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chachra | 1 year ago | on: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

Scale to 0 services. Might mean less money for Render but would be awesome. Gets a lot of side projects hosted on fly because if it.

Partnership with Neon would be great too, I run 6 dbs there for $69 with auto scaling (and scales to 0 too if needed for non-prod envs). Render would be 3-4x that price for those many dbs.

chachra | 2 years ago | on: Fly.io has GPUs now

ok possibly not alone, maybe the issues happened before I started using them extensively. I've had ~no downtime that affects me in 7 months.

I do wish they had some features I need, but their support and responses are top notch. And I've lost much less hair and time than I would going full-blown AWS or another cloud provider.

chachra | 2 years ago | on: Carta's 83b Oversight: A Tax Trap for Married Startup Employees (2023)

It seems to be a non-issue to me. From my attorney a few months back:

"We follow the practice of major law firms in the venture space and do not include a spousal consent for the 83(b) election in community property states. We also confirmed with our tax counsel, and they confirmed our approach is advisable."

No one should lose sleep over it. Spouse didn't sign off on a $500 payment to buy restricted stock (early startup stock), so IRS will come down heavily on you for material harm --- will not stand in court!

My 2 cents anyway based on legal advice received.

chachra | 2 years ago | on: ChatGPT app for iOS

NOT loving the excessive vibrations on the phone. It increases my anxiety somehow... I'd remove it honestly or make it 10% of what it is in certain cases only.

I might be alone in this, but we've been trained for vibrations to mean something. Vibrating the phone on every line or response from ChatGPT seems excessive to me (and a battery drain as well!).

chachra | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool

Looks promising for sure! I know its hard to fund etc. but it'd be nice if truly 100% open-source options existed! Even the ones that are open-source, then have pricing for SSO etc. which is disappointing. I see the same in the headless CMS space where tools like Strapi, make it very hard to adopt without paying $$$.

chachra | 4 years ago | on: How we use Notion as a startup

We've been adopting Coda and liking it. Search is a weak point in it as well. But the main issue for us is the permissions hell and total lack of flexibility :-(

Other than that, a much more manageable product, has external integrations, automations etc. built in that even a non-technical or non-power-user can enjoy and use.

chachra | 5 years ago | on: Strapi (headless CMS) raises $10M

I find it fascinating that we continue to call them CMS's and hence shoebox them into competing with Wordpress etc. when I feel there is a broader category of DMS (data management systems) where the end user needs flexibility to store their data. I know notion and others are potentially filling that nice as well coming from a "replace wiki" or knowledge management perspective.

chachra | 6 years ago | on: One Medical S-1

I love one medical and will not bother with anything else in the US if I can help it. They accept insurance, appointments start on time, it’s a paperless experience, I can get same day appointments. What else can one want? The doctors have great table side manners and are always professional. I have had 0 bad experiences and I hope they have a great stock market debut!
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