That depends entirely on how much needs to be downloaded for each round trip.
A lean website can work just fine on complete trash connections like GPRS or Comcast without incremental loading. Web developers are not incentivized to make lean websites.
SPAs add unnecessary complexity -> increasing page weight -> making finer grained incremental loading more important -> requiring even more code. It's a self-induced problem.
As a corollary, McMaster Carr is often used as an example of a website that didn't fall into the SPA trap, and customers greatly benefit from that [1]. The front page weighs about 14 MB with all of the images, but the loading experience is great even with network throttling simulating a poor connection. There is a good reason the site has this reputation.
Overengineering is the true root of all evil. Web developers cannot learn that fast enough.
Nice. I run a site that depends on user submitted content, and it's really interesting to observe how some people try to get around the guardrails. Not sure if your tool does this, but I would perform some additional checks for comments that have links in them.
I fell into the same trap of "build, and they will come" multiple times. Reading The Mom Test changed my perspective on things. I cannot recommend that book enough. Good luck. It's possible. I started my SaaS 8 yrs ago and it more than pays for my lifestyle.
I read the book. It’s more entertainment than useful. I just don’t know how to find the people who have problems. I don’t have specific domain knowledge nor I built a following / circle of people to whom I can sell
> It's just simply much harder as a small/smaller business to make money and compete with the big boys.
You're conflating two different things. Thanks to software, it's easier today than it's ever been to make money as a small business / solopreneur. It's also harder to compete with the big boys, possibly for the same reason and due to economies of scale.
That's why I don't bother entering the same markets the big boys are in. There are plenty of niche markets which they don't bother touching where a small business can thrive.
Curious how you're thinking about getting around anti-bot protection. I scrape a lot and I've noticed many highly trafficked sites investing in anti-bot measures recently, with the rise of AI browsers and such. Still, cool idea, congrats on the launch.
I'm planning to add proxy rotation across different regions to help with geo-restricted content and rate limiting. Anti-bot is an arms race though — some sites just can't be monitored without solving a captcha, which isn't something I'm trying to do. Focused on making the common cases work well rather than promising to bypass everything.
Many people have mentioned gym. I second that wholeheartedly. Running, especially has improved my mental health considerably. Also, writing. Maybe start by writing about all the times you wished you were alone and how that will now be possible :)
I can relate to this. Coding satisifies my urge to build and ship and have an impact on the world. But it doesn't make me think hard. Two things which I've recently gravitated to outside of coding which make me think: blogging and playing chess.
Maybe I subconsciously picked these up because my Thinker side was starved for attention. Nice post.
