shaneprrlt
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Comment · 1 year ago
This was fun lol. There's something calming about being inundated with stimulation.
Comment · 2 years ago
All they mean by that is if you want to be mad at someone be mad at him.
Comment · 2 years ago
How is asking about the architecture of this site least interesting and lowest in information? Your opinion is the least interesting and lowest in information.
Comment · 2 years ago
:mind-blown: Hats off to PG for building an app that could handle 4m requests with the architecture of a small hobby project.
Comment · 2 years ago
HN is for sure a contribution to the community that they generously provide (and a bit of a recruiting tool for YC no doubt. Perhaps not as much these days since YC is a household name in startup world).
It's not just the inability to post though, it's the inability to even see the existing discourse on a busy day.
Comment · 2 years ago
I accept this answer as canonical.
Comment · 2 years ago
An app doesn't need to be multi-threaded to horizontally scale the physical hardware. A load balancer can dispatch requests to multiple single-threaded processes running on individual servers.
Comment · 3 years ago
There's a ton of emerging app stores out there like CloudFlare's App Store: https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/ Slack's App Store has also birthed a ton of startups both big and small: https://www.slack.com/apps
Slack is a healthy marketplace and I think buying plugins is something most users know they can do and take pleasure in. Shopify also boasts how mosts users adopt apps and it's core to their user experience. CloudFlare, I have no experience with their apps, but as a CloudFlare user myself, I don't think I've ever felt compelled to browse their app store. Perhaps some good 2 cents to keep in mind? On the surface though it looks like they basically can do plugin/widget style stuff, where they can inject your script into the markup of a page before they serve it to the user. Zero-integration steps for the user. Similar to how Shopify's ScriptTag API allows zero-integration steps for widgets, etc.
For me personally, I really weighed between Shopify and just rolling my own authentication and doing normal advertising/customer acquisition. As I state in the article, I just really didn't want to do any of that, even on a small scale. That means you're constrained to the problem domain of ecommerce, but that there is a deep well to pull app ideas from. I'll probably end up doing some Shopify App Store ad campaigns consistently and Google Ads if customers find it solves their problem and has traction though!
I also see a ton of YouTube ads for Shopify Apps, so I imagine that is a working channel for app developers. Only one way I'll find out for sure -- testing! :)
Comment · 4 years ago
Does QA just pull and test against a dev instance? Do they test against prod? Do engineers get prod API keys if they have to test an integration with a 3rd party?
Comment · 4 years ago
How can I buy in, I've got a feeling this is gonna moon, diamond hands all the way. /s/joke