#technical founder

[pauljonessoftware]

11 Lessons I Didn’t Know I Was Signing Up for When I Built My First SaaS

When I set out to build my first SaaS product, I thought the hardest part would be writing clean code. I figured the technical decisions would carry the most weight — choose the right stack, organize the database, write good tests, ship features. I had no idea I was about to get a crash course in business, legal strategy, pricing, communication, and product thinking. Here are 11 lessons I…

[kankuroplease]

[snowyshuanghua]

mdzs headcanon of the day #603 ! this was based off a convo i had w @bichenique LMFAAO

xxc gets babied by EVERYONE. his family? the youngest, the baby. his friends? they have his ass on life360. song lan is in on it too, literally everyone is. meanwhile xxc is like “guys i’m a grown man??” and everyone’s like “awh baby” and it has him chewing on wood

[puppetmaster13u]

You know what I need? I need a scene, either alone or in a group, of like, a hero or someone talkin to someone. For example Superman and Batman talkin, everything normal right?

And then I need it to switch to the pov of an outsider and they just have the thickest accents in the world. Somehow speaking the same language and understanding each other while the civilian is just ????

[evilkitten3]

I don't understand why Uchiha clan believed that Madara stole his brothers eyes and killed him... Haven't they saw that Izuna was mortally wounded by Tobirama?

they saw izuna badly wounded by tobirama, yes (well, the ones there that day did), but it's quite likely they weren't actually there when he died. we don't even know what exactly killed him - infection, blood loss, organ failure... no clue. most likely, only a handful of people were actually there when he passed, if anyone, and we'll probably never know.

the main reason for how this rumor started isn't ever stated, but it's certainly implied: madara's communication skills are dogshit. he doesn't trust people, he's distant and uncommunicative. he's also a bit of a quitter, socially. he doesn't believe in telling people things or sharing his side of the story bc as far as he's concerned they've all already made up their minds and it's pointless to try and change them, which leads to the gap between himself and his clan widening, which leads to him closing off, etc etc the cycle continues.

long post w/e a couple images below

according to hashirama, by the time izuna died, the war was pretty clearly going in the senju's favor. it's difficult to say how much of that can be blamed on who/what, but imo it's in large part due to the senju suddenly having a walking forest deity on their side. but from the uchiha's perspective, the on-and-off clan war that had been more or less even for however many years it had been going on was suddenly looking more and more unbalanced.

moreover, it's likely the uchiha's financial situation was starting to worsen as well. when we first meet tajima and izuna, both of them are wearing armor

but by the time hashirama and madara become heads of their clans, only izuna is

(couldn't find the manga version but i own the volume and this is more or less accurate)

it makes sense for tajima to prioritize himself and his sons, not even as a father but as a pragmatic clan head who knows one of them will succeed him. even madara (still can't find the image so i just took a picture with my phone, sorry for the poor quality)

you can't really tell in the first one but by the second it's pretty obvious - madara wore armor on the battlefield until he became clan head.

as i said, it made sense for tajima to armor selectively from a pragmatic standpoint, but it makes sense for madara as a character to forgo armoring himself at all, both bc he's deeply arrogant (and correctly so - the only person who really poses a threat to him is hashirama, and armor is only gonna help so much there) and bc i think he's the sort of person who wouldn't use a resource for himself and not his clan, especially if he didn't really think he needed it. that last bit is just my best guess, though.

so anyway i imagine the tide of the war turning combined with a worsening financial situation (each likely not helped by the other) had already primed the uchiha to view madara as a bad leader, regardless of how much of that was his fault.

so, here's what we know happened immediately pre-ceasefire:

-izuna is grievously injured -madara retreats from battle with izuna; several uchiha surrender to the senju -izuna dies and madara takes his eyes (unclear what order this happened in) -madara shows up to fight hashirama (+co but he doesn't care about them lol) by himself (note: it's possible that in the anime he brought other people with him, but in the manga madara is the only uchiha we see present during the pre-founding fight) -madara and hashirama agree to end the war

we don't know how madara broke this to the uchiha clan, we don't know how much they know of what actually happened. here's what the uchiha clan knows happened immediately pre-ceasefire:

-lord izuna is grievously injured -lord madara retreats from the battle, which likely means they lose, and several uchiha desert to the senju -lord madara, whose only (as far as we the readers know) heir has just died, fucks off to go fight the senju (presumably he at least told them he was going to go do this. i hope) -lord madara comes back and tells them the war is over and they're going to be building a village to share with the senju (or something along those lines) -at some point during all of this, lord madara ended up with lord izuna's eyes

whatever else they learned about the situation, madara would have had to tell them himself (with his words, in a conversation with other humans) or they would've had to find out from someone else who was there - i.e., someone from the senju clan. here's what the senju clan knows happened pre-ceasefire:

-lord tobirama wounds uchiha izuna -the uchiha retreat and several of them defect -uchiha madara shows up, briefly has a yell-off with lord hashirama (uchiha madara says uchiha izuna is dead but left him "power to protect the uchiha", lord hashirama mentions a peace agreement, uchiha madara says "fuck you fight me"), and then fights until he literally can't move anymore -lord tobirama attempts to kill uchiha madara, which would effectively end the war for good, and is stopped by lord hashirama pretty aggressively -lord hashirama tries to reason with uchiha madara again but gets told "if u want me to trust u kill urself" to which he says "ok bet", orders the clan not to continue fighting the uchiha after he's gone, and makes to stab himself in the stomach, which would effectively end the war for good in favor of the uchiha, who had basically already lost -uchiha madara stops him from killing himself and agrees to the truce, meaning the uchiha have in all but name lost and conceded the war to the senju

we don't know how much of the two clans are aware of hashirama and madara's childhood friendship, but it was probably impossible to hide that something had happened. hashirama is naturally charismatic, so he could probably win back his clan's trust pretty easily, but madara.... not so much.

so if your clan head with a history of not-so-reliable(-seeming) behavior abandoned the clan to go fight his ex-friend right after his brother and heir died, having taken his eyeballs, and then came back announcing a truce with your age-old enemy, and then you found out from the grapevine some version of "madara could have won the whole war if he'd just let hashirama harakiri himself but actively chose to stop him".... what would you think?

don't ask yourself "why would the uchiha think madara killed izuna and stole his eyes", ask yourself this instead: why wouldn't they think he did that?

[019v]

i swear i've been drawing i just haven't felt like posting anything 🙏 pure vanilla celebrity crush on the founder of the blueberry yogurt academy okay. trust me i was the notebook he wrote selfship fanfiction in /j

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

Nah but the baby Jin Ling flashbacks(??) when WWX transfers the curse in the Donghua got me so... the way baby!JL literally never smiles lmfao, WWX's only words about his dad being 'he loved ur mom', the super interesting fact they're bashing JYL (implying she wasn't looked upon kindly by the Cultivation world??), baby!JL immediately going 'don't lie to me!' when WWX offers to take him to his parents... like. Man. They did this right.

[cleverpaws]

sigh the horrors of trying to make one of those The Parallels posts with a text-based horror game and a scene from a movie where the character does not move at all. hold on

The Teller's Fortune for Ben, The Founders Game Chapter 3 / Maddy, I Saw The TV Glow

[maple-leifarts]

BOUT FIVE HOURS TIL THE FOUNDERS GAME THING RAHHHHHHH 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[firecoloredwater]

At some point a few* years ago, there were a lot of posts on my dash about trauma, PTSD, and recovery from the above. Specifically, posts getting into the details of how trauma affects the brain, how recovery works, etc.**

Which means I spent a lot of time reading these posts, and then mentally holding them up next to the sharingan and going hmmmmm.

I can't make as good an argument now as I could have then, because it's been years and I've forgotten a lot of details. (So please don't like, assume this is expert analysis; I am not a neuroscientist or a psychologist, and I am definitely forgetting stuff.) But:

Traumatic experiences are easier to remember than happy ones, sometimes escalating to flashbacks (in the PTSD, not the narrative sense); the sharingan creates permanent memories.

People experiencing trauma are often hyperaware of details, especially details that might indicate danger (and PTSD is in part this hyperawareness lingering even when it's no longer needed); the sharingan gives users better vision with a particular focus on seeing and interpreting details, up to minor predictive abilities.

The sharingan is activated (and upgraded) by strong emotions, especially fear and distress.

I've got nothing for the genjutsu powers though, those are just magic.

I suspect that this was not the canon intention! But I think that the sharingan and trauma parallel nicely, and when I'm trying to figure out how to balance the sharingan's abilities for fic, I like to use this framework.

Another minor headcanon: shinobi clans are, culturally and intellectually, very isolated. Partly it's a result of geographic isolation: the location of clan compounds is at least nominally secret, which means they're remote, not just in some town, nor do they have a bunch of non-clan townsfolk living just outside the gates. That's reinforced by information security concerns, meaning that even when someone from a shinobi clan is visiting a town/the capital/wherever, they're going to avoid discussing anything but the smallest of small talk.

As a result***, information takes a long time to filter back into shinobi clans as well; with the possible exception of the Nara (whose reputation for being geniuses might just be due to having traditionally dedicated a few people to basically go be scholars in the capital, and send back any new research/discoveries/developments they learn about) shinobi clans are generally several decades to a few centuries behind the cutting edge of science****. Because that's what happens when a culture is dedicating all its resources to war and survival.

But the point of all this is that I think it would be REALLY funny if "the Curse of Hatred" was just plain PTSD. But the Uchiha noticed the parallels between trauma/PTSD and the sharingan, and concluded that this was a side effect of the sharingan, a sort of unhelpful partial manifestation, which came with all the drawbacks and none of the benefits. People who have PTSD but not the sharingan still have Uchiha blood, enough to get that partial manifestation but not the full, beneficial version.

...and then Konoha happens, and the Uchiha gradually realize that every single shinobi clan has a bunch of members suffering from PTSD, aka the Curse of Hatred, aka (they think) side effects of partial sharingan manifestation.

(under the cut is just footnotes)

*Anywhere from 2-8. I dunno, time is an illusion.

**Mostly these posts were by (or reblogged by) star-anise, who I'm not @ing because I don't think we've ever actually talked and as far as I know she isn't interested in Naruto. But if you're curious and willing to dig in search of posts from several years ago, that's where.

***Also as a result clans would have REALLY distinct cultures and traditions, which is very fun to play with but not the point of this post.

****If you enjoy the "Tobirama is albino and the Senju hate him for it/think he's cursed" trope, this is very conducive to "every single civilian who ever sees Tobirama immediately go 'oh, he has albinism' but no Senju (or Uchiha) has ever heard of it until a civilian randomly refers to it in his presence/in reference to him one day."

[kankuroplease]

Also, it's interesting to wonder what Shisui's childhood would be like, considering how Konohamaru was treated as the grandson of the Third Hokage.

Shisui would not receive any special treatment as long as his grandparents are alive. Like his father, he was merely born into the family (they love him and his curls very much) and would have to earn a title like any other shinobi, which he does.

Kagami would just be like “honorable? He’s a little boy”. Don’t do that to the kid (over inflating his ego)

Miu would tell him he’s important, but not because of who his grandfather is.

Arata would just be in awe of his little boys every achievement. That’s his baby he was lucky enough to have with the love of his life 🥰

His mother would have introduced him as her little “curly q” and left lipstick marks on his cheeks when seeing him off. He pretty much would never hear the end of it from his comrades about the nickname his MILF of a mother gave him.

So all in all, a rather normal childhood and experiences with villagers.

[shatterpatchs-hopeclan]

SOME KITTIES!

Welcome to Hopeclan! A clan nestled by an old twoleg settlement up on the mountains. I've been having a LOT of fun running this game so I hope you'll all join me as I tell their stories ^w^

I've been wanting to make a ClanGen comic for the LONGEST time. I'm like. SUPER busy and am running multiple other webcomics so IDK when I'll be back but I WANT to be back. At some point.

[corporrealism]

half of facilitating the art collective I started last year is beating down the attempts to create a hierarchal structure whenever it crops up 😭

[siilverwiitch]

"I finished a jug." "huh?" the waiter replied. Wei Wuxian pointed at himself. "Still standing." Only then did the young waiter remember that he had said, "I'll change my surname to yours." He quickly exclaimed, "Ooh...ooh, oh! that's... amazing! I'm not trying to boast, but you're the first one I've seen that could still stand upright and speak without your tongue tangling up after finishing a jug. What's your surname, sir?" Wei Wuxian replied, "I'm..." Then he remembered how the waiter had said "Wei Wuqian" earlier and the corners of his lips twitched. He calmly continued, "Surnamed Lan." The waiter was a thick-skinned one too. He announced loudly, without skipping a beat, "Yes, from today onward, I am surnamed Lan!" Beneath the bright red sign that invited guests inside, it seemed that Lan Wangji's stride faltered, just for a moment...

(Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, pg. 298)

Wei Wuxian: My surname is Lan, hahahahaha Lan Zhan: It definitely will be if I have any say in it * Insert WangXian marriage chapter we never got *

[aduplici]

goodnight to lastara, the fallen goddess of balance and individuality whose beliefs have been bastardized by the singulars and used to make ashlyn suffer

[lameow-l]

so subtle genshin… soooo subtle