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Lyn_layercion Ask HN: Should CTO own company shares?

Depends on how important a CTO is to the company - this varies based on industry/nature of the dev process. If you're someone who's working on problems in your free time/ownership mentality it sounds like equity comp is important to you. Might be worth addressing to C-suite and finding patterns in your industry for benchmarking before that discussion.

Lyn_layercion Supabase (YC S20) raises $80M Series B

Congrats supabase team!! So proud :)

Lyn_layercion Tell HN: YC will help you find a co-founder

YC founder here from S20 here.

The co-founder search is difficult if you have nothing interesting to say and if you aren't prepared to make the jump.

After my personal journey for 2 startups, (both venture backed and non-venture backed), I find it's important to: 1. have at least 2 years of personal savings ready 2. know what things you're exceptional at doing and what things you really suck at 3. be ready to bare all in terms of personal/biz life goals and transparency with your co-founder 4. proactively go to places where you and your co-founder would both enjoy doing (hackathons, startup events, conferences, online forums about startups, etc.) 5. have a "trial" period, where you make things together or work on the startup together with set milestones in mind 6. be ready to challenge a co-founder's ideas, be weary of people who agree with you 100% of the time 7. Not everyone has to be the "visionary" founder, some people are looking to join an existing idea and that's equally as important

Lyn_layercion Crypto miners are killing free CI

Yes, this needs to be solved at the crypto level - attackers always have the advantage.

Lyn_layercion Crypto miners are killing free CI

Sharing some thoughts from our own experience fighting cryptominers and the negative externalities for CI companies and their users. I'd be curious to hear if any other services have been affected.

Lyn_layercion Launch HN: LayerCI (YC S20) - Staging servers that act like (and replace) CI

Colin's cofounder here :) Excited to hear from you all

Lyn_layercion Engineering event: how to be a good developer/when is it time to let someone go?

Come hang out! :)

Engineering roundtable on how to be a good developer in 5 or 500 person teams.

Speakers: Ahmad Nassri: Co-founder of Cor.dev Kyle Campbell: CEO and co-founder of CTO.ai Sanket Saurav: Co-founder of DeepSource.io Colin Chartier: CEO and co-founder of LayerCI.com

Lyn_layercion Show HN: Try out OSS webapps before installing them

Hey HN, co-founder of LayerCI here. I recommend trying the following 1) the Ghost project:You can basically login to Ghost to try their onboarding without having to go through their actual trial flow, by leveraging LayerCI's staging feature. 2) share your project: we're happy to host your web app for free to show off what you're up to

Lyn_layercion Show HN: Layer – Get a dozen staging servers per developer

Hey HN!

I'm Lyn, co-founder of Layer. Here's a quick 5 min demo video in case you don't want to do the sign up tutorial (even though it takes 5 mins toooo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH-n70gPQgA

Happy to answer any questions here.

Lyn_layercion Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

Props to the designer for creating a really clean interface :) I can really see this becoming like slack for schools vs. a Quizlet. I was a harcore Quizlet user, but for me it always lacked the opportunity to group study. I think you guys are onto something