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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry? on Friday June 27, 2025 @04:08AM (#44394811)
Unlike professions like medicine, software industry had been permissive. And there were history major becoming CTOs of leading finance companies, which leaked every consumer recoreds. Once the industry will gets rid of the pretenders, the deserving people will find their place.
Re:Has anyone tried building tools without coding? on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:47AM (#43194823)
OP may be asking about no code tools, not advanced IDEs. I have good success generating frontends using v0.dev, which seem to follow instructins well. I have less success with fullstack tools like replit, though they seem to be making rapid progress.
True. For static only deployments, I would use Firebase or CloudFlare or Vercel or Netlify etc. You get automatic CDN and generous free quota.
Re:Tell HN: Heroku alternatives with generous free tiers on Friday August 26, 2022 @07:10AM (#32605840)
https://appliku.com seems to be just a deployment service, you provide your own AWS servers.
I made some money in 'crypto' over the years. I had always thought of the whole phenomenon to be one sustained by less than average white men / boys giving away their historically dubiously gotten privilege to slightly smarter Asian/Russian fraudsters. As a trained computer engineer, I am sad that the technology is deficient.