I wish your own coding would just be augmented like somebody looking over your shoulder. The problem with the current AI coding is that you don't know your code base anymore. Basically, like somebody helping you figure out stuff faster, update documentation etc.
The article is leaving out a key fact. You have to build something people want. You can throw as much VC money onto a bad product (and business model) and it still won't work. Figuring out a new product and viable business model is hard. That is the reason why so many startups fail.
What the article is basically saying is that "monopolies are bad". I think everyone agrees on that and there are many examples in the tech industry, but then again monopolies are easier to achieve today with digital products.
What the article should have written was: Be more active in breaking up tech monopolies.
I'm not sure that's the main thrust of the article. The idea here is that VCs can profit regardless of whether or not the product is viable. The rationality or irrationality of the company itself is not relevant. You can have a completely non-viable company disrupt an industry where ultimately everyone loses except the VCs, and the VCs' incentives are not necessarily aligned with what consumers would consider to be success.
Not only might consumers favor an inferior product that simply undercuts market pricing, even a higher quality product that has been subsidized to grow market share may be degraded for profitability. I believe this paper is saying that the momentum of market share provides a window for VC to extract profit and exit regardless of the quality of the product.
I'm sure that Angular 2 would be a better choice for a Ecosystem like Meteor. React is very nice, but annoying to find tutorials, get a decent size app going (routing etc) and Angular 2 is more mature (all the good and bad points of NG1 and other js-libs were considered). Next to Google also Microsoft is betting on Angular 2 (TypeScript). This will boost the community greatly. NG1 was slow. NG2 is amazingly fast (webworkers/server side rendering). So for a Meteor Use Case I would pick NG2. If I wanna build a simple Snippet I would use React.
I have been playing with Dokku lately. I ran into some problems with the Dockerfile mode (creates tags like myapp:latest but then tries to start dokku/myapp:latest) and the CLI not parsing arguments correctly (had to put extra " chars in strange places). Perhaps the Procfile mode is more polished. Would like to know if there are any alternative single-host PaaSes out there to use for side projects.
Did you create github issues for these? Dokku is an active project that gets a lot of attention. IMO this is currently the best solution for small scale projects.
+1 As one of the dokku maintainers, I would love to see any random issues fixed. Feel more than free to open an issue on our tracker[1] and I'll be sure to comment.
FWIW space processing in command line args is a bit... difficult given our mode of transport (ssh). This is something we're thinking about fixing somehow, though there isn't a great solution yet.
