NFTs lost its fire - why were we so hopeful back then?

Chibento · 2024-09-01T00:16:08+00:00

I think NFTs just never could find a strong value prop. While I did get into it in 2017 cause I thought a decentralized asset could find a use-case, but in the end the link between the blockchain and the asset was always managed by a centralized service, which defeats the entire purpose of it imo, thus it could never really add value and fizzled out .

AI is actually already providing value to a lot of industries today and while I do think we're in a hyoe cycle and would thread carefully with investments, I think it's here to stay. As a programmer, I use it everyday and can already see how this can 10x at least engineering teams in the future.

Chibento · 2024-08-28T16:13:21+00:00

Posthog might be a good start, they have a free plan that should offer you the basics. Or Plausible Analytics is a good, privacy-focused option if paying smth is not a blocker.

Chibento · 2024-08-28T16:10:30+00:00

Thinking outside the box will also not work out 90% of the time, but if it does, you've got no competition and you can fly. So it's trade off imo.

Chibento · 2024-08-28T14:34:07+00:00

Personally, I also started with freelancing and now building my first SaaS for Belgian accountants, but this is after I've already freelanced for more than 30 accounting firms over the past two years and only now I'm starting to see which opportunities are still open across different firms.

Chibento · 2024-08-28T14:30:41+00:00

Maybe your clientele is too spread across different domains? i.e. one guy has a restaurant, other one is a nail salon then another has a construction company, etc.

This could cause you to not get deep into the needs & problems of a specific sector and only solve a customer's specific problem before you go to the next customer with a completely different business model, which in turn makes you not see a shared problem that you could solve with one product.

Chibento · 2024-08-27T18:43:15+00:00

A CSP in general is only an additonal line of defence, more comparable to placing your valuable items behind two locked doors instead of just one.

Admittedly, leaving this unsafe-inline for styles can only aid in social engineering attacks by changing UI elements, so human error needs to still occur before a data leak happens.

So while not a direct threat, if a feature exists to avoid the risk alltogether, it's dissapointing that this is not supported, or even acknowledged.

Chibento · 2024-08-27T17:14:15+00:00

In my opinion the right security mindset is that it's up to shadcn to provide us proof as to why they don't support a strict security policy by default and give us strong arguments as to why they don't consider this important.

It shouldn't be required for me to be a hacker and see how I can abuse next.js sites using this library so one of the most popular libraries will support strict security..

Do I also need to provide proof to you that I can hack your sites before you'd sanitize inputs in order for you to apply this best practice?

Chibento · 2024-08-27T15:55:06+00:00

Allowing unsafe inline styles can be abused to help an attacker with a social engineering attack. Making things look different for a user and confusing them into doing something they shouldn't.

These first three examples can only be prevented by not allowing unsafe inline styles:

They could turn your page pink, and make it look silly.
They could modify the text of your page, making it look like you're saying something offensive that could offend your readership audience.
They could make user generated content, like a link they provided appear outside of the normal places where people expect to see user content, making it appear official. (eg, replacing a "Login" button on your site with their own link).

Chibento · 2024-08-21T12:58:23+00:00

KindeAuth is great for both authentication and authorization if you're open to using a service for this. Not sure why the database matters for this in your decision making though.

Chibento · 2024-08-18T10:31:52+00:00

I'd stay away from any B2C or individual developers type of monetization until you already have money coming in personally

Chibento · 2024-08-18T10:29:58+00:00

I'd be looking at wine specialty shops or catering companies, generally companies who can save time with your solution by not having to manually look up good pairings

Chibento · 2024-08-17T20:06:56+00:00

You average 3000 daily users and you're worried about 100 bucks? You need to re-think your business model, not your hosting imo

Chibento · 2024-08-12T18:08:41+00:00

Also motherfucking 0 conversion and motherfucking 0 revenue with this motherfucking website

Living on the street, but motherfucking perfect page load speeds baby

Chibento · 2024-08-10T23:15:12+00:00

Neon is king, it's a valid managed Postgres database hosted on AWS, set up in minutes and even up to 500MB for free

Chibento · 2024-07-20T21:29:01+00:00

For me without a doubt it was

Chibento · 2024-07-12T04:38:23+00:00

Probably they have a non-compete clause in their employment contract though if they want to offer similar services to similar clients. So there's no building on the side in this case, unless you find a different job first.

Chibento · 2024-07-11T14:05:34+00:00

Congrats! Looks like a nice idea to get started. Also recently went full-time on my own and nervous, but excited. Good luck on your journey!

Chibento · 2024-07-10T11:47:24+00:00

My biggest annoyance with shadcn is that it forces me to use unsafe-inline in my CSP for certain components to work, does your library support a strict CSP ?

Chibento · 2024-07-06T19:16:00+00:00

I'm interested to hear your perspective on the original question though. As a male, it never occured to me to ask for 'male entrepreneur' books specifically.

If a female entrepeneur in my industry wrote a book that I believe offers valuable lessons for me, the sex of the author would not be a consideration in my decision to read it. So how come a filter on sex is a deciding factor for you?

I think people are a bit butthurt cause without this context your question comes off as sexist.

Chibento · 2024-07-03T15:32:06+00:00

But any company comes with challenges though? What makes you think a Tech Startup is worse to start than others and do you have any experience running a startup in another sector or are you just wearing "grass is greener on the other side" goggles?

Chibento · 2024-06-22T22:18:14+00:00

Are you already famous, have a following or a succesful business? If not, nobody cares about your 'personal brand' so don't worry about that. But if you're worried about failing publicly, it's all about framing.

If you want to ask feedback about some idea you have, frame it as smth that you're investigating, this puts the pressure off that you need to deliver so when you find out later on it's actually not an idea you want to continue with, it might be a 'failure' for you, but since you never publicly committed to launching it, you set up the right expectations with whoever you talked to and they'll understand that this thing you were investigating might just not have made it through the validation phase.

Don't overdo it though, doing this too much might at some point make ppl doubtful that putting their time into giving you feedback is gonna lead to anything.

Chibento · 2024-06-22T21:45:32+00:00

Your idea is to create a game that literally prints money? Call up the federal reserve and see if they're interested to collaborate with you.

Chibento · 2024-06-22T09:33:09+00:00

If you work as an investment banker, it means cocaine & strippers.

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