Thanks! Yes, Booklet is where I spend most of my time. I think it's a big opportunity to have more of a hosted Discourse alternative. I'll work on some comparison pages - thanks for the suggestion. > Is it enough to live off of? I do a little bit of consulting [1] , which bridges the gap. That way, I'm not losing money building the company. Though, all of my products make revenue, and things are doing well in... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Yes, it's Ruby on Rails! I'm using Hotwired on the frontend, which has been great for making discussions real-time while minimizing complexity. I'm hosting on Fly.io - I had used Render for a prior product (https://postcard.page), and found Render slow. Fly lets me set up multiple data centers, and they have an elegant little Ruby gem [1] to enable multi-region support on Rails without much fuss. [1] - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

I've been building a personal website service [1] as an alternative to social media. I hadn't heard of POSSE, but I call my idea "Write once, share everywhere" - the idea being that your content should live on your site, but can be shared on other social networks. A tip for anybody building POSSE systems: OpenGraph images make a huge impact on engagement on social networks. I generate images on-the-fly with the... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

SEEKING WORK - Freelance/Contract - Remote from US I build scrappy solutions to complex problems with high ambiguity. As a solo person I can scope, design, and build end-to-end products. I'm a serial founder who's built and sold multiple companies, and I've held leadership roles in engineering + product at major companies like Webflow and Trusted Health. But, my passion is building things - and I use my background... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago