cyberpunkdyst

Did you consider building on top of some existing open source solutions like Docmost, Appflowy, or AFFiNE?

Yes. Companies that are not able to produce as much value per engineer will likely be driven out of business. This will not happen overnight, as there are likely more in-experienced engineers available (at least for a short amount of time). The too inexperienced team will in some cases lead to the company not being able to compete with their product and slowly dying.

#1 Requires some knowledge to do, which can be hard. I do agree that #2 is very true and indeed what I mean by bein stupid is ”exposing your own stupidity/lack of knowledge” rather than playing stupid.

The post includes basically a single benchmark and is from the blog of a company with the tagline "EDB Supercharges PostgreSQL".

PostgreSQL is absolutely the best DB out there (if I'd have to pick just one), but this is not the best article showcase why.

Their valuation in June 2019 was around $400M, which makes this a 20x increase in less than 2.5 years. Quite impressive and a great example on the effects of COVID to digital business.

In Finland 18% of all energy is produced with Nuclear, which almost the double of the global average (~10%). We don't have earthquakes or other very strong weather phenomena (apart from freezing temperatures up to -40C/-40F), which makes Nuclear a very feasible option.

> Surprisingly, the cost includes “lost” contributions from community members who had accounts already, but whose activity appears to have been catalyzed by the (often low quality) contributions from those without accounts.

The best way to get high-quality feedback is to say something stupid and have the expert correct you.

Both 1 & 2 are valid strategies for underdog consultancies. Consultancies that are very good at #2 may also have better ability to keep people, who are exceptionally good at some specific tech or domain, because they usually have higher rates and peers that are good at the same thing.

As for product-minded engineers, there is often more freedom at a smaller a consultancy than in (many) product companies. You can switch projects every 3-18 months, select a new technology you want to learn, have big ownership on the helping the customer building the product, etc. To some people this is ofc a downside and a lot depends on the kind of client/project you're working in. Much of this also is lost, when the consultancy starts taking on bigger projects with bigger clients that already have much of these things set in stone.