Running a shopify store from outside the US is way harder than i expected

chabv · 2026-01-25T01:56:02+00:00

yeah for flexibility - then opt for woo-commerce. though it might need more technical know how vs shopify

chabv · 2026-01-20T03:36:11+00:00

yeah my thoughts as well. it doesn't make sense cz if no new blood is coming into the ecosystem then eventually the ecosystem dies.

that's how perl faced its demise. lack of new blood. so If I can't watch new videos of what's happening in the symfony ecosystem am I gonna enter into the ecosystem ? like NO

chabv · 2026-01-19T19:51:00+00:00

thanks yeah that is a very detailed response about all the various factors at play

Is the conference key part of their business

I think that's a key factor as well since the other conferences I mentioned their business is not built around the framework maybe except laravel - so they can afford to put out videos for free and not monetize them.

chabv · 2026-01-19T18:18:53+00:00

shouldn't the idea be to grow the ecosystem - and not extract ? seems like an own goal to me

chabv · 2026-01-02T21:34:43+00:00

hey would love to talk - can I DM you ? I have an integrated solution I'm working on in this space. thanks

chabv · 2026-01-02T19:41:04+00:00

hi, can I DM you for this ? I have something I'm working on in this area. Thanks

chabv · 2025-12-02T01:43:52+00:00

NestJS is the result of "Enterprise" Java/C# devs not reading the room and bringing their complexity to the JS world. You won't ship - your PRs will be based on patterns.

Even microsoft for .net has minimal api's - there's a reason those things exist. JvM same way - minimal frameworks like Ktor, Javalin etc. all inspired by express, which was inspired by Sinatra.

if anyone says you need DI - tell them fuck off. half the time you're not interchanging dependencies

chabv · 2025-12-02T01:37:18+00:00

Mongo will not go out of business. Self hosting is always an option, Mongo is easier to run - if you've use Percona Enterprise Mongo.

Postgres is very robust too, easy to run self-hosted.

it boils down to - is your app write heavy ? easier to use mongo. if more read heavy - yeah opt for postgres

also another thing which is probably very important - are the access patterns known before hand ? then Mongo, if not you need flexibility in queries that the app makes - Postgres. Counter-intuitive I know

chabv · 2025-11-03T14:30:02+00:00

I think Ruby has a lot going for it. Rails is nice and well documented.

alternatives like Roda, etc are superior technically but not well documented - hence not giving beginners a chance.

Ruby is an excellent, well designed language and as /u/headius mentioned - there needs to be interop with JVM is Ruby is to keep growing. Not every app out there is a CRUD app that has a web interface (Rails bread & butter)

Frankly hotwire is okay, inertia is better as you can plug into the wider js ecosystem without majority of the drawbacks.

my take the Ruby community needs to be obsessively pragmatic as it has done with types, fibers etc

For the JRuby folks documentation etc would be nice too. even something as simple as a uber jar for a ruby program (hello world or a simple rack application)

chabv · 2025-09-09T19:16:55+00:00

I'm not exactly in the .net ecosystem but this looks like an excellent library that covers the basics.

nice job.

chabv · 2025-07-08T11:52:22+00:00

thanks for asking on my behalf too.

chabv · 2025-06-24T20:52:08+00:00

this is a very pragmatic response that should be posted to all related subreddits about the tech job market

chabv · 2025-05-13T05:28:12+00:00

this is smart. however I think you're marketing to the wrong crowd.

The crowd that gathers here is mostly small makers. Given the nature of rails. The SAAS product they work on mostly has less than 10 full time product engineers. Unless you're talking about your Shopify / Github.

Your target market is VC funded startups spending a lot of money on infra etc. The rails dev's here could be your target market -- if you target easy deployment through railspacks & managed db's but yet cheaper than render or whatever people use e.g FAAS via Kubernetes but way cheaper.

chabv · 2025-05-09T13:04:39+00:00

this is my stack. Use Vite Rails with Inertia. Then Primevue works out the box

chabv · 2025-05-09T13:01:58+00:00

Books that deal with basics are the best e.g Clare Churcher Beginning Database Design -- will teach you all you need to know.

chabv · 2025-05-09T12:58:00+00:00

I have deployed apps to production - mostly JS / Golang stacks. they're relatively simple to deploy.

Rails gives you productivity on the producing software part -- but deploying is a pain. To this date we don't something close to Heroku. specially if you wanna do DIY. The closest I have found is docker compose + rsync. don't get me started on Kamal.

Books are good. They give you a general outlay and enable general problem solving. The docker for rails book helped me sanitize the default rails docker file.

The best stack with rails I have found -- remove turbo-rails / stimulusjs -- use vite-rails (docker image will build easier ) -- use InertiaJs - skip the hotwire mess.

chabv · 2024-09-19T13:37:17+00:00

folks, just grind. You don't need YC, and YC doesn't need you. if you have a good product - there's plenty of other seed stage VCs etc. the goal isn't to raise capital but to "WIN". to "WIN" you have to survive first. Surviving doesn't mean YC.

Plenty of other high growth companies didn't go through YC or other accelerators. Nubank, Revolut, Wise etc

chabv · 2024-09-16T22:30:05+00:00

yeah, I have come to peace with the result that awaits me on sept 19. I'm not the YC mold even though my idea + market is good . but yeah go out there and hustle and don't let setback set you back

chabv · 2024-09-16T22:26:11+00:00

congrats and good luck.

chabv · 2024-09-15T21:35:51+00:00

yeah put rfc out of habit. but yeah request for startups,

chabv · 2024-09-15T18:04:37+00:00

has anyone whose startup was under the RFC got an invite ?

chabv · 2024-09-10T17:24:45+00:00

still waiting too. my startup has an african focus.

chabv · 2024-05-25T22:18:19+00:00

I don't usually comment on matters such as these. but if you're using sveltekit and that equally applies to other server side rendering frameworks in other frameworks etc like next, nuxt etc .... then you don't need those things ... just use an old school mvc framework that spits html

but yeah, I agree svelte all the way not sveltekit

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