I thought VCs were interested in companies with superstar teams with a killer idea, an established and lucrative monetization mechanism, an established defendable innovative product, in a global market with hockey stock growth and for some reason still willing to sign ridiculously unfavorable investment terms with no downside or risk for the VC at a very low price, but at a very high price to the next round of investors to drive up ponzi scheme valuations. Oh and a CEO/founder who at first they love but later can be shoved out by the board. Or have I been watching too much Silicon Valley?
I wonder what is the shortest path to deploying a web application that is fully codable (as opposed to no-code), that includes user database/management/auth.
I suspect the closest is the old school libraries like Ruby on Rails and the equivalent in other languages.
Edit: Dan has edited his blog post to address this comment ... good luck dan with Nodewood! See comments below. We should support a fellow founder and HN community member who is here and listening and working.
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It’s not clear until the end of the long post that this guy is selling and all in one development package.
No problem with that but it feels disingenuous to make building a SAAS super hard THEN say “he he I have the solution for you!”.
He’d have been better to say up front his product solves the development complexity problem which looks like this....
Then at the end you’d say “gee this guy is right”, instead of “oh I’ve been played”.
How did lambda manage to create this false idea that it makes everything instantly easy? If anything in many ways it makes things much more complex and harder and more expensive.
One of the big issues in the pandemic is the spread of misinformation.
I don’t think media channels ... and I’m including HN here ... should be giving a megaphone to random opinions. Now it the time for experts voices to be amplified, not random people with an opinion.
I notice in the comments dang supports this post which is a surprise.
Seems somewhat disingenuous not to mention that up front.