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HatchedLake721
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Founder @ Automations.io

meet.hn/city/gb-Manchester

Socials: - linkedin.com/in/aalimovs

Interests: Startups, DevOps, Fintech

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  1. My OS is in dark mode, I usually manually switch websites to light mode, but planetscale.com (except docs) doesn't have the switch.
  2. Same. Love PlanetScale, love their previous website design. I struggle reading white text on black backgrounds, so I don't even try to read their product pages or blog posts since there's no light mode :( yes I know about reader mode

    It feels it went from "professional Stripe level design that you admire and it inspires you" to just "hard to read black website", not sure what for.

    (not fully functional) https://web.archive.org/web/20240811142248/https://planetsca...

  3. > They can fine all they want, if the company doesn't have any entity in said territory they can just ignore it.

    Try running an online poker site abroad and serve US players and find out how that'll work out for you.

    Didn't work out well for Lithuanian/Canadian/Israeli Isai Scheinberg founder of Poker Stars, nor Calvin Ayre, the founder of the Bodog, who ended up on the FBI's top 10 list. United States reportedly sought* to seize around $3 billion worth of assets from 3 major online poker companies at the time.

    https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/457/is-online-poke...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg

  4. > If you show revenue, people will ask 'HOW MUCH?' and it will never be enough. The company that was the 100xer, the 1000xer is suddenly the 2x dog. But if you have NO revenue, you can say you're pre-revenue! You're a potential pure play... It's not about how much you earn, it's about how much you're worth. And who is worth the most? Companies that lose money!
  5. Any tips to share from your experience using it for so long every day?
  6. I think it’s reasonable. What’s another way, “I’m into backdoor stuff”?
  7. > Hate to break it to you, but many kids actually do better away from their parents than with them.

    Is this based on something?

    There's research left and right shows that children under 36 months at group nurseries are linked to increased aggression, anxiety, lower emotional skills, elevated cortisol (stress hormone), which is associated with long-term health and developmental risks.

    Infants and children do better with one-to-one care at home by their parents and familiar faces, rather than strangers in a group setting.

  8. Don’t auto install latest versions, pick a version up to a patch and use package-lock.json
  9. Firebase is using SAN (multi-domain) certificates, with many domains and subdomains in one cert.

    https://chatgpt.com/share/689bb016-d000-8009-b7b8-354f0bb2ce...

  10. What’s wrong with receiving code/security/MR review comments from AI?
  11. AI offloading tasks to Mechanical Turk
  12. Isn’t Unreal Engine guilty with this? That’s how I often recognize it’s an Unreal Engine game.
  13. > I was probably considered one of these customers that you don't want to deal with.

    Exactly, you don’t want to deal with developers who think >$299 is too expensive and end up building their own product.

    You want to deal with business people who understand what’s at stake and won’t spare thousands to make this go smoothly.

  14. > The lower price is intended to attract customers

    Lower prices attract customers you don’t necessarily want to deal with, e.g. https://blog.readme.com/getting-rid-of-our-cheapest-plan-a-m...

    I agree with the commenter above, you’re too cheap, which signals that you have a disconnect with the value you provide, especially since you’ll have no recurring revenue.

    I assume moving Stripe accounts is extremely business critical, and people will want to speak, understand and be hand-held by experienced professionals during this time.

    Anyone who would consider paying $299 but not $1,500 to move their Stripe accounts is not the customer you want to deal with.

    I was you until one of our customers asked to increase their invoice from $3k to $4k, saying “You've been instrumental to my sleep this week”. (this was data migration between two finance systems)

    I think you’re hugely underestimating the value you offer.

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