You can disable all cloud models in your Ollama settings if you just want all local. For cloud you don't have to use the cloud models unless you explicitly request.
Why are you looking to move off Ollama? Just curious because I'm using Ollama and the cloud models (Kimi 2.5 and Minimax 2.7) which I'm having lots of good success with.
You can also run these models on the cloud with Ollama. You might say what's the difference, but these are models whose performance will stay consistent over time, whether run locally or in the cloud. For $200 a year I'm getting some pretty fantastic results running GLM 5.1 and even Minimax 2.7 and Kimi 2.5 and Gemma 4 on Ollama's cloud instances. And if you don't like Ollama's cloud instance, you can run it on your own cloud instance from the very same providers that Ollama is using. They use NVIDIA cloud providers (NCPs) although not sure which ones specifically and claims that the "cloud does not retain your data to ensure privacy and security." [https://ollama.com/blog/cloud-models]
Yeah and a lot of these are small only temporarily. Many of these startups are following the grow-at-all-costs VC philosophy that doesn't optimize for small team size. So I'm trying to find those alternate stories. Much harder to find, so when I see the post like this of OP's, I get excited. Hard to find stories of teams that are small by intent, but looking to scale big.
I'm looking for companies that are small by intent, but also looking to scale sustainably and grow beyond the capabilities of a single person. There are a lot of small businesses / solopreneurs / freelancers who work enough to get by or do a few hundred $K as a salary replacement, but aren't looking to build anything bigger. A lot of those companies also go by the wayside when the founder retires, gets hired, or something happens. And there's already a lot of content and sources for those types of solopreneur / single founder freelancers / side hustle type businesses.
I'm looking for the other stories of small teams scaling big. I'm basically separating side-hustles and solopreneurs as freelancers from a more sustainable business. Revenue is a cutoff as a way to differentiate, but doesn't have to be the only one.
For sure however, a team of 5 doing $20M implies something significant is happening at scale versus a solopreneur making what would otherwise be salary-replacement level money. Nothing wrong with that, of course, I love solopreneurship. Just trying to find those other stories, which are much harder to find.
YES! I want to find more stories like this. Where can I find Bootstrappers or seedstrappers who have successfully scaled their companies past a few million in revenue with very small teams?
OP lies about going to Harvard. He thinks he can put it on his linkedin just because he did an 8 hour online course from HarvardX on basics of leadership.
So assuming OP didn't lie about his experiences in start-ups (he 100% did lie), his diagnosis of the issues make no sense.
Unindexed db is just pure incompetence so if this is your problem then you have many more things to worry about, like learning the basics of programming.
Automatic testing is not required in start-ups and often comes at much later stages.
Auth vulnerabilities by themselves would never fail a start-up. Only data leakages caused by them would. So it's a very weird point.
There is rarely such a thing as bad code, all the code written by other people is bad while all the code written by me is either perfect or I have an excuse. It's always like that. Saying you should "improve" your code so that the devs spend less time wrestling with it is an insane statement, beyond basic quality controls. Bad code is almost always code that does something in a way that unexpected new reqs were not accounted for. And you can't expect the unexpected.
Autoscaling servers is hard. It's always better to just get what you need and then some. Within reason of course. And then leave the actual deployment optimization to dev ops engineers that you can hire later.
The post is really nonsensical. If there is one thing you should learn, it's to recognize obvious slop and outright lies.
EDIT: Also OP most likely bought upvotes. Weekend numbers like this make no sense. Especially on such a low quality post. And his linkedin is a trove of obvious lies and misrepresentations, even sneakily claiming he founded a company with 80k customers, while in reality he worked for an already established company with 80k customers as a low level employee, and then wording his claim in such a way where he has plausible deniability.
Before I first used the Web in 1991, I was on Usenet and of course Telnet and email-based systems, and Gopher also emerged around the same time. So the web didn't come out of nowhere, but the IP behind what we're still using, HTML and HTTP, freed from CERN's IP clutches is a good thing. Interesting that it was freed in 1993, once the momentum of the Web was becoming clear.
Might something else have emerged instead if CERN had said no? Who knows. Without the Web, the Internet itself might have stayed in its primarily research and academic domain. The rapid growth of the Web is in part what motivated the commercialization of the Internet and the "Information Superhighway", and then came the entrepeneurs and VCs, and well, here we are.
Could it have all happened based on Gopher instead? Who knows.
Can someone PLEASE tell me why the metaverse will succeed when things like Second Life and oh so many other immersive realities have failed. Is it because of the VR? Honestly why is this a thing?
Combined with the demographic changes, Texas is sure to go blue. However, the blue party doesn't really seem to be a homogeneous philosophy. Same with the red party. Maybe we'll finally see a challenge from a credible third party that will take the center and leave the fringes for the red and blue.
For comparison, and to show how much our economy has changed:
The Biggest Employers in 1955
1. General Motors
Employees in 1955: 576,667
Employees today: 204,000 (as of 2010)
The No.1 car company in the US used to be the No.1 car company in the world. In 1955, GM had more than 50% of the American vehicle market and, between direct employees and those at suppliers, it was responsible for more than 3 million US jobs. GM has emerged from bankruptcy, but has fewer than half as many people, and its US market share is only 20%.
2. U.S. Steel
Employees in 1955: 268,142
Employees today: 43,000 (as of 2010)
US Steel was the largest company in its industry worldwide and was among the Fortune 50 in 1955. A large portion of the steel manufacturing business has moved offshore, first to Japan and then China.
3. General Electric
Employees in 1955: 210,151
Employees today: 304,000 (as of 2010)
General Electric is one of the few companies that has grown significantly over the last five decades. It was largely an industrial firm in 1955, and now makes a large amount of its revenue and profits from financial services.
4. Chrysler
Employees in 1955: 167,813
Employees today: 58,000 (as of 2010)
Another car company that benefited from a very limited number of imports. The firm nearly went out of business during the 1980s recession and was rescued by the US government. It moved into Chapter 11 nearly two years ago.
5. Standard Oil Of New Jersey
Employees in 1955: 155,000
Employees today: 102,700 (as of 2010)
Standard Oil of New Jersey was part of the original Standard Oil trust created by John Rockefeller. The company was merged into what eventually became Exxon Mobil.
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6. Amoco
Employees in 1955: 135,784
Employees today: N/A
Another piece of the Rockefeller trust, the company was merged into BP America and is now part of BP plc.
7. CBS
Employees in 1955: 117,143
Employees today: 25,580 (as of 2010)
The dominant force in both national radio and TV, the company also owned several large stations. As media has broken into more forms of delivery, including cable and Internet, CBS has grown smaller.
8. AT&T Technologies
Employees in 1955: 98,141
Employees today: N/A
This division of AT&T handled the telephone company’s R&D was was spun out of AT&T completely in 1984.
9. Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Employees in 1955: 95,727
Employees today: 69,000 (as of 2010)
The largest tire company in the world in 1955, Goodyear had large plants around the world. As competition from Japanese companies grew, the company went through several restructurings including a move into energy.
The second largest tire company in the world in 1955, Firestone was at one point the exclusive supplier to Ford. The company was sold to Bridgestone of Japan in 1988.
NOTE: The above link was produced in 2010. In 2010, Amazon wasn't even in the top 10 of employers in the United States. And since 2010, some of the employers above have shrunk in size further.
Given Microsoft invested $1B for an exclusive license of OpenAI's GPT-3 I wouldn't be surprised to see GPT-3 everywhere in all of Microsoft's products and in their acquisitions. Maybe we'll see GPT-3 in LinkedIn as well. Maybe don't believe everything you see on that network in the future (or now).