> I’ve been reading hacker news for about a decade, and
> it’s getting to the point where I don’t think there are
> many entrepreneurs and/or technical people on here
> anymore.
Not sure, I tried my luck with co-founding 2 companies but I work now as an employee. I notice that the number of Stars on popular Github projects is rising every year, leading me to the conclusion there is an ever growing number of technical people. More over I realize it becomes easier every year to deal with more complexity.
That said, it becomes more feasible to handle more business logic - or compliance logic if you will.
I know that especially Lean Startup proponents say one should start with low tech solutions. Also I attended an accelerator program and was surprised that most startups there were not tackling exactly super complex things. In fact one Startup worked with some kind of modified Wordpress or so - which has GDPR logic already included.
So yeah, things become more technical and complex but I think it's for the good. Also when handling other people's data I guess there should be some responsibility. For the 2 companies I co-founded data-export would have been trivial to implement as the Web Apps were AJAX powered, I would have had just to provide a link to the user. In case of Startup #1 users were anyway only there to train for some test, so it would have been no problem to delete the user records. Probably delete cascade would have been fine as I worked with backups. Deleting data from backups would have been fine as well, they take up only precious space and use up bandwidth. Startup #2 was more about producing content that was not from users.
Also I want to note that in times where TDD is something even known to barely technical people, delete cascade is safe and a no-brainer.
Anyhow, the most challenging thing looking back would be all those 3rd party tools. To name some: Google Analytics, Mixpanel, managed DB/Redis/etc. I was never a fan of any of those tools and in times of Docker, we can run our software on whichever computers seem most suitable.
> My biggest fear is that all of these complex
> bureaucratic laws are just raising the bar for doing a
> startup. Maybe the days of two people doing a startup
> in someone’s garage should be in the past? If so, that
> makes me kind of sad.
GDPR isn't really complex, it's more like a collection of vague rules and recommendations. Basically most of them are like keep only the data you need, offer export and deletion following best practices.
> it’s getting to the point where I don’t think there are
> many entrepreneurs and/or technical people on here
> anymore.
Not sure, I tried my luck with co-founding 2 companies but I work now as an employee. I notice that the number of Stars on popular Github projects is rising every year, leading me to the conclusion there is an ever growing number of technical people. More over I realize it becomes easier every year to deal with more complexity.
That said, it becomes more feasible to handle more business logic - or compliance logic if you will.
I know that especially Lean Startup proponents say one should start with low tech solutions. Also I attended an accelerator program and was surprised that most startups there were not tackling exactly super complex things. In fact one Startup worked with some kind of modified Wordpress or so - which has GDPR logic already included.
So yeah, things become more technical and complex but I think it's for the good. Also when handling other people's data I guess there should be some responsibility. For the 2 companies I co-founded data-export would have been trivial to implement as the Web Apps were AJAX powered, I would have had just to provide a link to the user. In case of Startup #1 users were anyway only there to train for some test, so it would have been no problem to delete the user records. Probably delete cascade would have been fine as I worked with backups. Deleting data from backups would have been fine as well, they take up only precious space and use up bandwidth. Startup #2 was more about producing content that was not from users.
Also I want to note that in times where TDD is something even known to barely technical people, delete cascade is safe and a no-brainer.
Anyhow, the most challenging thing looking back would be all those 3rd party tools. To name some: Google Analytics, Mixpanel, managed DB/Redis/etc. I was never a fan of any of those tools and in times of Docker, we can run our software on whichever computers seem most suitable.
> My biggest fear is that all of these complex
> bureaucratic laws are just raising the bar for doing a
> startup. Maybe the days of two people doing a startup
> in someone’s garage should be in the past? If so, that
> makes me kind of sad.
GDPR isn't really complex, it's more like a collection of vague rules and recommendations. Basically most of them are like keep only the data you need, offer export and deletion following best practices.