article is from 2017, can the title be edited to reflect that?
Readit Newsontoillogical commented on Free Postgres databases for small projects fly.io/blog/free-postgres... · Posted by u/mikeyhew
I'm sad this bug burned you. We had some brittle infrastructure for talking into a Postgres cluster, and it was a bit of a fire drill to rip it out and simplify. You would have a better experience if you tried today!
We know this because we have metrics on how many people created and then destroyed Postgres DBs without successfully connecting an app to them. When we show this to investors we'll explain that the improvement was a big win for our "go to market efforts". But you should know it was really just a bug fix for something we disappointed you with.
> When we show this to investors we'll explain that the improvement was a big win for our "go to market efforts". But you should know it was really just a bug fix for something we disappointed you with.
That made me chuckle :)
I encountered some of those same postgres issues and so far have been only running a staging database on Fly. This comment is motivation for me to finish moving my real DB over from google.
P.S. I was running my own fork of your postgres container so I could include postgis, and this probably made management even more brittle -- I'm really happy to see https://github.com/fly-apps/postgres-ha/pull/44#issuecomment... landed!
If I am on the market for a high-quality skateboard, and I walk into Sam’s Club looking for one, I’m probably not really looking for high quality and just want a cheap price (even though it may cost me an up-front membership fee to shop there, instead of no membership fee at a place like Wal-Mart).
If Indeed is like Wal-Mart, TripleByte is like Sam’s Club. A different branding of a cheap, commodity store.
If you’re truly willing to pay a high price for something, you don’t even walk in the door at Sam’s Club. You research a boutique seller that’s harder to find.
What you’re saying about the motivations of candidate sourcing is not reflected in my experience as a startup ceo or an engineer at a large tech company.
> “So it follows that if I wanted to join a startup I’d consider triplebyte for the same reason —- I can see busy ceos of small companies using it.”
How does this follow? Obviously the buyer (busy CEOs of start-ups looking to pay below market) wants a commodity platform to buy.
That does not mean the seller (job candidates) wants to sell on that platform, especially if the platform cheapens their product (such as reducing developers to a commodity interview process that fails to capture their value additive skills).
I don’t think the value prop of TripleByte to busy CEOs is “you get employees cheaper”, if anything it’s going to cost more than other sources of talent that don’t take a cut of salaries.
I don’t see how customers of TripleByte are looking to pay less any more than any other ceo that’s trying to maximize profits while minimizing costs.
By virtue of locating you via TripleByte, those 2nd/3rd/etc. companies revealed their goal is explicitly to dramatically underpay you, through a hiring platform that enables them to treat you like a commodity.
If you’re OK with that, then by all means use that commodity portal to seek jobs. I mean that sincerely. If you prefer to trade possibly tens of thousands of dollars of salary, bonuses, equity or other compensation for some vague ease of access “value-add” of a platform that makes your resume function like Tinder for jobs, then you would not be irrational to search via TripleByte.
For me, for example, the fact that those positions can be matched up to me on TripleByte would literally make me reject those jobs. No thanks. I’ll either pay for a private recruiter that essentially functions like a personal talent agent, or I’ll find networking events or other boutique application portals to use that keep me exclusively looking at jobs that pay competitive rates. Hell, I’d sooner just send cold application emails through regular company HR websites than agree to be the commodity product of TripleByte.
> For me, for example, the fact that those positions can be matched up to me on TripleByte would literally make me reject those jobs.
That seems shortsighted.
If I was running a startup again and looking to grow my team after exhausting my personal network, triplebyte would be a good value proposition: reduce the time it takes me to hire by pre screening candidates and presenting me with a curated set of people to interview.
So it follows that if I wanted to join a startup I’d consider triplebyte for the same reason —- I can see busy ceos of small companies using it.
You seem to be focused on compensation not finding interesting offers though. To that I’d say two things:
1) If you want to purely optimize for compensation, work at FAANG. I don’t think they source via triplebyte so the point is moot.
2) In my experience, offer size is not related to where the candidate was sourced.
Same thing as WhatsApp. VC pay most of the bills until the network effect has cultivated the userbase to a size attractive for a buy out by a bigger fish.
WhatsApp was bringing in 10M in revenues[1] a year with the .99cent fee. Not selling it wouldn’t have made them billionaires, but it’s certainly fuck you money for a team of 8.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/whatsapp-hits-one-billion-...
ontoillogical commented on GitHub acquires AppCanary blog.appcanary.com/2018/g... · Posted by u/marcc
I met Max just before his YC interview. The fun fact there was that we both have the same firstname, came from the same region (Europe), and work on the same product family (Vulnerability Management).
AppCanary went to YC, and Cyberwatch went back to France.
However, for us that was for the best! Most of our customers indeed really liked the fact that we are a 100% French company.
We are now profitable and provide a complete Server Vulnerability Management + Patch Management solution.
Different paths to glory, but the world is small and I'm sure we'll meet again someday :)
=> I wish you the best at GitHub!
I remember meeting you that day, it was a very surreal start to our summer in Silicon Valley.
I'm really happy to hear you're doing well in the space!
Building a profitable company is really hard, I should know :)
ontoillogical commented on GitHub acquires AppCanary blog.appcanary.com/2018/g... · Posted by u/marcc
> There, we’ll be working on expanding GitHub’s security tooling, like their recently announced vulnerable dependency alerting.
You don't have to suspect, it's in the article :)
Alas, it’s in the future tense.
We can’t take credit for the current security offerings - it was the work of our soon-to-be coworkers at GitHub.
ontoillogical commented on New Remote-First Formula and Updated Salary Calculator open.buffer.com/salary-fo... · Posted by u/polysaturate
That only reports base salary, making it worse than useless.
If you're applying to non-public companies where the stock isn't liquid, it's very hard to compare different packages across companies.
Benefits are another story, and I'd love to see triplebyte release some data about those.
The bottom says: Ricotta developed by Affineur Ventures
Their website says:
> Find the Perfect Buyer or Investor. Exit on Top.
I give it a high likelyhood of enshittification, as soon as profitable
When I google that phrase it’s from an “Affinity Ventures” which is unrelated.
Affineur Ventures seems to just be a cheese themed container (hence ricotta). The website just redirects to a login screen for something called “holey triangle” https://affineur.io/
I don’t think this is a private equity side project…