I know this is hacker news and all and you’re trying to be fun, but as I’m looking at platforms like fly for a future saas, the first sentence (cool hack) rubbed me the wrong way. Would rather hear “we found an elegant design” and are working hard to make it bulletproof… etc.
Databases are like that, the place to get serious.
Sure I won’t let it deter me from a proper eval, but I could definitely see it scaring away suits.
We are at the stage where attracting developers and scaring suits is probably good.
I'd have a hard time calling something I was partially responsible for elegant, though, so this might just be our self deprecating nature rearing its head.
We are at the stage where attracting developers and scaring suits is probably good.
As a developer the way it was written scared me off. It reads like one of those recipe sites that game Google by adding a nonsensical story to the recipe. It seems like it took half the article to get to your "one trick". And ultimately you didn't deliver what the title teased.
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I know this is hacker news and all and you’re trying to be fun, but as I’m looking at platforms like fly for a future saas, the first sentence (cool hack) rubbed me the wrong way. Would rather hear “we found an elegant design” and are working hard to make it bulletproof… etc.
Databases are like that, the place to get serious.
Sure I won’t let it deter me from a proper eval, but I could definitely see it scaring away suits.
We are at the stage where attracting developers and scaring suits is probably good.
I'd have a hard time calling something I was partially responsible for elegant, though, so this might just be our self deprecating nature rearing its head.
As a developer the way it was written scared me off. It reads like one of those recipe sites that game Google by adding a nonsensical story to the recipe. It seems like it took half the article to get to your "one trick". And ultimately you didn't deliver what the title teased.
I definitely like writing the story parts, and the actual replay header is about halfway down. So you're right about that.
But it really does result in globally distributed postgres.
Yes, as a dev with important data is was kinda "nails on the chalkboard." That said I'm all up for more fun. Just not with the biz critical data.