SAAS founder. I love to teach what I know even if I am no expert. It is simple. Teaching makes you better. I love to ask the "why" and not just the "what" or "how". I also am a geek and builder by nature.
I am always looking for smart, hungry and talented people to join me in creating great products and company.
My long term interests are in SaaS, edtech, hrtech, Dev Tools etc for the most part. I may have ADHD but too lazy to get diagnosed.
Always happy to chat with strangers. Hit me up if you want to talk about anything.
what is your objective ? Are you trying to learn how startups work and hence wanting to work at one ? Or are you trying to work at a startup and hopefully build wealth with equity (very unlikely).
Then, The question is : how much equity vs salary ? Lot of startups have roles like "founding engineer" etc but the equity won't be more than 1%-3% (or even less). Granted, some of these are funded and offer almost market salary.
Or are you looking for significant equity (say > 5-10% or more) ? In that case, you will almost be like a co-founder and that changes the game and requirements.
They are not just some random 3 have decades of real db experience behind them. They also just got funded which gives them the ability to expand and stay longer in the game.
"Why Us" => "I ran Postgres at Instacart, where we scaled the company 5x in April of 2020. The biggest problem we had was making Postgres serve 100,000s of grocery delivery orders per minute"
Agreed. S&P 500 needs to be seriously gatekeeped. We need safer boring companies in there thatbhave been peoven over a long period of time. Nothing against these companies but they are not proven and ready for S&P 500.
To be fair, it is done exactly to protect against accounts like yours. HN quality needs to be gate-keeped and new accounts absolutely need to be throttled. You may have meant well and be genuine but the bar is high now especially due to AI bots.
Sure but thats a very cynical way of seeing things. A company cannot exist without making a profit but there are plenty of companies that try and take care of their people. At least the ones that don't have investor or board pressure (smaller private companies).
Because of these shitty corporate companies that don't give a shit about their employees, the well is now poisoned for companies that do care especially smaller ones. Employees don't want to give their best anymore because they are burnt elsewhere and they become unemployable at smaller companies. It is a sad state of affairs.
I wish all platforms did this specially reddit, twitter etc. I don't use AI to write comments on any platform and always wondering if I am replying to an AI comment.
In my experience, any meetup > 10 people becomes useless because you cannot really make meaningful connections and large meetups usually have a fixed agenda where everyone is out there selling their own stuff.
I now will not attend a meetup unless it is extremely small group (<10 people). Those are hard to sustain though.
Exactly. I hired someone who was a good developer but he was charging hourly and extremely slow for what we needed. I am a software engineer (and a founder) myself so I get what it takes to write good code but I am no longer waiting for a dev to turn something around in 20 hours when I can use LLM to write it in 1 or less.
Going forward, I am no longer hiring hourly rate devs. Either fixed rate project or full time as needed. No hourly.
This is bad. Even their own website is down at railway.com. Looks like total dependency on google cloud. Surprising for a company of their scale with all this VC money.
I know a solo founder who got SOC2 certified. He is literally the only person running the product/company and is SOC2 certified. I found that hilarious to be honest. But he is trying to play the "win enterprise deals" game but not sure how that helps when you are literally 1 person.
It depends on your target market. If you only sell to enterprise/large companies, you may need SOC2 sooner than later. If you sell to SMBs or startups, this advice works (I sell in this space mostly).
- Document your data and security and share that with customers instead. You can say "We don't have SOC2 at the moment but here is all our security and data policy". It works 99% of the time for me.
- Very few companies truly have policy to reject a vendor if they don't have SOC2. Those are usually large enterprise or companies in sensitive areas such as Finance/Healthcare etc. Even then, SOC2 can be waived if you can demonstrate everything else.
Disclaimer: I run a bootstrapped SAAS with low 7 figures in ARR and even though we have ISO27001, we don't have SOC2 yet. However, we take our security/data etc very seriously and have tons of documentation and best practices that we always shafre with a customer who asks. Honestly, we will get SOC2 at some point just for the checklist as I don't really care too much about them otherwise.
I love Go. But I prefer .NET for web development that also compiles to a binary and has a great ecosystem of libraries and packages. Go is great if standard library works (and it can for many cases) but when you need to start looking into non standard libraries, Go can hit limitations.
For example, to build a full production web application with database in Go, there is no great out of the box migration tool. There are some good 3rd party libraries of course but compared to something like EFCore in .NET, they don't come as close.
For me, it is now .NET and then Go. Of course, I use Go when just doing a lot of non web stuff as well.
I hear you. I also don't buy clothes unless really really needed. But I am hoping that if I do buy a Robot like that, it will do other things as well and not just folding laundry :)
I probably used the wrong word. I meant more about managing volume property so we dont have data loss, backups, replication etc etc. I assume going managed is easier if you can pay for it (e.g. RDS)
I am always looking for smart, hungry and talented people to join me in creating great products and company.
My long term interests are in SaaS, edtech, hrtech, Dev Tools etc for the most part. I may have ADHD but too lazy to get diagnosed.
Always happy to chat with strangers. Hit me up if you want to talk about anything.
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