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| ▲ | faangguyindia 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I only write here because people are spreading doomerism here with AI and I am excited about future. Well I am competing with geoip provider like maxmind. I developed custom traceroute and ping service to geolocate IPs with very high accuracy beating products like digital element, maxmind, ipinfo These companies have huge teams. But my 3 people company already beat them. Code doesn't matter much, it's not an opensource project. My free app is http://macrocodex.app which I've developed along with a fitness coach. I am currently beating companies with 20-30 developers and closing more deals while having 1/10th of the staff. I am simply very excited about all this. Nobody cares show you solve the problem, or if your code is ugly. As long as it's reliable and without downtime, you aren't breaking things and causing your customer headache, you are winning. Even before AI, bad code existed. Not every company had 10x developer writing beautiful idiomatic rust code. AI is just a tool, people who are trying to generate whole codebase with it are doing something very wrong. You can write code faster with AI provided you understand its strength and weakness | | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Code doesn't matter much, it's not an opensource project. Heh, you're in for a rude awakening, sometime in the future :) But I won't spoil the surprise, you clearly have made up your mind about what to focus on. > My free app is http://macrocodex.app which I've developed along with a fitness coach. Crazy, this app you've run for ~1-2 months has 10K active users already, even though there is zero info about who runs it, zero reviews, and says "Download on the App Store" on the landing page even though you then ask people to use the web app, impressive. I don't think anyone said using AI can't produce a ton of code really quickly, and no one is finding that difficult to manage either. But most of us software engineers are trying to build long-lasting codebases with AI too, then "less === better" typically, so it's not about being able to spit out features as fast as possible, but avoid the evergrowing codebase from collapsing on top of itself, and each prompt not getting slower and slower, but as fast as on a greenfield project. Sounds like you've found the holy grail of being able to avoid that, kudos if so. Judging by you giving zero care to how the design and architecture actually is, I kind of find that hard to believe. But, if it works for you, it works for you, not up to me or others to dictate how you build stuff, hope you enjoy it, however you build stuff :) | | |
| ▲ | faangguyindia 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | >Heh, you're in for a rude awakening, sometime in the future :) But I won't spoil the surprise; you clearly have made up your mind about what to focus on. Already running for a decade+ in production, recently talked about my stack here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=faangguyindia&next=4... >Even though there is zero info about who runs it. People in the community already know who runs it; most others don't care. You won't get 10K users without people getting results. It's a free app, so not like I am spending bucks to advertise it on social networks. The app is completely free, doesn't upload data to any server (other than Sentrycrash reporting), doesn't ask for any email or phone number. When people get results, they share them with their friends. That's how it's growing. >Says "Download on the App Store" on the landing page even though you then ask people to use the web app. On iOS, we’ve a PWA app. I am well aware of it. |
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| ▲ | nonameiguess 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Why even bother asking a guy with the statistical acumen to think he can make a reliable estimate of a monthly average from some span of time shorter than two months? He's probably just going to say it doesn't matter and unfortunately he's probably right. If you sound excited enough, you can convince other people and close deals, so who gives a shit if there's really a there there? We'll see how he's doing in another decade. Reminds me of my sister always trying to get into real estate and mortage brokerage speculation, glowing whenever there's a market spike about people pulling in 200 grand a month, yet 25 years later she's still broke, doesn't own her own house, and her daughter is constantly asking me for money instead of her. | | |
| ▲ | faangguyindia 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > statistical acumen to think he can make a reliable estimate of a monthly average from some span of time shorter than two months Perhaps because those numbers are provided on the Playstore dashboard? You should question Google's acumen in providing those statistics to developers? And people have been estimating ARR through projections for a long time. I already have services running for a decade+ in a product which I posted here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=faangguyindia&next=4... In the end, simplicity wins. |
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