Simply put, without VC funding, these services would cost hundreds of dollars per month, and nobody would pay those prices. Companies like Anthropic can offer $20 plans precisely because they have venture capital backing.
Consumers will always gravitate toward the more affordable option.
I think most people do not realize that the real secret is just doing the thing most of the time and not overthink the times the thing could not be done.
And many don't understand that time is limited but energy and focus also is.
It does not matter that stuff are planned/schedule or that there are blocks of "free" time, you really can't maximize efficiency for everything, and it would not make a significant difference anyway.
The key is strong focus on what matters and letting everything else in the background.
This is why very often I get absolutely stunned at how much inefficient crap people put up with in their life, of course at the end of the day they have no real time/focus power to do anything worthwhile.
The task of managing your habits can also become another thing to put energy into. When it's frictionless it helps get stuff done, but when it's complicated you end up organising and moving information around instead of becoming more effective.
If SEO's a concern, then there's nothing you can do about the LLM bit. Either put the website behind a login, or deal with robots sucking everything up.
Pre-LLMs, there were already many websites showing scraped versions of other people's sites, and ranking higher in search results.
> Ruby's poor performance hobbles it even in places it's supposed to be good (twitter was rewritten to Scala over rails).
All performances are relative. Ruby or Python is very performant for 99% of websites, generally the bottleneck is the database.
Rails has enabled Twitter to develop and iterate faster. But now that the social network has to manage several tens of millions of users, the 200 req/s of Rails are no longer sufficient.
And Ruby in 2013 didn't have the same performance as in 2023. Hardware no longer had the same performance, too.
I still remember the day I met John Warnock as if it was yesterday.
John's humility, despite his monumental success, taught me to always keep my feet on the ground. His vision inspired me to push boundaries in software development. But above all, it was his passion that kindled a fervor within me to harness technology for change.
John Warnock's passing is a massive loss for the tech world. My heart goes out to his loved ones during this time. His legacy, however, will continue to shape the industry, inspiring countless others just as he had inspired me. Goodbye, Mr. Warnock. You will be missed.
I've created Claper [0], an open-source tool for real-time interaction with a public. You have multiple ways to monetize an OSS, starting from donation, sponsorship to consulting or SaaS.
Personally, I chose the last one with a cloud version. I like this model, people paying for the SaaS support the project and have, in return, a hosted version of the OSS, and so contribute to improve it.
Are you sure about the fixed fee? Their website says it isn't.
> We do not have monthly fees, set-up fees, integration fees or closure fees. We do have a minimum invoice depending on industry or business model. Please speak to a member of our sales team for more details.
I’d second thiis. I have prototyped webapps for a decade, and nothing comes close to the speed and agility, not to mention the flexibility, that a Rails webapp can afford. Kudos!
I’d also second Flask for a Python-based setup. Node w/express used to be quick to prototype an app, but that’s not my current choice of platform. ymmv!
Consumers will always gravitate toward the more affordable option.