Jellyvision Q&A with DHH & Jason Fried
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as an example of the founders' realistic, down-to-earth approach and their bootstrapped, lifestyle-business philosophy.
What it is
Jellyvision hosts Basecamp founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson for a Q&A about open source, productivity, feature requests and taking care of customers.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2014 to 2016.
What Hacker News said
Recommends jmui · 2015-07 · on “Ask HN: I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?”
I definitely see your point of view regarding all the efforts in the community to make the next shiny thing. It's very prevalent on the front page of HN all the time. I can't tell if it's representative of the culture as a whole or just those who are frequent posters of HN. In any case, I think that you'd have a lot in common with David Heinemeier Hansson. You can see in this video [this video] and a lot of his blogs that he approaches things in a much more realistic down to earth manner than many other engineers out there. I think that if that's what you want, then it's all a matter of finding the right company that thinks the same way about using technology to solve real problems.
Cites justplay · 2014-12 · on “Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two”
>Node was created by software developer Ryan Dahl as a way of building and running entire online applications with JavaScript—the standard programming language for writing code that runs in your browser. Really? I thought that they intentionally choose javascript because it doesn't have any features like threading. > The massively popular programming framework Ruby on Rails, for instance, is still sponsored by its creator, a company called Basecamp. Basecamp isn't happy to the direction that ruby on rails is going, but they accept it. [1] [1]: [this video]
Cites fuqted · 2016-10 · on “Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week”
A stock price takes into account future growth. When growth begins to stagnate, then the ticker will fall. People lose money. In most cases it probably isn't a huge deal, but the fact that Twitter isn't profitable is likely a (large) factor. Without a given amount of users, it won't be profitable and decreased growth obviously means that profitability is further out. Hence them cutting costs. There's obviously nothing wrong with a bootstrapped / lifestyle business. The people at Basecamp are big proponents of it. [this video] Here's one interview out of plenty where they talk about this kind of thing.