There's limited space on the front page, and the topic of AI is so prevalent, it occupies a lot, every day. Right now 10 out of 30 stories on the front page are about AI and LLMs.

My story on the first page, so I guess people still loves success-stories ;)

5 years of product development for lower ARR than a standard FAANG salary is not a great way to make money.

Well, perhaps people see such success stories for what they are, well curated commodity flowers in the walled gardens of the major players, who will not hesitate to pluck them the instant they threaten to have any kind of uncontrolled growth. It's "ISVs" all over again, commoditization of complements etcetera, the tech molemen that serve the big machines.

AI looks to many as a wall buster, at least for the time being, so even if breakout success is unlikely you can't blame people for at least trying to escape the underground caverns where the "widely successful" ceiling is capped at perhaps reaching a FAANG manager level of compensation.

I’ve noticed a huge rise in political content and at first it bothered me because I come here to get away from all the propaganda.

But seeing just how incompetent, corrupt and lawless this administration is, it no longer bothers me. We have to educate and inform.

Also, Republicans kill jobs.

> Is that harder to do these days, or has the HN news appetite shifted?

I'll speak as someone who is part of the problem. As groucho Marx says, I wouldn't want to be a part of any club that will have me as a member!

HN is a victim of its own popularity. Things just get diluted and more mainstreamy by people like me, who are perhaps hackers in spirit but don't have much to show for it.

I work in IT at an international company everyone knows the name of. I've got a garden and there are meals in my fridge made of meat from pigs I raised. I've got furniture in my house my wife and I made years ago in a different state.

I'll submit random articles, but never a show HN. How could I? Woodgearsca built a woodworking shop out of his woodworking shop. No one cares about the tables I built. I try to speak only when I know I can contribute, but im very unsure i raise the quality here.

Thank you!

Nope! It was all done organically

I am using Google Cloud Platform to store the data

Yep, Teams store is a hidden gem.

Thank you! I think you could do it, just ship something today!

Exactly, it can also happen with larger companies and if the creator here decides to step back for Example he might organize some sort of continuity by selling the product or hiring someone to maintain it

They seem focused and dont have and debt or funding burdens. There risk of something catastrophic happening to an individual is lower than the average business going out of business.

Some sort of data and data structure export/external backup would be a good feature though if it doesn’t already exist

Sir, this is a forum for people who make things

For ordinary US citizen without a broad worldview, this thing i wrote seem like writings of a mad man. As Kennedys presidential address says:

"...we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

My duty is to warn ordinary citizens, this is it, you were warned.

answer to your question follows:

because product is Russian, programmers are Russian, so your data will be under influence of Russian government directly or indirectly - his family is in Russia.

so HN bots want to be edgy but failed to comprehend that Russian regime IS directly involved in making life for US citizens difficult, even tho Russian regime had 20 years worth of chances to not do that, not be bad actor, but they did not want that. they want to be bad actor and they act as bad actor. im not saying anything about Colonial Pipeline attack of course that would be silly.

Russian people are not outsiders, they are complicit in Russians regime activities. but it is so hard to explain this to people because even XTwitter is allowing Russian propaganda / soft power activities of Russia unimpeded.

Also a lot of Israeli people have family, ancestors in Russia so they project their feelings for them, towards Russia uncritically.

Russia is not democracy, Russia is not USA. Russia IS Russian people. Russia IS acting as a bad actor so call it as it act as.

Agreed!

You state it as if it were a coincidence. The important point is that the author identified the problem and filled the gap.

> I started reading forums, comments, and online discussions. It turned out the built-in Wiki in Microsoft Teams annoyed users really a lot.

thank you!

Author also mentions his thoughts on expanding to the russian market. So many red flags here. Pun intended.

At least there is a lot of room for improvement for entrepreneurs likes me ;)

In my (admittedly very limited) experience, Teams was almost free when you're already paying for microsoft 365. At least last time I had any involvement with it, the price difference between having teams in the bundle or not was negligible. It makes it cheaper than any competitor.

Now in reality, I think the true cost is hidden by the frustration it causes (some?) users, but it's very hard to quantify that in a dollar amount. Which is why companies stick with Teams.

For c#/cpp visual studio is really, really good

BTW - I see you have a LLM answering questions based on your docs on the help pages (which is great). So really I mean for customer support issues that are raised outside this channel

Not yet, but it is in our roadmap

Given the state of the typical Microsoft PM he will be safe. They'll always prefer more features over a fast UX. Even if there will a fast enough teams wiki one day, the next PM will butcher it to death again.

thank you!