mstibbard
Re:Ask HN: Struggling founders, pls share your startup struggle
on Thursday November 20, 2025 @07:57PM (#45999999)
Is the long-term pricing model seat/usage based? Value based?
Consider how much you want/need to be charging customers in 3-5 years time and work backwards from there. Be open with early customers on these prices. Offer discounts (sometimes even permanent) against these target prices for early customers/design partners.
Re:Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
on Friday June 20, 2025 @08:21PM (#44333386)
This thread on Elixir Forum is a good read if you are considering building agents with Elixir. Jido's author weighs in also.
https://elixirforum.com/t/is-anyone-working-on-ai-agents-in-...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
on Sunday December 03, 2023 @03:05AM (#38505637)
This appears to be true remote (I.e., globally remote) as long as you are willing/able to have 4 hours overlap with US working hours per day
Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew m...
on Sunday December 03, 2023 @12:13AM (#38505024)
I’d really like to hear more about this
Re:Generative AI for Beginners
on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:00PM (#38408286)
Re:Show HN: Instant API – Build type-safe web APIs with JavaScript
on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:33AM (#38021984)
According to Wikipedia[1] it looks like the rebranding effort from Swagger -> OpenAPI was in November 2015, but the OpenAPI Specification was only officially renamed on 1st January 2016. OpenAI was founded on 10th December 2015. So it depends how pedantic we are being -- technically on branding, OpenAI predates OpenAPI by 21 days. In terms of the spec itself (as in, the thing they adopted), Swagger v1 was released August 2011.
Re:Show HN: Instant API – Build type-safe web APIs with JavaScript
on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:26AM (#38021923)
OpenAPI predates OpenAI by quite some time. OpenAI has adopted usage of OpenAPI.
I do find myself accidentally saying one and meaning the other, in both directions too!
Re:Ask HN: Holy grails of free, online courses?
on Saturday September 23, 2023 @08:29PM (#37628971)
+1 for https://course.fast.ai/
Re:FedNow Is Live
on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:22PM (#36808973)
I think that was their point - the rest of the world solved this long ago, it is just the USA that lagged
Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:28PM (#34621272)
I would estimate a senior staff engineer to be an L5 or L6 at Google
Re:Ask HN: What's the best tech stack for indie hacking?
on Friday January 27, 2023 @10:01PM (#34554684)
If you don't already know a tech stack, I'd recommend Elixir & Phoenix (incl. LiveView).
If you DO already know a tech stack then use that one!
Re:You Want Modules, Not Microservices
on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @04:58PM (#34238681)
Forcing consistent language, runtime, tooling etc is generally a good thing as it reduces ongoing operational burden as well as some retention & hiring dilemmas.
Re:Ask HN: How do you host cheap relational databases?
on Monday September 12, 2022 @08:21AM (#32809082)
Have you tried supabase?
Re:Column – a chartered bank for developers
on Thursday April 21, 2022 @04:48PM (#31114990)
It looks fantastic, as does the whole product. I’ve been hoping for someone to make a good bank-in-a-box for a long time. Good luck!
Re:Column – a chartered bank for developers
on Thursday April 21, 2022 @04:32PM (#31114802)
Does anyone know what they used to produce their API documentation?
Re:Ask HN: How do you use email aliases?
on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:02PM (#30318388)
Fastmail brought out a Masked Email feature last year which does this for you! I'm a big fan.
"Keep your real email address private. We’ll create a new address you can use when subscribing to services online, that sends to your inbox. If you start receiving spam, you can block that address.
New Masked Email addresses will be created @fastmail.com. Want to use your custom domain? You can change this in Settings → Domains."
Re:70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC da...
on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:40PM (#30018862)
Thanks Ryan, I'd definitely be keen to see what insights you glean from that data, and I am also interested to hear which other YC startups hire global-remotely as I'll add them to my site :)
Re:70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC da...
on Thursday January 20, 2022 @07:33PM (#30017576)
I think most "remotes" are within time zone-proximity.
The employment regulation burden is also massive for going truly global-remote.
Australia and NZ for example have strong employment laws AND do not overlap time zone-wise with most of the rest of the world. We have some great talent here but it's often too hard to make it work.
Disclaimer: I made https://rafo.com.au to collate remote jobs that work for Aussies & Kiwis.
Re:Ask HN: Why do so many large Tech companies buyback their stock?
on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @10:11PM (#27524119)
Stock buybacks are (generally) done by companies when they think their stock is undervalued.
Stock buybacks destroy the quantity of shares that are bought by the company. E.g., if a company had 1,000 shares outstanding and bought back 100 of them, there's now only 900 shares outstanding. This benefits shareholders (assuming they didn't sell into the buyback) because each share is now a larger holding of the company (1/900 > 1/1000).
This decrease in shares outstanding normally corresponds to a share price increase.
I'd speculate that tech companies do buybacks as a way to keep employee remuneration high (via stock) without necessarily needing to pay them a lot of cash.
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience f...
on Monday April 19, 2021 @12:41AM (#26859170)
Would you please share more details about your mental model for working with Lambda?
Re:Learning Stuff: Always Write a PR FAQ
on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:35PM (#26337925)
OP here.
I've recently departed Amazon to pursue building my own ideas. I decided to share some of my learnings as I go via substack - here's my first article :)
I am very keen to hear any thoughts or feedback you may have!
Cheers, MS
Re:Adding comments to a static blog with Mastodon
on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @05:42PM (#25575976)
This seems like a good approach (acknowledging it limits you to only comments from reddit/twitter users). How do you embed the posts so it shows # of replies?
Re:The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”
on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:39AM (#23830708)
Most people won't post about it though. I had this exact issue (replaced the left airpod 2 weeks ago) but hadn't posted about it. Until this post, anyway!
Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:11PM (#23607477)
The redesign for Big Sur leads me to believe this is the direction they are heading. It has a "made for touch" look.
Re:Ask HN: Best Tech for a Web Site in 2020
on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:27AM (#23300813)
Python & Django because you already know python. If you want to learn something new I'd suggest Elixir & Phoenix, Phoenix's new LiveView capabilities are pretty incredible.
Re:Facebook pay cuts for remote employees who move prove that labor ma...
on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:28AM (#23280769)
I'd assume they would keep total cost to Facebook roughly similar, which depending on the state you move to it might result in less take home pay for the employee?
Re:Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:26PM (#23074993)
I'm constantly witnessing silly political battles, regardless of whether I have skin in the game. If you've ever done consulting work and joined a project midway through you'll immediately receive a healthy dose of it.
Re:Top U.S. cities have seen internet speeds decline this past week
on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:33AM (#22690953)
Statistics are unforgiving!
Re:Ask HN: Beginner-friendly languages from the last decade?
on Saturday March 07, 2020 @06:23PM (#22514974)
What are you aiming to build? Without any additional detail I can say Elixir fits your criteria but may not be what you actually need! It's beginner friendly in my experience, cross-platform, and is a functional programming language which I'd put in the pros column for beginners.