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It's the marketing / sales equivalent of the HN-developer-type who would "build Dropbox / Docker over a weekend"

We hit 60 read/write req/user/min pretty fast and yes, theoretically you can scale with the user numbers in GCP and by rotating them.

As a side note: it's nearly impossible to upgrade to a higher Sheets API rate limit.

We tried it all: options in Cloud Console, speaking with support, talking to sales reps. Google simply doesn't want that money and doesn't care if you are hitting limits and want to upgrade.

Congrats on the milestone, feels magical, doesn't it? :)

One question, though: during peak hours, how do you make sure your clients get the help they need quickly? How big needs a support team need to be for that?

No one should be forced to see ads (your choice if you don't want to support a site which provides you with useful content) - I am full pro-adblockers

In the same time, I consider causing financial loss to someone who relies on paid advertising to be morally bad.

This is outright fraud and I would not be surprised if the author receives a cease and desist from Google and likes.

While I am full for adblockers (your choice not to be exposed to ads), this extension is designed to intentionally harm others people business and cause them monetary loss which is considered a crime in many jurisdictions.

To the mods of HN: why do you allow such grey-zone tools to be published here?

And for other countries, we are also sharing the data (sourced from the job ads with salary ranges):

- DE: https://germantechjobs.de/en/salaries

- CH: https://swissdevjobs.ch/salaries

- RO: https://devjob.ro/en/salaries

- UK: https://devitjobs.uk/salaries

Looks like we finally have a winner of the Frontend Wars.

So basically anyone with a bunch of free dynos (who doesn't use heroku DBs) can just switch to the $7/month eco subscription and keep their dynos running?

Yeah, our observations at GermanTechJobs.de also don't align with the OP's data.

November looks more like a recovery month compared to a very bad September and bad October.

This is also the problem when asking companies to publish salary brackets: A lot of them have teams in which people with almost identical profile have a 30% or higher salary difference.

We are also on this side and on the job boards we run [1], the companies are required to publish real salary data™ (and we also gather stats based on that).

What is real salary data™ - contrary to the flawed regulations in a few states, which basically allows putting something like 1$ - 100'000$, we require companies to be more specific and have a max range of 30-40k.

Interestingly, the majority (approx. 2/3) of companies are completely fine with publishing this information (if they are forced to) and out of the remaining 1/3, half can be convinced, and the other half is a lost cause (basically, management will not allow it)

[1] Our job boards:

https://swissdevjobs.ch

https://germantechjobs.de

https://devitjobs.uk

What exact features are you looking for?

I believe that there is no exact alternative, but you might find something on: https://jobboardsearch.com

We are also running a job board platform [1] in a few countries and require each company to publish:

- salary brackets

- detailed tech stack

- development methodologies that they use

[1] Switzerland: https://swissdevjobs.ch

Germany: https://germantechjobs.de

UK: https://devitjobs.uk

Romania: https://devjob.ro

Is it possible to import the app from Heroku (like in the top link) and then detach it and deploy directly from command line to Fly?

Sure, what I would expect when deploying a new service / application:

1. Create a new app in the dashboard or command line (in Heroku it's basically a single step: choosing app name and region)

2. git push from my repository (it's a NodeJS app with React frontend)

3. The app builds automatically and gets deployed to prod

Thanks, however, we will never use GCP (avoiding Google products due to their random AI bans)

Would you mind sharing how many working days went into building it?

This was exactly what we tried to avoid with our (rather small) dev team.

As a CTO of a company which has a very similar situation - I can fully agree on that.

We already started looking into a possible migration to another cloud provider. The biggest decision point would be a similar developer experience as with git push heroku master.

In our case, this would mean increasing our Heroku bill by 400% (we run a few paid apps and >40 free dynos with super low monthly activity)

Does anyone have a recommendation how to re-create the Heroku experience on AWS or Azure?

Yeah, at least patent related cases should follow this rule. But not sure if the US legal systems adapts it any time soon.

Plus burn the bridge completely in an industry where reputation is one of the key aspects?

And on top of that risk a potential legal action?

Yes, it's probably because this is a proven business model and if you niche-down enough, you will be able to serve the audience better than the bigger competitors.

The biggest problem though is still bootstrapping the demand side (job seekers) of the platform (supply side is fairly easy, as you can even handpick the initial jobs).

We (https://swissdevjobs.ch & https://devitjobs.uk) started with articles how to migrate from other countries to find a job in Switzerland / UK and at some point the organic traffic picked up (but it also took years, as in the case of japan-dev).

Is it not possible to use an Authenticator app for Signal, given their privacy setup?

It might work, but the presumption is that you are in a country with high social cohesion and low wealth inequality.

Otherwise, by stripping people from their privacy, you create basically a database of targets for thieves and other criminals.

I will take the chance to add our datasets as well (we are running tech job boards with mandatory salary brackets).

The data is based on what the companies advertise, and the data size is of around 2000 salaries for each country:

- Switzerland: https://swissdevjobs.ch/salaries/all/all

- Germany: https://germantechjobs.de/en/salaries/all/all

- UK: https://devitjobs.uk/salaries/all/all

- Romania: https://devjob.ro/en/salaries/all/all

Important to add that we don't catch the whole spectrum of the market (missing FAANG-like and some top international startups), so basically our 90 percentile will be probably an 80 percentile if you add those.

I think it's important to also have this perspective, because not everyone has the determination & luck to go through the whole interview process at FAANG-like companies.

Are you living in Australia? Just curious to understand where is this belief coming from.

It looks like Australia is close to China not only geographically but also by the censorship practices.

Well, most software can run perfectly without updates, for example: You can still have a PC running on Windows XP.

Why you might need updates: 1. New functionality (if you need a particular feature that was not available before) 2. Security issues

Speaking from a consumer perspective, there should be definitely 2 options: 1. You pay for a subscription $X per month and get the newest updates. 2. You pay $Y*X once, but then you are left with the version which you bought in the first place.

To the HN mods: Shouldn't there be a policy that articles behind Paywalls are automatically removed from the main page?