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The app router kinda sucks so we're staying with /pages. No complaints thus far with a team of 6 engineers.
We've raised $4.6M to date to help home service businesses (think HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, roofing) with their digital marketing, building everything with an AI-first mindset.
We are a small team still (16 total in the company).
I'm the founder/CEO and have 13 years experience as an SWE so we very much take an engineering-first approach. If you're interested and your Github profile goes back to at least 2019, email me directly - will[@]rebolthq.com
This is just silly. Just because you retain wealth doesn't mean you aren't positively acting to improve the current state of the world.
If I could make one recommendation: hire a UX/UI designer ASAP. The less technical the audience, the more intuitive and easy to navigate the UI needs to be.
Our company focuses on home service businesses and they get roadblocked super easily. I think you'll be glad you did it earlier rather than later. Otherwise, the ux debt will pile up and it will be quite a project a year down the line.
Take over or create new open source projects so that every developer comes across your company in the search for a video package.
Another example I noticed recently is https://github.com/cookpete/react-player
Even if you are bullish long-term, it makes sense to cash out while it's overbought and buy back later.
Also, keep in mind 500,000 shares might sound like a lot to us, but it's not even close to a majority of their position.
Looking at this as a signal as to whether you should hold as an employee would be silly.
Otherwise we both waste each other's time if it's not up to their expectations. What is the benefit of obscuring it until it's time to present an offer?
I can sell call options 10% out of the money each week and make some nice cash. If my plan was to hold the stock long term, there's no downside risk because if the stock goes down, I get to keep the cash (premium) from selling the calls. If it goes sideways or slightly up I get to keep it as well.
The only "downside" is it goes up >10% in which case i've made that 10% + premium, but I've now had my stock taken away from me.
In this case, I lose out on an additional 10% in upside because it went up 20% overnight.
Forget other people in the other part of the world, just compare your situation to the average American for a second - they don't have a choice of whether or not to be at the office, because their office is our schools, our fire stations, our construction sites. And they get 1/4th the salary you do.
Entitlement doesn't even begin to describe it.
My mistake this time was not doing a vibe check on the market - seems like this isn't something many people need other than myself.
Still if only a few developers that find it useful, it will not have been built entirely in vain.
I would be a happy paying customer if so.