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This is basically that Treehouse of Horror episode of the Simpsons where the ads go on a crazy rampage and to defeat them all you have to do is "just don't look"

I mean they basically invented, popularised and maintained react/react native which I've built my entire career on, I love them for that.

> It doesn't matter whether you abstain from using Instagram or not, some of your friends will still be more or less subtly influenced by its existence in your social interactions

You could say the same thing about the Bible, or Harry Potter, or any number of things too

I started this video knowing absolutely nothing about 3D printing, and now I feel like I know a lot + could see a lot of use-cases for their printer. What a great demo video!

How are you using Plexamp? Do you DL albums and stream it from there as a spotify-ish alternative?

Absolutely true. Reddit's true success started when Digg failed (remember MrBabyMan??)

> The European competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, said a smaller fine would have been nothing more than the equivalent of a parking fine and the €1.8bn was designed to act as a deterrent against a repetition of such practices by Apple or others.

Good!

Yep, I use this very frequently (I use edge browser fwiw). Now I can be disappointed by gpt for free!

    Name: James
    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    Work Preferences: Remote/Hybrid
    Tech: React Native, React, Node.js, Typescript, AWS/cloudy stuff
    Experience: 15 years as a dev
    Day rate: US$800 / day
    Contact: jvg [at] warmhq.com
    LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gallichio/

I love building anything and everything in JS/TS. My current hobby is web scraping for fun.

Why hire an Australian dev for your American or European-based startup team? It turns out there are 24 hours in a day, and most teams do not like being online at 1am. I _love_ being online at your 1am!

Tl;dr - Senior/lead React Native + NodeJS developer open for work

Australian too, fwiw. One general way to distinguish UK from Aussie online is we (Aus) use metric for everything, (kg, KMs, cms) and UK don't (stone (?), miles, feet)

At a glance the emails felt very Australian to me before I checked these comments, but I didn't do a thorough read.

Great thoughts! Looks like I need to re-work the info on the homepage.

*Auth service*

I use Supabase email auth, specifically with one-time passwords. Why? Because it's the quickest to set up by far (compared to oAuth, where you have to have a website live + verification by Google / FB). It also allows you to skip over a separate "Log in" screen flow.

My boilerplate has all of this included and all the UX worked out (loading spinners when you click submit, an "enter your 6 digit code" screen which displays the email address you input and allows you to send again / change the email, etc

*What BaaS does it use?*

Supabase, for the reasons above. I also supply SQL creation templates to use within Supabase for profile table + auth creation, and the HyperFast docs have a step by step guide on how to set everything up.

*How easy is it to publish on the Apple and Android stores?*

Very hard. Great question. Once you have an established app it's relatively easy to _resubmit_ to these stores, but getting set up, getting all your assets (like images) together, and getting approved is extremely difficult for first-time users. Also difficult for return users like me, I stumble over it every time!

*Can I also make a website out of it or just mobile?*

Love this one. I've not yet implemented `react-native-web` but it'd be fairly simple to do so.

*Code samples / snippets*

Good idea, I think a video product tour might be a good thing, just show how everything works, show what you get, show the difference between using HyperFast to start your project vs showing how much harder it would be to do with plain react

Oh great. By a full working demo, do you mean like an Expo Snack style interactive demo of the app on the home screen?

Or doing a video screencast thing where I go through all the features / the app etc?

For a new React Native developer, I think it's minimum a full day of work to get your head around setting up a new RN project (even with Expo), finding out what dependencies your app needs and trawling through different documentation to learn it, things like that.

Differences to Expo - HyperFast is built on top of Expo. With Expo you get a great developer experience but you don't get code. HyperFast is a white-label best-practice UX app template, with

- app intro screens - signup/login/logout - an onboarding screen - a news feed - an item detail page - ability to "like" items - an account settings page where you can edit your info - a push notification service that lets you set up pre-built recurring local notifications

This is what "boilerplate" or "starter kit" means to me, but if that language isn't correct I'm keen to know how you'd describe it! Expo is an amazing tool but the purpose of HyperFast is to actually give you an app that you can customise.

As for the heavy lifting on publishing to the app store - yes, kinda, it can handle submissions, but HyperFast tells you _what to write_ in your app store listings, what kind of imagery is needed, gives sample text, etc.

Not to mention the huge benefit of having me on our private Discord channel giving advice, code feedback, debugging help etc. All of this is included _on top of Expo_, not in competition with it.

Thanks so much for your feedback! I think it shows that my sales page isn't quite there yet.

Thanks so much for this valuable feedback. I want to make the service/the sales site as convincing as possible so it's good to know what I'm missing. I'm gonna write responses to your feedback just in case someone sees this and has the same questions:

Language around pricing

Your point about the pricing makes sense to me, and I think it's an issue with my intended market. I wrote the copy speaking to other React Native devs like myself, or freelance React devs who want to jump into app development, but I think I need to consider gearing it towards founders.

How is it better than Expo?

It uses Expo actually! Expo is just a tool, like Rails or NextJS. HyperFast is a template built on top of Expo, which has pre-built screens that you can swap out your content for. It has push notifications already set up (e.g. has code that you can uncomment to launch recurring scheduled notifications), it has best-practice UX patterns (e.g. 'app intro' screens that appear when you first launch the app that describe what the app is before you ask for signup), it's pre-integrated with a BaaS (Supabase) so all you need to do is sign up, pop in your env vars and it just works.

I've basically built a white-label general purpose app, and you can put your images/text/API URL in there and have your own custom app (with a feed, likes/favourite content, account settings, login in/log out/sign up) extremely quickly.

I don't know what this does other than vague marketing words

Point taken, I think a demo video is in order!

Thanks again for the great feedback

> That's 108 GB/year. HDD/SSDs are getting bigger than that every year.

Cries in MacBook Pro

For whatever reason I've suddenly gotten deep into murder mystery books. In the last 3 weeks I've read a bunch of Agatha Christie classics:

- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - And then there were none - Evil under the sun

All brilliant in their own right but the first is a masterpiece. Don't google any of these because spoilers come up, but I've had a lot more fun and been a lot more active reading than I have in years.

Last year I read two books, this year I've read 3 books in January and have thoroughly enjoyed it way more than my usual nights of watching Netflix.

You would still need Xcode / an apple developer account/ provisioning profiles etc etc etc all through Apple to develop iOS apps though, so with that there's potential for some apple => dev agreement.

Not saying it's good or bad, just that the distribution channel might change but that doesn't mean the development tools will

Jesus, that's bad.

Frank Howarth is my guy, but admittedly I watch him to fall asleep (while marveling at how good he is)

Ah, bad news, you cc'd legal@, which technically isn't directly emailing legal@. We have denied your claim and you will be shot from a rocket directly into the sun next Wednesday.

How do you clean it? I'm no expert, but I'd turn off the water to the toilet then flush it till it's empty, then hit it with some mould spray. I'd look at the water tank too (which should now be empty) and give that a clean too. Read the instructions on the sprays cos you're meant to leave them for 5-10mins to do their work before you wash them off. Then turn your tap back on and see how you go.

Same. Have twins (fraternal) and their milestones are completely different despite pretty much identical treatment all things considered. They're also naturally better at certain things (twin A better at physical milestones, twin B better at social milestones).

For me on mobile it was scrolled halfway down the page when it loaded. Agree with the other commenters that the slow-loading content is really annoying and caused me to lose interest very quickly.

I think they're talking about the policy they announced yesterday that they'll close their API off to 3rd party developers unless they pay a fee in the millions.

They also were good at meddling in Australian politics, including overthrowing one of our best Prime Ministers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_t...

The parenting-adage version of this is "hear everything, do what you want"

Interesting. Is there a way to shape it to topics you care about? It's all about Sudan and Ukraine, which while globally important I'm much more interested in local (Australian) news / tech news.

Love this comment and the passion behind it. Another non-US person here who routinely has to do a buttload of research to know whether products will be supported (or usable) in the future, especially with US-centric takeovers.

I wish these companies had some sort of open source pact built into the licensing, eg after 3 years the support window ends but the software becomes open source. We won't solve your problems anymore but you/the community can if you want.

That would be amazing...

Ah yep. The article is down so I didn't understand the context, ignore me!

I use S3 for a simple app landing page and I use .well-known for deeplinks... Unless I'm misunderstanding your comment which I probably am.