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I only run 2 docker containers in a server, so I don't need anything complex.

I couldn't really fine a simple alerting tool, so I wrote a script that periodically checks if my docker containers are alive or not, and ping me on Telegram if one of them dies.

Oh wow, that'd be super amazing, and I look forward to that.

I wholeheartedly agree that advertising and acquiring users are the most important pieces, and also one of the hardest. Finding a niche and the market to go after (who do I approach? what do I say? what sort of problems can I solve that hasnt already been done? etc) has been a stumbling block, not to mention the fact that I'm far from technically fluent to spin up a basic prototype to demo.

As such I kinda put that aspiration on hold and decided to hone my craft in CS / programming in general, so that at least I have a solid, technical base to built off on.

Anyhow, I really appreciate your response and am excited to hearing back from you.

I work in a blockchain company and I'm building a tool that allows users to vote on pull requests to be merged to github, all done on the blockchain.

Naturally reading this has spun some ideas in my mind - it would be cool to build a system where people are incentivized to respond to issues, and having it on the blockchain removes a lot of the trust issues that comes along with payouts and rewards.

Any thoughts on this?

I recently created a website similar to this recently at a hackathon. I considered setting up a payment system but decided not to as I didn't think people would actually pay for something like this... curious to know - over what period of time did you make the $300?

I did a variation of Lisp (called Racket) in for my first CS course in college.

Since you recommend getting good at it (or at least being competent enough to demonstrate that in interviews), any tips on how once with a very basic foundation of functional programming can proceed?