blog.perpetual.technologyOpen Source and Self Hosted alternatives that the world is searching for, in 2022I've often been in awe of the simplicity of how YC startup like Signoz or SuperTokens or others like Ghost have been able to get to 5000+ stars on Github. Some of the traits of these projects include: simple value proposition are an underdog, showca...Oct 11, 2022·2 min read
blog.perpetual.technologyThe biggest contribution of a PRD or spec, in one wordThere was a recent rant on a product manager group on the role of PRD's, and with user stories, sprint management, engineering specs - was there a need for yet another document. The biggest contribution of PRD - is to explain the why. (mic drop). Col...Sep 25, 2022·1 min read
blog.perpetual.technologyIt's 2022, and idle time on servers still isn't being repurposedAny coconut farmer would tell you how important it is to utilize every part of the coconut. Milk. Oil, Coir, Powder. Dried leaves that then goes to make roofs. Fresh leaves to serve as plates. The rest as floats, toys and so on. Even donut balls were...Sep 19, 2022·2 min read
blog.perpetual.technologyHow a random employee & TechCrunch Disrupt's random draw on stage, played a part in Geoff Ralston joining YCearly stage employee(me) reading PG essays does a startup '08-11, fails finds and joins early stage mobile startup June Software / Taptolearn that creates apps of their own introduces founders to YC, and convinces to apply to YC, helps submit the ap...Sep 18, 2022·1 min read
blog.perpetual.technology15 things every product manager should know about smart contractsSmart contracts are state machines Counters, setting variables, addresses, dictionaries, etc are the major primitives for logic you want to create Reading from the blockchain does not cost gas fees Use this to your advantage Writing to the blockchain...Sep 16, 2022·3 min read