I will try to keep it alive forever.

The only risk I see is people starting to upload bad stuff and Cloudflare shuts down my account. Hopefully, this does not happen.

I agree. It is nearly impossible!

If they are young, they are full of their own ambitions and ideas. It is hard to cooperate. If they are old, they already have built something in the past and not looking for help in exchange of new risks.

Finding a co-founder is an additional full-time job. I have tried that in 2018 when I was starting my startup. I spent days on meetings and forums like this one.

I found dozens of amazing folks, but it was impossible to negotiate and actually start something together.

Finding a co-founder = finding a girlfriend. You do not seek for one intentionally. You just live having a chance to meet that one. Same with a co-founder.

Sorry for the ugly formatting. HN is not suitable for this type of post.

You may generally write it all up in blog post somewhere and link that here to overcome the formatting issue. The post is topical to HN btw.

Thanks for the tip. I was too paranoid to link my blog here.

You can read the post on https://twitter.com/alexanderisorax/status/17722497842517773.... I also added the link to the JSON data there.

What is wrong with Mastodon?

Even if I'm technically allowed to create a new account, I'm not doing this: I do not want to stress because of a risk of getting banned again.

Even though I feel devastated (I have been growing my account since 2016), my post is emotions-free. Only facts. Did Y got Z.

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Great point! But do you think people of China trust WeChat? I doubt you need to have reputation to do what Elon plans to do with X. You just need lots of power/money.

> Great point! But do you think people of China trust WeChat? I doubt you need to have reputation to do what Elon plans to do with X. You just need lots of power/money.

That stuff flies when the media is indifferent towards you, or even supportive. But what about when you're on their shitlist and every media piece is an opportunity to whine and groan about you?

With Elon being on the mainstream media's shitlist due to many reasons, I think he'll have to work harder than average to get customers right now and doing some things like customer service in a radically atypical way would be a smart decision.

The rule of thumb is to act like a regular human. If you are a savvy user, you have shortcuts for everything, you have scripts for optimizing your work, then be careful.

Exporting your data is a great piece of advice. Thanks for reminding that.

i switched to Appliku 2 years ago. it was my best devops decision. saved me thousands of $. AMA.

Thanks for jumping in, Alexander! Happy it works so well for https://unicornplatform.com !

We (the developers) can create a marketplace of micro-apps. It would be a separate business by itself.

A marketplace of apps works when those apps fulfill a specific need (ie Shopify or Atlassian apps) or are specific to a platform (ie Chrome/IPhone). Why would anyone be interested in surfing a marketplace of random apps? Why wouldnt they just use Google to find the app they need?

Second, even if you are in a marketplace, you still need to promote it. Tons of apps are on the apple appstore. And they will get no downloads if you do zero marketing. App stores arent a substitute for marketing

Creating a marketplace is a big challenge. (Not building it, but getting people to care about it and use it.)

Who are the existing marketplaces that you can start with? (e.g. I don't know, but does Amazon have a "marketplace" for tried-and-tested Lambdas? And this just makes me think of Zapier anyway.)

I can name https://bit.cloud/components as an existing marketplace. It is a big challenge, yes, but also a big profit.

For example a programmer can create a full-stack micro-app for accepting payments. The programmer will make it super flexible, configurable and secure. It will be win-win for both programmer (because they will earn money on the micro-app) and the users of the payments micro-app (because it will be pluggable and well-designed since a dedicated person has been working on the one functionality for year).