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this ^^^

I've used turbo/stimulus/hotwire. It's best suited for STATELESS interactions withe the browser/web page. The problem is not all desired user experiences and use cases are stateless. And the ecosystem for hotwire is a minuscule fraction of all the other popular js frameworks.

If you're searching for inventory available its perfect. However if you want to update one thing based on the most recently touched input it becomes more complicated and in all honesty more trouble that it's worth.

Honestly if you're a solo Rails dev, use whatever you want. However the React ecosystem, and really all of the other popular JS ecosystems (vue, ), are very strong and you have so many available options. Stimulus is 2 steps back from jQuery, it inverted the Event delegation pattern. No one else outside of the rails community is using it.

we are expensive to employ

I appreciate your comment, and the honesty.

This post is certainly being critical, but I'm also not here to bring the hammer down. I am saying that it has grown very popular, and that makes it harder to get noticed. I know more than a few people have publicly complained on twitter about how their startup listing has been removed or bumped.

I also know there are a lot of scammers out there that PH has to battle against, trying to game the system. I know the people at G2.com when they started and were giving away free ipads for the top people with the most software reviews in a month, and someone tried to jump ahead by downvoting all the reviews of the people ahead of them in a month.

Clearly though expectations have changed. I'm certainly bummed for the 60% of the staff who were laid off. You can't just share your startup without some serious work beforehand or else you risk blowing your shot at 15 minutes of startup internet fame.

My point is not that PH is dying or not, but the game has changed and it has hurt makers who do this for the hope of making a full time living, and we're being crowded out by VC funded startups and previous PH launchers who have had past success (i.e. Tallyforms) that are "relaunching" and sucking up the little amount of attention available on PH. It's frustrating.

Salesforce bought it and there were too many freeloaders.

Options of "local hosting for development purposes"? Do you mean running "rails s" locally on your machine?

Are you saying that the one letter typo on the one of my many points surrounding the drama at Product Hunt discredit the whole thing? No I do not.

Maybe I should have shared in the article all the twitter posts where indie hackers are upset how they are getting screwed and how hard it is to get ranked on PH. There is a lot more drama surrounding PH than just the CTO not knowing one well known community member.

I made a mistake, it will be corrected asap. Thanks for the heads up.

you can't manage permissions very well or precisely. You can give a user "read only" or "edit" but you cannot manage individual sheets or cells. Spreadsheets are great for lots of things, but sharing them with lots of people is not one of them.

hey I think this is very cool and I plan to try it out