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thepra

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Maker of collAnon.app, your next multi web app for you everyday digital life, or not .-.

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news.ycombinator.com 8mo ago

I'm 3.5 webapps deep into nothingness

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Any good server online status pinger for Windows?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How to reach/speak to charitable investors?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Any list of good practices for hosting services?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants?

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collanon.com 3y ago

Show HN: collAnon v2 for your private discussions, new confrontations and Gantt

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Going Freemium with CollAnon v2.0.4

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Historically, who was behind the first tech engineered video viewer on the web?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: When will ACL on Linux be part of the DE?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Should a web app(PWA) redirect to a 404 page on route not found?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What does it mean when a new blog post isn't shown in new?

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collanon.com 4y ago

Show HN: CollAnon, anonymously short discussions platform

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blog.thepra.dev 4y ago

Please STOP runtime loading JavaScript libraries within a PWA

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Guide on how to build browser based Android app

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Are there any UX/UI public user feedback websites?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

WTF Amazon: using my phone number for automatic 2-factory authentication

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Open Sourcing CollAnon Quick

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Are there any devs that do also self-hosting of services?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Is there any SysAdmin Linux GUIs?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Do you close your eyes when you put food in your mouth?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Is it useful an informative&actionable 3D earth on all the governments?

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blog.collanon.app 6y ago

Overcoming the Bias Through Anonymity

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collanon.app 6y ago

Show HN: CollAnon, collaboration tool through temporal anonimity

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Any GUI designers like Blend but for C++?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Beware of HN websites link

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There's also an unresolved bug when a certain email is both coming from an on-prem exchange and at the same time is used as a registered account at Microsoft, outlook seems to have continuous disconnections and prompts to login into the Microsoft account in outlook rather than sticking to the already logged in exchange email. Frustrating to say the least.

That's true for new projects, I've found that as a bootstrap mechanism it is not ideal, takes away your hard earned preferences/know-how abs leaves you barely engaged on the technical path. On the other side I already have quite big codebases, some legacy and inherited, there exist vast amount of context to work on and figure out stuff/fixes/bugs/improvements and Claude Code excels 95% of the time in figuring the existing flows and functionality, if a vague or precise issue is known that's facing some files elaborations or user work flows it can do a good job in pointing out what are, with a high chance, the issues.

I arrived at this conclusion too after 3 years of smart working, it's unreasonable to have today an obliged/implicit sacrifice of time and money that's commuting to the work place.

I would have to disagree, so far the new file API has been the most buggy experience for many apps that have to use files every time that the app is running or is in background, and this is from a user experience perspective alone.

I can understand why the developers can't be bothered with a badly thought out new system.

I'm in the same boats, I have an app on play store but that dev verification thing will cost me around 90 euros where its not making me money even though its commercially driven still, I just can't be bothered to spend extra money for Google for their company verification requirements

(ps: I tried to get support about it and was willing to provide the company info just to keep getting on the platform, but the only answers that I got were "you must use this (non free) system to have your company verified" and then I tacitly said "screw this")

Why GitHub won 2 years ago

I don't know about that, it was a dead platform for my projects by the time that the US government policies went and blocked accounts and projects of some middle east developers.

Since then I'm happy self hosting Gitea. GitHub is still a decent place to contribute to others projects.

at least for my privacy conscious web apps I don't even expect email for login, just a username and password.

And if people really want to enable password recovery then they add their email into their profile and that data point is only used for that.

It might bother some, but I don't really want to require emails for privacy related services. My two cents.

as a pwa developer, that's a continuous concern, lately I was thinking of notifying the users after certain actions to go and save locally the data that's withing the web app(it's all JSON btw) and restore it later when in need, but that's too cumbersome as a solution for many... ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯

Please forget about showing up physically, it's noble to think of "you really care" but in places with organized crime they have ways to count if those that depend on them come and vote for their "right" choice. It has been estimated that around 20-30% of IRL votes in Italy follow the organized crimes choice.

Even IndexedDb? Having a PWA based on webassembly(Blazor) that I test on an updated iPhone 6 I have to say that I didn't ever run in such issues, the experience is good even though the device is old.

Web apps can be packaged for release in different marketplaces, that's something that you can't do with all native code of just one platform.

That being said, you better start learning to pull up quickly landing pages and gauge/investigate interest of the audience or potential clients and improve your marketing and selling skills asap.

The idea alone is never enough most of times even though your hands are itching to start on building an idea or product.

I use JSON for import/export of user data (in my super app collAnon), it's more predictable and the toolings around it to transform into any other format(even csv) is underappreciated, imo.

Well, not all web development is exclusive of JS nowadays, we have the WebAssembly based Blazor framework where you use C# throughout 98% of the web app development, no JS library is ever required of you want to.