As someone who went from C++ to java to Ruby to Javascript to Python, to Go.

I find Go enviornment much superior. Not only your code can keep working for decade and compile fine with new compilers, you get more than enough speed you need.

And also, you don't use random libraries, you precisely use to part you need which imho makes you software more reliable, cleaner and smaller.

Using libraries and other people's module will always bite you just like llm bites you because you believe you understand it but you don't know how it's actually implemented and those who actually go through library and check all that, can implement parts they need from scratch without adding 100s of things u don't need.

Many times those updates are not properly tested, for example in one update the model selector got completely changed.

then next hotfix was pushed which restored original.

Most people who are having kids in india are lower income people.

so i just don't understand when people say it's because of money issue, when people with comfy jobs fail to have babies, it's not about money.

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Advertised them on meta with low budget and created landing page which shows you how it's different than existing major player, I got converts in no time

I don't believe much in SEO and never really got much out of it.

I still routinely see these agents throwing away work because the editing failed?

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/11601

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/25775

It seems they didn't look into it seriously.

Don’t quote me on this, just trying to make a point:

They’ll say you need perfect symmetry to do well in sports, which is highly correlated to development stability in the womb; higher symmetry = perfect development.

Then after some years, news will come: Bruce Lee’s one leg is shorter than the other by a significant amount, and Usain Bolt has a similar asymmetrical development.

Then they’ll flip-flop around their initial argument by claiming that they are outliers so the general rule need not apply.

brother just build what you find interesting and it may work :)

But it seems you've to go through their sales team and all for the data.

I can't find CommonCrawl making their DNS resolution available.

I just have uptime service hosted outside of our main infra. It connects to my service called Siren, which alerts me on my phone with an alarm on full volume with SWAT cat intro.

It's good enough for what we do, barely have any downtime. But it helped me figure out 6s downtime we would experience when our spot instances get knocked out, so it helped me increase health check frequency

6s downtime is a lot when you are getting hammered at 100 RPS.

1. Intercom 2. Zendesk 3. Email marketing 4. Kanban 5. Todo 6. Our billing stack 7. Our issue tracker 8. Our forum 9. Uptime monitor 10. PagerDuty (clone)

I have dozens of products I sell, so I thought: why not build everything ourselves?

All of these run on the same server and use very little memory. I replaced all the SaaS tools we used with these.

I also moved to dedicated servers and dropped costs to about 1/10th of what we were paying for managed cloud solutions, while maintaining the same HA and even achieving lower latency (partly because noisy neighbors on VPSes were increasing tail latency).

We used to spend a ton on this stuff. These have now been in production for four months and have only needed minor updates.

Deployment is dirt simple. No Docker, no Kubernetes—just a systemd service and a binary built on the dev machine and deployed.

We also used to pay for services like MaxMind and IPData. I ended up hand-rolling my own IP geolocation service, which, in my tests, outperforms most existing solutions.

It all started with replacing Uptime Robot. Then I got more confident and replaced PagerDuty. After that, I replaced Intercom.

Finally, I had always heard people say, "Don't build your own billing stack." But I said YOLO, let me make that mistake myself. So I studied our existing billing solution, developed my own, and rolled it out. So far, we've had zero issues with it.

Caddy in front.

I found that we only use maybe 1–5% of the features most SaaS products offer, while the features we actually need keep getting buried deeper and deeper inside these "enterprise-grade" platforms, making our workflows more difficult.

I won't show my commercial products because our partners and clients probably wouldn't appreciate knowing how cheap I am—but I call it being resourceful.

I can show my free app, though, which has 20,000+ users and was launched recently: https://macrocodex.app/

It only uses the Zendesk clone. Email is handled through Cloudflare routing, so we pay almost nothing to run the app.

As a result, many service companies are moving to product businesses.

will it also happen to developers in other countries? I've no idea.

When I tell this to others, they go in disbelief, but people don't care till their own job is gone.

AI took their job. There have been mass layoffs by foreign companies in India; fewer outsourcing contracts are flowing to India.

As a result, many service companies are moving to product businesses.