There's a lot of fuss around MCP, but all I've seen about it is local MCP servers that you have to download and run.

I've stumbled upon this, tried it on a small api documentation of ours and it seems to work well!

Seems like a good way to make tools you use regularly but that are a bit old school become compatible with Cursor and Claude

Seems like the paint is still fresh and they're actively developing it

Are you French? Seems like the only place where PHP is still popular is France because of Symfony.

But for the rest I agree, coming from Rails and now working in Typescript: Rails is way faster for building stuff, but building scalable apps in a team that scale without a typed language is way more complicated

In some ways current PHP has much stricter typing than TS as it's actually checked at runtime.

Germany as well

Kind of a typical PHP developer post unfortunately, it's the only language where I see people say 'I've been here long enough to know better'

That's the thing though, tech changes way too fast to say that. As soon as I see somebody say that in a interview, I assume that they are not even up to date in the language they claim to use so well, because they are likely to use it like they did 5 years ago.

I guess the key to more money today is staying flexible. I'm sure you can find well paying PHP jobs, it just makes it harder to say it so bluntly.

Good luck with the chase !

I run one too. International, customers in Europe, us, south America. It's been running for almost 8 years, so now it's practically 'finished' - basically does the job for the niche it's targeting.

But I'm tired of being solo, so I'm merging with other people that are more on the sales part. One of them also has a profitable company (not saaa - involves people transportation) and needs a tech to make everything smoother (insurances contacts etc)

We'll see how it goes because we come from VERY different perspectives and need to bend our habits to be able to work together

Having a profitable SaaS is awesome (I can work on it something like 2 days a month if I want to, just managing specific invoices) but you just get nuts working from home alone after a while. It was fun during COVID-19, can't say it is anymore

Thanks for that ! I had a terrible HN app, and discovered Harmonic through this post. And it's so much better. <3

I'm editing the blog http://cto.pizza that relates challenges of CTOs, VPs, engineering directors... you might get some insights on what it is like on the blog

Hello,

I'm having the same considerations and am writing about challenges CTOs of startups of different sizes face on a daily basis on http://cto.pizza

The concept is simple: we talk about your growth, team and tech challenges over a pizza. Let me know of any of you might be interested in grabbing one.

I'm based in Paris but we could figure something out over Skype or something if you have interesting stories to share!

Ask him the real reason why you still can't talk about it on the last day ? The whole "it will make the team worry" isn't working anymore. Kind of sounds like a dirty move, I'm afraid.

Couchsurfing is mostly relying on trust. I've couchsurfed quite a bit (stopped since Airbnb I must say) and every time, people were the sweetest. But that's a good enough situation for backpackers, Airbnb has nailed down the cheap hotel-level hospitality.

Take Cuba as an example and their casas particulares: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_particular They have their own Airbnb there, without internet.