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I used to use Heroku for side projects and I recently discovered Netlify and it is definitely super easy to get set up and deploy.

I am in the process of building a(nother) recipe website. My goal was to minimize the choice paralysis that people face when they seen a million of recipes at once. I also wanted to try to keep the recipe fetching performant so I built my own index :).

I just finished the functional pieces. Right now, the site is a bit rough in terms of styling but I am tackling that next along with UX.

Site: https://vibrant-shaw-c25fb7.netlify.app/

Hey I came across this about a week ago and the idea sounded pretty cool! I ended up making an MVP of this: https://flowtyping.herokuapp.com/

It was pretty fun and I'll most likely start adding more features to it: saved notes, words per minute, improve layout, etc...

Let me know if you end up using this or if you have any feature you'd like to see :)

Edit: I posted a link to another HackerNews link that showed a whole bunch of related tools that did similar things but I wanted to take a crack at it myself.

This thread appears to have several options. Not sure if it's the one you're referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21505986

A bit late on this. But from my experience, if the onboarding is pushed onto the user, not everyone is going to do it, there might be some errors, etc... I was just thinking if there was some way you could automatically get their info without requesting it from each person.

This is super cool! Just out of curiosity, have you thought about automating the on boarding process at all? Something to streamline the process so that you don't need to manually mark each location? Or maybe even supporting multiple buildings?

Heroku is my go-to for spinning up a quick stack with minimal effort. Their free-tier is pretty powerful. It's mainly for POC-type work so if you're trying to launch something into production, you will most likely need to switch to a paid plan or a different platform / solution.

Thanks for the reference! It's been awhile since I've taken statistics so this will be a good refresher.

I've been trying to get into AI/ML/Deep learning because I feel like it will broaden the types of side projects I can undertake. I have one project in mind which involves analyzing written communication.

I've looked online for resources and I've found a bunch of Youtube videos that go over the high level concepts:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwIo3gDZCVQ

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njKP3FqW3Sk

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPYj3fFJGjk

For reference, I have 0 AI/ML/DL experience but I having been coding for awhile and I'm familiar with Python. These videos are quite long but I plan to start building a small toy app to validate my understanding. I'm just not sure if I'm taking the best approach to learning these concepts. I want to start working with the various tools ASAP because I believe that I learn better by doing.

Pros

- Depending on at-home situation, you may be able to focus on work more

- Time flexibility. You have the luxury of doing errands / tasks at home

Cons

- Difficult to build deeper connections with co-workers. Unless there are other processes in place, I've noticed that communication becomes increasingly work-related and less about just catching up

- Accessibility to distractions. It's easier to get distracted when you have access to TV, books, video games, etc...

- Separation of work and leisure time. Physically leaving the office used to be a forcing function to stop working. Now, it can be easy to just keep working.

- Collaboration becomes more difficult. Your coworker may have stepped away from their desk and you're kind of left hanging until they get back.

I'm building a web app that gives suggestions on what activities people can do during quarantine / at home. Getting Django set up and working was pretty straight forward. I think the only difficult part was dealing with the dependencies and the python versions.

Django. I'm building a side project to help learn it. I've been wanting to spend more time on side projects and now seems like a good opportunity to dive into them.

Find a problem first. Then try to implement a solution using your language of choice (Node in this case). An example could be: "I want to create a service that parses books and lists the most frequently words used. A step further would be to have the user enter a longer piece of text and analyzes it (http://www.online-utility.org/text/analyzer.jsp)"

Another example is "I want to create a service that auto-corrects text that users enter."

Try to find something that would make your own life easier. Chances are that other people are having the same problem.

Shameless plug. Hopefully you get some ideas out of it: http://jairampatel.com/projects.html

This looks amazing. Are you planning on adding any other services?

This looks pretty cool. One question though: Is the "Tap again to confirm" button active before the animation ends? For example, what if the user accidentally double taps the delete button?

Multiple forms of authentication do not ensure security. They merely raise the bar for the effort it takes to break it.

Just out of curiosity, why would one choose AWS over Digital Ocean? Isn't DO considerably cheaper?

Wow. Thank you for this. I'm just starting out in web development and this makes learning CSS a lot easier.

Spent a bit of time playing with the background.....a lot of time

What product is this, if you don't mind me asking?

I have a similar approach. But it doesn't hurt if you end up making some money out of it either.

Nice, what's your project, if you don't mind me asking?

Interesting product. How long did it take for clients to start approaching you as opposed to the other way around?

No, I don't really have a minimum size. I suppose I was thinking a little smaller since most of my projects I've done solo.

This is a pretty cool idea. I was considering making something like this (automate data retrieval and then analyze it) but I wasn't sure how to approach the problem.

Wow I was just about to post this here. Front page already too.

They're taking their flat UI a little too seriously.