I was expecting: PHP + MySQL + a bunch of shell scripts to install stuff on servers + reading logs via command line by ssh as root. Instead I found: Redis, Rabbitmq, DataDog, ES, React + Redux, Ansible, PagerDuty... I wouldn't call that "boring technology". Sure, you are not using Docker nor K8s... but still.
I found this post on their "pivot" story to be more interesting:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29032799" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29032799</a>
> Most of my time is spent on talking to other human beings, replying emails (30%~40% of my time), and thinking (!!!), which is not considered as “real work” by engineers :)<p>Oh, burn! /s
listennotes has become my go to site when I want to find podcast for my daily commute (about 30min). Its got good UI/UX. Pretty well executed for a one man company.<p>I wonder though if the niche search engine market can fetch them enough money to be profitable.
Is this the same post?<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875</a>
The founder has some really informative and very detailed articles, e.g. this one about being rejected after his YC interview. <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/blog/my-y-combinator-interview-experience-w18-22/" rel="nofollow">https://www.listennotes.com/blog/my-y-combinator-interview-e...</a><p>It's interesting to read why he thinks he got rejected.
Obviously, things have changed quite a bit in the three years since this was written. I'm curious what we now consider boring that was "exciting" then. First thing that comes to mind are the managed kubernetes services that weren't really "mature" back then. Are those boring? Some would say yes, I personally would say "not yet".
Interesting post to see how this solution is accomplished, but how is this a one-person company, if there are contractors? How are the contractors utilized and how much do they cost on average? Are the contractors needed or could this be done by a single engineer?