How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed

One of the big promises of software is composability. You can build rich, powerful experiences out of basic building blocks.

APIs add new things to the toolbox. For example: Treasury, which lets an app/platform store, move, and track a business’

I've been a small business owner and can talk at length about SMB banking, and will later, but let's put on the software developer hat right now.

Lots of software talks about money, keeps records about money, does calculations about money, but can't *touch* money.

This is extremely frustrating when you're building SaaS apps for businesses, because you have total control over your UX right until your app needs to touch money... at which point all data about it lives in a silo you can't access.

So you generally push work to the operator.

For example, suppose you’re writing a business-in-a-box system for electricians, including an invoicing feature.

You need to be able to read bank transactions to reconcile. You probably can't. The owner can. So you ask the owner to do mind-numbing work a computer does better.

It sure would be great if your business customers had bank accounts you could actually introspect and operate on their behalves! You could just get the list of incoming payments and match against the invoices.

There is some software to write but it is not rocket science.

🚨 $PSKY MedTech 🚨

🩺 Provides a healthcare CRM software

📈 Sales are set to grow by 38% YoY from 2020 to 2021

⚡️ Developing a platform for third-parties to commercialise their MedTech apps and integrate these with PatientSky’s software

✅ Becoming a Platform-as-a-Service

PatientSky $PSKY.OL was founded in 2014 in Norway and started as a patient administration tool for clinics

🩺 It serves as a platform for ordering appointments, prescriptions, video consultations and e-consultations

The solution grew rapidly from 100.000 to 1.8m app downloads in less than 4 years

🥼 And it added a myriad of possibilities along the way, starting from a simple EHR management tool to a MedTech platform

1️⃣ By 2016 it counted 100k downloads and had morphed into a SaaS tool offering a task scheduler, internet connectivity and a VOIP module

2️⃣ By 2019, it counted over 1m app downloads and added an insurance module, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and a medication tool

✨ The company also introduced a Platform-as-a-Service tool, enabling its customers to build their own medical apps on top of PatientSky’s platform

3️⃣ By 2020, it expanded into hospitals and counted over 1.8m app downloads

How to join a developer community?
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How to find mentors/developer friends?

A detailed thread 🧵👇

For context I have been a part of various developer communities for ~3 Years. I have found that learning with people is the best and most effective way to learn.

So here are the ways you can join a developer community:

💻 If you are a student

Many companies have their campus ambassadors/ Hack clubs / Developer club program that you can join or lead in your campus.

Some of my favorites:

⚡️Student Ambassador program @Microsoft (I am a part of this for 2 years now)

Most commonly used AWS services:

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1. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2):

EC2 instances are basically servers with an operating system which can be used to run your applications on the internet just like you run your applications on your laptop during development.

2. Relational Database Service (RDS):

RDS is a distributed relational database service.

Amazon RDS is available on several database instance types - optimised for memory, performance or I/O - and provides six familiar database engines to choose from, including:

- Amazon Aurora
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- Oracle Database
- SQL Server

3. Elastic Container Service (ECS):

AWS ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service.

ECS has been a foundational pillar for key Amazon services and it can natively integrate with other services such as Amazon Route 53, Secrets Manager, AWS Identity and
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