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Re:Show HN: I made a simple Dropbox clone on Monday December 23, 2024 @08:23AM (#42494204)
I will try to keep it alive forever.

The only risk I see is people starting to upload bad stuff and Cloudflare shuts down my account. Hopefully, this does not happen.

Show HN: I made a simple Dropbox clone

https://uploadfile.click/

I made a simple site that allows you to upload files. It requires no sign up and 100% free.The biggest advantage is that it returns you the direct URL to your file. So you can use it to store images for MD-based forum posts. Or put in your site's <img src>.I use the Cloudflare R2 storage which offers zero egress fees. So I pay $0 of transfer costs.I added a simple anti-nsfw files check...

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Re:You won't find a technical co-founder on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:26AM (#39988307)
I agree. It is nearly impossible!

If they are young, they are full of their own ambitions and ideas. It is hard to cooperate. If they are old, they already have built something in the past and not looking for help in exchange of new risks.

Finding a co-founder is an additional full-time job. I have tried that in 2018 when I was starting my startup. I spent days on meetings and forums like this one.

I found dozens of amazing folks, but it was impossible to negotiate and actually start something together.

Finding a co-founder = finding a girlfriend. You do not seek for one intentionally. You just live having a chance to meet that one. Same with a co-founder.

Thanks for the tip. I was too paranoid to link my blog here.

You can read the post on https://twitter.com/alexanderisorax/status/17722497842517773.... I also added the link to the JSON data there.

Sorry for the ugly formatting. HN is not suitable for this type of post.

I parsed 968 launches from /r/SideProject and analyzed them with Claude 3 Opus

The data:I searched for all posts from /r/SideProjects that contained these strings:"I built", "I made an alternative to", "I created a clone of".Most posts are <=1 year old.Reddit API does not allow parsing older posts hence the amount "968" I wish I could parse more.The list of clones of popular apps:Loom (screen recording app) (6‼)Typeform (form builders) (7‼)Resume/CV apps (3)Pastebin...

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Re:I was permanently banned in Twitter on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:12AM (#37431337)
What is wrong with Mastodon?
Re:I was permanently banned in Twitter on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:11AM (#37431333)
Even if I'm technically allowed to create a new account, I'm not doing this: I do not want to stress because of a risk of getting banned again.
Re:I was permanently banned in Twitter on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:09AM (#37431304)
Even though I feel devastated (I have been growing my account since 2016), my post is emotions-free. Only facts. Did Y got Z.

> d)

Great point! But do you think people of China trust WeChat? I doubt you need to have reputation to do what Elon plans to do with X. You just need lots of power/money.

Re:I was permanently banned in Twitter on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:05AM (#37431277)
The rule of thumb is to act like a regular human. If you are a savvy user, you have shortcuts for everything, you have scripts for optimizing your work, then be careful.

Exporting your data is a great piece of advice. Thanks for reminding that.

I was permanently banned in Twitter

Yesterday morning, I opened my to-do list. There was one nagging task that I have been delaying for months: reply to all DMs on Twitter. There were roughly 100 missed DMs.People reach me out often there. Half of them ask questions about my project. The other half wants me to upvote their thing on Product Hunt.To people who need me to press "Upvote" I reply with a template. Here it is:> "Hey!...

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Re:Show HN: Appliku – Deployment PaaS for Python/Django on Thursday May 25, 2023 @01:42PM (#36073724)
i switched to Appliku 2 years ago. it was my best devops decision. saved me thousands of $. AMA.

Ask HN: GPT Will Replace Programmers

The two primary challenges preventing GPT from replacing programmers are:1) AI lacks the creativity and critical thinking ability of human programmers. 2) The 8,000 token limitation of code-davinci-002. Regarding these points:While top 1% software engineers may handle more complex tasks, many programmers mostly perform repetitive tasks such as finding npm modules, importing them, reading...

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Re:Is this how smart developers will become rich in 2025? on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:49AM (#33192642)
I can name https://bit.cloud/components as an existing marketplace. It is a big challenge, yes, but also a big profit.
Re:Is this how smart developers will become rich in 2025? on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:24AM (#33192306)
We (the developers) can create a marketplace of micro-apps. It would be a separate business by itself.
Re:Is this how smart developers will become rich in 2025? on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:23AM (#33192291)
For example a programmer can create a full-stack micro-app for accepting payments. The programmer will make it super flexible, configurable and secure. It will be win-win for both programmer (because they will earn money on the micro-app) and the users of the payments micro-app (because it will be pluggable and well-designed since a dedicated person has been working on the one functionality for year).

Is this how smart developers will become rich in 2025?

Nowadays, There are 2 ways to become rich for a developer.First, you can sell your hours to a company as an employee and earn its stocks. Eventually, you can get a lot of stocks, sell them, and become rich. This can work, but it is gambling. Why? Because you will only earn a significant amount of money if you join the right company at the beginning. No one will give you many Twitter-like...

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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Hiring Freelancers on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @08:34AM (#32164821)
Yes, this approach has been implemented by many companies. But those plugins' use scope is limited to a company tool. What that folk did is expanded this approach to the 'any app' level.
Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Hiring Freelancers on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:40AM (#32164279)
This is the biggest pain of the modern software development process. Freelancers or outsource companies are not interested in your business, they are interested in charging you for hours spent. This approach is counter productive and is against common sense. Especially if you are a solo maker, not a $$$$ backed startup.

I believe to change this, we need to invent a completely new way of how software is built.

I recently met a guy who came up with an idea. He created a whole new methodology of coding stuff. It took him 4 years of hard working. He made a platform which allows making software out of separated entities which live by their own lives. Those entities (components) are developed by individuals. Therefore, projects built using a set of living components needs less maintenance work because a project is built of components which are maintained by someone else.

The only way to keep this evolution of the components going on is to benefit the makers of the components. The users of the components will pay a fee for the makers of components. Thus we get a win-win. A maker of a component can create an amazing, let's say, billing module and continue working on this single piece of code for years while being paid by 1,000 users of the component. While the users of the component just pay a small fee, hit the 'plug' button and do not care about the maintenance anymore.

This sounds like a magic, but it already works. The guy who made it already got his 100+ customers.

Re:Show HN: Heroku Alternative for Python/Django apps on Thursday September 09, 2021 @08:49AM (#28469098)
I am long time paid customer of Appliku. I've built a SaaS (https://unicornplatform.com) and before was hosted on Heroku. Migrating to Appliku saved me $400/mo in cloud costs.

My app is React & Django and it works like a charm on Appliku.

Good luck!

Re:Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf] on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:30AM (#27231715)
By the way, I’m subscribed to your newsletter. For anyone interested, check out https://user-interface.io. This guy sends random stuff about UI. Pretty decent.
Ah I see, thanks. I just think of myself as a 'coding SaaS founder' - so I placed this title. It is just the first title that popped out in my mind :)

I did not want to bait.

I'm sorry I do not use Docker. So I can not comment on that. I also did not try to run Windows or Linux on the machine.
What title would you suggest?
When I actively compile stuff, it gets slightly warm. 95% of time it is cold.

I assume if you code/build actively being in a warm room or under the sun, it will get too hot.

I did not think about such a trick when I was digging the problem.

My current setup (python v3.8 and node v12) runs well both with or without Rosetta.

I've been using M1 for 1.5 months. Here's my experience as a coding SaaS founder

I have bought M1 MacBook Air 13" 16GB In January 2021. Here are my thoughts on this machine so far.Speed. Aww yeah, it is lightning fast! My daily setup: Postgres, VScode (+48 plugins), Sublime Text, Slack, Discord, Spotify, Thunderbird, Telegram, Chrome, Firefox, iTerm, Figma, Alfred. All simultaneously. Not a single freeze so far. Each app opens instantly.Apps. As you know, there is a chip...

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Thanks for the read.

Have you tried any other means of therapy? Maybe gestalt, psychoanalysis?

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