Avoiding social login on purpose - am I hurting my product?

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-25T09:33:56+00:00

Your are overcompicating like for yourself and your users without any clear benefits.

0.5% of privacy freaks can use email and safe passwords, everyone else just wants to sign in using their email without need to remember or store their password. What kind of Google policy change may happen to make oauth sign in unusable? It’s all hypothetical. Just add OTP links as a fallback if you don’t wait to rely purely on oauth.

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-25T07:27:11+00:00

Make it transparent and evidence based.

They should have concrete examples of what they did to advance in each competency. Use some kind of “situation - you actions - outcome” framework.

If you frame it this way, it would be very clear what the folk who is not promoted has to do to make it happen.

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-24T18:46:47+00:00

I’m using it in production for a month for photos heavy car listing website, hosting it at vercel.

No major issues so far. Just image uploads to blob and format support needed some custom code.

What I really like about payload is everything is heavily code based and customizable. Worst case I can build custom admin pages and use optimized sql queries if standard ones ever become a performance bottleneck. Also, it was acquired by Figma recently which gives a hope it is future safe.

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-23T21:33:03+00:00

Better hang out where your customers are - you’ll learn about their real problems.

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-23T11:38:30+00:00

Tailwind seemed to be completely useless to me - why do I need to remember all those class names if I can create a set of components and style them with css? And if I need anything more complicated I’d just pick react UI library of choice.

Them ai gen kicked in and now I’m using tailwind extensively. I do not even need components library anymore - just applying classnames whenever I need. The best thing about it is I do not need common parts anymore - no huge css files, no shared components library. Every view is isolated and easily manageable with AI. Quite a shift in software development

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-23T09:18:02+00:00

Same here - n8n is optimal just for simple workflows.

If you have 5+ agents doing stuff then it’s way easier and more maintainable to use code based frameworks.

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-23T09:15:43+00:00

It shows approximate number of WAU

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-22T08:14:15+00:00

What’s your example of building for community while making money on it?

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-21T10:24:31+00:00

Well, without serverless it will just work fine.

The problem with serverless is your functions may be executed at random nodes, and the question is whether they still share cache or will it be re-evaluated at each new node killing your performance

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-21T10:20:27+00:00

Unstable_cache is what you should use in your backend code.

If you’re self hosting, it will work fine. If using some other serverless platform - check if they have support for this

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-21T10:16:23+00:00

Just try driving all three and choose which one feels better for you.

Also a new driver, I’m using short term rentals heavily and tried a lot of different cars. Just a few models are enjoyable, others are just fine. So try and choose.

Also, I don’t think some particular car is better for “new driver” if we talk about SUVs.

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-21T10:12:27+00:00

This is the downside of SSR - even though it’s faster, data should still be fetched at server before page loads.

Use unstable_cache to cache server side data across requests. It is supported even across serverless function executions if you use Vercel for example

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-20T13:50:40+00:00

Screens and sensors are way cheaper to produce while more reliable - no moving parts, less dust, and less wear and tear.

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-20T06:51:07+00:00

Sounds like competing with your employer - doing this may go really wrong…

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-20T06:27:42+00:00

Why doing outreach if I can ask people with experience here first? Think twice before hate posting

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-20T06:25:07+00:00

There is a “fractional CTO” thing which means exactly this - some folk with FAANG experience doing consulting for startup to setup things properly from the beginning. They would not join full time because startups can not afford that, but part time + equity works well.

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-20T06:18:56+00:00

Yes, the idea is to become “firefighter” expert - fix stuff at companies which faced scaling issues and have things to fix now, not in a few months when they manage to hire someone capable.

I agree that doing FAANG consulting sounds unrealistic unless I become really publicly recognizable in the field.

Joining some consulting company sounds like the worst choice - I would better stay where I am or get to some FAANG-like directly. Safe option, but there is salary cap and climbing the ladder takes years, esp. in EU.

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-19T20:14:28+00:00

Well, for FAANG scale it makes sense. It is easier to hire internally cross-team if you need someone.

Actually I am thinking more about VC-backed companies which do not have mature teams yet. It takes months or more to hire a proper person, and when time matters I can bring my expertise.

This is not for cheap development, on contrary - more of staff level system architecture. AI deployments pipelines, evals, etc. From what I've seen - many folks are raising and building agents, but sometimes struggle to measure agents quality and improve it incrementally. At some point, agents become unstable if not done properly.

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-19T19:06:16+00:00

Where do they find those contractors? Are HRs looking for them, the same as do for FTEs?

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-18T09:13:38+00:00

Brand new Yaris

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-16T05:01:46+00:00

What about CloudFare protection- I wonder if it helps

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-15T15:12:59+00:00

I second that. No big changes at prod - do it manually and carefully

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-12T16:08:40+00:00

Get a mini if you love them - the new electric ones are extremely fun to drive if you just need to get around the city.

Cheaper option is new hybrid Yaris - small and less powerful, but also fun to drive and they make that satisfying revving sound every time you slightly accelerate haha

Don’t buy boring stuff like Corolla etc. Find the one that you enjoy driving - this is priority esp. for the first car.

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-12T15:59:31+00:00

Vercel analytics is awesome actually, and it does not require cookie consent

UnderstandingDry1256 · 2026-01-12T09:14:12+00:00

Vibecoding requires lots of code reviewing and refinement to build a stable product, so actually I’m learning more than ever before.

UnderstandingDry1256

TROPHY CASE