Jesse Ezell

LiveKit is awesome and the team is really great and responsive. We've been moving from Twilio to LiveKit and couldn't be happier. Glad to see that finally someone is not using the dumbed down, overpriced model that everyone else uses for billing.

There already is. Look at Unreal Blueprint for an example of something very widely used that is the correct model.

It's great to see all these players in the space, but everyone seems to have nearly the same billing model. All services we've looked at seem to suffer the same flaw of oversimplifying the billing model with participant minutes, where the participant minutes are counted per call. Most services realize this sucks, and then end up offering separate rates such as cheaper "audio only" calls. The...

Orange County, CA. Because it's just the best place to live. Orange County is the home of SendGrid, Oculus, Blizzard Entertainment, Rivian, and many other big names. The big cities are just dirty terrible messes. Why would you force yourself to live in one when everyone is going remote?

It includes engineering and product managers and implies custom development rather than simply traditional marketing assets, which I'm not sure "just smart marketing" gets across. So I think someone that gets the idea it's "just smart marketing" probably has a fairly incomplete understanding of what it really takes to do properly. It's really more smart product management that includes the...

I'd check out lottiefiles.com and find an artist there. I'd also use lottie instead of a gif for rendering any place I wasn't forced to use a gif.

Anything where you can collect enough information to directly communicate back is a good start. That's why so many products have landing pages which collect an email address prelaunch. You don't want to just build general awareness, you want to be able to reach back out to the most interested people directly since they are the most likely to convert when you launch.

An idea is really easy to come up with. If that's all I had, I'd be surprised if I could get anyone to build it even for 100% ownership.

Personal references are great, but if you are trying to expand outside your region that can be challenging. Github is a great place to find undiscovered talent if you know what you need.

Because the alternatives like Teams and Slack have inverse network effects that make them suck more and more when you need to regularly interact with more than one organization.

None. Just use Remote.com.

I have found Spolsky's advice to be quite accurate: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2... It's pretty easy to crush out a product in a month just for the sake of speed, but it usually takes far longer to really understand what you are building and where you want to take it.

We use our own tool for meetings and team collaboration (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) and we love it. To answer your second question, there are a lot of scenarios we see with document collaboration. We use Figma quite a bit internally for example, but usually you end up needing something on top for scheduling and meetings because while a lot of collaboration may happen in the document...

Hey everyone, my name is Jesse and I am a cofounder of TIMU. I've been a Product Hunt addict for years, but today I'm excited today to invite everyone to our public beta and see what you think of what we've been building. Have you ever tried to share a file with a customer on Teams only to have them tell you that they can't view it? Have you ever struggled to remember the URL to the Slack...

CockroachDB checks your boxes. We've been using it for years and are quire happy with it. Good support for JSON with the ability to add computed indexes, while being PostreSQL compatible. They offer a "serverless" cloud deployment model and you can run the database locally. You can also run the database in an in memory mode for unit tests, which is really nice.

We always have enough things planned to take us out a few years, but prioritization is always fluid and driven by user feedback. Just because we originally plan to do something this year, doesn't mean we are going to force ourselves to keep to a roadmap when user feedback tells us we need to do other things first.

I don't understand why anyone thinks Kubernetes is hard. We've been using it for years without issues and never had any dedicated "specialists" for it. In any case it's only getting easier and easier with things like GKE autopilot, and if that's still too much, you can just use Cloud Run and get Kubernetes under the covers with all the things that scare people abstracted away.

Check out loom https://www.loom.com/

Sendgrid + Google Cloud Workflows will give you something super cheap if you don't mind a doing a little configuration and coding to make it happen.