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* Tool that creates Twitter (X?) / Instagram feeds to RSS so I don't have to deal with algorithms etc.

* A turn based game that is essentially "football manager for counter strike" where you control the whole team and their actions in "planning" and "execution" phases.

* I run a Slack community for the South African tech scene, constantly hovering between "I wish I could sell this and move on" and "I really should put in the effort to monetise / grow this".

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For point 2, ever seen Door Kickers? https://store.steampowered.com/app/248610/Door_Kickers/

This is great, thanks for the link!

How do early stage Tech enterprises deal with the instability and problematic infrastructure in South Africa?

This is quite hard to answer in any succinct way. It mostly comes down to "you're earning enough to just get around them".

SA is kind of a place of extremes, there is extreme poverty, unemployment etc. But if you're lucky enough to have a good job you get Uber Eats, Netflix, 200mb fibre to your house etc.

I was using 1, until Twitter shut down their API. How do you do this now? Scrape the HTML?

Yeah or use "unofficial apis" e.g. Nitter (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter)

Unfortunately Nitter broke earlier this week thanks to some changes by Twitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983

I was using a self-hosted Nitter instance for the RSS feeds as I deactivated my Twitter account

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