you cant well architect react or node.js code lol.

I just make it up as I go

Why not?

i feel like an open source version of this would be really cool.

theres a lot of people who have a lot of data they wont want to put into this and run other people's closed source code and you dont really know what its doing.

is there an open source linux friendly equivalent?

Is emacs an evolutionary deadend? im looking at LLM-plugins and emac's support for chatgpt is no where near cursor or zed. I kind of want to contribute my own

that's a good thing

i wish it was easy to make android apps with clojure. not sure if itd be easier with jetpack compose + clojure or react native + clojurescript.

There’s also clojuredart to do a dart / flutter app. I’ve been working on one, and it’s been pretty pleasant to work on.

The CLJS + RN route is doable. [0] Not familiar with the other approach.

[0] https://github.com/PEZ/rn-rf-shadow

redditors are fucking funny man.

i lost 50% on palantir cause i listened to wall street bets lmao

By definition, by the time someone has time to phrase it and broadcast it on a public forum, it’s already priced in.

And corollary, if just a thousand dollars can be made from influencing people on Reddit, then thinking how many people you can pay to create fake interest on Reddit. Now do the calculation for $10k and $100k.

welcome to every business in america.

Businesses want value-based pricing on their sales, cost plus (a small) margin on their expenses.

Yes. Moreover, the goal of most of the companies. Competition is what holds it.

vercel costs 20 bucks. if every eng makes 100 websites using it, and theres 1% of the population = developer, then revenue would be 20 million a year, or a valuation of 100m tops. and thats if everyone buys..

20$/month * 12 months in a year * 100 websites = 24k$ per dev

20m / 24k$ ~= 834 devs

Getting the world population assuming 1% devs: 834 / 0.01 = 83,400

The world population is actually around 8 billion so you might be off by about 10^6 or 6 orders of magnitude.

Not necessarily saying you're wrong about their valuation being overblown but your argument isn't a strong one.

oh i thought $20 was for infinite projects, but it seems like its per project.

My math is a bit ofc too. Should be 10^5 not 10^6.

1% of 8 billion = 80 million developers

80 million developers * 100 websites * $20 per month * 12 months

= $1.9 trillion revenue per year

How is this top HN comment?

Vercel has major enterprises with 7 figure contracts…

It’s not simply hobby infra

Yes. At a minimum it’s very easy to imagine contracts on the order of 10k per month and 100k per month. If you read about enterprise sales those numbers are normal.

In my opinion their huge valuation is wack but the parent comment wasted their time doing math based on $20/month services - not even including all the add-ons they have in the “hobby”/small project tier.

They do also charge (dearly) for usage.

does this make retell.ai obsolete?

would you care about data privacy when you're dead?

Your living relatives might, considering the hereditary nature of so many things in medicine.

I feel like you were trying to make a point here, but I have no idea what it was.

We are made of electrons. Every electron is the same. Electrons have no sense of privacy.

Electrons don't get murdered when their SO's find out they are pregnant. Although I guess that's more of an issue in the USA than Canada.

Electrons don’t eat food either.

Eating food is unnecessary.

Care about anything when you are dead?

dual boot. give her a choice. don't force things onto her, even if you think its better. if windows gets slow, she can try linux and see how its faster.

i tried giving my sister linux and she's a technically savvy product manager but she still ended up not liking it. you're wife might be really smart, but if the computer doesn't work correctly she will resent you lol.

and by "correctly" i mean in any way that she doesn't expect or that is contrary to her intuition, which may have been built using windows.

most people generally don't like using computers that much. even i don't as a software engineer.

generally most people use computers as an interface to the web, so the OS is mostly irrelevant. But if the OS gets in her way like once or twice and forces her to install some package or whatever, that's just a little unnecessary friction that makes an already unpleasant experience worse.

can't go wrong with dual booting anyway. if there's any wifi/hardware issues it might be due to linux or she might just blame linux and think its worse even if its better in your eyes and mine.

i mean unless you want to spend extra time doing tech support, which isn't really productive for you, or for her to wait on you when she needs something done.