I was curious and checked if they are still using Hetzner. It appears not, so I can share who it was. It was https://artstation.com. Basically heavily oriented towards serving static images, so the CDN could have been really expensive. Doing a reverse IP lookup on cdn.artstation.com servers now resolves to Cloudflare and it has cloudflare headers on the response.
this is true in theory but not in practice. just read the article, they came up to the same conclusion. if you want to offer a slick UX (a key element to convince users to pay these days) htmx won't cut it.
Fast is underrated these days and the experience of a fast site TTFB, FCP etc then being more bare metal and eschewing frameworks is wise. Ditching NextJS for Django allowed me to heavily speed up a site. You can do tricks to get React to be fast but that is more work.
Fast impresses people. Too many sites are janky and slow.
Would open sourcing the core IP of a company “typically” require board approval?
If a company goes under, the investors will want to sell off the IP, open sourcing everything would make that IP less valueable. There must be some blanket clause in the term sheet to cover that, right? Ie: founders won’t do anything which will materially hurt the company without board approval (or something, I am no where close to a lawyer, this is all conjecture)
If it mattered it would have become part of VC contracts years ago.
Early stage VCs make money on the big winners, not on the tail end of companies that don’t exit for 100x. For the most part, except for patents the IP is worth less than the Aeron chairs at the end.
