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Something like that - parsing and scraping have come a long way right? Plenty of different ways that are available. The adoption of various LLMs have given more options definitely. We use both traditional and LLM methods.
My latest is Marvelogs (https://www.marvelogs.com) - always wanted to build a price tracker (or tracking any values on a regular basis) - it's nearly there.
I missed Yahoo Pipes a lot so I built something similar recently for myself :) I know there are a few alternatives out there, but had to scratch my own itch.
I also got frustrated with text editors and decided to build something for myself too, so I don't have to repeat the process over and over.
I'm working on Fro (https://fro.app)
Haven't released properly yet - not sure if it's stable but oh well.
I don't like using my personal email to sign up for things. But there are definitely things that I do want to sign up for - newsletters, try out some services.
I know there are temporary email services, but I actually want to use these services. Of course there is Apple email that forwards to your real email.
But, I also don't want to flood my inbox.
Anyway, I wanted to receive these transactional emails in my personal Slack.
So, that's what Fro is for (https://fro.app)
- Sign up - get an email address - link to your Slack channel
And you can now catch up on those newsletters via Slack.
For those who remember... :) man I miss when things are simpler, slower, maybe more manual, more tedious, but more configurable, more buggy, but more creative. I understand we got here through multiple step changes of improvements, but I'm just nostalgic - good memories!
So if we kept frameset in HTML5, we would not have had to do all these JS shenanigans?!?!?! SPA out of the box? :)
Launched Mashups back in January and been iterating over it. It's Yahoo Pipes clone - something I always wanted to make myself.
I don't think there is a hope when it comes to our privacy and ads and our data being sold - none. Even if I'm somewhat off the grid or low in activities, the indirect way of targeting me still exists, by my family members, friends, people associated with me. I surrender.
I looked into Purelymail when searching around for good email solution. Google Workspace was getting a bit costly and there were too many things I did not need.
Zoho Mail provides another option - $1.95 per month I think for my use where I am (AU) and has all the features I need for my small indie business.
One other option I tried was to actually run mail myself with Linode VPS - https://mailinabox.email/
I know it sounds a little scary at the start running your own thing, but so far it's been working out great - zero issues so far. I may turn off Zoho one day and go fully into self-hosted option.
Is RSS really coming back? :) (you'll say it was never gone!) Lots of RSS related posts and comments recently. I've released Mashups a few weeks ago.
It's yahoo pipes clone - so you can mix and filter RSS feeds that you want.
Anyone looking to mix up their own RSS feeds? I've recently launched Mashups
It's the good ole Yahoo Pipes clone! Would love for those who want to mix RSS feeds to try it out!
I absolutely love RSS format. It's one of the easiest ways for devs to get data and do something quickly with it.
If you remember, Yahoo Pipies allowed devs & others quickly build something with RSS feeds. I've recently rebuilt and launched my own Yahoo Pipes clone
Along the way of building this tool, I came across a plenty of major websites that do not provide RSS feeds and indie devs who maintain niche tools to provide these feeds.
Then again, RSS are still plentiful!
I've recently launched Mashups.io - my own Yahoo Pipes tool.
And using the tool, I've been filtering, changing and tweaking various RSS feeds along the way.
I absolutely love RSS and absolutely loved Yahoo Pipes. For me, that got me into mashing up stuff on the web.
For devs, RSS feeds also provide a very easy way to source data. No need to get API keys and tokens, it gives you real life dataset immediately and easily. And from there, you can create tools.
But this IS the strategy. One thing after another, giving perception that SF is "leading" the way and enterprise customers continue to listen to the SF sales reps who just need to tell the story, so on and on it goes. :)
Good idea!
Apologies - that's been fixed. Though I haven't really optimized the demo for the mobile view I think.
I didn't get the pun......
I'm definitely getting too old. Back when I was just learning Backbonejs, I gulped up every single framework that came out, tried them all, every language, every variation, server side, client side, mobile, hybrid.
In the end, after all that journey, I settled into Laravel Backend and Vue3. Every app I create now is just a copy-and-paste of what I've done before. The tech stack disappears into the background and I try to actually build the features that I want to build.
I'm definitely old because I see this great work called "one" and I look at the video and I get immediatey turned off by so many "new things". It's me - definitely me. It's maybe for a different generation of devs.
I've been working on Pyro - a video gallery & community creator. It's a tool that lets you create a video-based (your own YouTube?) community but you can collect videos from many sources.
Here's a video site I created using this tool - a startup pitch video site
Reddit would be an option wouldn't it?
Would love for others to share non-technical questions that can filter bad candidates!
I'm blessed to remember fondly of my childhood where my grandmother, mom and aunties made kimchi altogether as a family, put them in large pots, men dug holes in the ground and put them in. Then, we took some out for tasting in a middle of cold snowy winter. The memory alone makes me salivate today.
Congrats on shipping. May I ask why I should use this instead of a more established tool like Trello?
Our mission is to build a product that makes work life simpler, more pleasant and more productive.
I know it would be impossible but I wish we go back to the days when we didn't have Slack (or tools alike). Our Slack is a cesspool of people complaining, talking behind other people's backs, echo chamber of negativity etc.
That probably speaks more to the overall culture of the company, but Slack certainly doesn't help.You can also say "tool is not the problem, people are" - sure, we can always explain things away, but Slack certainly plays a role here.
I took a bit more collaborative approach to reading and discussing research papers (https://www.scholars.io or https://app.scholars.io) and allow people to annotate, comment and collaborate on research.
It's interesting to think about what people are thinking about AI. Or whether people can think "properly" about AI. The other day, an architect friend of mine told me he's worried that there is an AI app one of his clients started to use. I work in the AI field and have been for a long time. So I always knew I was in a bubble of sort. But anecdotally, it feels general public is thinking about it a lot more than I expected and I wonder what people are actually thinking.
This is cool! Always find these visualization helpful but it does get quite big sometimes.
[shameless plug]
I created a personalized newsletter for Arxiv (which I plan to expand to others) so you can receive the latest research papers on the topics. You can also filter by some keywords too (e.g. only give me LLM or RAG related papers).
Don't know why I bought zipp.ai - sounded cool. I'll just park it using Newsy for now (https://www.newsy.co)
I use a tool called Scholars
Let you import and read PDF directly, annotate, comment and share with people.