While I agree with the sentiment espoused here, as a capitalist and business owner It's not a good look to praise other companies for sacking their workers.
Most likely he's trying to validate his own decision to remove politics from his workforce by praising and aligning himself with Google.
As I'm sure you are aware Generative AI is absolutely the hot button VC area of interest right now. This should greatly ease your funding process. That said there will be a number of hygiene factors that your company must meet in order to maximise the number of VCs competing the deal and thus create favourable terms for yourself.
I've been raising pre-seed for a no-code platform for about a month now so very much in the trenches, happy to chat and share my learnings. Email me at paul (at) railsrocket.app
1. "no-code platforms arenโt extensible and scalable after reaching production, despite how critical theyโve become to how companies operate."
2. Make no-code platforms developer-extensible and evolvable, and no-code might become the defining movement of our generation.
Both solid points.
And that's our raison d'รชtre at Railsrocket (https://railsrocket.app) we're a no-code app builder that creates real Rails apps which come with all the benefits of code.
This is why we are building RailsRocket (https://www.railsrocket.app/) You can get started with no-code but you have no vendor lockin because our apps are real Rails code apps.
You can extend them to your hearts content once you've got the validation or funding to hire developers
We are currently in Alpha where we build your app for you in RailsRocket for the monthly subscription fee (cheap!) So if you have a relevant project we could help with do get in touch here: paul at railsrocket.app
We're working on a no-code SaaS app builder that creates real Rails apps at https://www.railsrocket.app. It's not a boilerplate, but it's even better as you can create a full app without writing code as well as continue to make changes to and manage the app.
We're not live with self-serve yet but I'd be happy to give a demo to anyone interested, just email me at paul (at) railsrocket.app
This confirms my suspicion that CSS was designed in an ivory tower.
Despite being a "good developer" cut my teeth in C++ etc always had difficulties with CSS. The mental hurdles required to understand various concepts bore no relation to anything else I had encountered in CS.
I'm sure a notable percentage of my grey hairs are attributable directly to its incredible user-unfriendliness.
RailsRocket is a no-code app builder that creates real Ruby on Rails apps. Our aim is to make app building super easy while keeping the benefits of open source code. We have an MVP in place and a few early customers. Got through to interview stage for the last YC batch and just reapplied to W22 batch.
Looking for one or two motivated, formidable, investible co-founders to take it to the next level. Here are the roles:
๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐๐ต ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด / ๐๐๐๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฝ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ - Finding, onboarding and communicating with our first customers is key. Scaling that process will then follow shortly. I need someone whoโs done this before who is willing to start small but with the experience to scale up rapidly.
๐๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป / ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ - A strong visual designer who can make the product, website and marketing materials look beautiful. Someone with experience designing and managing technical products - think Stripe or Mixpanel. Happy to take on product management, roadmapping, feature design, managing developers, getting your hands dirty with front end code.
๐๐ง๐ข / ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น - Iโm technical and capable of building out the product myself but the scope of the product is large and thereโs loads to do. For the right technical candidate Iโd happily give up the CTO role. The ideal candidate would be hands on with team-building experience with specifics in Web Hosting, Compiler/Parser tech, and solid RoR and React experience.
Looking for a cofounder(s) to help take it to the next level.
I'm looking for the following roles and skills, but if you're really excited by the role get in touch anyway and let's talk.
Growth Marketing / Customer Development - Finding, onboarding and communicating with our first customers is key. Scaling that process will then follow shortly. I need someone who's done this before who is willing to start small but with the experience to scale up rapidly.
Design / Product - A strong visual designer who can make the product, website and marketing materials look beautiful. Someone with experience designing and managing technical products - think Stripe or Mixpanel. Happy to take on product management, roadmapping, feature design, managing developers, getting your hands dirty with front end code.
CTO - I'm technical and capable of building out the product myself but the scope of the product is large and there's loads to do. For the right technical candidate I'd happily give up the CTO role. The ideal candidate would be hands on with team-building experience with specifics in Web Hosting, Compiler/Parser tech, and solid RoR experience.
Fundraising - any experience in fundraising would be a plus as we will be raising a pre-seed shortly.
Marketplace development - Especially from a product development and growth marketing perspective.
Nocode space - Any experience in the space is good but especially any experience working on another app builder would be great.
I saw a live performance using a 12 foot Tesla coil at Burning Man 2017 It was earthed to a 18 foot tall geodesic dome. They played a medley of tracks and then the base of the Tesla coil mildly exploded and started burning. I went by the next morning and the whole camp had packed up and left. Pretty awesome experience. If anyone knows any more about that project I'd love to hear it.
It allows you to build dark mode optimized email, and when you preview the email in dark mode, the whole app changes to dark mode.
Because of this we use a manual toggle instead of prefers-color-scheme.
We picked the colors carefully and changed things like shadows borders etc to make the interface look great in dark mode. Although a solution like OPs could be a quick and dirty way to get a basic dark mode implemented, you'll never get your site or app looking quite as good as getting a designer to look at it.
We created milliner to solve a problem we experienced building HTML marketing emails for our clients.
Building HTML emails in 2019 is a bit like building Websites 10 years ago - loads of different email clients with their own rendering bugs and issues.
Getting your email working consistently involves knowing the right incantations (and quality documentation is often hard to find) and multiple rounds of testing.
We knew there had to be a better way so we created Milliner - it has a visual front end which allows you to freestyle add columns and rows, images, text and an engine that converts that to solid HTML and CSS that works in all clients.
What was a process that took several hours (or even days) can now be achieved much faster.
We're two guys bootstrapping out of the London Techhub.
Feel free to ask questions or feedback on the site
SEEKING WORK | London | Onsite/Remote | 3 month or shorter contracts or price work
Full-stack developer/team leader with 15+ years experience with web technologies, 10 years experience managing teams and 5 years experience running a business.
Capable of conceiving, building, deploying and maintaining entire applications from the ground up, as well as starting growing or managing teams.
Currently building an email marketing SaaS and looking for a short term contract, I can work based on a day rate or I could quote you for a piece of work.
"I am talking about 46.5 hours of 100 percent concentration. It could have changed your life."
This is nuts, an hour or so per day of low-quality time in the evening after doing a full days work and various chores, gym etc will never be 100% concentration. The only way it's going to change your life is to burn you out.
There are marginally more productive things you could be doing that don't require too much energy, say reading a business book, but do that for a month of evenings and see how you feel, I guarantee it wont be better.
Most likely he's trying to validate his own decision to remove politics from his workforce by praising and aligning himself with Google.
Well done! They sacked some SJWs! Good job boys!