jelan

This is cool, do you think this would work as a phone application?

Does it do any kind of sound identification or matching? So if I sneeze around the device around the same time another system picks up a firework sound, will it be able to figure that out or is that a post process thing?

Would be interesting for you and your friends to pick a very exact point on GPS somewhere in the middle of all you and light off a big firework, then go back and see how close the system thought it was to the actual location. I know that kind of defeats the purpose of not launching illegal fireworks, but it’s better than shooting a gun in the air I guess.

Yes, people cheat all the time. Usually this happens in the form of either paying for upvotes from bots or soliciting votes from friends / colleagues that wouldn’t have given an upvote if it weren’t for some personal connection.

Product Hunt tries their best to detect when bots are upvoting, and responds by removing those upvotes (you can see this happen on many hunts by looking at the upvote rate graph, if it takes a sharp almost impulse like decline that usually means PH is removing upvotes based on some kind of fraud protection they have)

I’m not sure why people still feel the need to cheat to get to number one on PH, it really doesn’t mean anything close to what it once did. Speaking from personal experience, a startup company I used to work for put great time and effort into their debut on PH, ended up in the top spot for the day, and got exactly 0 press, 0 new registrations that didn’t instantly churn, and 0 feedback on the product that was actually worthwhile. The only thing we did get on a daily basis was, you guessed it, emails from people also launching on PH asking for upvotes!

I don’t think it will add anything as compared to REST for trivial projects but it’s just easy to setup and get working

I think the risk is that if it is true I would have to work there for at least a while

What do you do now that involves C++ if you don’t mind me asking? I too have a EE degree but have been doing web dev for the last few years, I would like to get back into maybe doing lower level software development or work on something I can use my degree somewhat on.

Sorry to hear that, what kind of experience level do you have / what is your focus area if you don’t mind me asking?

I have about 4 years of experience in web with focus on frontend.

Thanks for your input on this, I know you said you are an SRE manager but assuming you were once an SRE yourself, did you enjoy that line of work?

Please share it when you are done!

A couple people have asked what complexities I’m referring to and mainly what I mean is just how much bloat goes into making anything, and at a higher level the general course of action seems to be to just keep adding to the system until you get what you want out of it instead of trying to fix or improve underlying problems with the web.

I know we can’t just pause the internet while everyone comes to a consensus on how we want to make it more interactive and fix underlying problems, but at least to me it seems like all the effort that could be spent working towards that is instead being spent figuring out ways to just avoid as much of the underlying pieces as possible by jamming your own implementation on top of it.

I agree that getting setup and using things like React or Node for a backend is easy, but the number of dependencies, size of the app, tooling needed, memory used are all going to grow exponentially as soon as you start trying to do something non trivial, and the solution to fix these problems is yet again to add more complexity, where you will need to learn a lot more about how all of those nice tools that just worked for you out of the box are actually working

This isn’t a React or a frontend specific example entirely, but I’ve seen many people jump into creating a simple app and right off the bat implementing a federated GraphQL design because of all the great things they heard about GraphQL from the community, which is fine but a very simple REST design would have worked just as well if not better and would be in my opinion much simpler to maintain and manage complex things like caching.