Secta Labs | Founding Frontend Engineer | Remote (US only) | Full Time | https://secta.ai/
Our first product offers authentic, high-quality AI-generated photos, akin to a fancy studio portrait, for those without the budget or time.
We dive deeply into hard ML problems to deliver simple and delightful UX. Bootstrapped & profitable.
Our frontend stack: TypeScript, React, NextJS, tRPC, Prisma, Inngest, Tailwind. Looking for senior frontend engineers obsessed with attention to detail to lead new parts of our growing apps suite. More details & apply https://secta.ai/careers/ed4206a0-0bf5-4a2e-b37f-fd8aaf2ab26...
Send me the things you've built and proud of to { alexk plus hn at secta dot ai }
We've been using Inngest at Secta.ai for the last ~6 months, happy to answer any questions!
DX is great! Writing the jobs feels very natural, much much simpler than Temporal. The development server is neat and makes debugging jobs very easy. TypeScript SDK is idiomatic, the types are properly inferred & propagated throughout the whole app.
The nice thing about writing step functions for Inngest vs regular "async worker queues" is that we can express logic, e.g. "if X than wait for event Y", with a layer of caching/retries on top.
I don't have a question per se but this post was the first time I've heard about your company and I find it to be a really interesting offering and I've told a few people about it. Having done a small amount of portrait photography in the past (professional headshots, I mean) I think people underestimate how intensely difficult it can be. rock on!
I'm an engineer at replit and I've been using this to find and fix a bunch of nasty bugs. I love the sense of confidence this gives me. When I have the recording captured — I know for sure I can get to the root cause of the problem.
Replay also makes it easier to jump into a new codebase, I can see how things work.
I think this article was very good. It captured the same though process I went through: from trying different apps, to trying to build my own, to realizing it’s all about human condition after all.
Author here. After reading the comments I’m afraid my article didn’t communicate the main point clearly. The mental models suggested here are sweet, but:
It’s not about how to explain recursion or programming, it’s about explaining abstract and complex concepts via adopting to the listener’s worldview and letting them experiment to evolve that view.
I enjoyed the article and it was very clear to me. Thank you for writing it.
Singling out details and sidetracking the comment thread about this one detail is just a thing that HN tends to do frequently. Usually the first few comments determine the tone/topic of the thread instead of the article itself. Which is not always bad.
I thought your point was clear. As someone who is more of a “learner” than a teacher currently, I appreciate the thought of letting me, the learner, explain my current mental model and then a teacher helping troubleshoot that. Listening to this also helps pinpoint where I’m stuck, specifically. Often, a TA or professor will launch into their favorite explanation without first understanding my question.
Thanks! It made me wonder at the time: how many SaaS products out there include these ghost users in their metrics and revenue reports? How many users sign up for stuff they don’t use, but still continue paying for it?
Not sure about reports, but there are plenty of people who continue to pay for services they don't use, which less than honest businesses take full advantage of; it can be very lucrative.
Our first product offers authentic, high-quality AI-generated photos, akin to a fancy studio portrait, for those without the budget or time.
We dive deeply into hard ML problems to deliver simple and delightful UX. Bootstrapped & profitable.
Our frontend stack: TypeScript, React, NextJS, tRPC, Prisma, Inngest, Tailwind. Looking for senior frontend engineers obsessed with attention to detail to lead new parts of our growing apps suite. More details & apply https://secta.ai/careers/ed4206a0-0bf5-4a2e-b37f-fd8aaf2ab26...
Send me the things you've built and proud of to { alexk plus hn at secta dot ai }