lumos

Re:PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:29PM (#39936595)

lol this would actually happen tho

Re:PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore on Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:57PM (#39932977)

Document dbs, like crypto cycles, keep coming in and out of the zeitgeist...why? I just don't understand how purportedly smart engineers keep falling for the same traps over and over

Re:Ask HN: Why is Vercel so expensive? on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @10:45AM (#39906315)

I guess I should rephrase, a true enterprise plan may make sense to cost that much. I think the gap for Vercel seems to be in the in-between stage. They have plans that are super cheap or free for small hobby projects, and the expensive enterprise plan. Not much in between for when you're growing.

The other dilemma for them seems to be in capturing true enterprise customers...if you have those resources, you might just decide to build out your own dev ops/infra team instead of paying big markups on AWS/Cloudflare bills.

Re:OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund on Monday April 01, 2024 @03:59PM (#39898475)

Is the fund actually owned by OpenAI the company or OpenAI the non-profit? I thought it was a separate entity that basically had the name and Sam's ownership attached, and was owned and operated separately.

Ask HN: Why is Vercel so expensive?

Posted by lumos on Monday April 01, 2024 @03:51PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Vercel charges low/mid five figures for their enterprise plans, which essentially comes with higher usage limits, some security features like SSO and IP blocking, and an uptime and support SLA. This hardly seems worth the additional cost?It seems like they need a much better solution somewhere in the mid-tier--Vercel is great to get started on projects, but if you basically need to go from...

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Uber's Real Time Push Platform

Posted by lumos on Monday April 01, 2024 @03:41PM
from the uber.com dept.

https://www.uber.com/blog/real-time-push-platform/

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2016) on Monday May 02, 2016 @07:02PM (#11616455)

Full stack engineer with expertise in JavaScript, experienced in Python & Ruby. I've built SPAs in React/Angular on the front-end and architected RESTful APIs and DB schemas on the back-end. Interested in mid-stage startups undergoing rapid growth.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, Python, Node.js, React/Redux, Angular, ES2015 (ES6), Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Webpack, Grunt, Mocha/Chai

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaybuddiga

Github: https://github.com/abuddiga

Email: abuddiga182 at gmail dot com