Literally writing a 5-line k8s yaml file or just pressing enter "docker run image" has nothing to do with your example. If you've been following OP, you will know that he has been excessively self-promoting his big nothing burger of a product not only on HN but on other websites like Reddit and IndieHackers along with countless podcasts. He's comparing his "SaaS" to managed Postgres or any database which is laughable, databases require much more care and effort than just running them as is over cloud for money.
you worked for a "large tech company" but found it a "huge headache" to just add an internal puppeteer microservice with a couple of k8s yaml lines or any other equivalent that is much more scalable, faster, controllable, and above all private inside your own cloud?
I am still waiting for Joel and the other downvoters (if any beside his other accounts) to list where exactly in the GPL or any other FOSS license to be invalid for some cases including the commercial ones. Literally countless FOSS projects, real projects that required real knowledge and expertise unlike Browserless tried to get away with this but couldn't, why don't you use something like SSPL or go proprietary instead of gaslighting your users?
there is no such thing neither in GPL nor in FOSS to be GPL in noncommercial uses and at the same time invalidate the license in commercial or closed uses. This is outright gaslighting, not to mention that the entire project is literally a big nothing burger like I said before, it's even less nothing burger than paid "get Geo/IP" apis for instance which needs at least some operations effort even despite becoming increasingly trivial in the serverless age.
Seriously I admire Joel, he is all over the internet everyday for 2 years now marketing his product. Browserless technically is a big nothing burger pretending to be a SaaS, it's written as open but it is not open source. You can't even use it commercially even it if it's self hosted https://github.com/browserless/chrome#licensing. This is a rare case of a successful rudimentary fake FOSS project that makes real money. Real BOSS!
EDIT: Why the hate, Joel? I've been following your success over the past year and I sincerely admire it even though it's outright parasite-tier big nothing burger of a project, but who cares 10 or 20 years from now, you got the money!
EDIT2: Okay Joel, I really get it you hate me, but you've to understand that it's one my favorite hobbies in my free time is to track online indie parasites like you and I've been following your excessive self-promotion on HN, Reddit, IndiHackers for a long time now. I don't know why, but it's just a hobby.
Thanks to these con artists and careless big investors like SoftBank, once the recession comes, blockchain, AI, etc... will go into another long winter
you're not just an arts startup, you're in the classical music business so that's 10000x harder, most tech based startups that enter that business fail because they cannot grow as a usual startup should. There is a company called IDAGIO that was founded probably around 2013, it relaunched multiple times, they played with the pricing from free to 5$/month to 10$/month to free again, they raised around 20 million dollars and employed 100 people, they bribed and paid journalists under and over the table to get every possible positive coverage possible for more than 2 years now, they bought facebook, twitter followers, they did everything including the dirtiest growth tactics any marketing pro would think of, and they are still struggling with growth.
It's a very tough business and needs extreme patience and shamelessness alike. My recommendation is to do partnerships with other arts companies or institutions related to your market, most of such partnerships are fake anyway, but can somehow give you some boost. That's at least what IDAGIO, the longest surviving classical music company has been doing so far, beside bribing journalists of course :D.
They are not, but isn't it a weird coincidence that his alleged victims stayed silent with a fucking RAPE case until he decided to expose the most powerful people and governments in the world?
There were, not long ago, times when Assange was considered a saint of freedom after he exposed the corrupt Bush administration, the liberals everywhere were defending him and his case everywhere, they even made a Hollywood film about him. But he then made the mistake of his life, he exposed the corruption of the Clintons and got implicated in the Russia gate meme because Trump somehow won. Now he is totally on his own. Nobody will defend him even if these corrupt governments burnt him alive and broadcasted it live. Makes you think if these liberals actually give a single shit about freedom anyway.
I know that this is an ultra liberal community and I will get downvoted and flagged within a few minutes. But if someone is too scared to even lose a worthless website account to say what he sees as the right opinion, he should not live anyway.
I am not, that's just how things are these days. And if you're talking in a condescending way to me as if I am the angry white male, I assure you I am not white and not even a Western man and never been to the west.
if the results were in favor of men this story and even the paper itself wouldn't have been published and probably the researcher would have lost his/her job too but now my comment is the one that is going to be buried. That's the world we're living in right now. The truth is considered one only if it fits the liberals, otherwise it is everything from Nazism, racism to the Russians.
Almost every post that links to brave.com makes it to the frontpage withing minutes. And all criticism is buried with lots of shilling. This company has been compromising HN for years now, as well as other influential online communites like Reddit and 4chan.
Brave is a scam just like most "privacy centered" parasite products like DDG and VPN providers. All these companies are run by shameless and aggressive useless parasites who actually offer nothing but a rebranded product made by others. It's sad that a community supposedly filled by software engineers fall for and promote such scams
> Kubernetes itself which for most users today still relies on Docker
Not anymore, over the past couple of years Kubernetes slowly stripped Docker most of its power to the point that Docker can be totally removed from k8s clusters. And this will be widely be the norm in a couple of years or so