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I agree, I prefer OOP to much of the spaghetti and 5 layer nested functions that is popular now. This feels like one of those cyclical things that will come back in vogue at some point. People will have trouble maintaining these systems over time, then "discover" OOP and encapsulation, write blog posts about how it is The New Way, etc.

We have some React class components in our system. People who are < 3 years into their career don't like them as they've been told they are complicated and generally considered harmful. Over time, these people tend to come around and realize that class components can be very useful for more complex components.

That's great to hear it'll be useful!

Thanks for the heads up on sponsorships, we hadn't thought about accepting them. Currently the project is effectively funded by us at useanvil.com, but we'll talk about opening that up!

We added a number of things that came to mind while trying to get our docs dialed in ourselves. Glad to see that others were looking for these same enhancements! Let us know if you run into any issues

Ah that would definitely be interesting, you could break out queries / mutations where it is an input, output, or related types where it is a resolver type

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I can see how it could get out of hand with that many types and mutations. The single page situation would probably break down in that scenario too. We'll think about how it might be able to scale. Feel free to open an issue on the repo and we can work it out together.

Hey all, we couldn't find exactly what we wanted in a documentation generator, so we wrote our own. Let us know if you have any questions!

Hey! Anvil founder here. Anvil’s goal is to help the world move beyond PDF’s and paper forms. We are building a simple online tool to help anyone convert their existing paperwork into online workflows that can be shared directly with customers / employees.

Imagine being able to create a TurboTax-like experience for any form or set of forms. Then instead of emailing around sensitive information, and manually typing it into other software systems, have the information automatically synced to where it is needed. This is what we are trying to do with Anvil.

As we build out our conversion tool, we have been dog-fooding it by converting a bunch of forms we need into Anvil Flows. Today we are launching a subset of these forms for anyone to experience the joy of filling out an Anvil form when compared to a musty old PDF or even worse, paper form.

If there are forms you hate filling out, post in the comments and we will prioritize getting those converted into Anvil Flows!

This is sad. Looking forward to the post-mortems. A question in the interim: Did rethink ever consider building a SaaS business around the product? What were the reasons against it? Were there (a lot of) customers asking for a hosted version?

Are there certain types of continuous views where continuous triggers work better or worse? I can imagine things like alerts on moving averages could get tricky and possibly send repeated alerts when predefined thresholds are crossed multiple times.

You guys should check out OctaveWealth 401k (https://octavewealth.com/). They are also YC, have a flat fee 401k (no percent based fees!), and build their investments models in-house.