Mission: get startups access to senior & principal big-tech engineers at a 90% discount and without hemorrhaging equity.

The hack is that I'm tapping into a hidden supply of people hiding in plain sight: top engineers that are already full-time employed in big-tech with benefits who enjoy helping smaller startups, and, recently retired people who want something to do.

The name I'm using is Low Touch Advisor because we are selling what I call "low touch" help in the form of async Slack based guidance. By having access to senior people perfectly matched to your team's needs, you can use your actual engineers to do the hands on and majorly reduce the likelihood that a major rewrite is needed after 6 months of effort on new projects.

Basic model: - Our customer (an early stage company) pays $1,500 / month with no long term commitments to get async Slack help from a vetted senior/principal engineer perfectly matched to their needs - Of that, we ACH $1k / month to the engineer who provided the Slack-based help

Within the first 3 months of operating, I have $27k of monthly revenue booked in my sales pipeline.

So far I've done everything by hand but once I'm a bit further ahead, I'm going to look to begin automating this.

If you want to connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanblockengineer/

My first customer has me looking for e6+ or cloud architects to be paid advisors to review cloud migration RFCs. (No coding) Comp is $1k per RFC you review. There are at least 18 RFCs per month to be reviewed.

Here’s my site I scaffolded for this: https://www.lowtouchadvisor.com/

If this sort of stuff happens to be something you might want to work on, our team has multiple openings... if you search for "bazel" on our careers page, you'll find them.

Ruff is great because you need to lint your code all the time and you could save maybe 1 minute per CI.

As for Python package management, my team is migrating to Bazel which has its own way of locking in the Python dependencies and then pulling them from a remote cache. Under Bazel, we are only re-examining the dependencies when someone proposes a change to produce the lock. It's so rare, that having a new+faster thing that does this part would not present a meaningful benefit.

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I think a lot of companies would pay for this.

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It feels like it understands what I'm asking for and it provides good answers, but so does Google.

I think calling this "Artificial Intelligence" creates a misunderstanding of what's going on because it's pattern matching.

Sure, the input and output is way better than Google, but if it can't reason, where's the intelligence? The whole thing seems like a hype train that I'm evidently not on.

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I seems like the Java/Kotlin world largely might be sort of used to waiting 30+ seconds for a recompile after making even a 1 line code change.

I've asked around, and I've heard that yes there are ways to speed it up if you setup everything correctly and have a good strategy in place for using cache.

However, I'm getting the sense that most of the Java projects out there might have a horrific dev experience where the devs might just accept that its Java and that's how it is, in which case, there must be a lot of miserable Java devs who waste most of their day waiting.

Please someone say it isn't so..

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From what I can tell, most companies are building their own solutions with Terraform or Pulumi.

Is there something that's clearly the best solution for doing this? One thing I've come to learn is that developers don't like Terraform because of high cognitive load, and that when Terraform changes are in someone's way, it becomes the leading cause of loss of productivity.

Having not found something that feels easy to use, I'm wondering if I should possibly start an open source project that would help make it easy for any company to allow their developers to configure their GitHub repos settings as code.

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Even in 2006, the problem was the same and the solution seems roughly the same.

Reputation Defender rebranded a few times. I don't think they have this feature anymore. Might be worth asking them why they got rid of it, if that's what they did do.

Working there on the tool, I always felt like it was pointless because it's an unsolvable problem and scrubbing your info from a few hundred of the top data collection sites wouldn't SOLVE the problem... it just makes it a tiny bit less terrible but the effectiveness is not measurable. I think the TLDR is that people want solutions to things and programmatically unsubscribing only "works" in well lit neighborhoods and those too often aren't the causes of consumer pain.

Trying to solve the problem by deleting records is sort of like contract tracing coronavirus. Efforts to solve the problem by stomping it out wasn't viable and we now know we just need to learn to live with it in the endemic phase.

- pipelines as code - canarying - automatic canary analysis - automatic rollback - blue/green, progressive rollouts, other rollout strategies - approval gates - integration with Vault, Okta

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The main advantage in Python is that it's easy to learn. It just doesn't scale. Once things start taking off, there's always a migration to something more scalable like Go or Kotlin.

Gunicorn is probably the "best" tool for making a Python based website or API for Python users.

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