Good story, I yet believe the guy is trying to do the right thing. In the lex Friedman podcast he talks about banning extremist channels in both sides always, the story focus more on the Nalvani's block, but accordingly him he also bans other sides depending on the content.
I do follow a number of Telegram channels about the Ukraine war, and the pro Ukraine channels are there together with pro Russian channels.
The Lex Fridman podcast episode with Pavel Durov is worth listening to. Their servers are built to be very secure — of course, it would be different for others, and they use some clever tricks
I really don't like the idea that Shopify adopted React so deeply (Polaris is an example), not because I am a Vue developer but I would prefer Shopify to not be so opinionated about any framework.
I'm not saying that is just because of poor people, but big part is, another way they destroy it is due to fire, when they clean the terrain to plant next year, and the fire go out of control.
"They must find it hard to afford the tools to do so"
With the centenary woods in Amazon and the abundance of gold is not very hard to make money there.
There are the criminals as well, people who go to Amazon just to make money..and those should be hunt, but, since there are very big extensions of land is really hard to get those. Amazon is really huge, it's a Europe.
And since we don't extract the resources and use it to preserve the forest, there is no money to preserve it all. Wealthy countries love to complain but don't give the money necessary to preserve it ($50b/year is the needed).
A solution would be give the right of exploration to companies extract the resources in certain areas of land, get the taxes and invest in protection and require these companies to monitor a part of Amazon in exchange for the right of exploration.
But since no one can touch there, is really a no mans land.
Man, the money they sent is not possible to preserve 1% of Amazon, they sent some millions expecting we would preserve a forest with the size of Europe.
If the world pays $100 per hectare it would be $50 billion/year sent to Brazil. This would make some difference, not the pennies sent here eventually.
You guys really don't know the reality of Amazon, nor the politicians there, and many here as well.
Yes, they said is to conserve it, but everybody knows that very poor people is not thinking about environment, but thinking how they can survive the next day, they will cut centenary trees to sell wood, they will extract precious metals using poisonous substancies, etc.
Apart from the fact that they should care about their forests or what's left there(if any), they developed theirselves using their resources and lobby to Brazil not use his own resources because it will "hurt the entire world".
Actually this is true, I live in Brazil and European countries really try to dictate what we can and cannot do with our Amazon, nobody should interfere in our internal affairs, that region is the most underdeveloped region of Brazil because nobody has courage to face European lobbies.
Also, is clear that the anti-petro propaganda will slow down the growth of poor/developing countries.
Why so many people believe in climate catastrophe when multiple times the past climate theories proved to be incorrect?
I really believe we have some world class problems to solve, like ocean pollution, that is a real thing and everybody see it.
But climate catastrophe if really happens will not be something that humans can avoid, our influence in the climate is regional, not global, the world is constant changing since forever, we need to accept it.
This large BLM crowds have the costume of destroy and set fire on anything on their way, just glasses were broken yesterday. If the protestors start destroy everything surely would justify a more strong action.
Sites like these: https://feinternational.com/, they guide you through the process, but you have to reach certain MRR(2k minimum I think), the price of the SAAS business is calculated using a multiple of the MRR(20x~48x).
First, thank you for writing this, It's really cool to see others entrepreneurs sharing their experience, I believe this post here will help you a lot, I agree with many opinions here, the main thing would be the MVP opinion, you are focusing too much on secondary features(like PDF export) and could not finish the primary feature I guess (if yes you should launch it).
I am a developer and entrepreneur, I have sold a SAAS product 3 years ago and will sold my other SAAS this year(much bigger), I built entirely my SAAS products.
As almost everybody here said you are being too perfectionist, I would suggest you focus on the main feature, the feature that was mentioned when you had the interest of that first customers, make sure this features works well and launch it, then improve it.
After you have your first 2 or 3 clients you will see your motivation go higher, all the team will be motivated, also, these customers will ask for critical things that you forgot, but when they suggest things you have to be critical and think if the feature will benefit multiple customers, not just the guy who asked, doing this in 3 months you gonna have a good product.
I really would suggest you stop writing tests in this moment, takes time and probably in the future the code will change, which will require 2x work, but if you think you are fast doing this is okay.
Another thing I would suggest is just comment features that are not finished and you think are not part of the primary feature, don't try to finish those things, just comment it out, if some customer asks for this in future you finish it.
My approach is a bit radical, but I learned this way, customers will ask for stuff that matters at some point, if they think the primary feature is good enough, and for you to know if is good enough, you need to launch it, just make sure it works ;).