Pick them from wild areas
I'm gonna dispute this. We're currently profitable, and to do so our growth is just "good" (80-100% yoy). We're also raising a smaller amount because we want to return to profitable as soon as possible, and repeat the cycle. Being profitable hasn't been a big selling point in our discussions.
Either our growth is not high enough, or our round is not big enough, as they are so used to seeing ridiculously inflated projections from the last decade.
Furthermore being profitable also removes a lot of leverage from investors. That might make them shy away from a discussion because they know they can't twist out arm as easily.
I agree tho, I wouldn't want to build our company any other way than being profitable. Just saying that being profitable is not something investors seem to like as much as we thought.
> It was a wake up moment for me about keeping billing in shape
It should be a wake up moment about keeping backups as well.But if you do not pay and you do not check your e-mails, it's basically your fault. Who is using SMS these days even?
Add to that the declining experience of email with so much marketing and trash landing in the inbox (and sometimes Gmail categorizing important emails as "Updates")
That's why grace periods for these situations are important.
Who uses SMS? This might be a cultural difference, but in Europe they are still used a lot. And would you be ok if your utility company cut your electricity bill just with an email warning? Or being asked to appear to court by email?
It was a wake up moment for me about keeping billing in shape, but also made me understand that a cloud provider is as good as their support and communications when things go south. Like an automated SMS would be great before you destroy my entire work. But because they are so cheap, they probably can't do that for every 100$/month account.
I've had similar issues with AWS, but they will have much friendlier grace periods.
Most of the solutions with 2 way sync I see work great in simple rest and hobby "Todo app" projects. Start adding permissions and evolving business logic, migrations, growing product and such, and I can't see how they can hold up for very long.
Electric gives you the sync for reads with their "views", but all writes still happen normally through your existing api / rest / rpc. That also makes it a really nice tool to adopt in existing projects.
No redundancy, no backstop. If any of the stitches gets cut, the entire piece can unravel completely.
We're so used to redundancy, but sometimes you just need to get things done, and it's ok if it's all a deck of cards.
About HDR on phones, I think they are the blight of photography. No more shadows and highlights. I find they are good at capturing family moments, but not as a creative tool.
I feel like this is a really detached piece on the realities of work and capitalism. Did a decade of prosperity in software industry made people forget what work is?
In capitalism (I mean in a job) you are paid to build what others want you to build. You are selling your time and effort. Either that or you build your own thing and monetize it. If "rent wasn't an issue" most people would paint, dance make art, explore, play, create. But for most people, rent, food and healthcare are the issue...