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Comment · 1 year ago
Isn't a better solution here to build an app that signs unsigned apks with the end user's self provided signature ?
Comment · 2 years ago
Its amazing to me how AirDrop is such a big plus for Apple ecosystem even in 2024 given technologically it is one of the simplest things possible. The innovation is purely on the alignment of interests Apple has and its competitors don't because they are all competing with each other and then also Apple.
Comment · 6 years ago
You might want to checkout https://prismos.dev Full disclosure: This is a project I built addressing the exact same problems, its open source and currently more focused on building an easy to approach platform for developers and students new to the hardware scene
Comment · 6 years ago
This sounds like (for now) the first step towards something like shared runtime for electron apps, would greatly solve the perf issues associated with electron. I built https://github.com/SiDevesh/Quark-Carlo a while ago to convert web apps to native apps using the installed chrome browser as a runtime, using the carlo project by google, google killed it pretty soon though. This way apps would only have to package their own node runtime (since a lot of electron apps use native modules or modified version of nodejs) and use chromium from the system. The above project by me does the same thing and the size and memory requirement is greatly reduced, (apps come at average of 40mb as compared to 120mb for electron apps).
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I just applied to it for https://prismos.dev this is something I have been building for 3 years on the side and while I feel its amazing what this allows one to do, which is build IoT apps with a super easy API and install apps on your esp8266 IoT devices from an App store, no flashing and seamless end user experience, its still seems difficult to monetize to me till far so no point raising funding (atleast till i figure out a go to market strategy), but I would still want people to start using it. While the amount isn't a lot, if it can allow me to fund my AWS infra for a year without worrying about cash while I spend money in promoting it from my pocket, then its great for me.
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Comment · 7 years ago
You sound like a great developer! And being around people smarter than you and is one the best ways to learn incredibly quick. If you feel like lacking confidence in your skills, one thing that really helped me get over imposter syndrome was to pick up problems or projects that I never thought I could do. Pick up something interesting yet seemingly challenging (I was always fascinated by operating systems and embedded hardware, so decided to make an OS for embedded hardware). Work on it, talk about it with your peers. Once you solve such a problem you get a big confidence boost that you can tackle any problem out there and that on its own can help you with approaching things without fear and solving it. Hope it helps :)

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