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Ask HN: Best way to build a SaaS product for a non-tech founder
I am a non-tech founder and have a compelling SAAS idea. I have validated the idea by surveying several potential customers. I am a potential customer myself. I have evaluated no-code solutions but I don't think that will solve problem for my customers.

I have a budget of about $50K to spend on building the product. I suppose, I have following options
- Learn to code myself and build an MVP (Doesn't appear to be a practical choice)
- Hire an outsourcing agency (or freelancer). Tell them my requirements and give them money. Looks practical one but have heard not so great feedback about this approach.
- Hire a few technical people myself and build the product.
- Find a CTO. Have tried doing it and failed.

Is there any 5th option which I am missing? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Contact info - omk55f7e@duck.com
Ask HN: How many people use touch on their touchscreen laptop?
Do you use your touchscreen on your laptop when browsing the web?

Has anyone seen data on how many people actively use the touchscreen on their laptop or desktop computer when browsing the web?
You have articulated well the trade-off between "project first" and "business first".

From a user point of view, project first is the only thing that matters. There is an instinctive resistance to anything that gets in the way. On the other hand users generally don't care about the project authors getting paid or not.

From the author side, getting paid is often a goal. If that means limiting the community to paying users, then so be it. From their perspective they are offering value, and they choose to spend their time focused on users who are paying.

In other words they need your money, not your code suggestions. They can code, but code doesn't pay rent.

As you say, others can choose to silo their changes, and not post them back, that is their right, and indeed likely happens anyway.
The average tech share is a non-voting share in a loss making company selling bits on the internet with the promise of a bright future. Barely any difference with crypto
> The next DOOM will be a little less DOOMy without him.

He didn’t do the music for DOOM Eternal DLCs and it already shows.
> which requires browsers to report the certificate fingerprints and CA to a notary server

Browsers sending each certificate fingerprint (which can easily be translated to a hostname by building a database of certificates) to a server on the Internet has got to be one of the worst ideas in the history of information security. Yet more institutions knowing every domain you connect to is the absolute last thing we need.
Everything I tried ended up with "Had an issue parsing the results. Try again."
The new Call of Duty game literally made 800M in one weekend
I am waiting for another tech behemoth to call itself Verse!

But seriously: it’s a name that will make Metaverse as a term impossible to use as the default name for whatever AR/VR world we are collectively creating. Googalaxy or Applearth, or whatever… Meta compromised the term Metaverse by claiming it.

Also, there will be no Metaverse. Gaming in VR will become better, some interesting use cases for AR will emerge (e.g. virtual office). If Zuckerberg will announce tomorrow that they pivot to 3D displays, the whole Metaverse delusion will promptly fade away.
On HN this particular flavor seems to only accompany crypto. Other polarizing topics e.g. criticism of Apple or Facebook, or even China, don’t exhibit this weird style.
How was orchestrating a coup that threw Chile into dictatorship against the democratically-elected and ever-popular Salvador Allende protecting democracy or freedom?
Unlike the other websites mentioned, Contra is commission free and does not limit your communication with the freelancer.
It can causes me to live in a bubble, blinding me of possible opposing opinions. It is feeding my ignorance.

This made internet completely unusable for discovery. A big shiny window into another tiny room. Absolute BS.

Recently I discussed it here on HN and was advised to like, dislike, subscribe and so on on youtube (things I rarely have done on my old account) to break out of this bubble. Well, it doesn’t work. It just suggests the content I immediately dislike or ban entire channels and it all settles to the same echo chamber as before.
Mocking a global function in a single test is not a poor solution.

To your first suggestion, that requires making a private function public which I dislike.

The 2nd suggestion of using dependency injection does make testing easier, but injecting the same dependency over and over in a codebase (IE, anywhere that makes an HTTP request) is bad ergonomics.

Mocking the global function (or standing up a test server via MSW) is the best solution to not get blocked, validate your code, and avoiding making src code changes to solely to accommodate tests.
> and generates abominations

You make it sound like that’s a bad thing
Just buy the assets.
Hunter Biden’s relationships with other countries are worth looking into as well.
I just went clicking through recommendations shown on that page.

There's a ton of similar fake books like that on Amazon with titles refering in some way to deleting books from Kindle.

What's the point? People confusing the store search on Kindle with Google, searching for general questions like that and unknowingly buying a book that pops up in search results?
Why should you get something valuable for free? Generally that's not how the world operates; that you're not much into a certain sector doesn't render it worthless.

> Why would I trust a site that is selling supplements to tell me how much of which supplement I should have?

In the end it's just a source of income for an otherwise difficult business (as you're selling knowledge - which is easy to duplicate).

In the end this is not rocket science. If you follow a variety of people you'll see they converge on the same insights.

Even if they don't, it's good to expose yourself to variety of approaches and pick whatever works best for you.

And last but not least - you don't have to know everything from day one! Fitness, like many other things is best approached under a bootstrapping lens. Just get it going and build up from there.
Does Amazon have a policy guaranteeing it won't ship items sourced from commingled inventory with its sellers when you purchase "Ships by and Sold by Amazon.com"?

I heard that you can get items from random small sellers (including counterfeit items and used items being packaged as new) even when you think you are purchasing only from Amazon. I haven't bought anything on Amazon since.
> They have zero risk of this kind of insolvency, their only risk is people stop using them to trade.

US regulated companies can, in fact, go bankrupt, and frequently do. They can also misuse funds or make foolish decisions that cause them to to under even if customers keep using them.

There is even have a system for scoring this risk, called the Altman Z score. A good score is above 3. A grey zone score is 1.8-3.0.

Coinbase’s current score is 0.15!

In the distressed zone with serious possibility of bankruptcy within the next two years.

https://www.gurufocus.com/term/zscore/COIN/Altman-Z-Score/CO...

Anyone who disagrees with this solvency risk assessment is free to purchase some of their outstanding bonds. Their bond coming due in 2028 goes for 53 cents on the dollar.

If they don’t go bankrupt, you’ll double your money in five years. A yield of 13.3% per year!

https://markets.businessinsider.com/bonds/coinbase_global_in...
interesting story. It seems his page has been restored...

I also noticed klein tools makes a klein bottle opener :)
Ask HN: How do I automate deployment and setup to Azure?
I am building a new Java application and would like to automate deployment and setup of the application in Azure.

The application runs on Spring Boot, Cassandra and MySQL database, Angular frontend.
How should I build and deploy this application so it will run in Azure?
> The problem is that FTX took its customers’ money and traded it for a pile of magic beans

Yup. Just yet another bank leveraging its fractional reserve. They just can't resist, can they? Actually I'm not even sure they're fractional in the case of cryptocurrency exchanges. Wouldn't be surprised if they were gambling with their entire reserves.
Nothing. It's IMHO just a hype of the younger nerdy generation. The real world applications of NN-based (there is no I in A) image generation are limited.
One hype comes the other hype goes. IMHO it did not come to stay ;-)
> under achievers that would be wise to get into a different industry where they’ll perform better

Why would they perform better in another industry where presumably they do not have qualifications either (nor ability)?
None of those custom features are used in Linux/in VMs, and it's still fairly fast.
To contribute to 2500 projects yes it would cost that. Otherwise your current rights or license that lets you use those dependencies already should be fine.
Here’s how I think about it: they aren't necessarily incorrect, but they are behaving in a misleading manner by labeling speculative ethical behavior as “EA” when it’s neither effective nor particularly altruistic (in the sense that Singer uses).

I don’t belong to the EA movement, so maybe it just isn’t my place to say what should or shouldn’t be EA. But this kind of bootstrapping of classroom ethical dilemmas into actually diverting donated money away from human welfare efforts astounds me.
Yeah agreed. This seems needlessly risky.
How would you address bug fixes and all other type of changes?
VR and AR are not the future, tech be there or not.

Most people have reached their mental connection quota today, and doesn't want more. It could be fancy, seamless, and at the same time nobody cares.

It's not 20 years ago where I'd read a shampoo bottle out of boredom.
An open source lawyer’s view on the copilot class action lawsuit
It is not a wrong idea that VR / AR will be important, but estimate of 10 years was way off. It's not anywhere close yet.
Have you been outside in the last couple of years? People are glued to their phones and ignore what happens around them.
Company sells stock.

The money builds a new factory. Or in the case of Google, a data center, or other such item that allows the company to make more money.

Later, when the company is worth more, the shareholder sells the stock back and/or gets a dividend (aka, a slice of the profits).

Everyone wins.

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In contrast, the BTC you bought was likely made using stolen electricity. So we're already negative sum to the start.
I don't even like Erlang. I'm just pointing out that removing the main incentive for being there for an employee without giving them something in return is naturally going to cause them to bail. You don't spit in a person's face and expect them to be happy about it.
Having watched the MtGox, Mark Karpeles, Willy Bot saga, and then see that same pattern repeat over and over really is almost surreal.

What’s funny, in a tragic kind of way, is that initial market manipulation from Karpeles is what drove the initial wave of VC interest who thought they were seeing an indication of genuine widespread demand. And then they couldn’t be left holding the bag and it just snowballed where we’ve seen this ongoing pattern of ever bigger scams and market rigging.
Can you share what you tried?
Ea probably isn’t super worried about crypto gamblers tbh.
He will, fees come from the sender.
Where did you get the idea that "So" implies that? I feel like one of us is significantly wrong here but I don't know if it's you or me.

And a sentence with ", no?" is still an assertion that you think it's right.
Let’s imagine you can, for example fix an issue
with NextJS API system without needing to touch, say React or Express or a whole load of other deps.
Sometimes you want to be condescending. Alternatively, sometimes a persuasive piece will use different language than you should ever use to an average coworker.
> crt.sh is useful [...] they don't have a single Google cert logged post 2020

Sounds like they're useless, actually, considering typical certificate validities nowadays.
I guess it had $8.

Edit: I just found out there are two types, but you can only tell the difference by clicking: https://mobile.twitter.com/mattxiv/status/159044734248196915...
The tech is amazing for us VR enthusiasts, but I don't think it's really at the point where it can impress the average person beyond a short whale demo or beatsaber game. You're either tethered to a wire, or a 3 hour battery life (Which degrades pretty quickly). Resolution still isn't good enough for reading text at a reasonable scale. Narrow field of view. Hot to wear. The fact that they are fixed-focus creates some weird depth perception issues in many people for up to 48 hours after use until you get your "vr legs".
5km per year is higher than any European or North/South American city (except maybe Moscow), I believe.
AMD’s profits have cratered as the PC and crypto miner markets slow down
Can you share some insight on how/if Kagi is different from Neeva[1] in its approach?

[1] https://neeva.com/
Play around with other prompts. For example, “golden gate bridge in the style of Van Gogh futuristic”.

Architecture is cool. It doesn’t do people well
Another risk is if they get hacked.
Actually the "toy model" is exactly how it works. When you take a loan from the bank and deposit their check your bank must pay whoever the amount on their check. There is not some mysterious ledger they just mark.

The fact that a bank takes an illiquid asset - your promise to pay them back - and turns it into a liquid claim on themselves is not creating money out of "thin air". Your promise to pay the bank is not "thin air" as you will quickly find out if you break your promise.
This isn't a cryptocurrency problem though. It's a cryptocurrency exchange problem. As you noted, they have essentially reinvented centralized fractional reserve banking with none of the benefits and all of the drawbacks. They're all unregulated banks in disguise.

Cryptocurrencies were meant to put an end to such things. Ironic how corporations ended up reinventing it all on top of crypto. Exchanges are everything that's wrong with this space.
If you earn $300k before tax and save $100k, clearly you could do just fine while earning less than $200k.
Which makes sense in a way because part of the brand is “we’ll be around in 2033 to support this”. And “need help? see myriad answers on stackoverflow” and so
on.
Facebook could have bought Owlchemy Labs or the Rec Room team really early and turn that into "the metaverse." Instead it looks like it was designed by people who have never played a video game. His vision makes sense and the headsets are great.
Well if another name had become generic long ago, it would be familiar usage and not surprising at all. You would have grown up with it, and think it normal.
You’ve got a ton of this wrong - it is extremely hard to reverse an ach, doubly so if the receiving side of the reversal disagrees. They recently increased penalties to 500,000 per occurrence for improper reversals, and banned all reversals for non white listed reasons
I'm similarly always a little surprised at just how inefficient photosynthesis is compared to a solar cell. Once I realized it was more than an order of magnitude I lost a lot of interest in biomass (much less ethanol) as a fuel source for sure...
Maybe also add Douglas Adams to that list.

"The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."
Bloomberg is currently the only news source I feel makes me smarter after I read an article.
They have fixed costs though
It sounds like this Web3 space is not decentralized at all. With those 4-5 crypto exchanges we cannot talk about bulding real businesses on those technologies, we are super early.
YouTube's best and the best that are on YouTube mean something different to me. The latter being MIT, Harvard, LSE and Chicago's best on YouTube and the former youtube.com/econonomydude.
VR isn't just meta. There's 20k people in the Steam version of VRChat at the time of this comment.
Perhaps there was some tax reform since I last looked, but generally speaking dividends are taxed at the long term capital gains rate. So they would be the same or less than capital gains (short term capital gains are just treated as income). I am not a tax accountant :)

But I agree that many do prefer buybacks, for the reasons I outlined -- it gives investors a choice as to when to realize the gain. Some investors may not want to receive the gain each quarter. And this can be a tax benefit, not because the rate is different, but because the timing may be more convenient.
Microsoft's plan to store data for 10k years (2020)
This. The cost of production is irrelevant for something unless there is demand, although what they may be saying is that at around 13k the sellers will simply disappear so liquidity will be zero and the price will sort of stop at that point.
This was wrong. Vanadium electrolyte is only 1-2 molar. Vanadium production on the order of current generation can support ~100GWh/yr
There's no one answer to this. There's App Service as well as DevOps which can be useful or you can stand everything up individually.

Though given your stack if you want ease you may want to look into https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/spring-apps/#over...
Using another platformmeans that GitHub won't have more rights to your code than anyone else.
Oh we are no longer supposed to be rockstar ninjas? *Updating profile*
> A VR headset would have to be sunglasses size

We're getting very close with products like Nreal Air.
There is no doubt but if you would like to accurately compare a part of your code on 6 vs 7 then the best practice is to use BDN with [SimleJob(RuntimeMoniker.Net60)] and [SimleJob(RuntimeMoniker.Net70)]. Make sure to set project to multi-target both versions. That way you will see actual difference, feel free to also add [MemoryDiagnoser] and [DisassemblyDiagnoser(exportCombinedDisassemblyReport: true)].
Seems that many big techs are adopting similar style/variant of sans-serif as Mona Sans for branding.

Google's Google Sans: https://imgur.com/N0ePA5O

Microsoft's Segoe UI Variable: https://imgur.com/Rq8RKNQ

Netflix's Netflix Sans: https://imgur.com/Rax5DNF
parent was sarcastic
Horror movie material for sure :) Who knows, maybe this inspires better horror movie creatures :)
Extraordinarily brazen? It’s the unpleasant, difficult and uncomfortable truth which most Germans chose to ignore when it was happening, right after an end was out to it through the defeat of Germany and in the many years after it.
All previous achievements by Germans pale in comparison.
The only brazen thing about it - is how little punishment Germany has endured as the result.
Should’ve been much much much more punishment.
I remember seeing a land-line phone with video capability on a prime time talk show sometime in the 2000s as it was presented as a thing from the future. I'm glad that never really took off :D
Thank you for your input, I was thinking that with all the 5g decoupling,network functions and messages passing Erlang would go stronger and need more workforce
Flags are modifiers to alter the standard behavior of a command. If you use it 99% of the times, then I'll argue that the definition of "standard" is wrong.
I just watched this video on a plane, going nearly 600mph at 33K ft above northern Canada. The pace of technological evolution I have experienced in my lifetime is absolutely miraculous.
EA and BankmaniFried receive your criticism for trying to do good. Is it really the case that other billionaires who earn their money say selling cigarettes, or helping old ladies gamble their life savings away, or selling vaping kits to children, and spend their ill-begotten gains on expensive champagne and private jets, are somehow better because they are morally consistent?
The details depend on what the unit of deployment is: VMs? Containers? Something else?

Depending on the unit of deployment you can run VMs, a managed kubernetes cluster or the much cheaper Azure container apps combined with PaaS offerings like managed Databases, Firewalls, API gateways, monitoring etc.

You could start with Azure DevOps pipelines [1], but billing is opaque which doesn't help when tracking down costs.

Another approach could be Github actions for Azure [2].

If your setup isn't overly complicated, Azure apps [3] could work for you.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/devops/pipelines/

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/github/git...

[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/quicksta...
To be fair, ftx as an exchange had none of that Degen culture. They didn’t even have an Earn product with high yield. You could loan out your crypto, but the rate fully depends on how many people want to actually borrow it.

The FTT token itself was only used on the exchange to get some benefits like lower fees or free withdrawals and didn’t give any yield at all when staked.

From a risk averse user perspective and someone working in tech, there really wasn’t anything shady going on to suck people in. So them collapsing hurts and is very sad news for the entire ecosystem
Deleting stuff, compiling often, and proper indentation -- things beginners don't think they should waste time on, but which actually would solve most of their problems.
Can People Be Honestly Wrong About Their Own Experiences?
> A therapeutic church does not speak of sin, judgment, guilt, shame, wrath, hell, repentance, punishment, suffering, crucifixion, deliverance, salvation, Satan, demons, exorcism, and so forth.

I know there is a spiritual truth in that dimension. But I'd rather summon the gospel according to Jesus in Luke 7,22:
The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.

Professionalizing aid is always in danger of loosing purpose in exchange for "l'art pour l'art". But if one is serious about helping than this is the way to go. Like Christian hospitals that embrace modern medicine, there's nothing wrong in church counselors being open for advances in psychology.
Maybe switching to RSS? If you know what sources you want, then you pretty much have ultimate control of what you're reading.

Though I guess if you want things organized by topic across sites that won't work.
BNB isn't a token though. It's a real cryptocurrency like ETH.
MMS' where ridiculously expensive when they came out. 2-3 times a regular text message wouldn't do it.

On top of that, MMS was janky AF (probably still is. I don't know anyone who uses them on purpose). Unclear if receiver could receive your message. If they couldn't, you still had to pay. Sometimes they'd receive a link instead of a picture, sometimes just junk. Pictures where already pretty lousy straight off the phone, but after a trip through MMS they where just terrible.

On top of that, pictures were excruciatingly difficult to get off your phone. I'm not saying the first few iPhones had great cameras, but they did make it relatively easy to move your pictures to your computer and from there to flickr. With the eventual app-store, wi-fi connection made it cost-effective and easy to upload to the web straight from your phone. And chat apps made it reasonable to send pictures from phone to phone.
You are strengthening their point though. It now becomes:

You can absolutely find a buyer instantly! At about the same price it traded for five minutes ago, actually scratch that, it even worse, it is that price MINUS SLIPPAGE! Just not at the price you need it to be.
No, Oxford is incidental to the story. The term was used to mean roughly those ideas at least half a decade before CEA was founded. Some history is here: https://jacyanthis.com/some-early-history-of-effective-altru...
try some of the prompts listed on lexica.art. Stable Diffusion needs good prompt engineering to turn out well