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- I don't agree with the guiltiness on zero days. There is just no way to stay sane if you don't truly enjoy zero days. You will burn your candle.

- I 1000% agree that any form of customer validation makes your day. Could be a Stripe ping, a mention on Twitter or here. Set up services like https://f5bot.com/. Google alerts is useless.

My totally failed / crickets initial launch here on HN is findable via submissions in my bio, anno 2018. Three upvotes.

1. Yes, a synthetic check is very useful here to just see if a user facing "thing" is still working.

2. a heartbeat check / deadman's switch can also work here, but it will only be reliable when the monitored event has a predefined cadence, e.g. "every 5 minutes this should happen".

3. The lack / absence of metrics flowing into a system is also sign. This would typically be solved by the Signoz team where they would alert on not seeing some specific event happening for x time. This can be tricky if the event is directly related to a user interaction.

Super big disclaimer: founder at a monitoring company that solve 1 and 2, not 3.

You only have to punch the beat into a drum machine once.

(Had bands and multiple drummers. Love’m)

Er, no. Peugeot, Renault, Volkswagen etc. all make (way) cheaper models. Heck, even Volvo now has an EV (the EX30) that is ~EUR 8k cheaper than a Model y. Not even mentioning the Asian brand like Hyundai etc.

- got ~15k GitHub stars.

- AWS copied it.

- We deprecated it as better stuff came on the market with @playwright/test's codegen.

But I did code the initial version in a weekend. Was called Puppeteer Recorder then.

The mythical "European state" where everything works the same does not exist.

If the data shows it does not matter for success of the company, why care so much and stress it is important?

Goes to show how hard this space is.

Amazon, AWS, Salesforce and anything Oracle entered the chat.

More seriously, I think it really depends. People will use and pay large amounts of cash for stuff that solves there problem and does not have a fancy looking UI.

It's a critical skill for engineers: being able to critically reason, debug and "test in isolation" any changes that address outages. Much harder than it seems and typically a "senior" skill to have.

I guess consultants migrating folks from prismic to some other cms will be busy this Christmas.

1. get customers

2. get customers

3. get customers

But, as per my reply earlier in this topic, the "how" is left as an exercise to the reader.

How do you find good people? How do sell before building? How do you find a good marketer? How do you reach $500k revenue in one year?

There are no easy answers, playbooks etc. here. It all depends on industry, customer profile, market circumstances etc.

Also, without trying to be overly sour, these tips should have a source with them noting the founder's company stage. Tips from folks doing $1M ARR+ tend to be more useful than those from $3000 ARR.