frankcaron's comments

frankcaron | 1 month ago | on: Claude Sonnet 4.6

What I can’t get my head wrapped around with this whole SaaS death thing: do people think that the vendors themselves aren’t going to get similar gains out of the tech you’re using to vibe your own version? And thus, doesn’t any velocity gain equalize?

frankcaron | 2 months ago | on: One million (small web) screenshots

I found my own site, as well, and I found that particularly charming.

Recently went back [0] to the open web and feel like this inclusion alone justified that move.

Thanks for sharing. Humble and heart-warming way to end 2025 for an old Internet man.

[0]: https://frankycaron.medium.com/of-an-open-web-rebirth-and-bi...

frankcaron | 2 years ago | on: Homebrew Website Club

I love this.

Well down the road of this journey myself:

https://www.frankcaron.com/blog.html

Working on killing a lot of JS, albeit my 10 year old Bootstrap theme still has a bunch that's not really necessary.

frankcaron | 4 years ago | on: A magical AWS serverless developer experience

Men will conceive complex manual and philosophical workflows and theoretical all-in-one SDKs just go to avoid going to Heroku.

frankcaron | 4 years ago | on: You Don't Need the Cloud

"[1] This blog runs on the cloud but that’s because WordPress is a security nightmare and a cloud VM is the easiest way to sandbox it. Ironic, I know."

Really all that needs to be said. Self-defeating post.

frankcaron | 5 years ago | on: GitHub isn't fun anymore

Imo, Github has only been moving further in the right direction lately — and more social features ain't it, chief.

The better value proposition lift from giving folks and teams more free private repos was huge, and the increasingly-prominent integration of Github into enterprise tools is facilitating (if not helping to force) the modernization of enterprise dev outside the software industry.

I've never been a bigger fan of Github, personally. Microsoft seems to be doing the same with Github that it did with Minecraft: amplifying what it does well, fixing what it didn't, and making it more accessible to more folks the way they want to consume it — all while not compromising what made it great to begin with.

frankcaron | 7 years ago | on: Why startups need to approach SEO differently than established companies

Former TouchBistro director of PMM cosigning on this exact approach being useful and used by us at the time.

frankcaron | 10 years ago | on: Amazon Web Services in Plain English

I'm kind of in love with you after writing this. Thank you for doing what so few product and service companies do: naming a product in a manner that makes it almost instantly-understandable as to what problem it solves.

frankcaron | 10 years ago | on: War and Peace and Product

Wrote this up out of frustration tonight. Would love to hear from other PMs on here about what they've done to effectively scale product at their orgs.

frankcaron | 11 years ago | on: I created my own MMO and lost 100 pounds

Good eyes! We were there after a con at Rackspace! It was as deadly as you've foretold.

frankcaron | 11 years ago | on: I created my own MMO and lost 100 pounds

For the record, and for those asking for this to be a real game, FitRPG for iOS is planning to deliver on some of that very notion. It's a super cool app; and I say that with absolutely no affiliation (srs). Google it.

frankcaron | 11 years ago | on: I created my own MMO and lost 100 pounds

That was technically the literal interpretation. :)

frankcaron | 11 years ago | on: I created my own MMO and lost 100 pounds

Figures that I submit this for karma myself eons ago but it only now, via another HNer, pops to the top. :)

- The fat MMO guy

frankcaron | 12 years ago | on: Off

That's an interesting thought. I think the missing piece is really the Apple TV playing games, and for whatever reason (maybe storage?), they just can't or don't want to make it happen.

frankcaron | 12 years ago | on: Off

Couldn't agree more. Not launching the game controller or talking up some big new release, like Oceanhorn, whilst teasing the Apple TV gaming could have really put a dent in the somewhat-weak line-ups of gaming systems that are going big this holiday.

What a waste, Apple.

frankcaron | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you manage passwords in teams?

While I use 1Password myself, a few companies I've worked for now have been using Passpack (https://www.passpack.com/en/home/) which provides a neat way to "share" passwords securely in the event that an employee leaves so you don't lose any accounts. This is in addition to AD or Google Apps depending on the company's infra.

frankcaron | 12 years ago | on: King, the Swedish Creator of Candy Crush Saga, To File For IPO

I truly look forward to the burst of this flash-in-the-pan game startup IPO bubble, albeit with slight sorrow for the truly hard-working game devs who are feeding the producers and business staff with their undervalued efforts.

frankcaron | 12 years ago | on: Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon

HL3 will be a timed Linux-exclusive for Valve's official Steambox. Calling it now.

frankcaron | 12 years ago | on: Canada's Start-up Visa

I was referring to the fact that there aren't as many (or even a handful of significantly noteworthy) incubators in the GTA / Canada at large.

frankcaron | 12 years ago | on: Canada's Start-up Visa

While this is great in theory, it's likely not going to lead to anything other than one marquee Toronto Star story about the foreign entrepreneur who found success in Canada.

Canadian VCs are far too risk averse and conservative; that's why the uptick of start-ups in all areas of the country, even Toronto's own would-be "Valley" of Liberty Village and the Junction, hasn't fielded much in the ways of success.

Until Toronto VCs start taking more risks and going down the road of helping people experiment (much like YComb itself), I don't see this doing much other than acting as a talking point for why Canada is a good place to live.

(I say this as a Torontonian who has worked almost exclusively for start-ups in the GTA and is now moving to San Fran to work for another one).