"It's surprising to me that there isn't more pressure yet to cut costs at companies paying such princely sums for their SaaS software. But I think it's coming. Someone is going to look at those margins and see an opportunity." https://t.co/iLv7eVbQWu
A startup is like a long hallway with countless doors where success hinges on opening the right doors within a given amount of time. You must either work really hard and open lots of doors (hustle), or be really good at discerning which doors to leave closed (focus), or both.
After 6 years investing at seed & pre-seed the single biggest determinant of success in finding product-market-fit is speed of execution.
Why?
Most important element of finding PMF; having enough "at bats"/attempts as possible pre-next raise. Faster you are, more you have.
"[GitHub] is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily. We deploy as often as 20 times a day, and nearly every week one of those deploys is a Rails upgrade." 🚀❤️ https://t.co/jLlsOVW4V1
Sr Rails devs describe Rails as being the easiest and most productive way to build web apps. Meanwhile @joemasilotti@excid3 & others discuss how we’re losing a generation of Jr Rails devs because its daunting.
Can both be true?
Here’s my story on how Rails is losing Jrs.
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If you use React, you should be using a React framework. If your existing app doesn't use a framework, you should incrementally migrate to one. If you're creating a new React project, you should use a framework from the beginning.
@robbyrussell You say this, but also note also that active admin has sustained these clients for many years and helped their organization grow. I see it as a success that devs leverage AA so they can focus more on the parts that drive value.
IMO, the days of a one-trick-pony single-skill programmer are over. To be truly effective, you need to know how to program/test, of course, but you also need product skills, & UI/UX skills, & communication/collaboration skills, &c. &c. Programming is becoming a generalist’s job.