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Cloak
Company blog · cloak.software/blogstartupsprogramming
Cloak is the company blog at cloak.software, writing about startups and programming. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “I built a startup in Rust, I would do it again”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Cloak's site to promote its secrets and environment-variable tool, and cite its Rust posts such as 'Rust on Nails' and 'I built startup in Rust'. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I built a startup in Rust, I would do it again4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-09
- Rust on Nails: A full stack architecture for Rust web applications2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-13
What Hacker News says?
I was reminded of Rust on Nails [0], which i found here [1]. [0] https://cloak.software/blog/rust-on-nails/ [1] https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/blob/main/ECOSYSTEM.md#proj...
Comment linking /blog/rust-on-nails/
on “Async Rust doesn't have to be hard”Submitted Rust on Nails: A full stack architecture for Rust web applications as a story · 74 points
HN discussionI can give you a concrete example if that helps. I looked at the "secrets automation" space and my background is cryptography and web development. I'm a solo developer so when I look at a problem I have to make the solution small enough that I can actually build it. I also have to have an idea about how I will get people to use my product i.e. marketing. In my case 1Password raised 620million in funding based on the…
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on “Ask HN: How to find a problem a solo founder could and would want to solve?”Submitted Building a Startup in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionVery nice post even though they're always in this form of "here is my 10 favorite Rust features". Another one along the same lines: https://cloak.software/blog/i-built-startup-in-rust/ > 95% of the unwraps in our codebase are in unit tests. There's a crate for that: https://crates.io/crates/testresult
Comment linking /blog/i-built-startup-in-rust/
on “Why use Rust on the back end?”Submitted I built a startup in Rust, I would do it again as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've just launched an MVP for a solution to this problem. https://cloak.software/
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on “Ask HN: How does your team manage environment variables?”Submitted I built a startup in Rust, I would do it again as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSEEKING FOUNDER CEO | Dev Tools | CEO Co-founder | Worldwide | MVP Looking for Someone with experience taking a product to market, someone willing to trade equity for MAUs. Idea https://cloak.software/ Current Progress Ready to onboard users but still a few features to add. Contact https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianpurton
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on “Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?”