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This was fun lol. There's something calming about being inundated with stimulation.

All they mean by that is if you want to be mad at someone be mad at him.

How is asking about the architecture of this site least interesting and lowest in information? Your opinion is the least interesting and lowest in information.

:mind-blown: Hats off to PG for building an app that could handle 4m requests with the architecture of a small hobby project.

HN is for sure a contribution to the community that they generously provide (and a bit of a recruiting tool for YC no doubt. Perhaps not as much these days since YC is a household name in startup world).

It's not just the inability to post though, it's the inability to even see the existing discourse on a busy day.

I accept this answer as canonical.

An app doesn't need to be multi-threaded to horizontally scale the physical hardware. A load balancer can dispatch requests to multiple single-threaded processes running on individual servers.

There's a ton of emerging app stores out there like CloudFlare's App Store: https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/ Slack's App Store has also birthed a ton of startups both big and small: https://www.slack.com/apps

Slack is a healthy marketplace and I think buying plugins is something most users know they can do and take pleasure in. Shopify also boasts how mosts users adopt apps and it's core to their user experience. CloudFlare, I have no experience with their apps, but as a CloudFlare user myself, I don't think I've ever felt compelled to browse their app store. Perhaps some good 2 cents to keep in mind? On the surface though it looks like they basically can do plugin/widget style stuff, where they can inject your script into the markup of a page before they serve it to the user. Zero-integration steps for the user. Similar to how Shopify's ScriptTag API allows zero-integration steps for widgets, etc.

For me personally, I really weighed between Shopify and just rolling my own authentication and doing normal advertising/customer acquisition. As I state in the article, I just really didn't want to do any of that, even on a small scale. That means you're constrained to the problem domain of ecommerce, but that there is a deep well to pull app ideas from. I'll probably end up doing some Shopify App Store ad campaigns consistently and Google Ads if customers find it solves their problem and has traction though!

I also see a ton of YouTube ads for Shopify Apps, so I imagine that is a working channel for app developers. Only one way I'll find out for sure -- testing! :)

Does QA just pull and test against a dev instance? Do they test against prod? Do engineers get prod API keys if they have to test an integration with a 3rd party?

How can I buy in, I've got a feeling this is gonna moon, diamond hands all the way. /s/joke

The "virtues" of poverty? Poverty is hell for people who can't choose it. What a cruel statement.

Is this a real service, or just a portfolio project for your resume?

Back in the day, people had these things called "lives" with irl friends and loved ones. Back then, watching a movie was a special thing you did that brought people together, they didn't need to binge 10 hours of content every night. A few movies a week was plenty.

Aaron Swartz deserves a statue for future generations to know what he stood for and how he was martyred by the US government.

Makes sense to me. This is going to be sick once it's ready!

Ha!

Totally off-topic, I don't know why, but I really like the design of your website!

Try winking at it. Hold one eye open and one eye closed and it will cycle through all the changes.

Then you are a true nihilist.

I appreciate your username, but really, is this the hill to die on? Being morally relativistic about this subject is beyond the pale.

And to make it obvious: yes, yes you should find this and the notion that someone would fantasize about it utterly gut wrenching.

The antinatalist point of view is incredibly damaging to the long term progress of our species.

Really cool! If you had the time/energy, this would be an enjoyable mobile game.

Seems like a whole host of other lifestyle factors were completely ignored.

This mirrors my experience. My father was a software engineer, he tried teaching me BASIC and C++ when I was 7-8. I didn't take to it at all until I discovered programming on my own around age 12-13 when I wanted to learn how to build my own websites.

Generally I find a lot of my interests align with my parents, but I always had to discover a passion for them on my own.

> There is perhaps nothing more quintessentially American than the fish stick.

This person has clearly never heard of baseball, apple pie, or mass incarceration.

You really think everybody is enjoying being isolated inside, alone, with no human contact, no mass gatherings like concerts or games?

> As a society I think that we've outgrown the idea of just going to a movie theater and hanging out with friends.

This is an antisocial and unhealthy perspective. We've yet to see the mental health ramifications from this extended period of isolation. We're not built to sit inside by ourselves all day. Even as great as online connections can be, they are no replacement for the real presence of a human being. Saying we've "outgrown" it is preposterous.

Never heard of Neighbourly, judging by the spelling, perhaps it wasn't available in the US??? But I would suggest Nextdoor as an alternative if it's available in your region. A ton of people are active on it (at least here in Chicago and I assume most major metros), and it's been a great way to coordinate community efforts. I've seen it used to warn people of crime trends, and lately I've seen it used to coordinate efforts to help elderly people get groceries. Most of all, the discourse is incredibly positive and healthy compared to other social networks.

Reminds me of these similar projects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Stanley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascal_Flatts

Any Petrucci Music Library not about John Petrucci is just not worth the time frankly.

I hope they leave this up after the crisis because this is actually just a way better tool to find local restaurants than googling "restaurants near me".