jpomykala
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Comment · 4 years ago
It’s a bit more expensive but only god knows where it runs*
Comment · 4 years ago
It’s not worth $10/mo. I wouldn’t even pay $5/mo. Usually, it generates code with incorrect logic what is sometimes hard to notice.
It’s also awful that they took free code (open-source), and now they want money for it. Make it open-source and free to use…
Some say it’s great for repetitive tasks, but if you write repetitive code (tests also) maybe you should look for other solutions than “auto-generating” unmaintainable code.
Comment · 4 years ago
I’m wonder who is the target audience for that? How fun is self-hosting note taking app.
Comment · 4 years ago
Why this is modern? Because there a gradient on landing page?
Comment · 4 years ago
KingdomCome 2
Comment · 4 years ago
I also worked with people from Schwarz and some smaller company who manages some business data. It's going to be a disaster. I'm not even surprised that you need to 'Get in touch'. They do pretty many things manually and simply wrong. Client is processing large Excel file for 4 days? Somebody simply kills the job and the whole process starts again. Big words, cheap execution.
Comment · 4 years ago
Electricity availability: 99.98% / month
Comment · 4 years ago
It works, because a few times I was surprised that paid in euro instead dollars.
Comment · 4 years ago
"I need to increase my prices" /s
Or start charging in Euro :D
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Comment · 4 years ago
I’m running a super simple translation management system where people can manage, host, auto-translate their translation files. How I supposed to run my app without subscriptions?
In last 30 days, I transferred over 280 GB of translation data from my service to end-users around the word. Should I tell DeepL, Google and AWS that they should offer me their services for free or what?
EDIT:
I apologize if this sounds too passive-aggressive, but I'm tired of hearing that subscriptions are bad. Thanks to subscription model, we can have many smaller service providers who simply have fun from working on something (like me). If you think that giving someone $5/mo for a cool app is too much, then okay. You don't have to do it, no deal. ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯
PS Great example of solo-developer is the InkDrop creator. He is working on this note-taking app since ~2016. https://www.inkdrop.app
Comment · 4 years ago
https://placeflare.com
I wanted to gather cool and unpopular places from a neighborhood, like old castles. I started this project in 2015 and I’m still maintaining it, and from time to time I’m doing fixes.
What I learned?
Technical: SPA got terrible SEO, only a few crawlers executes JS on page to actually read data from the page (or at least show the place image instead the app image from og:image) I tried many times to add some pre-rendering and make it hybrid, but I failed. Eventually, I converted app to NextJS and I added dynamic og:images (using my other project: https://bannerly.io) and number of impressions and clicks increased mostly thanks to sharing places by people on social media. I also plan to use no-code automation tool (probably https://integromat.com it’s cheaper than Zapier and probably more powerful) to post places to Instagram every day.
There is no money/revenue in this project but I like to play around with it anyway. It would be cool earn at least for maintenance costs on it but I don’t have any idea. I was thinking about selling tickets online for places where the tickets are required but no one is interested in this idea.
Non-technical: There is a very small subset of people who would like to use travel apps. It’s easier to use Google or local guides to find great destinations.