News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company" by yourbandsucks on Friday May 31, 2019 @05:07PM (#20064969)
And there are a million stories of startups who build the wrong thing, don't achieve product-market fit, etc.

You can't dot every I, cross every t and also build a compelling product as a 2 person shop.

Re:"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company" by andrewflnr on Friday May 31, 2019 @05:36PM (#20065216)
Backups aren't "dotting i's and crossing t's", they're fundamental. FFS, just rsync your database directory somewhere.
Re:"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company" by icebraining on Friday May 31, 2019 @05:55PM (#20065363)
Then maybe you shouldn't be building that product with a 2 person shop.
Re:"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company" by yourbandsucks on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:04PM (#20066695)
Sounds good in theory.