That reason also includes SOC2, FedRAMP, data at rest jurisdiction, availability zones etc. And if large enough you can negotiate the standard pricing.
For sure. And oftentimes these less sexy features or certifications are much more cumbersome to implement/acquire than the flashy stuff these startups lead with
Building backends is easy. It is sort of weird. In 2003 no one would bat an eyelid at building an entire app and chucking it on a server. I guess front-end complexity had made that a specialism so with all that dev energy drained they have no time for the backend. The backend is substantial easier though!
These high value startups timed well to capture the vibe coding (was known as builidng an MVP before), front end culture and sheer volume of internet use and developers.
Django on Render( and presumably a heroku) just works.
It's still much more work that just dropping in a Firebase url. Firebase can lead to poor design choices and come back to bite you, but hopefully by then you've already raised a few VC rounds and you're rolling in dough.
See my comment above. It's not that simple. Yes he could retire, but then he'd be sitting around, doing nothing. As many entrepreneurs have discovered that's not actually an appealing life. So the work that he does have to do just happens to be stressful and time consuming.
Basically, a business owner can find themselves in a theoretical situation where they have a boat load of money but are also overwhelmed with work and have no other options.
Granted, he probably will retire earlier than me, but in my scenario many of my co-workers actually choose not to retire, because they like the work.
He can get a job at Vons to get a discount on health insurance.
The couple that founded Sierra Online woke up one day and made a new game. Being wealthy they had no economic pressure to do this.
If I woke up rich tomorrow I’d probably work on video games and open source them. Which is what I’m doing now, just after my day job.
Dream level 1:
A game studio that makes quality open source games.
Level 2:
An easy open source game engine.
Level 3:
A programming language with 3 built in levels of abstraction.
LLM level, just write what you want to the application to do and it’ll “build” the functions in real time.
Scripting level:
Something like C# or Typescript.
Systems level:
Low level like Rust or C.
Mixing and matching each level in the same project is encouraged.
Dream Level 4- which would require billions upon billions of dollars to even attempt.
A completely open source OS along with open source hardware, phones, computers, tvs, etc. It scales from a 40$ Raspberry PI like device to a 10k super computer.
Your phone belongs to YOU, want to run your own code on it, cool.
I’d build the OS in the same language described in Level 3.
Linux is great, but it’s also bloated from needing to run on billions of devices. If you instead say no, you make your hardware fit the OS, not the other way around much of the code could be removed.
Anyway, I think I’ll be able to retire bit early ( early 50s) and then just work on weird open source games.
Everything else in this post would require much more money than I’ll ever have.
But I declare the contents this comment CC0/MIT. Maybe a lurking billionaire will read it and do it.
> Yes he could retire, but then he'd be sitting around, doing nothing
So? Is that not a valid choice?
> So the work that he does have to do just happens to be stressful and time consuming.
Imagine that he doesn't have to do this. That doing it is something that he gets to do.
Doesn't everything this person does tell us that they enjoy stress and having their time consumed by their business?
> Basically, a business owner can find themselves in a theoretical situation where they have a boat load of money but are also overwhelmed with work and have no other options.
Right, wait till all other countries tariff US movies. Again it is another US thing is more expensive for the average human on Earth scenario. Good luck with that.
It's about the production of movies, not the distribution of movies. I don't think people in this thread are reading the article. The original title of this submission didn't help.
The "tariff" we're talking about here would be for where the labor comes from. If a EU film company is choosing to film in the US instead of at home for cost reasons, then sure they can put a tariff on that somehow to keep it local. I don't think that's happening in any meaningful way, but it is in the reverse to the detriment of thousands and thousands of local jobs in LA, ATL, NY, etc.
So he went on to hire lucky people. They all left after a year. 6 had won the lottery, 10 had got rich betting on crypto and the other 12 had set up a business on the side and make more money from that.
He had learned his lesson: next time he would discard the other half of the applicant pile.
28 years, 10 jobs, including one at BigTech. I’ve never written one line of code that I haven’t been paid for since a year before graduating from college - in 1995.
with that much experience you should consider volunteering you services to good causes, no money, but you’ll feel good. I am similar in years and have written probably six-digit lines of code I haven’t been paid for.
I live a very commitment free life. Outside of work and my wife.
Our home in Florida easily converts to a short term rental (a unit in a condotel - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp) when we leave for longer stints. We did the digital nomad thing for a year around the US and in the next couple of years, we plan to alternate between Panama City Panama and San Jose Costa Rica during the winter in the US - their dry season.
During the summer, we might spend a month back where are friends and family are in GA.
The benefit of remote work. We have experience living out of two suitcases and picking up and flying random places and staying for a few weeks.
