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As only developer in company, how to argue what you do and why it takes so long?

I really made it to the first (and at the moment only) employee for a startup. So I'm kind of co-founder, CTO, product owner and the whole development team at one position. The company is profitable from day 1 (having the first 20 customer contracts signed up for a long term period), but we've not received any VC capital yet and we're not yet having any bugdet to hire more people.I'm the only...

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Huh, came here to search for "Meteor" and didn't find any comment yet.

AppGyver-Guys, what about the integration into meteor? I know, supersonic has its own data API but... it would be quite interesting to me to know how to merge these both things together.

Thanks for your answer! Yeah, I'm young and it shouldn't be a problem to find any other job in 1-2 years. Agile is no must, it's just something I'm interested in (and I don't even know if I'm doing it right!). My fear is just to enter a company in 1-2 years with an old-fashioned developing waterfall workflow model, where I'm the total newbie that want's to have a good salary even not having any practise in such a way of developing death old products with death old technologies (but in real: I'd really really like NOT to enter such a company if there is any other job out there :-D)

Ask HN: Is it okay to work as only developer for a startup directly after study?

Hi guys,I'm stuck in a decision and I want to know how you're thinking about it: At the moment I'm 26, finishing my bachelor's degree in computer science (till the end of next month). On a sunny day in this summer I drank a beer together with a friend and got introduced to someone with a startup idea. Month later now, I've developed a lot for the startup, mostly using my loved MEAN stack and...

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