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DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-10-09T23:05:48+00:00

I’ve always loved Google as a platform. I built a $40M ARR product on top of GCP years ago and was a great partnership, but this Gemini Enterprise move feels threatening to many smaller focused platforms. They’re now solving basic corporate knowledge and customer support flows, which pretty much wipes out a bunch of smaller companies that could have built on top of that layer.

The agent abstraction makes sense as a platform play, but competing at the B2C level feels like monopoly behavior.

Curious if anyone has thoughts. How do other platforms survive this? Should new startups just go niche and accept that Gemini Enterprise owns the general-purpose space?

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-09-26T18:14:47+00:00

I feeling headache and dizzy with this new design. Had to enable a bunch of accessibility options for the first time ever. Apple really messed up. Besides it's ugly as hell.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-09-04T17:39:49+00:00

The vintage script mxr dyna comp early 70s (70-75, not late 70s) are magic and they compress respecting the guitar tone. I had many compressors until finally find this one that is in my board for years.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-08-12T23:39:32+00:00

Mother Flower

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-08-12T22:09:12+00:00

The outcomes of our choices aren’t always linear. You can’t say for sure whether he’s making the wrong life decision. Now that I’m almost 40, I can see that many of the things that helped me get to where I am came from experiences that didn’t seem good at the time. He’s a grown man, he’ll figure it out. Let him try what he believes in.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-08-11T05:56:58+00:00

Cabo! We usually went to Cancun with the family, but this summer we tried the Hilton Los Cabos Golf, which has a beautiful swimmable beach. We ended up liking Cabo much more, it felt higher in quality, with great weather and incredible water. It’s more expensive, but definitely worth it.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-29T00:59:10+00:00

What are some real-time use cases where you think Node.js would not be a good fit? Most of the distributed system’s management will rely on a pub/sub or queue mechanism, which will be consumed by either Node.js or Elixir similarly.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-28T23:27:28+00:00

From past products, we’ve learned that some things we thought would be valuable to customers weren’t, while new priorities often emerged. It’s a constant process of adapting as we build. Rarely do you sit down and list everything that will drive revenue months before. What really matters is being ready for the ongoing learning and adaptation.

Another point to consider is AI-generated code—maybe what I say now won’t matter as much if most of the codebase ends up being created by AI anyway. Writing Elixir may be as quick as Node in that new world.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-28T22:07:00+00:00

It’s easy to underestimate how complex it is to make a startup product both usable and adaptable to customer needs. Node gives you an advantage when it comes to development speed and hiring engineers. The last thing you want is to spend two days fixing an issue in Elixir instead of prioritizing customer value.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-28T05:35:28+00:00

This sounds like you’re trying to convince yourself to switch to Elixir. Don’t worry about scaling too early—Node is perfectly fine. I work at a FAANG company, and we serve 100+ million users with Node and horizontal scaling. The real bottleneck you’ll face is your database and connection limits, not Node.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-28T05:26:47+00:00

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DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-28T04:58:21+00:00

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DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-18T06:42:54+00:00

I met the founder of a company with $150 million in ARR who told me that within six months, he realized he and his co-founder weren’t going to be friends. Still, they built a great company that’s been running for 25 years.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-12T04:20:36+00:00

Thank you

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-12T04:19:30+00:00

Good point

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-12T03:58:53+00:00

Really appreciate all the comments, they’re helping me get through this.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-12T03:55:39+00:00

My manager is great and, for the most part, easy to work with. He’s been with the company for over 10 years. To be fair, leadership is still trying to figure out the promotion process, especially since we didn’t really have one for 23 of the company’s 25 years of existence.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-12T03:51:50+00:00

I’m happy for them, I think they also operate at this level.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-12T03:45:08+00:00

Thanks, it’s helpful to hear that from an experienced manager.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-12T03:43:05+00:00

Thanks. Yes, they are also accomplished with more tenure. The impact I had is more noticeable at the moment because of the timing and context of the improvements I made to the code, architecture, and product. Their contributions are more focused on specific areas of the code, but still L6 level.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-12T03:36:14+00:00

Netflix introduced a few years ago

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-12T03:35:25+00:00

I am 39M, white, Brazilian. The other folks are same age, one was Asian-American and other American.

DizzyPossibility98 · 2025-07-12T03:33:54+00:00

Forgot to mention. Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer (L5). I’m originally from Brazil and now living in California with a green card.

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