garysahota93

I've been wanting to build this forever now... I LOVE IT!

Would love to connect & share more ideas that I don't have time to build myself + feedback

As someone who's been following this space my entire career, it's so refreshing to see this come to light. Congrats on the launch! I know for a fact this will be an indispensable tool for anyone in the data space. Will be following you guys closely!

Have you looked into Mac Stadium? Maybe they can be of help!

https://www.macstadium.com/

I really like this concept. especially for the use case where I need to share my whole screen, but just want a "sandbox" of sorts to share. Typically have gotten around this with a secondary monitor that I share with, but that doesn't work when I'm on the go with my laptop. Will def be using this

Haha!! This was meant to be a provactive conversation.

It's pronounced "Sand-Fox".

But the genesis of this Sandbox + Fake data (Faux). But given Fox rhymes with Box, we thought we'd be cheeky about it lol

It's a great question!

A sandbox is a testing environment that isolates untested changes & experimentations from the production environments.

Chances are if you're using Salesforce for work, it's the "production" instance that is meant for prime-time. There is probably some admin/developer/IT person in your company that has access to creating sandboxes to test changes before they push to everyone else.

fwiw typically this is used by larger companies & isn't as useful for small startups.

Congrats team!! PeerDB is awesome!

I'm building a data seeding / simulation service that populates systems (like Salesforce) with realistic-looking data.

Thought is that you can build compelling demos with your real app.

No need for "fake web app" demos anymore :)

https://www.tetherdata.io/

Beeper cloud used the device as a relay mechanism. I'm suggesting the same on-Android-device implementation, but rather than randomly generating an apple device to send to Apple's registration servers, they use a device I legitimately own.

No relays (so preserves security) & harder for apple to identify (because to them it'd be as if I'm just using my iPad)

Feedback for the Beeper team if they are reading: there is a non-zero amount of us that own Apple devices (like MacBooks or iPads) and not iPhones. For those it applies to, what if you leveraged the legitimate devices we do own as the spoofed devices used by Beeper Mini to register?

Don't know if that would solve the Phone Number registration part, but thought I'd throw this out there

Precisely! Would be a cool workaround & I would be completely happy with this approach (vs losing access all together).

But I wonder if that’d even be possible. I hope someone from the Beeper team sees this!

What if they create a version of Beeper Mini that spoofs an apple device you own? For example: I don't want to own an iPhone, but I do have a MacBook. So rather than use a randomly generated device that tricks Apple's servers to allow me to connect, I can just use a device a legitimately own (and just trick apple to think my phone is my laptop).

I know this won't work for everyone (especially folks that don't have an Apple device). But this might be better than losing the app all together ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(PS - I don't know much about how Beeper Mini's reverse engineering worked. Just going off what I believe I understood)

I've been using Hydra for the last ~2 months & genuinely love it. The team is really talented & it's so great to see the progress they've been making. Congrats on the 1.0 GA release! Huge step!

This made my heart boil with rage..... I LOVE IT

Would you be open to making this logic open source? I'd LOVE to do this as well. (I use LunchMoney.app for all spend tracking, but don't have my receipts logged)

The amount of guests that are genuinely impressed by the questions being asked make this show so great to watch. I may not care for every guest, but the authenticity of the interview alone is worth the watch!

Just checked out the site: I really like the fact that you guys are addressing some of the core capabilities in the data stack (ie ETL).

The fact that you guys are supporting DBT natively is a HUGE plus for a data professional like myself.

Will definitely be kicking the tires soon & testing against my own workloads.

This is why I use Clari Wingman instead.

Where is the USB-C option? lol

This is super powerful. While I see the immediate value in this for simplifying applications, I can also see this becoming a powerful tool for data analysts & data engineers in speeding up their "time to insight".

I've had (early in their career) analysts report to me that struggle writing optimal queries across relational, non-relational, & graph DBs (they're usually great at one & mediocre on others). This will be a huge for them & our stakeholders who rely on them to get them trustworthy insights.

Oo, I like that! Really good point there.

Also, I think one thing you should look into as a natural evolution is promoting the use of auto-generated, secure passwords unique to each relay address.

Interesting. Curious: how is that any different than if owlmail gets leaked?

I've set something like this up with Google Domains + Gmail for free (well, the yearly cost of the domain, but yeah)

I was able to set up alias emails in my gmail & have all emails from a particular domain forward to my domain as well.

Then went with a password manager & changed all my email addresses to my own domain with specific relays (amazon@ netflix@ etc etc)

Works really well for ~12/year!

I know this isn't news worthy, but as someone who's been through a lot lately, I'd love to chat with any/all that need someone to talk to. These are tough times & we shouldn't have to go through things alone!

This irony is what exactly what I needed on a Friday.

Thank you so much Adam! This is awesome!! I'm testing Hugo+Netlify right now, but I'll have to give this a try! Thank you so much!

I love this article. Out of curiosity, how did you build this blog? Looking for a better way to do my own personal blog.

Thanks!

I agree! I would love calendar, contacts, maps, notes, & reminders. All things I use super frequently. I'd ask for default messages/vid chat change (to WhatsApp or Google Duo) but that'd be asking for too much haha

This is amazing! I used to flash custom roms on phones back in college 5+ years ago, which was awesome. Would even charge friends for it. I think there's something here & makes me want to buy the Fairphone 3 even more now.

What are some of the coolest bootstrap projects you all have seen? I haven't used Bootstrap in years, but would love to see some of the creativity.