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Re:Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup) Buzee – A file ... by thatgurjot on Saturday December 14, 2024 @12:48PM (#42418403)
You are 100% correct. I focused on Mac because my personal machine is a MacBook :)

That was part of my failure. I wanted to solve a problem for Windows but didn't have a decent Windows machine myself! Had to rely on a 10-year old laptop to do testing and building, which inevitably didn't work well.

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Re:Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup) Buzee – A file ... by leros on Saturday December 14, 2024 @01:18PM (#42418571)
Windows would also have let you target business people with specific niche business problems. You could be the best search for legal documents, invoices, etc.
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Re:Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup) Buzee – A file ... by thatgurjot on Saturday December 14, 2024 @01:23PM (#42418598)
Funny you say that. Legal and invoice were actually the two avenues I actually explored! There definitely is an opportunity there but I found that there is an intense status quo to fight.
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Re:Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup) Buzee – A file ... by criddell on Saturday December 14, 2024 @01:38PM (#42418657)
Was running Windows in a VM not an option?
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Re:Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup) Buzee – A file ... by thatgurjot on Saturday December 14, 2024 @01:46PM (#42418695)
I tried Parallels with like three different accounts :)

But I also found that a native Windows machine throws a lot more errors than a VM. For example, having a sqlite3.dll ended up being critical on the Windows 10 machine but not on the Parallels VM. Not sure why!

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Re:Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup) Buzee – A file ... by criddell on Saturday December 14, 2024 @03:51PM (#42419350)
SQLite is actually bundled with Windows as winsqlite. You can install your own copy if you want to take control of the version, but you usually don’t need to.
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