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is the problem slack or people? same argument is said for facebook and facebook serves people since they use it a lot. This only validates the existence of slack for me.

I work at VMWare and I am pleasantly surprised it is not at all like that. Join VMWare's core team ;)

The answer is pretty simple: "Capitalizm". It doesn't fix all the problems. It fixes them for creating profit, and not every serious problem promises profit when solved.

this is super interesting in that I mainly use PostgreSQL and was wondering how to integrate a real-time database and sync the two for real-time stuff like comments.

My initial concern is is this stuff stable for production use?

Do you not have to have a large dev ops team to handle upgrades or changes for each customer? I'd be against it to do more with fewer people, especially for an unproven < 5 year old startup.

Thanks for the comment - Medium is aiming to help writers to monetize (IMO its not working) and not serving recreational bloggers. Yes there were all these mechanisms to find and interact with blogs. But don't you think they can be modernized, and centralized? RSS works, but how many people can use RSS? They just want to press a follow button.

this is true, though with the assumption of blogging as it is in today's world where it is lonely and only a search engine can find you. if blogging was done inside a supportive community and network it could be less lonely and you could get frequent feedback and interactions.

If I was to make an analogy using your perspective on blogging with facebook or instagram - you post about yourself or post personal photos for a long time. It is futile, for a long long time, nobody sees your content... you post photos for years, and you realize it changes you. You will notice patterns, you will get better at posting photos ...

I am exaggerating to make a point and it is this, you may find yourself needing to perfect your content strategy(blog, photos or facebook-style posts) for years and the main reason it doesn't pay back is there is no network or community anymore. You shouldn't have to be a pro to get noticed.

People tried decentralized networks and that didn't work so well, because one - you need modern blogging software (newsfeed, real time comments, spam moderation, good recommendation algorithms) and it has to be managed by a centralized authority that offers a great user experience. Today, closest thing to this is facebook and twitter (and instagram). All in all you must have these for a great blogging experience: first, good software and central authority, then network. It must be focused on serving authentic bloggers, and it must be backed by a commercial solution.

That in turn means, a paid service, whose customers are bloggers. That means, how badly do you want an amazing blogging experience, where you blog with great writing tools, search, discover, and interact with others (and probably in today's world, be able to hop on a video chat with your viewers and share that in comments). Yes, so how much do you desire to have it, would you pay $5/month? $30/month? $100/month? It comes down to this.

If there was monetary backing, this problem could be solved with a 'solution'. Chances are that not enough many people want it, and people are content with free posting on instagram, twitter, or facebook, and happy to live with ads. If this was a high demand service, chances are that it would have already been built, or existing ones would already be prospering (tumblr didn't make money and got acquired, blogger shut down, medium serving writers looking to make money, recreational blogging is not their target and so on). So is this a real problem to solve or not?

Maybe people don't know they want it and aren't organized enough to support it, - if you built an amazing experience maybe lots of bloggers will pay for it, then it will become another, facebook where the network is funded by its users.

precisely the reason I went back to Jquery/HTML/CSS/ExpressJS server rendered pages.

Thanks for feedback, I am considering both (a) Linux interface (b) Back to basics building at least a decent multitasking kernel with memory management.

Thank you for feedback. Do you think $49 - $79 would be justified for a %100 practical course, with about 2.5 hours of dense (not sparse to fill time) material?

Just curious, would you pay for a practical course if it existed? Asking as I am planning to develop one.

bicycle?

How does this landing page read, we provide a similar service: https://imagefix.io

this sums up so many things wrong with capitalism in general. you get charged for stuff the moment you get to have no other choice. healthcare being the worst case.

Can you forward-exercise like that, before they are vested? Or did you need to wait for them to vest?

Typical of new technologies. You naively start building a startup thinking the new stuff (today that is react and serverless) will be more cutting edge. And then you find out the new stuff adds complexity you don't need especially while starting out with a new product idea. You are misinformed because of the hype and end up paying for it because you are inexperienced.

Can you fix the typo anna KARERINA please?

Your points are valid it's just the negativity is classic HN. I think this is partly due to HN design. When all you see is text and not the people writing them it is easy to be negative.

Wow this really looks awesome! It requires polish as most oss but this idea of an open web app store / cloud that is not tied to a vendor is amazing.

I think this is an idea with great potential. Making it work seamlessly would be a challenge.

For example: Elastic Beanstalk for NodeJS gives you a good starting point for a web backend. However, I had to hand-edit the EBS environment configurations to add Redis, Postgres, force HTTPS, and so on. I'd love to add a CI/CD pipeline when I find the time.

Could I do these with your tool? Probably not today. It would be awesome to be able to drag and drop gateways, firewalls, set in/out ports. Conceptually this is all one should need to get an EBS set up.

It is a huge problem. It's not possible to fix it some other way without putting in the same effort.

the problem is owning your content and platform is not enough.

you need much, much better UX (User Experience). Millions of people are now using facebook groups thanks to its easy real-time comments and well thought out threads. Good luck having that on your blog.

Alternative software needs to be vastly improved and centralized(1) for this to work. This is the problem, nobody is incentivized to fix it, so there you go. You get monster proprietary platforms still growing.

(1) Some people think decentralized platforms is the solution - it totally isn't. It is bad UX. They first build it, then find out it doesn't work, and this repeats. Why should everyone take the hassle of hosting their stuff? Plus, syncing everyone in a single feed is not an easy problem. I guess email is the outlier here.

can you revoke by changing your password?

Never thought about building an app with Plaid, cool. It's also a good example to play with react native.

the 2 wheel approach looks redundant. just use 4 wheels and all that extra balancing is not needed.

I get a lot of promotions from lyft that make me think they're desperate.

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