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I think it is a problem of how we changed: shorter attention spans, and a much larger volume of information to process.
Short forms win, long forms vanish, which is a tragedy in itself as good writing requires good understanding, and understanding is impossible without attention.
I'm in my 40s. I remember lcamtuf from pl.comp.security when I was just getting started playing with FreeBSD and other fun stuff.
I miss the old newsgroups. I wish we could land again in that weird, colorful oceans of geeky individuals with their quirks and interesting nerdy takes.
15 years ago, HN was about bootstrapping and early YC stars.
10 years ago, HN was in full VC-enterprise sauce.
5 years ago, it was crypto and NFTs, and how I switch jobs every quarter.
Now it is a blurry view into the future through the black mirror of AI.
How could we jump back into the cozy past again?
I do not have a clear answer, but what seems to work for you are small groups of friends and friends of friends hanging out on WhatsApp or Discord, discussing geeky news together in the context of their backgrounds. But these are very curated and very closed groups, still operating on the social media platforms of behemoths.
Would now be the right time to restart self-hosted message boards or Mattermost/Campfire instances?
We're big fans of SCALE at https://stratoflow.com, as it's a natural enabler for AMD hardware to break into more serious AI and machine learning (remember that term?) workloads.
And honestly, I still can't understand why they haven't been acquired by AMD yet.
I am working on an open-source insurance application platform.
The main goal is to accelarate time-to-market for insurance and insurtech innovations, providing all these "boring" enterprise features (like multitenancy, role-based security, audit trails, etc.) out of the box, so that you can focus on building the actual product.
There’s nothing wrong with building a simple, potentially useful service and charging for it upfront.
This is actually a great example of how you should test such ideas.
Congratulations - and the market validation journey has just begun. Cheers!
Why?
The insurance sector is probably the slowest to adopt innovation in finance, lagging far behind banking. E-commerce is on the opposite end of the spectrum.
The answer is YES and we have built Openkoda* as an open-source alternative to Salesforce Platform and other closed low code vendors specifically for these reason.
Happy to connect and share our story.
* openkoda.com
Our big dream is to enable companies of any size to build faster and smarter high-quality software with a solid enterprise foundation (think: security, scalability, traceability) and still retain the rights to the product they pay for.
https://github.com/openkoda/openkoda
Short demo of our insurance application template: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtPOZEERMQo
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