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Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:19AM (#50334310)
Don't think the incentive is right. Who is going to do free protest forever? Real replacement takes time, take sales...
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:08AM (#49708379)
Working on Epub Translator https://epubtranslator.net. The epub format is so fragmented. A lot of custom parsing we need to deal with.
Re:Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix on Sunday July 05, 2026 @01:11PM (#48795902)
I'm still on Daisyui and feeling FOMO here. Is it worth the switch and why?
Re:Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix on Sunday July 05, 2026 @01:10PM (#48795889)
I think it's design / aesthetic choice.
Re:Code is cheap. Show me the talk on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:26AM (#46825506)
Maybe we haven't seen much economic value or productivity increase given all the AI hypes. I don't think we can deny the fact that programming has been through a paradigm shift where humans aren't the only ones writing code and the amount of code written by humans I would say is decreasing.
Re:Running One-man SaaS for 9 Years on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @12:19AM (#41106012)
> His moat is his price.

His moat is a combination of pricing + cost structure + time spent to cumulate the customer base.

If someone were to enter the market and try to take his business, they will have to consider if their conditions can result in the same offerings. I don't think it's easy to match the same offerings.

Re:Running One-man SaaS for 9 Years on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @12:13AM (#41105992)
> You absolutely must have a "unique" selling point, even if it's just being cheaper.

I don't think you have to have a unique selling point all the times. You can make an exact product as the market leader and layer on top a distribution that you own or you sell the product to a underserved groups. It will work too. In fact, this way of doing business happens a lot to non software products.

Re:Running One-man SaaS for 9 Years on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @12:08AM (#41105973)
> Another point is if you’re also your own product manager and you designed every feature yourself, I think there’s a tendency to think about all the eventualities for each feature more thoroughly, so your code and product is kind of complete

This is so true. To me, finishing writing the code means releasable code. I have done the testing along the way.

Re:Copying is the way design works on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:55PM (#41042082)
Reminded me a short article: https://signalvnoise.com/archives/000324

> We’re not designers, or programmers, or information architects, or copywriters, or customer experience consultants, or whatever else people want to call themselves these days… Bottom line: We’re risk managers.