vilvadot
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Sometimes write at: vilva.es
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Comment · 3 years ago
Sorry to hear about your attack.
It reminded me of Cory from Strangeparts, he had a concussion and seems to be handling it quite well, even recovering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs790JOeN3Y. Hope it can help you somehow.
Hope you best of luck with whatever you decide to pursue.
Comment · 4 years ago
Same here! I even did a little tool to generate random palettes to get nice combinations for my sketches.
Comment · 4 years ago
I highly recommend you check Michael Lynch's blog. He built a hardware product and documented his progress from the very start on his newsletter: https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot.
It has been pretty fascinating for me in comparison to al the digital product stuff I'm used to.
Comment · 4 years ago
Great questions! I thought a lot about those at the time, I didn't felt comfortable sitting on a pile of data waiting for an attacker to try get it. So this is what I did:
Once I decided I was going to kill the project, I removed the option to become a paying customer to not get more, waited for the last of my paying customers period to finish (it was a yearly subscription). And released an update that made the app work strictly locally, user data does not reach my server (edit: there is no server anymore) and stays in the user's browser (it works like that now).
Kept the data for a couple of weeks in case anyone wanted to recover it to help them use it with in the new "local" version, but enventually no one did, so finally I deleted my db. So right now I have no access whatsoever to that data.
Comment · 4 years ago
I launched ByteVitae (https://bytevitae.com/) a couple of years ago, got a decent launch here and in Product Hunt, a bunch of users the first days ~3500 and a steady influx of users over the following months. I didn't know how to convert most of those users to clients, didn't talk to them, lost all interest after the initial launch and moved on after an amazing -26€ in benefits :P
I learned so many things and was such a fruitful ride that for me it is far from a failure. But on the business side, definetly a complete failure!
Even wrote a little post mortem at the time: https://vilva.io/blog/1-year-of-building-reflections.
Lesson learned: Talk to your users. Don't neglect the business/marketing side, specially if you are a techie who loves to code. Talk to your users. It is a marathon run, forget about the overnight millionare launchs, the launch is the "easy" part, growing steady from there is the real challenge. Talk to your users!!
Comment · 5 years ago
Cool! In Spain we have a (IMO) much easier to use site: https://soydetemporada.es
Comment · 6 years ago
Beautiful
Comment · 6 years ago
There is this guy who is pretty well known in the spanish dev community:
https://www.xataka.com/otros/soy-ciego-nacimiento-asi-mi-tra...
He often talks at conferences about his situation and setup, so if you understand spanish you might be able to find quite a lot on this. Also it might be worth a shot contacting him for more info.
Best of luck with your new adventure.
Comment · 6 years ago
Sure, you can find the repo in the site, here it is: https://github.com/vilvadot/money-is-time/
Only explicitily asks for storage access to set a flag when the extension is enabled and to save the hourly rate.
It does have access to execute the code on amazon too, which basically is reading info from html and inject another html node.
Comment · 6 years ago
Hi everyone, author here!
I just released this project I made for fun for myself, I had the idea in my mind for forever now and wanted to try my best at building and extension over it. So here it is. Hope you like it and contribute!
Right now it only supports Amazon since it is the site I use the most, but it is pretty trivial to add more shops.
BTW, I just searched for myself on the Chrome Store and found a surprisingly identical extension O_o. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/time-is-money/oopp... it seems it's more mature than mine, so here you have another option!
Comment · 7 years ago
That is a problem I had on an unrelated project with image based PDFs. With this one I wanted to avoid that, if you check the output, it is text 100% selectable (and even some interactive elements). So hopefully it avoids that problem.
Surely not as easy to parse as something done explicitly for that, but hopefully good enough.
Such good insights in your post! thanks for sharing your past experience.
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks for sharing, that is indeed a quite complex resume, quite a challenge to keep it programatically.
Actually your same experience is what took me to make this, the pain of having to open Illustrator to edit the resume once again. Atleast for the next time I got this. And thanks for the kind words :)
Comment · 7 years ago
there is a sample on the landing page!