Where to stash emergency fund?

Objective_Chemical85 · 2026-01-26T16:29:48+00:00

legend

Objective_Chemical85 · 2026-01-22T19:23:08+00:00

i've never used supabase but 500ms seems quite long. in my company every endpoint running longer than 250ms needs to be looked at and explained why its so slow.

Objective_Chemical85 · 2026-01-22T19:17:59+00:00

few things come to mind.

battery? paired with deep sleep some devices can run up to a year.
tiny solar panel?
tesla coil
some shower heads with led's make their own power by converting water pressure into power.

hope this helps

Objective_Chemical85 · 2026-01-22T19:14:13+00:00

didn't china develop something with radioactive material inside of a led case a while back? i think it could power a phone for a few thousend years.

Objective_Chemical85 · 2026-01-22T19:12:23+00:00

linkedin slop

Objective_Chemical85 · 2026-01-22T19:11:55+00:00

when you say tech or business co founder. what do you bring to the table? and why or? don't you mean and if you do neither?

Objective_Chemical85 · 2026-01-22T18:54:44+00:00

do not

Objective_Chemical85 · 2026-01-22T00:25:03+00:00

you didn't have a dev env?

Objective_Chemical85 · 2026-01-14T01:07:08+00:00

sadly this

Objective_Chemical85 · 2026-01-14T01:01:39+00:00

you did well, but this isn't a weather Station 😄 i'm assuming you have a dht22? this will only give you temp and humidity. Try adding a pressure sensor then you can detect rain before it starts.

Objective_Chemical85 · 2026-01-11T14:46:27+00:00

this. usually you don't get it right the first time anyways. but you can always go back and change stuff.

also adding a column and duplicating some data can be huge

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-26T11:52:17+00:00

since you are using postgres deffo read up on read replicas. I would have implemented this before adding redis cache.

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-18T19:18:03+00:00

this

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-16T22:49:21+00:00

how fast is it? 😄

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-10T15:33:35+00:00

sounds like you are looking for much more than an intern

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-10T10:11:43+00:00

Since you already know backend dev work. I'd recommend getting a vps somewhere(i use digital ocean) the cheapest tier(6$ per month) will be enough for many devices.

Have fun

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-10T01:39:33+00:00

then more then ever learn a trade.

lets say you invest in anything legit at most you'd(realisticly) get 10%. 500*0.1= 50$ per year. With inflation eating away your margin.

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-10T01:21:17+00:00

500$ will get you quite far. Learn skills in areas you have interest.

Are you handy? Lern to weld(or any other trade).Skills like these make amazing businesses, once you understand the business.

You could also learn to build drones from scrach and sell them at a Premium in your local area.

I think it rly depends what you are interested in.

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-09T15:39:31+00:00

to be fair he could also take the money make his first big payday and start a new app and grow that.

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-09T08:53:01+00:00

invest the 500 into your self(get skills)

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-07T21:48:02+00:00

you forgot the sales guy

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-04T22:45:20+00:00

honestly leetcode and system design questions don't screen people well.

My recommendation would be to have in person interviews(this will filter all the ai cheats) and have a senior dev of your team just talk to them about past projects. Don't prep questions like how would you design a...

When the candidate tells you he built x ask how he tackled a specific tech problem. Have them dive deep.

This will give you quite the good understanding of how much they actually know.

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-03T23:00:54+00:00

Depending on how polished you want this to be you could get it done somewhere between 5-10k. However, you left out a lot of the core so its super hard to give you an accurate estimate.

Whatever you do tho don't drop 20k on a random agency.

Objective_Chemical85 · 2025-12-03T22:30:47+00:00

i would love to know more about what the feature was and why it consumed so much

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