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Adding Features Since No One Asked

4 days ago 156.5K views 0 shares

Just another Tuesday at a tech startup. The founder's pouring a gallon of "features" into a product that has zero paid users and no marketing strategy. Nothing says success like building a rocket ship when nobody asked for transportation. The classic "if we build it, they will come" delusion in its natural habitat. Spoiler alert: they won't come. They're perfectly happy using the five other solutions that already exist and have actual marketing budgets.

Code Works, Business Doesn't

Webdev Agile Programming

4 days ago 96.0K views 0 shares

The classic startup death spiral visualized in three painful steps. You've got 250 domain names because "what if we need them someday?" Then somehow you managed to ship 17 actual apps—impressive engineering, terrible focus. But the grand finale? Zero paying users. That beautiful moment when you realize your brilliant technical solutions are solving problems nobody wants to pay for. It's the perfect illustration of the engineer's fallacy: thinking that elegant code automatically translates to business success. Spoiler alert: users don't care about your perfect microservice architecture—they care about their problems being solved. And apparently, none of your 17 apps across 250 domains managed that particular trick.

When The Cloud Bill Hits Different

Cloud Devops AWS Programming

7 days ago 91.2K views 0 shares

You're just vibing, building your cool startup with minimal infrastructure, feeling like a tech genius... until that first cloud bill drops. That moment when you lift your sunglasses in disbelief at the $8,000 charge for what you thought was "free tier" AWS resources. Turns out those auto-scaling instances were scaling a bit too enthusiastically while you weren't looking. Nothing sobers up a founder faster than discovering your MongoDB instance has been running on the "we'll-take-your-entire-funding-round" pricing tier.

How To Get 2 Billion Valuation

AI Webdev Javascript Frontend

7 days ago 84.0K views 0 shares

The secret sauce to startup valuation in 2024: change your loading spinners to "thinking..." and boom — you're an AI company! Venture capitalists are frantically throwing term sheets at anyone who can make their app pretend to contemplate existence. The best part? The code behind it is still the same janky setTimeout() that's been crashing in production since 2018. But hey, fake it till you make it a unicorn, right?

On My Way To Burn Billions For AGI

AI Programming

13 days ago 227.9K views 0 shares

Tech bros with VC money have a unique approach to AI development: just keep burning cash until something works. It's like debugging with a flamethrower. "Have we achieved artificial general intelligence yet?" "No, but we've achieved artificial general bankruptcy quite efficiently." The Silicon Valley strategy of throwing billions at a problem until either the problem gives up or your investors do. Venture capitalists call this "iterative innovation" - normal people call it "setting money on fire while wearing cool sunglasses."

Rate My Groundbreaking Startup

Frontend Webdev React Programming

15 days ago 168.1K views 0 shares

Ah yes, another revolutionary startup idea: Tailwind CSS + dark theme + neon colors. The holy trinity of "I'm totally not building the same thing as everyone else." Squidward's sarcasm perfectly captures what happens when you pitch your groundbreaking web app to anyone who's seen more than three websites in the past decade. Next you'll tell me you're using React and MongoDB too. Truly disruptive.

The Founding Engineer's Great Escape

Programming Devops Agile

15 days ago 163.3K views 0 shares

Startup culture's darkest secret exposed! The "founding engineer" is literally chained to a tiny crawlspace with a mattress and bucket. The broken chains reveal the desperate escape of a developer who probably just wanted reasonable work hours and maybe a window. This is what happens when your CEO says "we're like family here" and "unlimited PTO" in the same sentence. The founding engineer finally implemented their own version of work-life balance: a runtime escape from the production environment.

Instant AI Startup: Just Add Buzzwords

AI Webdev Programming Frontend

25 days ago 155.7K views 1 shares

STOP. EVERYTHING. The sheer AUDACITY of changing "loading..." to "thinking..." and suddenly declaring yourself an AI startup! 💅 The venture capitalists are literally THROWING money at their screens right now! Who needs actual innovation when you can just rebrand a progress spinner and add "agentic" to your pitch deck? Congratulations, you've just increased your valuation by 500 million dollars for absolutely NOTHING. Silicon Valley, take notes! This is how you disrupt an industry - one loading state at a time! *chef's kiss*

At The Core Of Each Programmer

Programming Webdev Frontend Backend

1 month ago 229.3K views 0 shares

The eternal battle within every developer's soul: the responsible black wolf saying "keep your current job" versus the delusional white wolf whispering "quit your job and build an app nobody wants." That second wolf is the reason why there are 47 different to-do list apps on your phone right now, all with exactly one user. It's also why your friend keeps talking about his "revolutionary" idea that's basically just Uber but for walking people's goldfish. The first wolf pays your bills. The second wolf is why you have 17 half-finished GitHub repositories that haven't been touched since 2019.

An Agentic AI Experience

AI Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend

1 month ago 234.4K views 0 shares

Ah, the pinnacle of modern tech innovation - changing a loading spinner's text and suddenly becoming an AI company. Because apparently all it takes to join the AI gold rush is making your users think your app is "thinking" instead of just, you know, fetching data from a database. This is the software equivalent of putting on glasses to look smarter. Next week they'll add rainbow colors to the spinner and become a "quantum computing startup." Venture capitalists, please form an orderly queue with your checkbooks ready.

The Turing Test: Just Change "Loading..." To "Thinking..."

AI Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend

1 month ago 188.8K views 0 shares

The Turing Test: Just Change "Loading..." To "Thinking..."

The ultimate startup pivot: change one word and suddenly you're worth 10x more to VCs. Remember when we just admitted things were loading? Now our apps are having existential crises while fetching your cat photos. Next week: "contemplating the nature of existence..." while the database query times out. Venture capital flowing in 3...2...1...

Covering Sec Ops And Sys Admin For A Startup

Security Devops Programming Cloud

1 month ago 152.0K views 0 shares

Covering Sec Ops And Sys Admin For A Startup

The perfect metaphor for startup security doesn't exi— That's literally just a padlock icon spray-painted on the spare tire. Congrats, you've passed your SOC 2 audit! Meanwhile, your entire infrastructure is running on an intern's AWS account with the password "startuplife123" and everyone shares the same admin login because "we'll fix it later when we scale." Nothing says "we care about security (on paper)" quite like having all your protection concentrated in the one place attackers will never look – your compliance documents.

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