> When my kids were young. I had dreams of being super financially successful so that I could give them lots of nice things. I just don't want that for them anymore.
That is a decision you had the freedom to make for yourself and your family. In this case, the millions of children didn’t get to make that choice and meta knowingly exploited that. I hope you see our point of view as to why meta doesn’t get the benefit of doubt here.
Thank you for the incredibly inspiring work! At a time when 99% of the founders and VCs just want to bank on the next big hype cycle and accumulate power and wealth, it’s good to be reminded that actual life changing work with direct impact on people is still possible.
Thanks for the honest technical write up - not easy to air one's dirty laundry to users. Given the scalability and stability issues, I am curious to understand the percent of apps deployed to fly are actually used in production/critical to business. Sounds like they have quite a few hobby/free tier users (myself included) who probably won't notice certain issues unlike paid customers.
Sounds like it’s time for him to move on. I’m sure it’s incredibly difficult to give up on a passion project which is also very popular, but he doesn’t sound happy and in a good mental space. Besides, I highly doubt that companies will suddenly start supporting open source devs.
A break and a paid job might be what he needs to reboot mentally. Hope he gets through this tough time!
I feel I’m in the sweet spot. Work for a company based across 5 time zones. Our team of 12 has optional out of hours support and people have to volunteer. But it is only for Sev 1 issues where the entire app/service is down.
Since it is paid, we end up taking turns for the extra money. In the year I’ve worked there, haven’t been pinged even once.