tholm

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Comment · 5 months ago

Interesting looking at the data, the questions always seemed to peek in March. Anyone have insight into that?

Comment · 7 months ago

Because sounding skeptical and "clever" is more important to some people than providing meaningful and relevant insight into the topic at hand.

Comment · 7 months ago

Using an LLM for this seems excessive when there are well established algorithms for detecting high entropy strings.

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Comment · 1 year ago

Great list! For me it kind of highlights how saturated this space is.

Comment · 1 year ago

That's awesome to hear! I'm really excited to see the framework ecosystem grow.

Comment · 2 years ago

Having worked heavily with gRPC before I like how syntactically similar WIT is to proto. Looks like its time to start experimenting more with web assembly component interop :).

Comment · 2 years ago

Frameworks recent dig at "upgradeable" storage in the new m4 mac mini made me chuckle, upcycling an old macbook shell is even better.

Comment · 2 years ago

Very fun to play with, Nice UI as well. Well done!

Comment · 2 years ago

Worth noting that most of the terraform documentation for classic pulumi providers (providers build on top of TF providers) is still relevant to Pulumi.

Comment · 2 years ago

Thanks for that, there is no pricing as it's a FOSS framework not a platform. But I get where this is coming from. Nitric currently makes money working with enterprises on cloud solutions using the framework. We do accept sponsors on github maybe that's something we could include as a pricing page?

The framework is backend focused and there is OIDC configuration you can include for authenticating requests to the backend https://nitric.io/docs/apis?lang=python#api-security but nothing at the moment for frontend auth (but always looking for new feature ideas).

I think your point on testimonials is good, the goal is trying to build trust in what we've built using feedback from our community, is there an alternative that you've seen or like better?

Avoiding vendor lock-in was the initial goal of the framework. But we've found that most of our existing user base are actually focused on a single cloud only but find developing with infrastructure from code makes their development experience much smoother, but they still get the benefit of portability from using the framework.

Comment · 2 years ago

Given the scope of it's potential I'd even say the current state is embryonic.

Comment · 2 years ago

Many of the problems stated might also be opportunities for innovation and disruption.

General advice though for any startup without getting into the specifics of any industry is to build an audience first if you can. You'll have a major head start on traction if you do, this can take a few forms but presenting yourself as a thought leader in the space you're looking to create a startup in is the best way, this could be via a newsletter, blog, podcast or general social media presence.

You can then use that platform to interact with your audience to find problems and ideas that resonate with them, and look at forming a startup and product ideas around that.

Comment · 2 years ago

Thanks for that, will look at posting a Show HN for this.