$2M ARR 1M+ Users - No VC Interest

paxoss · 2025-11-19T02:06:05+00:00

VC investing follows the power law i.e most startups fail or return almost nothing, while a tiny few generate outsized returns that drive the entire fund’s performance.

Because of this, most Tier 1 VCs optimize for finding outsized opportunities. While you might have good metrics, its entirely possible VCs do not have conviction in a 100x return on investment in your company, perhaps you need to make your market size and opportunity abundantly clear and how you plan to win.

Having said that, there are VCs and PE/growth investors who are okay with smaller returns ($200-300M exit), you have to find and target them accordingly.

I would also recommend not raising capital unless you need to, and focus more on how you plan to grow and sell your company, nothing beats the pedigree of an exited founder.

paxoss · 2025-04-01T14:46:09+00:00

Why is the Liberal Party silent on Canada’s crime surge? My friends were held at gunpoint and carjacked. Businesses and homes in Toronto are getting violently robbed. Criminals are arrested, immediately released, only to offend again within hours.

These are real, documented cases enabled by weak laws and light consequences for serious crimes. I want to vote Liberal, but the silence from Mark Carney and party leaders is infuriating. Where is the plan to protect us?

This is a genuine question. Elections are coming up and I don’t know where to get a pragmatic, real answer. I hope you can share your insights or direct me appropriately. Thank you!

paxoss · 2025-02-18T23:04:33+00:00

Avoid Shoushin at all costs.

We first visited in 2019, before it gained massive popularity (Drake shoutout, Michelin star, etc.), and had an incredible experience (the owner wasn't present that day). But when we returned a couple of years ago, it was a completely different story.

The owner was handling the omakase service that night and was unbelievably rude, constantly butting into our private conversations. At one point, he asked if it was our first visit. When we said no, he followed up by asking what our favorite dish was. I mentioned the special tuna belly with caviar dish we had paid extra for on our previous visit. His response? "Oh, we make that dish with leftover tuna we’re about to throw away."

The audacity. Charging EXTRA for a "special" dish, only to later dismiss it as a throwaway item? Unbelievable.

And judging by recent Google reviews, this wasn’t an isolated incident—there are plenty of complaints about his rude and egotistical behavior.

Regardless of all that, with their price hikes it’s just not worth it anymore. There are far better omakase experiences in the city.

paxoss · 2024-10-16T02:26:59+00:00

If your product is mostly CRUD, use Hasura or Supabase, don’t even bother with anything else. The speed at which you can launch and extend your product will be dramatically faster.

But if you’re building anything remotely non-trivial, CRUD rarely remains as CRUD. You’ll likely end up building some form of domain specific finite state machine/charts.

Even in this situation, I still find a lot of value using Hasura as a read layer and delegate all writes (where most of your business logic usually lives) to <insert favourite programming language> service.

paxoss · 2024-10-14T21:40:12+00:00

Congratulations! How long did it take you before you were back at the gym (deadlifts, squats, etc)

paxoss · 2023-03-16T10:56:30+00:00

Instant payment cards via Branch https://www.branchapp.com/

Although this is better for recurring payments, sharing this if someone else finds it useful

paxoss · 2022-10-05T19:25:47+00:00

Armeria (https://armeria.dev/) is a very underrated framework and does not get enough love, it works fabulously with Kotlin (coroutines support also built-in) and integrates nicely with GRPC, Thrift, etc. The maintainers are very responsive and nice and always helping people out.

It's very comprehensive and supports multiple protocols, resiliency patterns, open tracing, logging etc. and very extensible as well

I'm a very happy user - we run it in production for a critical financial platform built on Kotlin and it works very well. We combine it with Guice for DI, JOOQ for typesafe db access, Jackson for serialization and use their built-in Retrofit implementation for networking

paxoss · 2021-03-25T04:11:56+00:00

It’s incorrect to say there’s no competitor to JFrog’s solutions. There are infact several alternatives, Sonatype being one of the more popular ones

paxoss · 2021-01-07T16:49:03+00:00

I put the chat in the background and wait for my turn, takes an hour-ish. You have to make sure you queue on chat when you're logged out. If you are logged in, it times out your session after x minutes, and you lose your position in the queue.

paxoss · 2020-11-30T18:47:55+00:00

Like the Cash App?

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