Hacker News: auspex

New comment by auspex in "Ask HN: How do you find early stage startups to join"

auspex — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:16:30 +0000

Look at your favorite VC’s websites and they usually list their portfolio companies. Find some companies that interest you.

Then go to the company’s website and look for postings or email them and tell them you're interested.

New comment by auspex in ""Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers""

auspex — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 04:17:14 +0000

You have to test restoration as part of SOC 2, so most companies with real customers do it at least once a year.

New comment by auspex in "Lessons from 15 Years of Indie App Development"

auspex — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 13:00:12 +0000

Just be careful of inventions assignments. If you live in the US you probably signed paperwork that says anything you invent or create is property of the company you work for.

If you signed one of these and hack on the side… successful business could be owned by your previous company.

You can always ask that they release the IP which requires the lawyers to officially sign it over to you.

Before you quit your job make sure you own it.

New comment by auspex in "Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?"

auspex — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:59:30 +0000

Honestly what you need:

vulnerability scanning of your images.

Fargate

RDS

New comment by auspex in "Show HN: I Made an AI Song Generator"

auspex — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:40:45 +0000

Agreed. I did the same thing and immediately closed the tab

New comment by auspex in "Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?"

auspex — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 13:58:46 +0000

ELB with WAF -> Fargate -> RDS

New comment by auspex in "Majority of web apps could just run on a single server"

auspex — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:52:49 +0000

Why not use a single Fargate task?

New comment by auspex in "How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust"

auspex — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 17:44:58 +0000

Alpine is also based on MUSCL rather than glibc which generally has fewer well known CVEs which helps from a security standpoint.

New comment by auspex in "Ask HN: Is it appropriate to ask a startup to let me see their cap table?"

auspex — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 04:16:55 +0000

How many total shares have been issued?

What’s the fully diluted number?

How many shares am I getting?

Those are the important questions.

Assume you get diluted for every fund raise.

New comment by auspex in "Four ways to build web apps"

auspex — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 02:09:31 +0000

AWS Fargate connecting to RDS

New comment by auspex in "Visual design rules you can safely follow"

auspex — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 05:09:56 +0000

Is there a “who wants to be hired” for UI/UX designers? We have been looking for a good contract designer.

New comment by auspex in "Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?"

auspex — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:07:22 +0000

You’re in good company James Hetfield plays this way too!

New comment by auspex in "Laid off tech workers quickly find new jobs"

auspex — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 17:50:13 +0000

Systems Engineer can also mean a presales role as well. The technical counter part to a sales rep.

New comment by auspex in "Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?"

auspex — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 16:43:52 +0000

Here’s what you do. Come up with an MVP that does one very common workflow for your target market. Choose any market you’re familiar with.

The MVP workflow needs to be good enough that cold outreach would respond. “Oh I do that in my day job, I’ll take a look”

Then demo to them.

They will tell you why they can’t or won’t buy. They will say it needs X or Y or they will ask questions, “can you integrate with Google sheets?” You’ll probably do 50 of these and most won’t buy… but they will tell you either directly or indirectly why not. Now focus on removing the road blocks.

Just keep implementing features until the questions people have are already answered in the demo. People stop asking about features and start asking about pricing.

That’s the path I’ve taken and seems to work well.

New comment by auspex in "Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you have wife/kids/mortgage?"

auspex — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:28:15 +0000

You claim it as IP that is previously developed when you start the new job or you submit it to your current employer and get an IP exclusion.

I’ve done both with no issues.

New comment by auspex in "Quest for my perfect watch"

auspex — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:07:50 +0000

I just add an extra link to the watch band and slide it up my arm a little bit when coding.

New comment by auspex in "Ask HN: Skeptical about my company going “full serverless”. What am I missing?"

auspex — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 17:10:38 +0000

There are two types of serverless that most people reference. Serverless functions (e.g. AWS Lambda) and serverless managed platforms (e.g. AWS ECS Fargate)

Serverless functions are great if you have a lot of small services that need to be "on standby at all times".

For example if you have 5000 separate services, it doesn't makes sense to have them all running all the time if 4,000 of them have very low traffic. So one of the main benefits is that you get the ability to "increase your library of services at a very low cost". Serverless also really shines with quick stateless actions.

However, converting an app to all serverless is a huge task and for most apps it doesn't make sense.

Two major drawbacks:

1) You're bound to only the language versions that are currently supported.

2) You're writing code specifically for the platform so without a heavy lift you're "locked in"

If the goal is to go serverless and get rid of the server management, I'd suggest looking into containerizing your existing apps and deploying on a "serverless" managed service like Fargate (or your favorite cloud provider's equivalent). This approach is also lets you go to a different cloud provider if you want... or even move back to your own datacenter with no code changes.

New comment by auspex in "Stupid Security Things (2017)"

auspex — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:22:16 +0000

Truncate on User create not on login input.

New comment by auspex in "Inflation is at a 40 year high. What can history teach us?"

auspex — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 03:51:15 +0000

Buying a bigger house just allows you to park more of your net worth in real estate. As a diversification it makes sense. But also as you make more money the payment becomes less and less of your monthly income.

It’s not absurd. It’s just a different reason for buying a house.

New comment by auspex in "Kubernetes Security: 10 Best Practices from the Industry and Community"

auspex — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 10:33:13 +0000

The two other ways I’ve seen is a direct dependency on the secrets manager or injecting files.

Environment variables seem to be the standard.

Direct dependency is usually bad and injecting files violates the immutable nature of a container.