Hacker News: chachra

New comment by chachra in "The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services"

chachra — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:29:34 +0000

True only if the end-product is better in some way. A gourmet meal is better than Chipotle. A handmade leather bag is better than the Temu version. In software, it's harder to make out the difference; of course, better UX, faster APIs etc. can all affect the end-user experience. But who is to say that AI-generated code can't do all of that (and more!)?

New comment by chachra in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

chachra — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:48:48 +0000

same

New comment by chachra in "Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M"

chachra — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:27:33 +0000

Bummer that all the postgres serverless providers are getting acquired. First Neon, now this. Hope the innovation and competitive pricing continues!

New comment by chachra in "Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B"

chachra — Mon, 05 May 2025 23:43:18 +0000

Hope they don't increase the price!!

New comment by chachra in "Render raises $80M in Series C financing"

chachra — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:52:53 +0000

Transactional email service.

S3 backed object storage (too risky to use anything else or even learn anything else for it).

New comment by chachra in "Render raises $80M in Series C financing"

chachra — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:51:48 +0000

Scale to 0 services. Might mean less money for Render but would be awesome. Gets a lot of side projects hosted on fly because if it.

Partnership with Neon would be great too, I run 6 dbs there for $69 with auto scaling (and scales to 0 too if needed for non-prod envs). Render would be 3-4x that price for those many dbs.

New comment by chachra in "SearchGPT Prototype"

chachra — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:23:22 +0000

Perplexity has some competition!

New comment by chachra in "OpenAI Announces SearchGPT"

chachra — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:22:51 +0000

Perplexity has some competition!

New comment by chachra in "Fly.io has GPUs now"

chachra — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 06:07:19 +0000

ok possibly not alone, maybe the issues happened before I started using them extensively. I've had ~no downtime that affects me in 7 months.

I do wish they had some features I need, but their support and responses are top notch. And I've lost much less hair and time than I would going full-blown AWS or another cloud provider.

New comment by chachra in "Fly.io has GPUs now"

chachra — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 04:11:18 +0000

Been on it 7 months, 0 issues. Feel like you're alone on this potentially.

New comment by chachra in "Carta's 83b Oversight: A Tax Trap for Married Startup Employees (2023)"

chachra — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:13:34 +0000

It seems to be a non-issue to me. From my attorney a few months back:

"We follow the practice of major law firms in the venture space and do not include a spousal consent for the 83(b) election in community property states. We also confirmed with our tax counsel, and they confirmed our approach is advisable."

No one should lose sleep over it. Spouse didn't sign off on a $500 payment to buy restricted stock (early startup stock), so IRS will come down heavily on you for material harm --- will not stand in court!

My 2 cents anyway based on legal advice received.

New comment by chachra in "ChatGPT app for iOS"

chachra — Thu, 18 May 2023 16:56:00 +0000

NOT loving the excessive vibrations on the phone. It increases my anxiety somehow... I'd remove it honestly or make it 10% of what it is in certain cases only.

I might be alone in this, but we've been trained for vibrations to mean something. Vibrating the phone on every line or response from ChatGPT seems excessive to me (and a battery drain as well!).

New comment by chachra in "Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool"

chachra — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:53:38 +0000

Looks promising for sure! I know its hard to fund etc. but it'd be nice if truly 100% open-source options existed! Even the ones that are open-source, then have pricing for SSO etc. which is disappointing. I see the same in the headless CMS space where tools like Strapi, make it very hard to adopt without paying $$$.

New comment by chachra in "Show HN: An API for CO₂ Removal"

chachra — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 01:23:37 +0000

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Remove!

New comment by chachra in "From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate"

chachra — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 23:01:03 +0000

I could related to this person and article a lot. I've had similar thoughts, give up the tech job craziness and go drive Uber for a few months and not have to c check email and slack 24/7!

New comment by chachra in "How we use Notion as a startup"

chachra — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 02:29:52 +0000

We've been adopting Coda and liking it. Search is a weak point in it as well. But the main issue for us is the permissions hell and total lack of flexibility :-(

Other than that, a much more manageable product, has external integrations, automations etc. built in that even a non-technical or non-power-user can enjoy and use.

New comment by chachra in "My First Impressions of Web3"

chachra — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 23:39:44 +0000

Great read and explains the concepts and some of the web3 craziness so elegantly. Well done!

New comment by chachra in "Globally Distributed Postgres"

chachra — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:05:35 +0000

would one do it in the custom db router itself instead?

New comment by chachra in "PlanetScale – Database for Developers"

chachra — Wed, 19 May 2021 01:43:48 +0000

ironic indeed...took me a few seconds to read the white text on a yellow banner at the top why I couldn't create a db!

New comment by chachra in "Strapi (headless CMS) raises $10M"

chachra — Wed, 20 May 2020 22:33:18 +0000

I find it fascinating that we continue to call them CMS's and hence shoebox them into competing with Wordpress etc. when I feel there is a broader category of DMS (data management systems) where the end user needs flexibility to store their data. I know notion and others are potentially filling that nice as well coming from a "replace wiki" or knowledge management perspective.