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ArcaneMoose··on AI App Graveyard
After today's announcement, this list is about to get a whole lot bigger!!
ArcaneMoose··on Sears offered complete houses in large DIY kits
My in-laws actually live in one of these! It's quite nice but no central air :)
ArcaneMoose··on Pinecone raises $100M Series B
Happy for them, has been a very smooth developer experience using Pinecone and I think there is more than meets the eye with the combined keyword+vector search and handling of filtering. It's not going to solve all problems, but it's a well scoped solution at a good time.
ArcaneMoose··on The future (and the past) of the web is server side rendering
That sort of depends. If the compute needs to happen regardless and now you add a layer of shipping data to and from the server, that could add even more latency and make for a worse experience.
ArcaneMoose··on The future (and the past) of the web is server side rendering
The issue I have with SSR is that it offloads processing power onto the server. That means I have to pay more as the host instead of relying on user's browser to handle the compute "for free".
ArcaneMoose··on Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative
Makes sense, thanks for the reply! Pricing may be steep compared to diy but as a comparison, Airbyte Cloud seems to charge $10/GB or $15/1M rows transferred[0] which seems like it would be even more expensive.

I'm doing some more research but will keep ya'll in mind and reach out if I have more questions!

[0] https://airbyte.com/pricing

ArcaneMoose··on Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative
This is interesting, thanks for sharing! It took me a little bit to process all the content but I think I get it :)

If I'm reading correctly, to build features on top of Windmill requires the commercial license even if self-hosting which comes with a price of $.002/ computation where a computation is 1 second of processing on 1 CPU with 2GB ram.

One of my main usecases would be to create flows to pull data from various sources. The speed of such processes often depends on the 3rd party APIs - so it wouldn't be unheard of for a process to take 30+ min to pull a bunch of data where much of the time is spent on data transfer or waiting for the service. Does that mean it would cost me .002 * 60 * 30 = $3.60 for one 30 min data sync? That's not including any downstream etl I might do that would potentially multiply the cost. Curious if that's accurate or if I'm misinterpreting something.

ArcaneMoose··on Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative
Is there an API or SDK for creating/managing flows? I want the flexibility to programmatically wire these integrations together rather than a nocode UI

Additionally, this seems to rely on you inputting your credentials. How would that work for a usecase where my customers are the ones who provide the credentials?

ArcaneMoose··on Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative
This looks great, congrats on the launch! I am interested in a platform that bundles many pre-built integrations to various services that I could wire up through code and execute on my customers' behalf. Essentially, a way for me to present my customers with a plethora of integrations out of the box without having to build them all myself. This seems like it's moving in that direction and I saw another comment where you mentioned workflow execution on customers' behalf in the future which is great!

How does this compare to something like Prefect?

If there are any other tools folks would suggest to achieve what I'm looking for, I'd love to hear about them!

ArcaneMoose··on Detect ChatGPT Generated Content
What I think would be interesting is to add the assignment / questions as input for the tool to consider in its evaluation. That way your tool could plug these into ChatGPT, ask it to reword it several ways (mimicking the likely path a plagiarizer might take to actually generate content) and do some diff/comparison as part of the evaluation.

Even so, I agree with most of the comments that it would be exceeding difficult to truly identify this stuff since you can ask ChatGPT to reword things in very specific ways or just edit it yourself (aside from blatant false positives)

ArcaneMoose··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
Really simple hobby project I built at one point: https://hotkeyplayer.com/

Map Spotify playlists to hotkeys so you can quickly launch them - intended use was for my D&D games - being able to quickly switch the mood from exploring a cave to being ambushed! :)

ArcaneMoose··on Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain
Spotify API is pretty cool. I created https://hotkeyplayer.com/ with it to quickly map keys to playlists and launch them with the press of a button. Used for switching music during D&D sessions
ArcaneMoose··on Ask HN: Solo Dev Stack of 2022?
I use MERN stack - huge community and libraries for everything. I like the "everything as JS" approach I can take with React as I never liked jumping between html/js/css.

Additionally, I found Firebase to be a really great way to start and run projects. The most important piece of that is Firebase Auth which solves a complex and important problem without costing an arm and a leg. Other services such as Hosting, storage, and functions were really easy to start with.

ArcaneMoose··on The Rings of Share – the unsolved problem of sharing
Check out Octonote - https://octonote.com/ it is a webapp I built primarily for D&D DMs to organize their campaigns and share with their groups but it can be used for other things including what you're describing here.

One of the core concepts is a "Book" which is a collection of notes. You can add a note to any number of books and you can share books using a link. To implement what you're suggesting, you could create a book for each group you wish to share with and only add the notes (which would have your images) to the relevant books. What's more is that you could have some books only allow View access and other books to allow Collab so certain users could work with you on those notes while others might only see them.

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