So don't worry if you don't immediately get traction.
There's so much truth to this. I've got a wacky project that is a crazy platform ( https://www.adama-platform.com/ ), and I've started to test my thesis by hiring a few contractors via upwork.
I found this great kid that just got to work and made a game! It feels fantastic just to see someone use something that I made as a creative tool.
I've got a lot to work on, but I'm keeping the faith going strong.
I don't think you realise just how many of your posts link to this project. It doesn't seem like you are able to respond to a HN comment/post without linking your project.
IOW, you aren't able to hold a conversation without reference to your project. This is probably not healthy - I mean, surely you have opinions that aren't colored by your project, and you have interests that aren't linked to your project?
I still think it's healthy to have multiple interests that you engage others with, but I also accept that in some contexts focus can appear as obsession.
I had a look at the project. Looks very interesting, but for something like this code examples = marketing. I don't believe the buzzwords, and can't make sense of what it is. My best guess is it is like a "backend react for permanent state"... maybe?
I'm going to be revamping the marketing as I'm on-boarding a customer since I'm transitioning towards "concierge engineering company/studio". I've got a thesis that I can beat the averages (in the pg sense: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html ) with the platform, but the strategy is hush-hush right now.
Thanks. And sorry I meant to say I don’t believe in buzzwords!
Just watch 20m of the video will finish off later. Some thoughts:
* Sounds like it has some good qualities of Elm (domain specific language that reduces complexity) and Phoenix (in the channels etc.)
* I work somewhere where they do a OS process mirroring the front end and there is a bunch of issues you don’t have to worry about. I have not looked at a single SQL query plan since working there, whereas it is regular elsewhere. It does come with challenges for “big data” though as RAM is costly vs. disk space. But maybe you have ideas for that.
* Your system would probably add some ops challenges around load balancing processes and RAM but that could be offloaded to the cloud. Maybe Kubernetes could help here?
* But for most apps it is probably not an issue!
* After thinking Firebase makes web dev simple and realizing no it makes it way more complex I sympathise with a lot of points. Firebase makes the atoms so small that you are constantly worrying about 2, 3, 4 phase commits and how to tell the user that you partially fucked up!
* Seems very promising!
* I have questions but i’ll watch more see if they get answered
Thanks for checking out the video. It's a work in the progress.
On the note about load balancing, it's exceptionally hard. However, I have the ability to migrate traffic (poorly tested) and re-balance. In general, stream load balancing is a challenge on many fronts. However, I consider myself an expert as I was the architect of https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477132.3483572 at Facebook. On this topic, my only regret is that I have to outdo myself since I (foolishly) patented an awesome protocol ( https://patents.google.com/patent/US11228626B1/en ).
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There's so much truth to this. I've got a wacky project that is a crazy platform ( https://www.adama-platform.com/ ), and I've started to test my thesis by hiring a few contractors via upwork.
I found this great kid that just got to work and made a game! It feels fantastic just to see someone use something that I made as a creative tool.
I've got a lot to work on, but I'm keeping the faith going strong.
Very off-topic, but ...
I don't think you realise just how many of your posts link to this project. It doesn't seem like you are able to respond to a HN comment/post without linking your project.
IOW, you aren't able to hold a conversation without reference to your project. This is probably not healthy - I mean, surely you have opinions that aren't colored by your project, and you have interests that aren't linked to your project?
If his self-promotion is on topic when he posts it, as it was here, I don't really see what the issue is supposed to be.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about his promotion.
Look at almost every regular poster on HN - they all have more than one type of comment. GP has only one type of comment (his project).
I dunno if it is really healthy to obsess over only a single thing, especially (IIRC) GP made a HN post some time back about burnout.
The word is "focused", and the burnout I was speaking diluting my focus too much and stalling out which I foresaw (as this isn't my first rodeo).
I could talk more about the month long RV trip through the southwest where my wife and I saw the Grand Canyon? But, is that relevant? :shrug:
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee
It's funny you mentioned focus. Until recently I had a lot of trouble maintaining focus.
I just complained about it in a different thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905529
I still think it's healthy to have multiple interests that you engage others with, but I also accept that in some contexts focus can appear as obsession.
I mean... it's a big project that overlaps with many areas?
I do realize because I'm a shameless self promoter looking for like minds.
I had a look at the project. Looks very interesting, but for something like this code examples = marketing. I don't believe the buzzwords, and can't make sense of what it is. My best guess is it is like a "backend react for permanent state"... maybe?
I have a poorly done video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWYgChA_aYA
I'm going to be revamping the marketing as I'm on-boarding a customer since I'm transitioning towards "concierge engineering company/studio". I've got a thesis that I can beat the averages (in the pg sense: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html ) with the platform, but the strategy is hush-hush right now.
Thanks. And sorry I meant to say I don’t believe in buzzwords!
Just watch 20m of the video will finish off later. Some thoughts:
* Sounds like it has some good qualities of Elm (domain specific language that reduces complexity) and Phoenix (in the channels etc.)
* I work somewhere where they do a OS process mirroring the front end and there is a bunch of issues you don’t have to worry about. I have not looked at a single SQL query plan since working there, whereas it is regular elsewhere. It does come with challenges for “big data” though as RAM is costly vs. disk space. But maybe you have ideas for that.
* Your system would probably add some ops challenges around load balancing processes and RAM but that could be offloaded to the cloud. Maybe Kubernetes could help here?
* But for most apps it is probably not an issue!
* After thinking Firebase makes web dev simple and realizing no it makes it way more complex I sympathise with a lot of points. Firebase makes the atoms so small that you are constantly worrying about 2, 3, 4 phase commits and how to tell the user that you partially fucked up!
* Seems very promising!
* I have questions but i’ll watch more see if they get answered
Thanks for checking out the video. It's a work in the progress.
On the note about load balancing, it's exceptionally hard. However, I have the ability to migrate traffic (poorly tested) and re-balance. In general, stream load balancing is a challenge on many fronts. However, I consider myself an expert as I was the architect of https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477132.3483572 at Facebook. On this topic, my only regret is that I have to outdo myself since I (foolishly) patented an awesome protocol ( https://patents.google.com/patent/US11228626B1/en ).
Feel free to reach out!