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Tech Thoughts In defense of ad-supported products The Indian startup bubble is insane Migrating from WordPress to Hugo LLMs: great for business but bad business When to commit Generated code to version control Abstractions should be deep not wide Some data on podcasting API services should always have usage Limits Timing Real vs Theoretical Engineering Productivity Play-to-earn games Too much documentation is harmful Engineering stack Engineering Guardrails VCs are anti-personas for a B2C startup Bad and good ways to test code The different layers of a web applications The biggest impact of ChatGPT Social media and burglar bars 5 reasons package....
#tech-thoughts In defense of ad-supported products Nov 09, 2024 There are two major ways to make money on consumer Internet - subscription or ads. Also, unlike enterprise-world, usage-based subscription is hard and confusing for consumers. So, we end up with 10$ a... #tech-thoughts The Indian startup bubble is insane Oct 12, 2024 Bengaluru-based Postman, a API management product, has raised a total of $433 million valuing it at ~$5.6B. Its revenue was $171M in 2023....
I am a software engineer and an angel investor based out of the San Francisco bay area. This page is mostly a collection of curated articles that I have written and tools that I have built. More professional info is on LinkedIn. You can email me at ashishb AT ashishb.net. Blog posts & Tools Infrastructure If you are an infrastructure engineer consider my聽Docker 101聽blog post and then read how you can聽deploy web services聽essentially with zero fixed costs....