This is very neat. One question, would you consider making a version of your service that works like discourse.org? I don’t mean changing the discussion software to match theirs, I mean allowing clients to embed your software in their page. Also, for what it’s worth, if you had plug-in authentication of users you might find some clients in in web3.
It makes sense. It’s ridiculous to have to subscribe to individual news websites when there are so many; an intermediary that did deals with publishers wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Yes, definitely. Have had terrible burnouts in the past, to the point of not being able to code at all. Recovery is long, and these days I will burn out more quickly if I’m in a stressful situation, but I’ve also made changes so that I am not coding under the wrong conditions and it’s made all the difference.
Well, there are mastodon servers which are like that. But in reality, being open and socially curated should be good enough. Making the site invite only doesn’t preclude its eventual decadence, nor endure that you get the best user base.
I would love if indiehackers could help fill this niche. Since it is aimed at people trying to launch products, pragmatism should reign, but there are things about the presentation and site policy that would seem to hold it back for this use case.
As a new user of the site, im not allowed to post, very few of the posts inspire me to comment anything (mainly because I’m not that knowledgeable about founder problems, but if there were more tech conversations then i would comment more), and there is a low throughput of new discussions as well. I feel like it could be done better.
Being a programmer is hard in that respect. There are many professions and positions where the individual has much more autonomy over their part. A typical setup in a small company may have a team of programmers and many other positions which are a team of one; graphic design, legal, HR, business dev, etc etc. Sure, all of these can grow into teams at some point but most jobs in programming mean being part of a team, which means being able to compromise (sometimes even when it’s BS) and gain the favor of your peers.
Team programmers are not sought out based on their sense of artistry, by that point the job is basically a grind.
More webgl / three.js. There seems to be a lot to learn. Starting to look into shaders. It’s hard because my math sucks and alot of it is maths, albeit basic matrix calculations and geometry.
Proponents of fasting will love this, since the idea is that not eating for a while will cause the body to scavenge for this old / damaged cell material.
Code interview practical exercises. Ive been asked to do them maybe 6-10 times. Each time I completed the test to a high standard and got rejected for other random reasons. Once I spend a day writing a PostgreSQL extension in C to shuttle data between tables, at the request of a company, and I didn’t even get an interview.
Once I interviewed for a company and everything was great but they said my rate was too high even though I had told them up front.
Once I showed up and the interviewer wasn’t even there and they hadn’t bothered to let me know.
Once a dude got me to propose and diagram an architecture for their actual system during the interview and I didn’t hear from them again. Swindled.
Then there’s having recruiters breathing down your neck and asking invasive questions while protecting all the details about the client and the job…