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I'm working on social software at the moment, and when I explain it to potential users, they seem to love the concept (which gives me confidence), but truthfully I don't know if will live up to expectations. I've found it best to downplay any potential success in my own mind so that I'm not disappointed if it doesn't take off. I hope your launch goes well; your comments are always insightful and glad to have someone of your experience around the traps.

Sounds awesome!

I recall the biggest thing customers have been waiting for on Render was an S3 equivalent. Is that coming soon?

I can second Svelte and SvelteKit, despite the latter still not being at a proper 1.0 version. The developer experience was so smooth. I’ve been a fan of Vue for a while but Svelte and SvelteKit converted me almost instantly.

Hey Thomas, weren’t you running Latacora last time I checked?

Have you used a ffmpeg wrapper like ffmpeg-python for dealing with video? If so, how does it compare? I remember seeing MoviePy briefly in my research but found there wasn't a lot of documentation.

What do you use instead of these constructs?

Pardon my ignorance as I'm not Irish, and don't understand the significance of that passage, but what is the hole exactly?

I was using SQLAlchemy with FastAPI and databases, but still had issues with the lack of async in SQLAlchemy, even though it's supposed to be coming in 2.0. Ended up moving to Tortoise ORM, which is an async copy of Django ORM, but there are some odd design decisions, and I'm not a fan of the way it plays with pydantic. I've yet to try a migration with it too, so the jury's out whether it was a worthwhile decision.

Australia is fast adopting some of what I consider some of the less useful aspects of American culture, not to mention our political class revelling in their overt corruption and willingly opening the back-door for the rest of 5-EYES.

It was just an observation. The logo typeface and the blue are very similar to Atlassian's branding.

Seems like a potentially useful product, but the branding looks like you're already preparing for an Atlassian acquisition.

What exactly is a "micro-site"?

Sure thing. E-mail is in my profile (you don't have one in yours).

You've come to the same conclusions I have about video that I'm using for my next startup (and YC application), though we're using it for a different purpose. We floated the same name as well, so I'm glad we didn't pick it!

Sounds like the difference between agile and Agile. It helps to understand the domain when you're architecting a solution, but I didn't realise there was an extended nomenclature around it. I thought it was just a conceptual phrase.

There are multiple HN stories on CollapseOS; it was worth reading for the comments.

Cheers. I remember hearing SandStorm (the company) went under a couple years ago, and was curious but hadn't explored it in depth. I've been paying attention to CollapseOS as well, though it's a little more apocalyptic in nature.

The eventual aim is to be able to provision a set of servers from a thumb drive without Internet (if that's even possible), but I haven't had much time to get far.

Curious about the homelab/homeserver community. Are there any sites with further information?

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Thanks, I'll have a look. If it appears as though it's not worth the effort to maintain my own video infra, you're the first choice.

Hey Jon! I've looked at Mux (mainly the careers page), and it's a great platform. It would be a great fit technologically, but I'm not sure that my business model (which is tentative admittedly) would cover infra costs for processing, hosting and consuming the amount of video I'm eventually expecting, as I'm running on a shoestring budget at the moment.

Plus, it's a good chance to for me to learn the ins and outs of video. It's not reflective of the quality of your platform, just a choice I've made early in the piece for curiosity's sake.

I'm in the same boat - I'm the one building it, and my focus is on the user experience, but the business model won't tolerate the amount of video on someone else's service. :(

I haven't had FFMPEG nightmares yet, but I've done relatively little with it so far.

Any video apps I should look out for? I'm also pursuing a content creation angle that I've yet to spec out, so I'm always curious as to how others have approached the problem.

Interested to hear more about your pipeline and infrastructure for processing and delivering video. I'm working with processing short videos at the moment for my current startup, though I didn't use Mux (I figured it was a core competency we needed to develop). It's just a queue using FFMPEG to convert from MP4 to HLS.

No it isn't. I could never find an e-mail address on the site (not saying it isn't there, I just could never find it), so I just tried support@startupschool.org, as it's a common e-mail address to have.

Thanks for the e-mail! I'd tried support@startupschool.org but the e-mail bounced.

Thanks for your assistance.

I was in the last Build Sprint, and while I didn't get as much as I would've liked done, it was fun. A question about Startup School platform itself, since I've never found a support channel: will there or is there a way to delete the companies with which you are associated? I've gone through a couple of projects as "companies", but they've unfortunately not lasted, but I don't seem to be able to delete them, and have to repurpose. Then all my graphing about how much I'm doing and how far I've got left is wonky.

Yes I am.

Unfortunately, the myth still abounds that the conservative side of politics are better economic managers (despite all evidence to the contrary), and the progressives are more concerned about appearances than they are about providing an alternative and representing the working class.

Since we vote for a party, and not a personality, we don't get to pick our prime minister, and since the MSM here is mostly Murdoch-controlled (and he can't keep his digits out of our politics, even though he hasn't lived here for decades), the reporting is myopic and mostly one-sided.

The politicians have become brazen with their corruption as well. There are some rays of hope with new media commentators taking them to task, but it's going to take a grass-roots backlash to unhinge the current party (though this is happening more and more).

I'm Australian and I'd rather not be the battleground for this particular brawl. Our Government is incompetent and corrupt beyond measure, and takes its orders from the likes of Newscorp. Google and Facebook are better dealt with in the US.

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