Worth mentioning that all the talks are published at <a href="https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/#program" rel="nofollow">https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/#program</a>.
My favorite talk (although I haven't gotten through them all yet) was Alex Miller's Enough with all the Raft <a href="https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/2016d6c4-b08d-40b3-af2f-67926ca8521f-enough-with-all-the-raft" rel="nofollow">https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/2016d6c4-b08d-40b3-af2f-67926...</a>
There were some great talks. The chat was satisfying. I like Zulip and have some experience with it so it was easy to navigate for me. It does take some getting used to though; a tips or FAQ would probably help a lot of folks.<p>The concept and branding are great.<p>If another one ends up happening I’d do it again.
An idea to improve your sanity re planning: Communicate a deadline of talks two weeks before the event and accept nothing 7 days after that.
Some people need hard deadlines to get their work done.
the reason I didn't attend / pay this time btw was because last time the talks were more about the "user-end of databases" and I mostly work in product and design; this time it was about more low-level stuff which is out of my scope. It's still cool stuff! But just outside of my focus / realm
Feels strange to have posted exactly the same thing and gotten exactly zero traction.<p>Really glad this event exists. I didn't know about it ahead of time, so some amount of Marketing sounds sensible.
charge more default $128, allow 64 and 32 then automated form for $10 “student tier” ask for documentation and auto approve. layer in twitter ads, linkedin, id love to see you make $100k per conf why not? don’t you think the market is there? in fact linkedin is your channel and why not start at $256, your conf is world class! companies will pay!
> but now stripe supports pay-what-you-want directly (the docs say that they don't, but the docs are wrong)<p>Does anyone have links / suggestions on how to set this up?