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Now this is a thoughtful consideration of the billionaire topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536483

Evan! Hope you’re well.

(To be clear, I didn’t create Sourcefeed.)

Being forced to the Pro plan from our prior Organization plan is increasing our bill by 40%.

EchoFeed is a lovely service to enable this regardless of what service you use to publish on your own site (so long as it supports RSS/Atom/JSON). I've used it to good effect for my blog in the past.

https://echofeed.app/

If you’d like to dip your toe in the blogging pool for the first time (or again), I’d appreciate if you gave https://pika.page/ a look. It’s free for your first 50 posts (that’s a lot).

I mean, the biggest consumer of AI writing is probably AI scrapers…

I'd humbly offer the service I and the team at Good Enough built, Pika:

https://pika.page

It's humane and built for people, not businesses. It's quite lovely in our opinions!

I sure hope so! I missed the serendipity of web 1.0 and then in the past couple of years I realized it’s all still there! In fact, there or more sites than ever behind the sheen of these giant companies.

I hope this next iteration brings a proliferation of tools that can help regular folks take part in that (personal sites, blogging, guestbooks, etc) without getting trapped in a walled garden or social network.

We’re trying to do our part to help at our company (Good Enough) with https://pika.page/

Keen observation! We needed to start somewhere with our messaging, and that place is basically to reach out to people in my own position. Given that familiarity, we could build a message and test it out in this niche.

In some regards I'd love for that niche to be large enough to provide a good revenue stream for our team. The features we'd build would be more obvious to us, and they could be designed for a more technically-skilled audience.

That seems unlikely, though. And while building for the technical folks is enticing, I also would love a world where more people from various backgrounds are blogging. I would love to be able to go read 20 years of blog posts from my parents, or to read blog posts that my children write as they enter adulthood.

We've already done some user testing with non-technical folks and there are, of course, glaring challenges. Building for regular people who'd like to write will be hard work, but we have a team with lots of experience in this area!

A WordPress install is a great option, especially if you like the feature set and the interface.

We've got work to do on Pika, but it already has a mobile editor that is quite nice!

I agree! This is just our first version, and email subscriptions are definitely on our radar.

One of us! One of us!

Hear, hear! We greatly dislike the ad model and greatly dislike the data-mining model. Let's normalize paying for a thing that you enjoy, as well as companies going for self-sustaining rather than giant exits.

And if you have the technical know-how and time budget, by all means set up your own OSS blog on a server and enjoy!

Big fan of what you're doing with PostOwl! Hereby feel encouraged to build that hosted version. More blogging options to fit more blogger personalities means more blogs. We want that!

Thank you for the kind words!

At the moment we don't have an import tool. We know that it's pretty important, but launch before you're comfortable and all of that. :) Likewise, if I were moving I would like some redirection options. These things are definitely on our radar.

Self-hosting is certainly an interesting avenue. Our model is very SaaS at the moment, but nothing is off the table.

So glad you have found a place that matches what you need for blogging, Ben. Thank you for the nice message!!

Thank you for the note. We will be vigilant!

Thank you!

We definitely are looking at what's out there now when deciding our pricing, but we are certainly prepared to adapt as we learn more about the space!

Looks like she has an interview with him on her podcast. :)

Harvest - NYC or Anywhere

http://www.getharvest.com/careers

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We're hiring Ruby and Front-end devs to work with our small team doing big things. Harvest is bootstrapped, profitable, seven years old, and planning to be around for a long time.

About you:

You have written a lot of code. Teammates look at your commits for examples of idiomatic and readable code. You write clearly about technical subjects. No matter the language, grammar and style are important to you.

About us:

We will work together in small, nimble teams. Harvest has been distributed from day one and you will feel like part of the Harvest family no matter where you live. (Though if you're in NYC, you can work from our beautiful Flatiron office.) Everyone has a voice and the power to make decisions that impact our customers and our teammates.

Reminder, this is taking off tomorrow at noon. Over 80 companies are involved!

BluRay has scratch resistance built into the spec. Get one from Netflix and you'll notice a surprising lack of scratches.

I don't think we dropped a drastic number of plugins or gems. Probably a few, but then again we added a few as well to keep old features active as we transition out some deprecated Rails patterns.

Unlike Shopify, we did not start during the beta days. Certainly we were aware of what was going on and experimented, but our Rails3 branch didn't exist since the spring or anything.

Looking through our git logs, I believe early September is when we really started to look at Rails 3 in earnest. We landed the branch in the second week of November. The code work was a solid month plus, and we spent nearly as much calendar time, and probably more actual person-hours, in testing and fixing thereafter.

We use Sass, but not Haml. We have been on Sass for a couple years, so it wasn't much of an impact to the upgrade in that regard.

+1 for MinneBar (one of the largest BarCamps in the world) and RUM. These events helped change my career.

Thanks for the book, and the discount. I've never took the time to really learn Lisp, even though I took a class on it in college. Excited to dig in to Land of Lisp!