ostaquet

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Comment · 8 months ago
I'm currently working on lastclone. It's a tool for backing up my SBOM (Software Bill of Materials), and more specifically the third-party open source libraries that are at risk of disappearing with the advent of AI, or simply if the maintainers decide to shut down the project. As a CTO, it's important to guarantee business continuity and to ensure that the open source projects we use can be easily recovered.

The lastclone project is written in Go. The version I'm working on is a CLI version. Some parts are developed with Claude Code, but I've run into certain issues.

The code suggested by Claude Code doesn't take into account the latest developments in Go. There are two main reasons for this.

First, there's the training data cutoff. Claude Opus 4.6 is the latest release to date, but the training is based on data up to May 2025. Since Go is a language that evolves regularly, the latest features present in 1.25 or 1.26 are not known to the model.

Second, an LLM model, no matter how good it is, is a statistical model that operates based on its training. In the case of Go, the majority of the codebase used for training was developed on earlier versions. This codebase hasn't necessarily been adapted to the language's new features, and therefore, the model isn't able to use them.

JetBrains comes to the rescue by publishing yesterday (20-FEB-2026) a plugin for Claude Code that allows it to be "instructed" on the latest best practices of the language. The plugin is well-structured and can detect the version of Go being used based on the go.mod file.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Building the product is the easy part. Selling the product is the hard part.

I’m scaling and advising small and medium businesses. The biggest challenge I saw is to find the product market fit (PMF).

The PMF is first to solve a problem people wants to solve and who are ready to pay for it.

Did you have an idea about who is your ideal customer? Maybe it is press media? As soon as you answered this question, you can promote your product at the right places.

Comment · 1 year ago
Ghost looks like a solid alternative. Considering the traffic on 404media, it proved the same scalability than WP.

Do you know if they are using the SaaS version or the self hosted version?

Comment · 1 year ago
I didn’t know SaaSPegasus. It looks like a development framework, correct?
Comment · 1 year ago
I know high traffic media are using successfully Wordpress. My major concern here is the lack of a proper team of Devs/Ops to manage properly the scale. That’s why I consider SaaS platform. However, we are not talking about a hobby website with 100 visitors per day.
Comment · 1 year ago
You should have a look to the book « Entreprenerd » by Bruno Lowagie. It is an interesting autobiography that explain the process where you are.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
A video game. Any kind of video game.

It is fun to develop, rewarding and the dynamics inside the code are always interesting (input from the player, performance, graphics, etc).

Even a simple game that can take an afternoon or a day to develop bring some fresh air.

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