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Ask HN: What metrics stack are you using for side projects

Posted by RandomSort on Monday August 01, 2022 @03:35AM
from the ask-hn dept.

After having worked with a nice metrics stack in my worklife. I feel kind of blind in my side projects. What are all y'all using for metrics and visualization for your side projects? I'd prefer a SaaS solution, and I'd love to be able to (easily): - Publish (time-series) metrics from my code - Create dashboards visualizing these metrics - (Optional) setup alerting on these metricsThe stacks...

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Re:Ask HN: My product isn't making any money, and I have rent and food... on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:35AM (#31942746)
I notice on your team page - you have a CMO? Maybe they should know, or find out ;)
Re:Ask HN: My product isn't making any money, and I have rent and food... on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:35AM (#31942741)
I have been diving reasonably deep into the Tool For Thought category over the last two years, but have yet to see notegarden in this space. I concur with the spend your effort on marketing not development. Look into tools that both do the same and more: - Obsidian.md - RoamResearch.com - Notion.so - Remnote - Readwise.io - Anki

I am sure there are others. You mention remnote specifically, how do your tool compare, when is it the best, when should I go with some other tool? See for instance https://medium.com/geekculture/roam-research-vs-notion-3064a...

Also the copy overall could take some overhauling, there are some errors and stuff that takes you a bit out - perhaps hire someone on upwork to check that up.

With regards to team, maybe figure out what your cutoff point is for calling it quits. If you have been working on this for 3-4 years, without many users, three persons, what are the signals that you are working in the right direction? Figure that out, commit to some numbers and dates, and strategize based on those numbers.

Good luck.

Re:Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project? on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:21AM (#26012651)
I have build a little tool to help teams work in creating a healthier culture: https://cultooling.com It could go either way :D
Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise? on Monday October 01, 2018 @02:43AM (#18110471)
In Continuous Delivery and DevOps:

Lean software Development - Mary & Tom Poppendieck

The DevOps Handbook - Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois

Accelerate - Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

Continuous Integration - Paul M. Duvall, Andrew Glover, Steve Matyas

Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble, David Farley

Ask HN: Who uses custom versions of common tools in their build pipeline?

Posted by RandomSort on Monday July 30, 2018 @07:41AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm going to participate in a debate on monolithic vs many smaller repositories.One of my points is that many companies does not have a scale where investing heavily in custom tooling has a feasible ROI.I know that Facebook builds and ships the very newest Mercurial with extensions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOVD-DrUpwQ&t=169sUber uses ( or has used ) a custom build of Docker to do...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the most underrated programming language? on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:19AM (#16288988)
I'm going to say Groovy. It allows you to do all the nifty things Java does, but you just feel infinitely more productive.
Re:Ask HN: Why are sites now breaking login forms into stages (name th... on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:39AM (#12226244)
Many sites have started using "magic links" where you can choose to either receive an email with a link that will authenticate you or you can input the password.

Both Netflix and Slack does this.

Re:Ask HN: What is the most difficult tech/dev challenge you ever solved? on Friday May 02, 2014 @02:02PM (#7687152)
At work I was server admin because I was the one that had tried to install Linux before. This is probably more common than it should be.

There was one development server and at some point we added a NAS. Due to the access restrictions and my inexperience with other stuff, the server would mount the NAS and reshare that through Samba.

On Windows machines every folder would show up as a file. You could still manually enter the path and get a directory listing, but you could of course not navigate the directory structure in any satisfying way.

It took me a few weeks to figure out the error that came from a error in the NFS file system. Figured out the fix and patched the kernel.

Felt nice when I was done.

I've put a link to the serverfault thread about the issue.

http://serverfault.com/questions/491464/directories-shown-as...