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Comment · 13 days ago
* Focus on the data models. Design them carefully.

* Review any code that modify the data (when possible, avoid migrations that can't be rolled back)

* Staging/PR deployments/feature flags

* Observability

* End-to-end black box integration tests for the main features (unit tests are mostly useless)

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Comment · 1 month ago
You got me curious. Could you say a bit more about the your reflections? I really enjoyed that movie.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is a great idea for a potential startup or, even better, some free software. I started developing something like this but didn't go far.
Comment · 2 months ago
Congratulations on the launch! Looks very neat.

For people that don't have these neat observability tools (like me), I've been using https://shellshare.net (disclaimer: I made it).

This is a single command to share a terminal live with e2e encryption. Originally it was for teaching classes or helping colleagues, but it's also very helpful for agents. I SSH into prod and run:

> npx shellshare exec --json -- tail /var/log/my-app.log

This generates a URL, then I can tell any agent:

> monitor <URL>, instructions in https://shellshare.net/llms.txt

They can see the output live. No need to install anything in the agent's machine. Next shellshare version it will be just "monitor <URL>" and the agent's instructions will be in the URL itself.

Nothing even near what you've guys done, but it has been helpful for me. Best of luck in your startup!

Comment · 4 months ago
Congratulations on the launch. It looks neat!

On a side note, I find it interesting that a few recent projects are going for the Open Knowledge name. The Open Knowledge Foundation (https://okfn.org) is one of the first/largest proponents of the open data movement (think of it as a Free Software Foundation but for data, not software). They started in 2004 and developed many of the open data licenses and widely used infrastructure tools like CKAN (an open data portal platform).

Nothing to add, just found it interesting.

Disclaimer: I worked there for a few years.

Comment · 4 months ago
Nintendo does this on Mario Kart, just allowing text from a pre-set list. It's very limited, but works.
Comment · 4 months ago
That's the piece I'm looking for.
Comment · 4 months ago
Looks great! Just got a bit bummed about the pricing page. Our whole IT infrastructure costs $200/month, so "Enterprise-only" reads as "not for you" :/
Comment · 4 months ago
This is amazing! Congratulations on the launch. Repository link somewhere?
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Amazing project! I'd love to see something like this for the football world cup. Maybe a FIFA 97 style?

I wonder if some kind of filter would work or we would need some data source. Looks much harder given the fast-paced nature of the game.

Comment · 4 months ago
I wasn't involved at the time, so don't know. I just know that the cost was significant given the NGO budget, not only the initial development but also the ongoing support.

I feel as if we lifted an anchor that was slowing us down.

Comment · 4 months ago
I am the CTO of a small NGO (10 people total, only 1 other junior Dev at the time). We supported two apps that were built by consultants. They were a mess. NextJS, React, about 4 micro services for a site that had 50 users per WEEK.

I configured a devcontainer with the old codebase and an empty repository and asked Claude to rewrite it as an old school server side rendered Django app.

Went to sleep. When I woke up it was 80% done. Spent another couple days prompting and reviewing and reached feature parity.

A bit later did the same with the other app.

Now both are deployed, reduced the server costs, complexity, and are orders of magnitude faster.

Without AI agents we wouldn't be able to do so (as usually is the case with tech debt).

AI is amazing for small organisations!

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