Tell HN: I will help solve your roadblock/s for 1 hour of your time

2 points by vonklaus ↗ HN
I have a pretty diverse set of skills, I mostly work with node and do front end dev. Currently, I work doing a little bit of everything at a small fintech company. I could add value/help you with:

setting up and implementing a social meda strategy and campaign.

Doing a quick mockup or design critique.

Competitive strategy. Looking at the space you are in and finding non-traditional competitors, changes and partners. Or thinking about a business model.

Letting you vent for a bit because contrary to what you tell everyone, maybe you aren't "killing it, I love being an Entrepreneur!" Or "just gabbed coffee with [well known sandhill entity] and I'm getting tons of interest"

Looking at your product and company and providing a thoughtful critique.

Etc.

I need maybe 1 hour of someones time to help me think about structuring my project. It will have a forum with users, entities that are organizations that might not be active, articles (like news not db) and just generally how to think about the data. I haven't really scaled anything out and there is no reason to beleive this will be massive, but I am just not sure how to set up the dbs and website to serve 10-100k users, obviously not "big data" but more of just a way to get some best practices and find some good resources.

Anyway,

Maybe you don't need any of thr stuff I listed, it would be cool if you coukd get/give help from someone else as this isn't just about my small experiment.

Cheers

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> and just generally how to think about the data > but I am just not sure how to set up the dbs

Your pseudo sounds German maybe you can read French ? If yes, what you need is the "Merise method". This is the one true way to model your data as long as your requirements don't include a non relational database (NoSQL).

Sadly Merise remained a French thing and to my knowledge was never translated. It's old and unsexy, but it makes designing a relational database schema a breeze.

However I don't do web dev so I can't help you there. But I'm sure you will find plenty of web people here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merise

Interesting this is helpful. I am looking for a conceptual model and inplementation. I have done small prototypes with crud, but I want to make sure I build with intent. Another component will be users who subscribe to 1-10 data feeds that in a poor case should not be more than 1 sec stale. Just trying to move from sloppy project to basic security & optimization.

This looks like a decent concept and I am currently thinking about the relational model, so thanks.

You stuck on anything?

I'm not stuck on anything right now, however I'm not against helping a fellow hacker for free as long as you don't expect too much.

Let me remind you that I don't have any significant experience in web dev, so I can help you with the relational model, offer opinions about what DB to use but after that I'm of no use.

You can reach me by email : same than my HN pseudo, at gmx.fr