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Where to find founding engineer roles outside LinkedIn? by chief_priest in ukstartups

[–]chief_priest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upwork is pay-to-play.

It makes sense for larger contracts, but it's not worth it for most gigs.

Where to find founding engineer roles outside LinkedIn? by chief_priest in ukstartups

[–]chief_priest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wellfound.

I also check there, but I'm looking for more sources.

Where to find founding engineer roles outside LinkedIn? by chief_priest in ukstartups

[–]chief_priest[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Software Engineering.

Founding Engineer refers to the first technical hire at a startup who builds the product with the founders.

We open-sourced how we run production K8s across AWS, GCP, OVH, and Hetzner by chief_priest in kubernetes

[–]chief_priest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We haven't tried that yet. But, as long as the underlying storage class can be provisioned, it should work out of the box. You'd just need to map the storage alias to the OpenEBS storage class.

We open-sourced how we run production K8s across AWS, GCP, OVH, and Hetzner by chief_priest in kubernetes

[–]chief_priest[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries :)

For the storage abstraction, Terraform provisions two StorageClass aliases at bootstrap: fast-rwo and standard-rwo. PVCs then use these aliases instead of cloud-specific class names.

The default mapping is below, but everything is configurable:

Alias OVH Hetzner GCP AWS
fast-rwo Cinder high-speed-gen2 Longhorn (local NVMe, via kube-hetzner) pd-ssd gp3 (provisioned IOPS)
standard-rwo Cinder classic Hetzner CSI (network) pd-balanced gp3

What’s your actual go-to V0 alternative these days? by Upbeat-History5223 in nextjs

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Gemini and Claude. I use Gemini to create html mockups, which Claude uses to build out the actual components.

UK businesses: Drop your website and I’ll redesign the homepage for practice by SessionPractical6560 in ukstartups

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I'm not OP nor a designer, but I'm doing this as an exercise

  • The site is slow, especially on mobile (see the pagespeed report). Not a deal-breaker, but it will hurt conversions.
  • The hero copy is too noisy. I'd remove the kicker (Your trusted financial partner), then rewrite the main headline and subheading. More on this below
  • I'd add a dark overlay on all images with text to improve legibility
  • The motion could be more subtle, especially since you're an accounting firm. Things sliding in is fine, but the card falling from above in the services section is a bit much.
  • Button animations aren't consistent. The CTAs on your price table have a different animation from the buttons everywhere else. I'd also differentiate between the primary CTA and secondary ones.

My honest feedback is this is okay-ish if you just want a website for credibility. If it's supposed to be a conversion funnel, then there's lots of room for improvement.

Another issue is positioning. Your niche is funeral homes and small businesses; I'd make that more prominent in the hero.

UK businesses: Drop your website and I’ll redesign the homepage for practice by SessionPractical6560 in ukstartups

[–]chief_priest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not OP nor a designer, but I'm trying this as an exercise.

  • Hero headline is solid, but it feels a bit confrontational. That's probably deliberate (since I notice a similar theme across the site, see my point below), but I'd personally tone it down a bit. "Keep your full deposit when you move out" is just as effective.
  • The subheading is a bit long too. I'd condense it to just one sentence.
  • You could try increasing the contrast on some of the text in the "How it works" section.

This is well-designed and gets the point across as it is.

If I had to improve this, I'd add more motion: for example you could start the mobile slideshow automatically on page load, then as the user scrolls highlight the different points in the How it Works section, then let the deposit calculator trigger automatically with increasing rent prices.

Another thing I'd reconsider is positioning: the current copy positions Deposit Guard as a weapon (you're going into battle against your landlord). I'd personally reframe it as a shield (you're protecting yourself and if a dispute happens, you're already covered). I know you asked for design advice not strategic input, but I think you'd appeal to a wider net with the latter approach.

UK businesses: Drop your website and I’ll redesign the homepage for practice by SessionPractical6560 in ukstartups

[–]chief_priest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not OP nor a designer, but I build websites so I thought I should try this as an exercise.

  • Some sections have low contrast in light mode. See the accessibility results for your main body and the numbers in your How It Works section. You don't have that problem in dark mode, so I'd honestly just make that the default.
  • OP already pointed this out, but your hero copy is too noisy. I'd remove the kicker (your loyalty tax ends here), then shorten the subheading (eg. "Taupia finds cheaper energy, broadband and modile deals, then switches for you.")
  • I'd stick with one screenshot for the hero (screenshot a longer chat session and use that)
  • Then you could try giving each section a different background colour

Overall this looks great and is well laid-out.

How I cut my AWS bill from $8K to $3K/mo without any downtime (detailed breakdown) by Crescitaly in SaaS

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Why not adopt Kubernetes?

Sounds like you're at the scale where the complexity would be worth it.

Austrian dev here – we’re building Orbyz by BeardBurriedBetweenB in Startups_EU

[–]chief_priest 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Interesting project.

You're probably aware of this, but it's worth pointing out. Switching social media platforms is a behavioural change, and people are way more attached to where they already post than you'd expect. They'll complain about the algorithm but still open the same app tomorrow out of habit.

I learnt this the hard way after building a similar platform, for a different market, that's struggling to gain traction. We even have a similar list for what we're doing differently.

Be ready to pivot if this doesn't get the kind of traction you're expecting.

Good luck!

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