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Get yourself a gym membership and a good in person coach
Maybe the title of the chart is “What food to bring to impress a girl on your first date?”
I wouldn’t put a lot of faith in anything DHH says. The guy absolutely believes his own hype. Dude wrote a whole book about how learning from failure is a waste of time; you learn more from success, so just be successful the first time and learn from that! Easy, right? Nonsense advice from a guy who got lucky once and can‘t capitalize, which is why the like 6 or so other products he launched after Basecamp all failed.I was shopping for an online backup solution after getting paranoid someone could simply enter my home and steal my backups, but they were all too expensive because I have TB's of data. Another issue with online backups is that they are a recurring cost, and I am trying to minimize recurring costs. I realized I could just make some encrypted backups, and store them in my car, which is what I will do.
In the spirit of saving money, I see DHH at Basecamp has elaborated on their move away from the Cloud. They reduced their Cloud costs as much as possible, and their bill was still $3.2M. He's going to give an update at the end of 2024 to document how much money they saved by using their own servers.
NASA paid Oracle $15M to avoid a software-license audit. An outside auditor told Oracle they wasted $35M on overpayments and penalties, over the last few years.
If we go in to a deep Recession, I expect a lot more of these stories. Companies looking at where all their money is going, and being shocked at how much they've wasted. The Cloud is often touted as a way to save money, but that seems to be where a lot of companies are getting hammered. I've read where AWS has forgiven small developers who made a mistake, and racked up an enormous AWS bill, I assume they are less forgiving with companies. It will be interesting to see if the belt-tightening is good or bad for Cloud providers.
Basecamp details $3.2 million bill that saw it quit cloud
Reckons Dell kit could have stretched that dollar furtherwww.theregister.com
NASA feared Oracle audit, overpaid $15m for software
Houston, we have a problem: Millions wasted on license penaltieswww.theregister.com
How much is your data worth to you? You can get unlimited for $10/mo now. But even some expensive ones are $200 a year for 10TB.
A bank deposit box would be $15/mo. I don’t see why the cloud wouldn’t be your first and easy choice. Everything else has more headaches for literally a few dollars less.
Sometimes I get a Safety Deposit Box to store legal documents and identity papers in, so I would just throw the drive in there with the paperwork.
Gym trainers are so cheap too it’s such a saturated industry.
They are likely doing $100MM+++ revenue at incredible SaaS margins, so, while this bill sounds big, its really more of a rounding error. Just another one of his posts thirsting for attention with hot takes.
Years ago when I was helping the Google Ads team in Groupon one of the top earners in the UK was from people searching for "tattoo near me" etc.
Similar to this;
Instagram is the platform you want to be using to find tattoo artists and judge how good they are. I agree though, there needs to be a better way.
When you employ people you don't want them pissing around on your time, let them do it in their own time, what's wrong with expecting people to actually work when they're being paid to work?
I wish we could review Yelp and Google though.
I worked with a guy back in the day that just barely missed playing in the NHL, so those were the guys who he grew up with and hung out with a bit. He had a lot of stories about why they all go broke. Hard to feel sorry for guys making $800,000/year who need to pretend they make $10,000,000/year
It isn't my natural thought process to search Instagram for local tattoo artists. I barely have an Instagram. I searched Google for service + town like for any other service.
lol
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