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I built it myself with Braintree for processing (PayPal, Cards)

Teams is super buggy and I hated using it. We are now back at Slack (and actually happy paying customers).

Why though? I am using Braintree for cards and paypal and it's a breeze.

Push your own ecommerce channels, there is no need to rely solely on Amazon.

I wish I would get paid by Tesla lol.

This is not only Tesla. I bought a used Mercedes from a Mercedes dealer and the navigation system still had the previous owners address and every other data that was synced (like smartphones) were all visible.

Get a dedicated server, set up everything once and be done with it. Hetzner EX42 is 34 EUR / month and you get an i7, 64 GB RAM and 2x 512 GB NVMe.

I switched all my servers to Ubuntu years ago when people were telling me "Ubuntu is no server distribution". I honestly never looked back.

This is false.

There is https://park.io

A discussion is based around opinions and people expressing them.

Sure, but a framework won't help if the output looks bad because the design system is just horrible UI/UX wise.

But great effort, apparently you are not wrong, since Material Design is so wide spread nowadays. But it's just _my_ personal opinion that the "design system" looks absolutely hideous.

I still don't understand what's so good about Material Design, I absolutely hate it.

But props for the effort.

Yep, I havn't touched the web interface for years. I am wondering if those people are doing the same on their smartphone lol

That landing page is so bad that I don't even understand which problem it is trying to solve.

If you are in Europe you can also check out Hetzner Cloud. Pricing is way way better than everything else. You have to manage it yourself though, but it's easier than you might expect and you are learning something new on the way.

It's simple: Go with the bigger company unless you have a reason to accept the 50% paycut. Industry is not a problem, what counts is that you learn stuff and have something to show.

Funny that even Software Engineers can't tell the difference between spa and ssr. How are clients supposed to benefit from spa...

> Writing backend logic for any project these days is pretty easy, thanks to full stack JavaScript.

What?

How are SoftLayer bare metal servers good value? Seriously, have you even checked how old the hardware is and what they charge for it? It's a complete ripoff.

I have a tax adviser but I do most of the things myself and let her look over it. 4 Years ago I had no clue what had to be done but I didn't want to give it away because it's an important topic and I want to know what has to be done. So I let her show and explain me basically everything (of course I paid them for it).

If you give it away completely, at least here in Germany they are paid based on revenue (%) so they get their money anyways and as it usually is they want to have the easiest path so they cut corners and not always have your best in mind. They are paid the same, if they save you money or not.

This was honestly the best decision I made because I learned a lot about taxes, businesses in general and ways to optimise my company. That would've never happened if I would've chosen the easier path back then. Of course it takes some time, and might distract you from your day-to-day business, but it's knowledge you will benefit from your whole life.

What is the reason the CTO can't join fulltime?

I understand the investors thoughts that the CTO doesn't want to contribute fulltime, thus slowing the company down. CTO should be either replaced or joining fulltime. If CTO can't join fulltime for whatever reason he shouldn't be CTO but hold a lower position for which he could be paid part-time.

It's way too expensive for what it delivers.

I am not really sure if you are serious or not but Amazon would love to have the data Google has access to. They are suggesting you stuff based on everything you do, and suggestions only become more accurate if they have all your data.

If you host your email with Amazon WorkMail they have access to all your emails just like Gmail or G Suite does.

These were only 2 examples, there are like 10 other companies out there that do the same. Cloud 9 was/is open source as well so you can install it on your own servers.

There is already Cloud 9 and some other players. Some companies also were shutting down like Nitrous.

IP addresses

Originally I was very sceptical because of the Gogs vs Gitea thing going on, but seeing the new features that Gitea is pushing out compared to Gogs... nowadays I am leaning towards Gitea. Great job, keep up the great work!

Founding and running a company is a lifetime chance, to take that I personally would want to be as productive as possible to make it a success. Traveling all the time is everything but being focused on the company. So yes, you will lose focus, you will lose time, you will be tired if you switch places all the time. You are not sleeping in your own bed, there are several factors that will make it less productive.

Yes, you will see the world, meet new people and have a great time, but you can have all of that if your company is a success as well, and make it 10x more fun. Having remote employees is fine, since you want to attract the talent pool from around the globe etc etc. but traveling as a founder, I don't know.

It's not only about cost. Networking is complex and especially for streaming companies.

1.) They need to know which pipes (to which carriers) are used at what percentage

2.) Be able to upgrade those pipes as they please

3.) Be able to cache content locally with those carriers/ISPs

All of those 3 points are not really possible with AWS.