The web app somehow made its way to him! He sent me an extremely endearing message that it was fun to see his 2yo grandson using it! (Craig had originally made Kid Pix for his son who is now a graphic, ui, and ux designer). I let him know I made this port for my own daughter as a pandemic-project.
Not sure if it is a bug or intentional - If you dynamite, ctrl, dynamite, ctrl quickly so that both animations are still going the screen still clears.
With Sqreen's acquisition, the list's previous home unfortunately redirects the their acquisition announcement. We're grateful that they released the list under CCA and we look forward to keeping it updated and relevant to startups on beginning their infosec journeys.
After making the rounds last week and getting some feedback on our tool, we wanted to show HN what we wrote that catches the backdoors that Salesforce's Endgame (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26154038) targets. We would love to get your feedback and we hope you find it useful.
> For me it was always an uphill battle to sell the need of security
60+ ppl is pretty far along where other security aspects besides infosec also start showing up (e.g. securing employee computers, etc). Was this because tech-debt in general wasn't a priority or security specific improvements weren't seen as important?
In the extremely early days of a startup one doesn't have much optionality. With only three people at the company it really did not make any sense to hire a full time SRE for a pre PMF startup. I'm glad we made those trade offs back in 2011-2012 so that Firebase could be here today to be backed by a dedicated Google SRE team.
Don't mince words. In the extremely early days of YOUR startup, YOU didn't FEEL like you had much optionality. That is in no way universal. You very much do have optionality. You can quantify how much it costs to hire someone part time or full-time. You can quantify the risks of burning yourself out, or your manager can. Your firm had the optionality, you just chose to go in a very specific direction.
What I'm saying is that your firm survived in spite of, not because of this frankly amateurish decision.
Obviously nobody can take away your contributions towards making Firebase successful. I think many people may not realize the kind of fanaticism that it takes to get a startup off the ground, considering the odds are stacked against you.
I am curious though, how well did you sleep that year?
