, and it sounds like they are/were self-sufficient, but suddenly the cofounder and CEO thinks they need to grow to a “billion members”. Sad.

I agree that a $100/month is probably on the low end for the whale category. But, I think his broader point is that there’s at least some evidence that the whales in question are, in fact, people with disposable income (i.e. middle class or better; often professionals) for whom pay-to-play games are a substitute for other equally expensive IRL hobbies that are not uncommon among people in that social strata (like, say, golf, tennis, or skiing).

I think there’s a lot more software developers at the big tech companies making $400k or more in total comp than you think.

The stories about large Bay-area tech companies placing enormous orders through Instacart are pretty appalling.

Thanks :-)

Thanks so much for the response. Can you say any more about what kind of domains tend to be lucrative? It seems like all your examples (distributed systems, sensor fusion, software security, OS kernels) seem very “technical”, for lack of a better word, compared to, say, knowing a lot about the health club industry (a different example mentioned in this thread). Do you think that’s an important distinction?

What about specializing in a platform or language makes it hard to fashion a value proposition for it relative to one’s competitors in the market? (Not disagreeing; just trying to wrap my head around this. Also, I think your comments in this thread have been super useful.)

Wow, that’s quite a bit, right?

Oh, the other site for this I've heard of this EmpireFlippers.

I've heard really good things about FE International, and, since they're a true broker, everything they sell seems to be super legit. I've also had some contact with them when I was thinking about selling some of my sites, and I was impressed.

The fact that they're a true broker, though, means it's not worth their time to sell sites with lower earnings, so I haven't seen anything much below $2k/month in revenue.

Also, from talking to them, it sounds like they have a network of buyers that they can privately pitch your site to if you're looking to sell quickly and are willing to take a slightly lower multiple of earnings (in exchange for a quicker, easier selling process, it seems).

Coca-Cola.

'austenallred is a cool individual, and this seems like it could be a particularly good take on the code school model, but I always wonder if programs like this help on the margin. That is, do they help people succeed (i.e. get a job in software) who otherwise wouldn't, or do they just accelerate the success of those who would, one way or another, eventually succeeded regardless of their participation in the program? I think the latter might be likely simply just because for good programs (like this one) demand far outstrips supply, so they can be extremely picky about who they accept and only accept individuals who are destined to succeed.

Not that accelerating the success of those destined to succeed is in any way a bad thing (it is, undoubtedly, a good thing, and can certainly make for a good business), but my interest is much more in helping those succeed who otherwise wouldn't. That seems like a much harder challenge and one that can have more interesting ramifications for things like social mobility and income inequality.

That's interesting 'cause the $75k figure/study is so commonly cited.

So I take it you're not a fan of Vegas?

If you're on Mac, another great, albeit not free, Postgres admin app is Postico (https://eggerapps.at/postico/).

Is your recommendation of 1Password contingent on any particular set up (like only using a "local vault" and not their cloud solution)?

So you know founders that went through YC and don't feel like they got much out of it? I wouldn't want you to break any confidences, but I'd be interested in hearing more such folks and what they think of YC.

It sounds like you're talking about something more complicated than a blood test, but in case you didn't know, most blood tests can be purchased online (and completed at a local branch of a national testing service e.g. Quest Diagnostics) with complete price transparency from a variety of competing providers.

It seems like he might have been better off working on his social skills than his date generating machine.

I think there's some value if you're more interested in creating a lifestyle business than a unicorn (as it seems like we both are), but it's certainly not perfectly matched to that goal.

It's a shame there's not a Startup School-like resource for creating a lifestyle business (YC-like in that it'd have a unified theory of lifestyle business creation, as YC has for startups, that'd been honed through assisting in the creation of hundreds of such businesses).

I wonder if this is an independent effort or if it's built on top of AWS Lambda.

Also, anyone know why all these serverless environments that are coming out focus on Node.js?

Psychiatrists (well, ER doctors, usually) do, in fact, perform MRI's before prescribing meds. This happened to me when I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and I assumed it's not an uncommon practice.

It's easy to think of psychiatry being wishy-washy when all you're considering is mild to moderate depression and the like, but it becomes much harder when you consider the entire spectrum of mental illness. Full-blown mania, psychotic depression, or untreated schizophrenia scream illness in a way that is hardly subjective.

There's an undercurrent here that I find troubling, and I think it's the belief that, because psychiatric diagnoses rely on something other than "objective biological tests", mental illness is somehow less "real" than other illnesses.

That's a conceit that only someone who has neither experienced nor been exposed to severe mental illness can hold. One cannot interact with someone that is floridly psychotic and not come to the conclusion that, while the specific diagnostic criteria may be subjective, there is something objectively wrong with that individual's biological functioning.

I don't mean to be rude, but assuming you're not a doctor (and, even if you are, he's not your patient), I don't think it's good form to give medical advice on the Internet, particularly if it's advice that's dismissive of a mainstream treatment.

My two cents, don't rule anything out. I had a SO with adult ADD and medication made a world of difference. That's just one person, though, and everybody's different. Do talk to a doctor if you feel like you might have adult ADD. It's a very real thing, and there are lots of treatment options, both pharmacologic and not.