Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

> then just learning these things once and building an appropriate abstraction layer for them pays for itself very quickly

No point building an abstraction, if none of your projects make money… it’s wiser to focus on building something people will pay for



> if none of your projects make money

If your plan is for none of them to /ever/ make money, then this is logical. If your hope is that one of them somehow does make money, you'll probably want your code to be flexible enough to be moved to a platform that won't destroy your profit margin over pay-as-you-go billing. At which point, the investment of effort will have paid for itself.

There's the problems you currently have, then there's the problems you want to have.


Ironically, people would pay for it as a cheaper alternative to Vercel. Next step they would just need to capture some famous open source project.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: