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This, I think, is finally the last straw for me. I've already moved my databases off heroku long ago, tried many various PaaS (render, fly) and tools (kamal) for VMs on places like DO and Hetzner. All my newer apps are…

I've been using Braintree as a way to interface with Paypal subscriptions for 8 years now. Paypal recently upped their subscription game with a better SDK, but I still prefer Braintree as I have 8 years of customer data…

Product idea: Audiobook visualizer 1. Use DallE/Midjourney/Stable Diffusion to create animated movies from a book transcription. I imagine there will have to be a human who filters some of this. 2. Use ffmpeg to create…

I'm an indie dev and I built a community for creators to get together and collaborate with each other. Mostly for amateur creators, but some famous ones use it as well. It has about 700k users so far. There are about…

I founded a company 9 months ago that is hitting $500k ARR and I'm seeing ways to accelerate growth if I have a cash injection. Aside from a pitch deck, I also want to find good-fit investors. I'm finding that to be…

Recently, I've stepped out of the shadow of being a W2 employee into being a one-man entrepreneur like Pieter Levels. He runs super popular remotelist and remoteok. At first I thought he just made a great product and…

I think it's important to show off your failures as much as your victories. I started my career in 2007 and I've worked extensively on 14 projects in 15 years. Only 4 of those turned into meaningful ventures for me.…

I'm posting this as a warning to other startups who might be thinking of using Stripe to process payments. I was employee #10 at Eventbrite, founding engineer at Reforge, Techstars alum, startup founder X 3. I can't…

I typically organize my structured thoughts into my favorite text editor (vim) in markdown, which gets synced to the cloud. I can search these notes, tag them, and read rich previews. When it comes to sharing those…

Long time Rails/Django/Express user here. I've been reading about serverless for about 3 years now and have setup minor apps for fun. Forgive my lack of imagination, but I'm failing to come up with anything serverless…

I've been an employee of a number of startups. I've bought options quite a few times. This last startup I worked for always had excuses to not give us the 409a information. After 1.5 years, for other reasons, I felt it…

Traditional channels of increasing wealth are financial investments like stocks/bonds, or real estate investments like rental properties or commercial. In this community, I might assume we would see small loan…