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The corollary being that people who are not peddling insight porn are often dismissed and have much much harder time to get their content shared.

I mean on one hand there is this guy with an incredibly feel good story about how all you have to do is just fill the gaps between the problem and solution and get rich. Then on the other hand there is this guy giving advice that looks like a steep uphill climb from your comfort zone where you to measure every single unique issue in your product and call customers 10 times a day to understand what's not working and why they're leaving, etc.

Most people will pick A since it makes em feel good and such wisdom like "if your why is big enough the how takes care of itself "

Technology wise merging backend and frontend into a seamless framework seems like the next big thing. A lot of progress has been made this year on this with liveview, et al but haven't seen any mass adoption yet as only few people are talking about it.

But i reckon once these frameworks mature enough they have the power to disrupt the whole way we think about building websites and frontend back-end coding.

Also paypal withdraws everything to your bank account everyday and leaves a $0 balance so you can't process any intl refunds.

Payment processing is still very hopeless in India.

I really like this one

The Night I Met Einstein by Jerome Weidman

https://www.rd.com/article/the-night-i-met-einstein/

Yes one other trick that has worked for me is you put alarm for sleep not waking up.

So i put three alarms in alexa everyday at 7:30pm, 8:00pm and 8:30pm where alexa says "time to sleep, I'm reminding you time to sleep for a great day tomorrow and last is final reminder, it's time to sleep." respectively.

I have seen that 3 reminders to sleep does it and we all go to bed always before the 3rd reminder. I have never slept before 4am otherwise. So weird a robot voice can have this effect, but its the only thing that was able to fix my sleep schedule.

The only con is when you have guests over and alexa starts speaking like this, it can make things very weird and people feel we are trying to make them leave :P

Sorry my original title was

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Not sure how it got changed

Yes same here. For me Sarno gave me my life back and reading my comments it seems it has helped a lot other people here too, so I always chime in too. Here is my comment from 4 years ago and that was the the start of the end of my struggle with pain. (1)

Nowadays I've started doing the wim hof method and it's unbelievable my body can endure 7°c bath and I don't feel that cold or fall sick taking an ice cold baths everyday even during winters. The reason I'm mentioning this is because it really seems our minds are much more capable of things for which common sense goes against.

I think like the way germs were discovered which changed our understanding of medicine, within a few decades it will also become a norm to assess patient's mental condition before checking for physical and hopefully using the mind to cure a lot of disease. I feel like a hippie saying these things but after sarno and wim hof I've become more open to the power of human mind.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17982355

Same for me. I had a 800+ day streak and I remember that on the days I couldn't practice, I used to play Duolingo story #1 at 1am with half eyes open just to keep it going.

But as soon as my streak ended, my frequency of playing went from 6 days in a week, to 5 days.. and now I haven't played it in months. Fake or not, keeping the streak alive did help me learn a lot of French (well actually there is one more side to it.. even after all that I can't speak a single proper sentence now apart from the basic je m'appelle stuff)

Just out of curiosity since you are so knowledgeable in this area.. what would be like a very approx ballpark figure to develop something like codex?

Some guy created this play store search alternative(1) that lets you find apps by filtering IAP, Ad free, etc. It's very useful but I think it's on a small server so it takes a lot of time to search. Still very useful imo.

(1) https://playsearch.kaki87.net/

edit: sorry it looks to be down right now. Was working before last time I tried. I'll just leave my comment here in case he updates it again.

I think it's mostly about having deeper pockets than being clever or original when it comes to A.I. (though these guys just got $15m fwiw).

But this is one thing that worries me about A.I speaking as an indiehacker.

Being scrappy won't soon cut it anymore. Right now you can bootstrap a solid product for $15K, at least a MVP. Soon with the amount of GPU and other resources required to train these models you'll need a min $1M budget and no amount of jugaad will be able to cut it.

With exception to the bleach symbol I find most of the new and improved symbols hard to read and just as confusing and maybe even worse.

Also as other commenters have said it will do a much worse job when the fabric is faded or somebody without a 20/20 vision.

I think somebody else needs to take a shot at this again.

Yes their API is one of the best. A simple curl request is enough to send a message and it has been so useful (sentry, uptime, door bell notifications(1), etc).

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrkAWSemDC8

Don't underestimate the devs. It's a huge market with less competition (that's why suggested npm too). One of my sites makes very good money for doing something very trivial, something that almost every dev can do if they spent like 5 days on it, yet I have people paying $47 / mo for over 3 years just because I give them a super easy way to do it with an API.

Most devs generally have good budget or power to make purchases under $50 / mo without consulting their manager and also you're mostly dealing with very nice people.

The only issue I've ever faced when dealing with devs (and it could be just my own myopia) is that they are most often perfectionist. So whatever service you provide, better make sure it's the absolute best of the best - which it should be anyways.

A good bet is to create an API for it and sell it on Rapidapi or some site, with a possible free tier.

I think a lot of devs would benefit from a good text summarisation algorithm (haven't tested yours just general advice) and since youre good at programming and not marketing make some npm modules, composer packages, gems and the whole shebang.

Soon you'll be making a few $k a month depending on how good and fast your api is. The free tier will help you get some search engine traffic. An on page demo is also very useful in this regard.

Also this has chance of landing some big co with deep pockets who just finds your product a good fit and couldn't be bothered to hire a dev to do this just yet. So make sure you have a $$$ unlimited plan. Good luck.

I think a simple website redirect middleware can do this and much more reliably. If a site is being shady there is hardly a way to stop it.

Step 1: Redirect middleware checks for a cookie say 'A'

Step 2: If no cookie, set cookie and redirect to main content.

Step 3: User presses back button, comes to redirect middleware which sees cookie 'A' and this time it redirects to another shady website.

This is actually useful for me. But don't think it understands the concept when you press ALT+G. I wanted to leave a comment expanding "tried it loved it" but it thinks I'm talking about food for some reason :/

https://i.imgur.com/NAKhwMo.png

Also I think you should really checkout github co-pilot's autocomplete. When writing readme files I see it often completes the whole sentence in gray text which is much faster to expand and easier to complete. Your popup is a bit distracting compared to the inline gray text of copilot/gmail.

https://i.imgur.com/BcddljD.png

Hopefully with a way to patch it from the last download so you don't have to download the whole thing over and over. I wouldn't mind paying $5 / month for a service like this - for helping me avoid the red tape.

That's insane. It also has SSML and voice types (angry sad etc). This is hands down the winner for me.

My loss isn't as big as this but I've gotten some Paypal disputes because those users didn't get any of the welcome emails (for a rather costly purchase). My issue has been more with Apple's mail for some reason though.

Thankfully all my customers have been super understanding and were kind to take the disputes back once they were able to locate the emails in the Spam folder. Also I finally decided to just use a "reputed" smtp server to fix my problems (feels like extortion but what can you do).

I've written this before, but it's so sad that something so important and vital like email is so broken and we are the mercy of corps like Google/Apple/Microsoft and everyone has their own secret policy.

This is so true. This false spam tagging has caused me so much pain with paying customers, I ended up white listing all email to a particular to address using a filter.

It's unbelievable that email is so fragile and broken.

Yes but it's still the king of the jungle and all the alternates are mostly shit (ddg, bing are far worse).

I did learn recently about Kagi on HN and that is marginally better than bing but still doesn't beat Google imo.

I just hope there is more and better competition like this for Google soon. That's the only thing that can put google back in its place and put an end to their evil things.

There was a very nice software called studio1 (defunct now i think) which allowed you to write phantomjs scripts (using a chrome extension) to create how to videos like this.

So instead of an image slideshow it was a very smooth video where it looked as if it was an actual screen recording and much easier to follow. Might be worth investigating as a feature upgrade, since that site shutdown.

Also the background colors (yellow, fuchsia, etc) are a bit too much for reading.

I'm not a professional copywriter either but I think pleasing colors and fonts should also be contenders for writing a good "readable" sales copy.

Yes i too would like to see a side by side comparison why it's better than just dude trust me..

I really also like contabo. Good server with great pricing from my own personal experience.

To me it looks like some popular spamming software (like thebestspinner, etc) just integrated you and now everyone who is the software is now hitting your site.

The good news in this case is that's it'll be easy to spot the pattern and block it, the bad news is you're entering a never-ending cat and mouse game.

Php/Vuejs/composer.

Instead of php framework I just use an independent component for routing. Php has the ability to handle the rest well without requiring a server side framework (at least for my use cases)

You're damn right about that. Just take a look at ipinfo.io, site is generating millions for something maxmind had complete dominance for decades.

People give waay too many points to having an original idea and very little to marketing - yet it's the latter that is responsible for the lion's share of any project's success.

Both these suggestions are amazing. Loving mcfly and it's going to be one of thing I'll always install