jblake

Yeah that sounds like a lot of fun, but alas no time for that. I think I need to stick with Datadog logs and use Sentry for errors. I was excited to try to get everything into one tool, but that doesn't seem realistic. Datadog is just so much better at logging. And figure out my AI workflows. Sentry's Seer is interesting, but it seems unnecessary - why not send everything straight to Claude.

Funny timing, my app for Shopify is for merchants to sell tickets, and it's featured on the App Store home page right now.

I just spoke with Andrew and he was incredibly helpful and is going to help me out. Whew. Thank you Andrew and HN!!

Yes, my case is on Pacer.

Wow, thanks Andrew! I sent you an email with the lawsuit. I look forward to hearing from you. What an amazing community!!

Thank you. I have not personally been served, I found out about it via emails from two different patent attorney firms offering their services, with the lawsuit attached as a courtesy. The lawsuit looks legit to me. I live in Tahoe so don't get mail but will check today and also check with my registered agent in Reno.

Can you recommend me a patent attorney? Any idea on how much this could cost?

The case details does not detail an asking amount. I could post the case details here if people think that's a good idea. I suppose it's public information anyway.

You are not alone!

I've never worked with a lawyer before. How do I pick one? Should I pick one in my state - Nevada? Should I post the case details here? I guess I was hoping someone on HN had a connection or is an IP lawyer themself, as I have no idea how to pick a lawyer and no idea how much this could cost.

- Monitor (with Bugsnag) and fix all errors/exceptions like its your religion. No new feature dev if there's an open bug. Write tests.

- Use Heroku. Monitor metrics to ensure you don't have major performance issues

- Use Datadog. Datadog can monitor and fix many things (web request queue too big -> trigger lambda function to scale up Heroku dynos, Worker queue latency too high -> same thing, scale up worker dynos, memory swapping -> restart dyno).

- Spend a lot of time fine tuning your logging, and custom metrics in Datadog. Makes investigating much more pleasurable.

- Any issues or exception notifications route to a #devops channel in my slack. Other slack channels include signups, business metrics, daily revenue reports, etc

- If something ever happens where you had to intervene to fix it, do a real post-mortem with yourself and try to come up with a way for that to never be a problem again.

I also do a lot of remote camping & off-roading without internet. I'm working on a simple little app where I can get paged on my satellite messenger (Garmin Inreach) if something is wrong, and key clients can also ping me. Only trusted contacts can SMS the Garmin Inreach, so I would use Twilio as the communication pipe. And I've pre-ordered Starlink. My off road truck has an elaborate electrical system (Lithium battery, solar, etc) and I plan to find a way to run the Starlink dish off 12v.

Currently working on my home backup plan, which includes hot-standy Mac mini, time machine and cloud backups, home battery backup generator (Ecoflow Delta), Starlink, portable generator, etc.

Thanks, I will email you. Not a bad idea on the accountant, but finding (a good) one is indeed the hard part. How do I even vet that? I hate "hiring" for something I don't know a lot about. As for tax benefits, my understanding is I will save ~4,500 on self-employment taxes (because I pay myself 100k... $130k-100=30 difference... social security caps at around $130k), plus no longer pay medicare 2.9% on anything past 100k. Additional taxes include state payroll things like UI, but it's not a lot. So it could be worth $10,000+ in saved taxes to be an S-Corp instead of a Sole-prop.... was my conclusion.