alexanderisora

I will try to keep it alive forever.

The only risk I see is people starting to upload bad stuff and Cloudflare shuts down my account. Hopefully, this does not happen.

I agree. It is nearly impossible!

If they are young, they are full of their own ambitions and ideas. It is hard to cooperate. If they are old, they already have built something in the past and not looking for help in exchange of new risks.

Finding a co-founder is an additional full-time job. I have tried that in 2018 when I was starting my startup. I spent days on meetings and forums like this one.

I found dozens of amazing folks, but it was impossible to negotiate and actually start something together.

Finding a co-founder = finding a girlfriend. You do not seek for one intentionally. You just live having a chance to meet that one. Same with a co-founder.

Thanks for the tip. I was too paranoid to link my blog here.

You can read the post on https://twitter.com/alexanderisorax/status/17722497842517773.... I also added the link to the JSON data there.

Sorry for the ugly formatting. HN is not suitable for this type of post.

What is wrong with Mastodon?

Even if I'm technically allowed to create a new account, I'm not doing this: I do not want to stress because of a risk of getting banned again.

Even though I feel devastated (I have been growing my account since 2016), my post is emotions-free. Only facts. Did Y got Z.

d)

Great point! But do you think people of China trust WeChat? I doubt you need to have reputation to do what Elon plans to do with X. You just need lots of power/money.

The rule of thumb is to act like a regular human. If you are a savvy user, you have shortcuts for everything, you have scripts for optimizing your work, then be careful.

Exporting your data is a great piece of advice. Thanks for reminding that.

i switched to Appliku 2 years ago. it was my best devops decision. saved me thousands of $. AMA.

I can name https://bit.cloud/components as an existing marketplace. It is a big challenge, yes, but also a big profit.

We (the developers) can create a marketplace of micro-apps. It would be a separate business by itself.

For example a programmer can create a full-stack micro-app for accepting payments. The programmer will make it super flexible, configurable and secure. It will be win-win for both programmer (because they will earn money on the micro-app) and the users of the payments micro-app (because it will be pluggable and well-designed since a dedicated person has been working on the one functionality for year).

Yes, this approach has been implemented by many companies. But those plugins' use scope is limited to a company tool. What that folk did is expanded this approach to the 'any app' level.

This is the biggest pain of the modern software development process. Freelancers or outsource companies are not interested in your business, they are interested in charging you for hours spent. This approach is counter productive and is against common sense. Especially if you are a solo maker, not a $$$$ backed startup.

I believe to change this, we need to invent a completely new way of how software is built.

I recently met a guy who came up with an idea. He created a whole new methodology of coding stuff. It took him 4 years of hard working. He made a platform which allows making software out of separated entities which live by their own lives. Those entities (components) are developed by individuals. Therefore, projects built using a set of living components needs less maintenance work because a project is built of components which are maintained by someone else.

The only way to keep this evolution of the components going on is to benefit the makers of the components. The users of the components will pay a fee for the makers of components. Thus we get a win-win. A maker of a component can create an amazing, let's say, billing module and continue working on this single piece of code for years while being paid by 1,000 users of the component. While the users of the component just pay a small fee, hit the 'plug' button and do not care about the maintenance anymore.

This sounds like a magic, but it already works. The guy who made it already got his 100+ customers.

I am long time paid customer of Appliku. I've built a SaaS (https://unicornplatform.com) and before was hosted on Heroku. Migrating to Appliku saved me $400/mo in cloud costs.

My app is React & Django and it works like a charm on Appliku.

Good luck!

By the way, I’m subscribed to your newsletter. For anyone interested, check out https://user-interface.io. This guy sends random stuff about UI. Pretty decent.

Ah I see, thanks. I just think of myself as a 'coding SaaS founder' - so I placed this title. It is just the first title that popped out in my mind :)

I did not want to bait.

I'm sorry I do not use Docker. So I can not comment on that. I also did not try to run Windows or Linux on the machine.

What title would you suggest?

When I actively compile stuff, it gets slightly warm. 95% of time it is cold.

I assume if you code/build actively being in a warm room or under the sun, it will get too hot.

I did not think about such a trick when I was digging the problem.

My current setup (python v3.8 and node v12) runs well both with or without Rosetta.

Thanks for the read.

Have you tried any other means of therapy? Maybe gestalt, psychoanalysis?

Hi Toni. What is the tech stack behind Twiverse?

Hey!

I'm Alex. I've created a landing page generator for startups and side-projects. It produces HTML templates for export, so you can host it anywhere (GitHub Pages FTW). Unicorn Platform got 1050+ upvotes on Product Hunt btw.

The product contains 2 independent repositories:

1) Templates

2) The generator

1) Templates are crafted with SCSS, PUG, and jQuery. Some may say that jQuery is an anachronism. But hell nope. jQuery is still a big time-saver when it comes to DOM manipulations.

2) The generator is made with ReactJS. I'm so grateful to https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app for saving tons of time with configuring the building. Authentication runs on Google Firebase. And I must say it's a blast! Setting it up took just a few hours - and that includes time for creating the Facebook dev entity and the Twitter dev application. Google Firebase Auth takes care of duplicates as well. If your user signs up via email method using "john.doe@gmail.com" and then tries to sign up with a Facebook account attached to the same "john.doe@gmail.com" email, Google Firebase is smart enough to detect that and offer a user his initial method of authenticating. Pretty sweet.

I used Paddle for payments. Paddle has nice API. All I need to validate whether a user is upgraded to Pro is to send one tiny cURL request.

I tried to make the templates generation process as simple as I can. I have an independent .html file single component. When a user picks a component I just upload the .HTML file contents and inject it in the editor's DOM so user instantly sees what he will get after exporting. When a user wants to export a page I compose a single .HTML file which contains heading info, footer and the components HTML in between. I use vanilla PHP to compose the final .HTML file.

It's a commercial product but there are some components that will allow you to create a website for a pet project for free. Without even signin up.

I would appreciate any feedback.

Greetings, hackers. Want to share with you my sideproject - CoinBuzz.stream. It aggregates 110 altcoins and allows to track their news.

I made this SPA with PHP and jQuery. API used: https://coinmarketcap.com/api/ and https://github.com/CoinCapDev/CoinCap.io

CoinBuzz.stream got 350 upvotes on Product Hunt and won #4 Product of the Day.

Really appreciate your feedback.

I'm sick of this too.

The cryptospace needs more paladins and become much more healthy to sustain a strong lasting grow.

Nice, I like it! Keep it up, Dylan.

There are tons of new crypto resources popping up daily. I’m sure the best way to track them all is to use an open-source list like this one.

You are right. Going to discuss it with teammate.

Thanks for the feedback!

Oh I get it. I'll be honest. 'Free' stands there to attract more people.

By the way. We have raised a few hundreds of $ in donations. Thus there are lots of 'insane' people ;)