I visit whatever sport activity I can find. Like Go Karting, gymnastics, bouldering, etc and always start asking pro guys: “yo, how come you visit this so often? How do you get fun from it?”. And people lovely tell their story. Later they teach me how to do things. It works for me.
I saw such a team of 3 people, who earns $500,000 in month.
Advice: solve business bottlenecks.
Their approach:
- research the biggest problem in a
company with as less communication as possible
- prepare a full, easy plan well designed. They used slides and a designer.
- split the plan on parts and first part is already with a nice designed demo. Make sure a founder/boss’s work is only pay and say yes. Zero headache.
- make a meeting and pitch it, so a founder/boss can’t say no
I hated GraphQL and all the hype around it. Until I finally got how to use it what for.
Same I thought about nest.js, Angular.
All of them hard to understand by heart at beginning, later (a few years), you feel it and get value.
Sounds stupid, but I tried to reimplement all the benefits using class transformers, zod, custom validators, all others packages. And always end up: “alright, graphql does this out of the box”.
REST is nice, same as express.js if you create non-production code. Reality is you need to love this boilerplate. AI writes this anyway.
Maybe for developers, but I can't imagine most people going back to the terminal. The smartphones won and has the largest market. It would be especially awkward to use a terminal on a touch display. Maybe with voice this will be easier, but I doubt people want to go around in public talking and giving instructions to their phone. UIs are here to stay.
Interesting how much churn did they have because of Cursor?
Personally I thought I would never switch from Pycharm/Webstorm after 12 years of using. 1 day and no way to go back. Insane.
I saw they implemented custom AI model and it was useless compared to frontier models. The moment is lost. I hope they will catch up and show who is the king.
