I would say that there has already been one, Notch and Minecraft. Though he did hire people and step down as dev lead, he was pretty solo and already on the 1 billion dollar trajectory.
Readit Newsmurdockq commented on Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company marcrand.com/p/lets-get-r... · Posted by u/bizgrayson
This is kind of obvious because the internal incentives for employees (who make lots of product decisions) are based on stock being more than half of staff compensation comes via RSUs.
So is it possible we can trace the manufacture of microchip lithography to this? We've been able to minaturize things for some time using light.
Apps shouldn’t even have local volume controls. It’s an OS function.
Not affiliated at all but just came across and I wish this was built in to windows:
https://github.com/File-New-Project/EarTrumpet
murdockq commented on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) · Posted by u/dang
I've heard that many of the big tech layoffs where actually just moved / converting them to contracting groups, so they lose the direct head count but kept the developer via the intermediary. Have others heard this too and could this have been a way to label contractors differently so they don't fall under this tax code?
murdockq commented on Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation finance.yahoo.com/news/ex... · Posted by u/baristaGeek
We're currently using supabase in production. I was already planning to leave them. I feel like it's close to good, but still really does have a _lot_ of bugs. It really doesn't feel like it's been tested thoroughly, and the documentation, while present, leaves a lot to be desired.
My experience of supabase really demonstrates to me that the ideals of all of the postgres layer technologies - postrest, realtime via wal, jwt auth in the db -, just don't make for an easy experience. It all works (mostly) but I find it more annoying than useful and have to work around it more often than I'd like. I suppose I'm old school, but just building the things that one needs is often more robust and less work than trying to plug into what they've provided.
I really don't know what they're going to do with a series D. It seems they now _have_ to go for a high-value exit, but I really don't see which company would provide that exit.
I had similar experience with everything missing that final attention to detail and polish and having to write issues and ask other how they got past certain problems. I ended up switching to Pocketbase, and while it is not a complete or drop in replacement hosted service, it is light weight and approachable to feel comfortable that it can scale and be more stable long term.
murdockq commented on It's easier than ever to de-censor videos jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/DamonHD
Wow glad to see there were other fans of MSPaint, can't believe I built my open source version with wxWidgets 16 years ago https://github.com/murdockq/OpenPaint
I'm guessing this can be the new bot that could play competitively at GeoGuesser. It would be interesting if Google trained a similar model and released it using all the Street Map data, I sure hope they do.
Has anyone done something similar with the geolocated WIFI MAC addresses, to have small model for predicting location from those.
murdockq commented on · Posted by u/murdockq
Dice Device is a touch screen puck computer that can naturally fit into many board games allowing use as dice roll or other board game functions and custom apps. Open source and hackable to simplify the board game experience.