Comment by Gooblebrai
6 hours ago
I know this article is about the stack, but I'd like to point out that the success of the author has probably more to do with their marketing/sales strategy than their choice of technical infrastructure.
Something to remind to many tech folks on HN
Is it success or is the author running a 20k ad program to get 10k MRR. Such a useless metric.
Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity. Such a great adage.
Since I'm in finance I would say, Turnover is vanity, positive cashflow is sanity...but its not nearly as catchy
100% true. I ran a top 10 most visited Spanish language site on a Pentium III server. I have the technical chops to do all the articles says.
But 10k MRR sounds to me like travelling to Mars. I have 0 ideas and 0 initiative to push them ahead.
Yeah, 25 years in the industry, zero business ideas right here.
I can build whatever, I just have zero clue whatsoever what to build. Never have.
What has your career looked like? I'm interested because I've spent 20 years in applied research and I've only more recently realized the continual stress that I've felt for 20 years from trying (and mostly failing) to innovate in the "what to build" space.
True. But he’s able to do marketing because he has the money, time and sense of priorities to do so.
The moral of the story is: Don’t be (another) fool, your tech stack is not your priority.