jamwt

Hi! Yeah, that's what I mean... we've sponsored content in the past, but always in an official, advertisement way. It's disclosed.

People talking about us on X, Reddit, and non-sponsored YouTube segments... There is no money changing hands. Some people think the tech is cool. I totally understand it may not be for you (and I get it, not every tool is for every person/use case), but there's nothing secretive or nefarious going on with those who are Convex fans.

Agreed 100%. Which is why I love working with him. If your product isn't good enough, he's more than happy to tell you. The fastest way to improve your product is to get customers like that and listen to them.

(Also, when I say "Theo", I mean "Theo, Mark, and Julius." While Theo understandably gets the lion's share of credit for t3 chat, his co-founder & team do just as much or more work day to day on the app. And Theo would actually be the first one to insist on spreading the credit more fairly.)

Hi! Jamie from Convex here.

I won't weigh in on the technical/product pros and cons, because I'm obviously a biased party, and you all can decide that for yourselves without my help.

I just want to clarify, on the record: we're not paying anyone to say anything. People say they like it because they do.

The only time we've ever paid anyone is for an official ad read. The ones you guys skip over (me too) . For example, we're an advertiser with Theo. But now Theo is a customer, and an investor... so he pays us, too?

But we don't even do many paid ads at this point.

Yep, see this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34586242

Convex essentially makes it so this happens without developers learning how to carefully do this in their applications.

Serializable is fine if the transaction is guaranteed side-effect free so it can be retried automatically and is essentially a stored procedure so races are rare. Those are both true in Convex.

Otherwise, you should not use serializable transaction isolation. Pushes too much complexity on the end developer they have to reason about, as the article states.