RileyJames

Our experience exactly. AWS credits are advertised everywhere, but seem difficult to utilise.

The point of the article was that Etsy has already established both sides of the marketplace. And that both sides of the marketplace are not equal, as competitors/disruptors are discovering.

To be successful, they need a large consumer base, and a small seller base, who sell high quality goods (which is subjective, but mass drop shipping is certainly not what those consumers are expecting).

Of those, the hardest to attract is a larger consumer base. Sellers will ultimately go where the buyers are.

I’m looking for a tool like this. Previously used mixpanel (under free startup package), but dropped it after that expired because it was going to be $x,000 per month. (Tho I believe they significantly altered their pricing shortly after)

But either way, we’d never spent enough time setting it up, and this weren’t getting a huge amount of value from it.

We also use plausible, for web facing. But we need something more detailed for analytics within our product.

I like the sound of this. But from using the demo dashboard I didn’t see the value I’d get from it.

It was clear if I could track a user (or segment of users) journeys.

Or see the journey of all users who completed a specific event.

Can I create funnels?

Can I measure performance over time easily?

Can I put events into the timeline? (feature releases)

Implementing a tool like this is a big commitment, so I’d need to be more convinced it’s the right tool for our needs before I took the plunge. I’d also start with the hosted solution, but I’d choose it because we could self host in the future if we felt necessary. An escape hatch.

What you’re suggesting is fraud. There are already penalties for it.

While it might create an incentive, it’s a very high risk activity.

It also creates the right incentives for the company that it should:

A) not create policies that can result in ‘ruining a consumer’s life’ or at least do so knowing that it is a high risk, high cost activity.

B) know that if they choose to create such policies, they need to be adequately monitored for fraud and false positives.

That seems like a positive outcome.

> A VC receives 10 to 50 decks per week. Out of those, 10% are hot: think OpenAI.

lol.

Reasons I use Loom: - Social features, users can comment & engage with my video to provide feedback

- Analytics, I get notifications when a user views a video (useful for demos/sales)

- Post-capture editing

- Set 1.X speed by default on videos (significantly reduces video length)

I don't find the capturing element of loom very good. Their chrome integration is pretty bad, seems to not handle clicking/changing pages when capturing a tab.

I recently started using Screen Studio and have really liked it.

I’m no longer involved in crypto. But this is exactly the tool we were looking for at my previous employer.

They were sold firebase as the solution to all their problems. But what you’re pitching here is much closer to what they actually needed to enable their vision.

But that’s exactly what some developers / products want to do. And thus this tool enables them to do so.

It’s a different tool for a different use case.

Exactly. They have the capability to push notification to the app to request you call them. They should do that BEFORE. And if they do outbound, immediately state were pushing a notification and you should call us back as we have something important to discuss.

I see what you’re saying.

I guess my frustration is that I didn’t find it on google.

I had to find a Reddit post, which had a discussion about the topic, and the link(s) I was after.

DDG lists checkra1n as the top result. It’s not the one I used, but at least it’s an actual jailbreak…

Just last night I was looking to jailbreak an old phone. I did a few googles and everything I found seemed really dodgy.

Added reddit to the query. Got exactly the info I needed. Moved on with my life.

Google has become useless.

(Jail break to use frida to mitm some cert pinned apps. That tool chain is amazing these days)

Great idea, great site. I signed up. But post-sign up on the modal explaining how it works I was unable to scroll below “Upgrade”, in order to reach the continue button.

iPhone SE2.

Keen to use this. Having just been through the dance to obtain Drata, I’d love to just know the price ahead of time.

I know there was a YC company many years ago that “negotiated saas pricing as a service”.

The pain is not just knowing the price, it’s also: - what features and versions of features are included in why I’m paying for??

- what is the value of the extra bs that’s being packaged in, and can I negotiate it away? Or how can I make use of it?

I feels there’s a lot of value in a community of recent buyers of a product being able to communicate openly. Any company that takes actions against their own customers for trying to make the most of their product should be replaced.

How is this more useful than the current state of domain name idea generators, which also do a search for the availability of the domain?

It just seems, slower?

The feat of doing that with ai alone might make an interesting blog post. But the end result as a product isn’t something I’m going to use just because it’s using ai.

The job to be done is not to use ai to do x.

Tho I would be interested to read the blog post..

What is “AI Saas” ?

If you don’t have tech skills to build it, you’ve got to be able to craft a pitch and communicate it.

I have no idea what “AI Saas” means, but being that broad there would have to be customers of yours here. At least pitch it to the point where we can declare yes or no.

And then go pitch and win your first 50 customers. One by one.

Then go get funding on the back of your 50 letters of intent.

The whole time you should be looking for a technical co-founder, and you should give them 50% of the business (equals). Without them you will have to give away more equity to raise (because you won’t have any product, or revenue), and you will burn more investment building and iterating your product.

Anything less than equal will not work.

You could make convincing arguments about why the work you’ve already done is valuable, and that they’re coming in later so they should only get xx share. But the reality is everything before that point is mostly irrelevant, what will make difference comes next. And for years into the future, if it’s going to be a success.

I’ve been waiting for something like Miro thats built, augmented and updated via AI.

Something that lays out the responses to my prompts, as research, and then I can interact with as a whole.

This seems like some of those ideas, but not others.

Cool to see it. What’s the direction here?

Has anyone found a good way to password protect a sub-folder/page of a vitepress docs site?

We’re currently using cloudflare for the purpose, but it breaks the JS on vitepress, which means things like the mermaid or plug-in and sidebar can’t load.

We’re use the MPA (multi page app) setting. SPA would mean everything is still actually bundled and sent to the user anyway.

Beyond that, haven’t had any issues with VitePress. Great product.

> Representing himself, Mr Lau argued it breaches the state's Anti-Discrimination Act. > "Anyone who buys a ticket would expect a fair provision of goods and services in line with the law."

> The museum agrees the exhibit does indeed discriminate. But it argued that Mr Lau hasn't missed out on anything - he experienced the artwork exactly as intended.

> "Part of the experience is being denied something that is desired," said Mona's counsel, Catherine Scott, according to local paper The Mercury.

Reddit going public (again) is such a weird and egregious destruction of any value that reddit had left.

It’s like Wikipedia going public with the expectation that it would continue to hold any value going forward. The proposition can’t hold true.

Does anyone know a similarly good guide for testing / retro fitting a11y to a web app?

Asking for a friend…

That’s awesome. I didn’t realise you did email hosting, maybe that’s new?

I’ve been using their email forwarding (paid) for a few years now. Great for side projects and any random domain I register. I immediately catch all to a domain@myprimarydomain.com so I have all my email in one place. Most of its bullshit and spam, but the few interesting reach outs are usually worth it.

Yep the South Island is bigger and less populated. The north island is very suitable for EV’s and there is a strong deployment of EV charger infrastructure.

All in all, north island driving distances are just pretty small. And the roads so windy you need a rest before you’d run out of juice.

Drastically different to Australia where you can drive at 110km/h in a dead straight line for hours on end.

This is awesome. Well implemented. I just learnt something new about the area I'm living in.

When I road tripped across US & CA the atlasabscura was my go-to for finding weird and wonderful places to explore. It had a great mix of historic, weird, artistic, irrelevant and timeless.

Yes. Loading spinner. Loading indicator. Loading bar.

I associated 'css-loader' with a Webpack loader for css: https://webpack.js.org/loaders/#styling

We have a lot of rooftop solar in Australia, and I’ve never heard any arguments regarding risk the roof or roof related maintenance costs.

Can you provide any more details regarding your scenario? Is it a specific style of roof? Or material?

And what are the significant costs regarding roof vs non-roof installation?

In our situation the only suitable place to put panels was on the roof, so it wasn’t an option. But I’m keen to understand the factors.

I did assume this was a webpack or otherwise package for loading css libraries. Took me a while to work out what it actually was.

Probably because I’ve had such headaches with webpack within rails and would love something to make it disappear (yes I know there are newer solutions but each one breaks things in new and unique ways).

This has been our strategy. We bootstrapped as long as we could. We got 1 & 1/2 products live. But with a long sales cycle, and security certificate requirements, we needed funding to cross that chasm. We’ve raised one round and our goal is to get to break even. Our competitor have gone the other route, VC after VC, and while it’s enabled them to grow, it’s left a bad taste in their customers mouths (who’ve effectively been burned and churned). It’s made it easy to differentiate ourselves, and our motivations, and ultimately win their business.

Correct. We dropped adsense as soon as we could. We now work with, and integrate directly with, the super funds themselves. Often it was those super funds that were advertising on the site via google adsense. We've effectively cut out google as the middle man. But we also now offer a lot more than advertising for the funds.

That website is built on rails, no js stack (beyond stimulus). Our newer, embedded version, is built on Elixir / Phoenix.

I’ve heard of Usenet, but never used it. It was once (maybe ~15 years ago) advertised as an alternative to torrents, but I don’t get the vibe that’s the primary use case.

What can I do with Usenet?

The internet has become so boring, I’d be open to exploring something else, but I’ve got no idea what Usenet is.

I started SupeChoiceForm as a passive income project many years ago: https://superchoiceform.com.au/

It started as just a content site, with google Adsense. Making about $1200 per month from ~30k visits.

It kept growing in popularity over about 2 years and I finally decided it might be worth some more effort.

So I turned it into a web app that took an employee through the process of gathering/generating all the paperwork they require to provide their employer with their superfund details. Effectively just digitising the paper form process with some smart automations.

(Superannuation is the 401k of Australia, but probably more widespread as it’s mandatory)

That was 2x MVP’s ago. Last year I got two trust partners / co-founders involved and we’ve turned it into an embedded service that can drop into any payroll/hr provider.

Raised $1M and now we’re making a lot more than $1200

All because I was nervous about getting Adsense banned for no reason. So thanks google!!