stets

"Extract" is the key word here

Insanely cool, love these analytics types of tools. Have you done this for any other markets or had any in mind?

Whoa, was your work related to wordpress plugins?

Rails!

write more, read good writing. emulate good writing. read books on writing? Stephen King's "on writing" is recommended all the time

Are you trolling? It's just a toy for messing around, it's not that serious

Looks like more blogspam intended to snipe search results for "is rails dead". Rails is still great and will still be great for many years.

Thanks, I'll have to look into this. Accessibility was an issue making sure that the user first interacts with the website before playing sounds, etc.

Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS, DevOps, SRE/Monitoring, Terraform, Docker, Linux Sysadmin, Python (flask, django, requests), Javascript, some Rails, Network Engineering, Web Scraping Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stetson-blake-31635252/ Email: stetsblake@gmail.com

I started my career in Network Engineering, moved over to DevOps/Cloud a few years back and have gotten deeper into software dev. I've started a few micro-SaaS products in the past. I know a little about a lot and have some deep skills in other areas. The past few years I've been in Platform/DevOps/Cloud oriented roles building on AWS with Serverless, Cloudformation/CDK/Typescript and Terraform. Not actively looking for a role but open to conversations :-)

108 for Today's! How do I play previous days?

> I don't even know if this is something people would want or pay for if I completed it.

I'm mostly re-iterating what others have said but this is essential and IMO should be something you do before you are building your product/service. Sounds like you are good at operating and launching, but marketing and product dev need some work.

I'm not you but If I were I would get a job and utilize this as a stepping stone for it. Go back and build again with an audience in mind and try again if you're up to it.

delet this op

I have heard great things about SaaS Pegasus. The creator, Corey, seems to be dedicated and push updates pretty frequently. I have no affiliation with them, just things I've observed.

Andrew Huang has a really good intro video on modular synthesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWslSTTkiFU

Warning that modular synths are typically not cheap. However, most of the physical standalone synths that exist today use the same principles.

Physical hardware can be really fun if you don't end up going with VCV rack or syntorial as mentioned in this thread.

Good pieces of hardware for a n00b:

- arturia microfreak

- korg minilogue

- any of the korg volca lines

Another potential benefit of self-employment is that you can't sell your job. Assuming you build systems into place and remove yourself from your business, your business could be worth many more times revenue to exit. You can't sell your job unless you are playing the startup lottery and hit it big.

Awesome to see this on the front-page, guys. Nice!

- if you monetize partly by collecting referral fees, do you plan to stay vendor-agnostic? how?

- over time, as products change via acquisition, updates, etc, how can you keep the various metrics, fees, features organized and up-to-date? This seems like immense work to me

distribution > product

YT Channel looks awesome. Just subbed. Side question -- is algo trading worth it? Is there any edge that can be obtained? I'd guess that you'd be rich and on a beach if it did...but maybe I'm wrong

Love these types of projects. I built the pwnagotchi last weekend and documented the process on YT https://youtu.be/2DIPVpcjR1I

I might have to find some part for this now...

I don't know who dang is. The site is fine but their ToS is atrocious. Have you read it? Freelancers are expected to pay $3000 USD to take a client off of Upwork. This doesn't refer to initial work being done on the platform. If you do work for a client and get a call back, Upwork expects you to work through Upwork. I'm sure that few do this but WHAT. They recently changed ToS so maybe it is different now... I'm also not a big fan of the dog-eat-dog nature of the site, which my tool ironically encourages. I'm glad it works for you. I don't want to be a freelancer, I want to make tools/SaaS products.

Flask is great and could work fine. I just found that Laravel was easy enough to scaffold things out a lot easier (like user auth). I'm new to web app dev as well and have found MVC and other framework concepts making more since as I develop more in Laravel. SQL queries worked fine for me but a lot of people disagree with doing things that way. In contrast, though, eloquent is much simpler once you learn.

OP here -- feeling that hard right now. I have another side gig (maybe I'll write about it soon). Working with a company that does ~300mm in revenue and date from contract sent to signed was around 45 days. I was blown away. still haven't been paid either. Hoping I'm embedded after this.

There are a few templates and things if you google 'saas boilerplate'. Most I've found are specific to languages and require a lot of setup. It's an ok idea, just needs to be executed correctly. Laravel really handles a lot of this well and they even developed a paid boilerplate that claims to do billing and other things easily https://spark.laravel.com/

Hardly anything. $5/mo or so for a VPS, my time and energy. Maybe $100 in programming courses. I made TENS of dollars.

Nah, what makes you think that?

It's mostly familiarity. I was working on AWS as an infra guy and doing a lot of docker stuff. Python anywhere looks cool but I still wanna manage my servers. I'd prob go digitalocean or similar if launching today. (with my containers ofc)

I would recommend Laravel or even Rails for a beginner over Flask. Again, with Flask I was re-writing and implementing things I didn't need to. Like hashing passwords. Or building user scaffolding. Flask fans will argue that you can do all of these. Yes...but you probably are grabbing some module and reading the docs and then messing around with it for a while. My forgotten email system in flask was a celery task running in a sidecar container and using an additional redis container for queueing and grabbing that job. In laravel that looks more like one command. `php artisan ui vue --auth`. Maybe there is a better way but I found myself struggling for a lot. Yes I didn't need to use psycopg2 and make nasty raw SQL calls because SQLAlchemy exists. SQLAlchemy isn't built in though. Django has a lot of these features and much of flask's attractiveness is in being light-weight so I guess it makes sense. Today, I'd say for solo-founders, try out Laravel > Rails > Django > Flask > everything else

Solid idea. I think he mentioned that to me and I didn't take it in fully that other people could monitor WHAT people on Upwork wanted without wanting to work for them.

Maybe...maybe not. I'm not a paid ads expert but how much poor conversion can be blamed on a genuinely bad ad?

They are still a pretty damn awesome company. Gave me a bit of free credit and a shirt for tweeting about them. I'm wearing it in my tweet about this post making front page :-)

https://twitter.com/stets_10/status/1266158608024305664