Re:Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a New Startup Surge
by greenthrow on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:04PM
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Yeah but we are talking about startups. Brand new ones. They have no customers. Let alone enough customers to necessitate cloud scaling.
Re:Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a New Startup Surge
by no_wizard on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:50PM
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Gotta build the prototype on something eventually. It’s a solid OOTB tech stack. Lets you focus on building the business with peace of mind. Not fiddling with servers etc.
Re:Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a New Startup Surge
by fijiaarone on Friday February 24, 2023 @12:56AM
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For the past several years, “startup” meant at least 5 years in operation with over $1 billion valuation.
Re:Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a New Startup Surge
by fakedang on Friday February 24, 2023 @05:36AM
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I've used Supabase for some production level projects, and it's seriously a very good starting point which you can scale up to mid-tier levels. Brand new ones with no customers can easily leverage their free tier.
Looking at Supabase, I think it would be a good choice for most startups[0] and it will scale as the business does, but it removes most of the overhead of getting started. It has Auth, A database, Lambda Support, CDN and File Storage. Baked in are REST APIs and GraphQL APIs out of the box.
Its reasonably well priced and there's little friction on setting up and far, far less to worry about hosting wise. No need to setup a box and maintain updates etc, and it can scale if the business really does scale.
I don't think all cloud propositions are the same. AWS, GCP (maybe sans Firebase?) and Azure definitely have their place but I don't think they're great for the average startup.
[0]: Even medium sized and enterprise businesses could leverage it. Its all powered by Postgres at the end of the day