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I appreciate the speculation this provides, i hadn't considered the possibility of selling improved rankings within the models that get released. I could imagine a similar speculation being written ~25 years ago of "what if these new search engines started allowing advertisers to bid to rank higher in search results".

With the call to action of "raise your own model", what might that actually look like? Will it be feasible for individuals, or would there need to be some trusted open source foundation that creates the "Linux" of models?

This is really cool, i love seeing a fun interactive game tied in to deep knowledge about an industry.

I've been helping with a small portfolio of Slack apps under the brand https://happybara.io, including Nightowl (multi-DM broadcast for Slack, like BCC for email), and Channitor (channel management & auto-archiving).

It's been a really interesting journey making mistakes & learning from them. One mistake that made me feel foolish: I assumed no one would ever pay for one of the apps. A paywall was added "just in case" -> boom, customers almost immediately started signing up. I felt incredibly silly after that, especially for the number of times I've read on HN and similar sites "your work is valuable" and "charge more".

This is neat, I appreciate that even if I can't use the service, i still learned something new about what's possible. Gonna keep it in the back-pocket for sharing with friends.

Also reminded me of when Justin Jackson talked about how he hired his kids for help with real projects and the positives from it https://justinjackson.ca/flipping-tables

if you want to get started writing super quick, you can also take a look at some of the super minimalist platforms that are basically as you describe - like https://bearblog.dev/ and https://mataroa.blog/.

I've stumbled on both from submissions to HN and they have become my recommendations for friends that want to write, especially the couple who are prone to jumping down technical rabbit holes & not ever getting to the writing.

I see resolutions for protecting against the now-known error modes discussed, and better alerting to get the on-call engineer (aka always Zeke :D) looking into things quicker, but curious how they might approach preparing for "unknown-unknowns" that will come in the future.

Are there good ways for a small-team to proactively stress test a system without mucking up customers? Open question.

Video[0] isn't a direct answer, but I found it helpful for understanding the trade offs that come when considering using electric power for a plane vs regular fuel. They show the math in an easy to follow diagram.

tl;dr for their small kit aircraft the weight of batteries they would need to match the stored energy of equivalent fuel (even with a battery at 500wh/kg) would be 5-10x heavier, and also not get lighter during the flight. They said for long range it doesn't make sense, but that there are lots of companies iterating in the short range electric space.

- [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdSnHQtoVTI

I've seen a couple tools pop up around this idea. Haven't explored them much, but:

- MonicaHQ (open-source)

- Dex (free version seems good enough for most people, i'm trying this one out rn) getdex.com/

- Custom system in Airtable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30329475

- Infrequent app - blog post talks more about it, linked in comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33308084

These aren't my projects, but inspiration I've found around the web and started keeping track of recently. https://indielurker.com/#8dff6575218049a78b6b86e977c8d66b

Some of my favorites:

- Nomad List started as a Google Sheet.

- Product Hunt began as a simple list emailed out to people.

- Levels.fyi was powered by a Google Sheet until 2021.

- Crave Cookies was making $200k/mon according to their interview using a SQlite DB which started as a JSON file.

- Headlime started as a JSON file sitting on his frontend with no DB - then sold for $60k a week later

Tools I personally am exploring:

- DB: Google Sheets - either through API (numerous services like sheet.best for this or self-hosted)

- DB: Airtable - it provides API out of the box and has forms and whatnot too, keeps things real quick to start

- Whole Shebang: have only built toy examples, but Glideapps and Softr seem like handy options to spin an idea up really quickly and not getting distracted by tech rabbit holes

Interested to see where this goes in the future. I know a lot of technical people who are still wary of the command line, and I have yet to find a resource which is approachable enough to share widely.

This is the first post in a series that will walk through App Home design and best practices for Slack apps, step by step. We want to help developers create awesome apps which leverage all the capability available from Slack, and we'd love to hear ideas & examples of other apps you think do a great job.

Streamly is a task management tool that meets your company where they are - in Slack. With customizable request workflows, private channels for teams to triage inbound work, and syncing to your team's existing task management tools like Asana, we hope Streamly simplifies your team's efforts and helps them concentrate on the important stuff. Also we couldn't help ourselves, so Stream -> Otter mascot.

It's free for one Stream (request workflow), so give it a shot and let us know what you think! If you need any help just click the 'Help' button. We'll respond right in Slack as if you were getting help from your team, no need to go find our support email.

We also love suggestions for what to make the Otter do, we have our main mascot do lots of wild things, like fight drones as King Kong https://happybara.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bara-footer1...

To install, click the 'Add to Slack' button on this page: https://happybara.io/apps/streamly/