jot

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Spent my first 1000 days on Hacker News as: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=madmotive

product at: https://urlbox.io

twitter: http://twitter.com/jot

podcast on customer interview examples: https://empathydeployed.com/

coworking space in Brighton, UK: http://theskiff.org

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Thank you! This is exactly what I want to do with this. I have embeddings for all the images but hadn’t figured out the last step to getting them onto a grid like that. Can’t wait to try this.
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They list "Managed Iceberg tables" top of list of features on that page.
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Too many developers learn this the hard way.

It’s one of the top reasons larger organisations prefer to use hosted services rather than doing it themselves.

Comment · 1 year ago
That’s right. On our standard self-service plans we automatically charge a better rate as volume increases. You only pay the difference between tiers as you move through them.

It’s rare that anyone makes that kind of mistake. It probably helps that our rate limits are relatively low compared to other APIs and we email you when you get close to stepping up a tier. If you did make such a mistake we would, like all good dev tools, work with you to resolve. If it happened a lot we might introduce some additional controls.

We’ve been in this business for over 12 years and currently have over 700 customers so we’re fairly confident we have the balance right.

Comment · 1 year ago
I’m sure we can do better here.

In my experience our customers are more worried about having the service stop when they hit the limit of a tier than they are about being charged a few more dollars.

Comment · 1 year ago
If you’re worried about the security risks, edge cases, maintenance pain and scaling challenges of self hosting there are various solid hosted alternatives:

- https://browserless.io - low level browser control

- https://scrapingbee.com - scraping specialists

- https://urlbox.com - screenshot specialists*

They’re all profitable and have been around for years so you can depend on the businesses and the tech.

* Disclosure: I work on this one and was a customer before I joined the team.

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DragonRuby https://dragonruby.org/

I had so much fun with this with my 7 year old. Was super easy to take their art and make games with it. You can start by editing one of the many example games it comes with.

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