We believe an open source unified API enables us to cover the long tail of third party APIs while empowering engineers to customise the integration code we offer out of the box.
This way engineers can use us over building an integration from scratch. Even if that means that they use the self-hosted version and not the hosted version that we have.
The pricing page (https://www.revert.dev/#pricing) doesn't even mention it ("self-hosted" or "community" or something like that). Or is that intentional to cater different audience?
Hi, open-source/community edition is free and you can just host it via docker compose in your own infra. We're adding that to the pricing page as well very soon.
The other aspect of this is that our community is helping us build integrations much faster.
Our customers (i.e, developers) can also help us build a better product. This way it helps everyone in the long run and developers are not repeating this work again and again!
Whatever is important to you, probably not all that different than any other job.
Depends a bit in what role as well but you can expect less guidance which may make it more difficult if you are a new grad.
The one question I'd ask is what your day-to-day will look like, the answer is probably "a bit of everything, young startup, you will grow with the company, blahblah" but at the end of the day there is something you'll have to do and perhaps in startups more so than in other companies that might be things like customize this powerpoint of our pitch for each prospect which may get rather boring.
I think you have to look at it from the other side, you built something and now are looking for people that use it.
What you'd want to do usually is to find people that have a need and then built something to solve that need.
So starting from that, who would want to use your service (expecting parents?) what do they do currently to solve that problem (naming books? other websites?) and how do they find that solution.
Once you clarified those questions in a lot more depth than you think necessary will it become clearer how to reach those people as well.
Yea, I've heard of that trap before of building and then trying to solve a problem rather than identifying the problem first and then building. We've certainly done a bit of that here.
Initially the project was primarily just something fun for us to work on together and to stretch ourselves beyond what we typically get to do at our day jobs. For that it's been good and "successful". But, we have reached a point where it'd be more fun if other people beyond us actually used it. I think that's a good point that we should step back and reflect on what the problem is, who wants it solved, and how we position ourselves so people come across our project when looking for a solution. We'll spend some time reflecting on that. Thanks for the comment!
I don't think you necessarily make more as developer, have a look at the market and see what you can get.
Especially now that more companies are moving to remote you might be able to do better in either role.
Having said that as developer it will most certainly be less stressful so you might go that route just so you can free up more space to start writing now.
That's true, while I hardly do any programming as a teamlead, some of the meetings, i feel so drained by end of day. That's why I write in the morning right now.
Working as a developer will lighten my cognitive load and may free up more hours to pursue writing.
On other hand, if I make more money, I can grow bigger nest egg and retire earlier.
In a way that is the same point, just in your case you have already existing customers.
But if you don't have a look at what other companies customer are doing and optimize for a segment of those can certainly be a good approach IMHO
Sort of but not really. The article is mostly about differentiation. But if there's no existing solution to a customer problem, then you don't have to differentiate.
His argument is basically it's not worth doing it "Because vast part of 21st century emissions come currently poor world".
That seems like a rather odd stance to me, effectively he is saying it's too expensive for us as a rich country to do and at the same time expects poorer countries to do it - how can they manage that if it's already too much for the richer countries?
I really don't see the issue, how can this be seen as a scam?
Even if the persona is used as a marketing tool it might not be great but also...so what?
If you want a career then I'd start backwards: Where do you want to be? What can you imagine yourself as? And then works from there what you need to get there.
And likely what you have to do is upskilling somehow before you can even apply, you can probably take a lot of learnings from your past 10 years and apply them to your new role but there are likely a few things you have to learn first.
On the developer point specifically:
Can you not imagine yourself as a developer because of self-doubts or because you really don't like that path?
If you already didn't like it 10 years ago you might not like it now either but if it's just because of doubts whether you can do it then it's a different story.
It's certainly also going to be difficult to get back into a developer role but with the current job market it is probably still easier than most other career options IMO
> Where do you want to be? What can you imagine yourself as?
Hm, difficult questions I can only partially answer. One part is definitely to become an (part-time) investor again.
> Can you not imagine yourself as a developer because of self-doubts or because you really don't like that path?
It's a mix of both. I have doubts whether I can do it. And I have difficulty to imagine doing it 100%. What I liked in the past was working at the design level, with paper and pen. But at the two developer jobs I had in the past, this was only a small part of the work. Most of it was coding, which for me is more of a necessary evil. Or to say it in another way: I like designing a house, not building it.
Sounds like you want to be a Product Manager - defining what a product does and managing the efforts to get it implemented. Titles might also be project manager but product is usually a key word that an organization is less concerned about typical PM's and more about product delivery vs. IT. Business Analyst might also be a path towards a product manager.
Maybe look for something in the investment space since you have knowledge about that.
If you don't like the act of writing code then you def don't want to go down the developer route.
I agree with some of the other comments that looking into product management might very well be worth it and your background in investment can help with that if you find a company in that field!
Are you good at writing requirements or doing project management work? There are tons of opportunities in Fintech that need those type of skills. Having some tech background is a huge plus.
