rognjen

I'm not more knowledgeable in legalese than you.

What is the license on the MIT license?

No, and IANAL. If you are one, or have access to one, email me.

IANAL so I don't know. But imagine the time investment required to do so...

Does Github support robots?

Thanks for pointing that out. It might have been good to be more explicit.

Running a marketplace involves lots more than a SaaS including things like direct sales and logistics.

Process here refers to those operational activities for which the platform is only the entry-point.

Ha! Good point. It's note-taking tools for me.

The conventional wisdom you mention is suitable for a pure software play.

However, for a business that includes other factors, such as outbound sales for instance, process also needs to be iterated upon.

Unless it's taken seriously, maybe even more than the tech, the business is going to be of limited value.

As I mentioned in a reply to another comment, part of the value is being able to demonstrate that you can efficiently onboard thousands of suppliers each of which might have hundreds of products. This process is part of the PMF.

Interesting take but we aren't talking about the same process.

You can't "Just let go" when you have to repeatably onboard thousands of merchants each of which might have hundreds of products.

I think this comment would be equally right in Victorian times.

> TLD (Test Led Development)

I've also heard it referred to as "weak TDD"

I can understand this for companies not in the EU. But within the EU it seems to me that it's just inertia -- as far as I know, if you're an EU resident you can work from any EU country for 90 days with no changes to tax, insurance, social security, etc. required.

Apples are very filling.

One piece of advice I keep coming across over and over is to publicize it and get feedback as much as possible.

For me specifically, interviewing was a full-time job -- and not one where you can phone it in.

I was given a trial project by one company and I told them I'm still interviewing and I could commit only 10 hours a week (if I'm not mistaken). Two weeks in, I had gotten another offer and told them that they had to make a decision now.

> I go up to them

How do you find them to go up to them though?

Not sarcasm, genuine question. How do you find someone who a) you respect and could teach you things you're interested in, and b) has time for you.

I tried trawling through LinkedIn "to expand my network" but that's useless.

I tried attending meetups, that's only slightly less useless. Lots of cool people, no mentors though.

At work, it seems the people who could be a mentor are more senior and everyone wants them as the mentor.

And people who're on the same level often consider you as competition and it takes a lot of work to establish enough trust for truly candid communication.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

While what you went through is definitely not cool, I think this was a mistake:

> since I didn't seek any other jobs while trial working for them

IMO a trial project is just another step in the interviewing process so you should have continued to interview with others. You might have even gotten another offer in the meantime and forced their hand to make a decision before the trial period is over.

Jeff Attwood replied exactly that.

Maybe the link should be the original press release? https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-announces-bigge...

Off-topic but I was shocked at the clean design.

Since the jobs are scraped and not fetched through an API, I'd also check whether the structure of the site changed in some way.

I'm very suspicious of the data, because a 33% decrease in less than a month is unreasonable. Even at the height of Covid, there wasn't that much of a drop-off.

My money is on the script being broken.

You can't downvote replies to your comments on HN.

I think they're yet another example of a company that had a good idea but then wildly over-promised. Just like Occulus.

This site should be blacklisted from HN.

What I noticed in the 10 seconds of opening the article is that it jacked the back button and is peppered with SEO manipulation links.

This is also a very good point -- the most recent feedback isn't always the most relevant

Interesting, thanks. I'll update the article to add it as a counterpoint.

And I've seen product management in particular overreact at several different companies, besides us

Your downvotes are unjustified. This is good feedback. I'll update the article to talk about sample size etc.

I guess you've learned this lesson yourself so it's not useful for you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll look into it.

If you mean the mailto link, that shouldn't be a bug, but should pre-populate some content. Lemme know if it doesn't.

e. Couldn't find where the </p></p> happens -- lemme know if you can screenshot it...