stephenson

What marketing staff?

The 75% of the team is 3 out of 4 developers. There are no marketing.

Left are the three owners of tailwind, one engineer and one ops+customer service + partner sails person.

I think it partly has to do with what level of security is around you, I don't live in a place (Denmark) where I have to solve that many other people's basic needs so I can optimize further up in the pyramid of needs.

I think this is the most sad comment I have read on HN for years. Can I ask where in the world you live?

It's funny that you need to prove you are a human to access this page…

This is why I have pi-hole on my network (https://github.com/pi-hole)

As a product manager this hits a painpoint I have had for a long time with current tracking solutions!

I think congrats are in order, he did not get distracted with a minor part of the market but is focused on delivering value to the bigger market. He can always add more clients later.

I completely agree, so much that I even started a company within the space and wrote a blog post the other week on how we need to reset our moral compass around data and tech: https://www.legalmonster.com/blog/it-s-time-to-reset-our-mor...

That makes so much sense! A more secure open source world, a better product for our close projects and two amazing tools merging. Love it!

Dependabot, you did well, build a fantastic tool, now join the rocketship and kick ass!

Can you elaborate?

There are positive and negative impacts of GDPR. Yes, poorly implemented consent is annoying, but forcing companies to use time and energy on privacy is super positive.

I have spent the last nine months in a few different co-working spaces here in Denmark, and all startups there have informed and essential conversations about handling users data. Just a few years ago that would never have been a topic. For me that's a very positive change.

Getting Real by 37Signals - https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real

Got me started building my first business.

It depends on what kind of company you want to build.

Yes if your goal is to build a Dropbox, an Instagram etc then you don't have "product-market fit" before you have to stay up all night weeks in a row to keep your service alive.

But sometimes it makes more sense (and joy) enjoy building stuff where the product-market fit and growth curve is a lot slower, read Basecamp's post about linear growth companies: https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-world-needs-more-modest-linea...

Background: I have build a VC backed company that ended up on a linear growth curve and enjoyed it a lot, today the company is profitable and proud. Today I am VP Growth of a heavily VC backed company that is trying to hit product-market fit.

Go and read Marty Cagan's book on product management: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inspired-Create-Tech-Products-Custo..., I am also blogging a bit about how a successful product team look here: https://www.stephenson.dk/successful-product-team/

They should help you make a profit, but not make one themselves?

Why is the first thing on the frontpage about the site being open source? Why dont it start with the true value of the database?

What about the hardware that are used to build your server? Is that an open source platform?

Faqt.co could as well yes, but google has quit a history of closing down small services.

> Google services are as long online as Google profit from

How do the profit from Keep?

The only problem is that Google dont keep services alive.

I would, if the technology solved the problem, the workflow fitted our org, the cost of running it in production fitted our budget etc.

Re "In web framework terms, Rails is old"

Oh how I love that! I would rather build my business on something old and well testet then something new and shiny.

It feels a bit unfair to expect more apps to use React Native at this point, it has only just ben open sourced.

I have Denmark in mind too!

Why do you want to use Postgres instead? When you answer that you have the list of reasons to show your boss.

Or just push your entire object to google spreadsheet: https://github.com/firmafon/to_google_spreadsheet

My attempt to book an apartment with AirBNB in Helsinki for Slush.org last year ended up in 3 cancelations (people got better offers) and us staying in a hotel. No word from AirBNB support.

I am sadly not going to use AirBNB agin to big events.

Would love support for Denmark!

Most people care about getting readers, get there message out. This is mediums power.

Running your own blog and getting readers tend to be harder.

Try https://hu.tt/ works great