Good write up of a tricky problem, and glad to real-world validate the solution I was considering.

Stability means removal of volatility, which means to stay stable they end up becoming more generalised, rather than the laser focus a small team like a startup can have. That laser focus can work out when applied to the right problem at the right time, but is very much not a guarantee.

Not saying that it's not deceptive in some way, but it's more than just a surface-level difference.

If this is Uber then it's not legitimate.

There's certainly a difference between making useful content for the love of it and making content because you think there's an opportunity to get something out of that (that could be money, but it could also just be appreciation or someone reading your work).

It's demoralising to not get any views on your hard work, and in this economic environment it sometimes feels more worth your time to do any other activity.

You may be the counter-proof to that and I enjoy your blog! But, also a lot of what makes your content useful is timing with depth and that's something that AI can't beat yet

I'm going by the text on the page and didn't dig any deeper. On that page it says it's unreleased. Looking at the other comments it's not even the main site. No idea what this site linked is at all - maybe an older version where it was previously hosted, or some sort of malicious attack.

> Any system that can respond to HTTP requests can be used as a web hosting system.

By this I mean its primary function is as a web host, or some kind of software that has a primary purpose of hosting websites. It's not Nginx, or Render or Vercel. An OS can host web software that can host websites, but not specialised for that purpose.

I would not be shocked that a website for general purpose software (like an OS) was hosted on a platform that removed the operations work from their plate, like Github pages or Vercel. They don't need it to be a demo of their work, and it's frankly not a good one if it were.

I'm sure we can agree though that having 17-day decomposing plastics that don't contaminate with heat and water is a good thing, so I hope it is that.

You can have local manufacturing processes so that it doesn't have to get stuck in a truck in Texas for a month.

And there'll still be uses for the long lived plastics. You don't have to use one plastic for everything - like we don't today.

Building a box that can last for centuries when you're only going to use it for 25 minutes and toss it is pretty wild if you think about it.

I can evaluate this as it is, but if I was not trusting of a company, I can't then entrust my data to them, and so I can't evaluate a thing as any more than a toy.

You can certainly make one-off apps to deal with things as they come up. But unless you are already an expert on what you need, you will still spend time building (or vibe coding), reacting to domain holes that you could also just spend $20/mo to ignore entirely.

The gap is smaller for sure, but it's not gone.