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Humans are nothing but hormones projected onto physical world. Expanding in space and time is a task of any living organism, be it your genes, ideas, etc. I won’t say more.

You’re a mammal. You’re 99% a monkey. What else to say?

Biological purpose is the foundation of everything else.

You might not need it.

Nice. Well, I hope it becomes a problem as that would mean I have that kind of demand.

Yeah short sentences can be but I mean, who wants to? GPT cannot do it from what I’ve tried.

Thank you, yea I was hesitant about the voiceover too but figured it’s good enough to launch.

As for the scrambled text, that’s the contents that will be unscrambled the moment one purchases the product. I should make it clearer for sure.

Yeah, Pandoc is great and there’s lots of lower level tools but I figure simplicity has its own value, especially if it’s in the browser.

Thanks for the feedback!

Haha, yea. Added a link a moment ago. Kind of like Leanpub but more minimalistic and straightforward I think.

https://selfpubkit.com is where it’s hosted

Stack consists of: BE: Node.js, Postgres, Redis (queues and keyval), uWebSockets.js Infra: S3, Cloudflare R2, Ubuntu box VPS FE: React, Dexie.js as a database on the front end, immer for state management. Auth: basic redis+bcrypt. Editor is based on tiptap plus hocuspocus. I stream tokens from OAI using node streams. Let me know if you have any questions.

Well, My target audience definitely interprets foreigner as gaijin, farang, gringo, etc.

Interesting. To me foreigner is a synonym for non-resident/alien. How do you interpret it?

Dictionary says it’s `a person belonging to or owing allegiance to a foreign country`.

I’ve been working on a tool for making products using vertically integrated stack of an editor, renderer, and collaborative workspace. It was a lot technically.

This product is a first real tangible outcome which I’m still working on. Any ideas and feedback would be greatly appreciated.

The reason for product to exist is to explain how to access the greatest financial market in the world as a foreigner who can travel to the US to get:

- customer protection

- free float

- acquire points for hotels, flights

None of it is new to financially-savvy Americans but few foreigners know that anyone (other than embargoed countries) can access the same tool belt.

Everything has been “enshittified”. It’s now more surprising when something’s not bad.

This is an excellent and pragmatic way of looking at scaling team as an engineer. The defragmentation comparison really demonstrates this clearly, thank you for sharing this.

Great move, congrats to everyone involved. Fly is very promising player in the space. Pipeline looks amazing, and I’ll be trying more of your offerings down the road.

I’ve been doing this as a contractor. I started in my home country, where $50/h is a lot—established relationships over time with people who value solid developers and hate handholding as much as I do. Over time progressed and tripled my rate and now do maintenance work primarily and combine personal business projects. I sacrificed corp. Life and lots of money but gained a lot of flexibility and traveled a lot. As a non-US work authorized person, it wasn’t much of an option anyway.

I’d say this: if you’re outside of the US, the best companies for this approach are in the Nordics. If you are US-based, the number of companies who fit this profile are non-tech founders who look for an all-in-one developer who can move the needle and establish everything until there are more funds or traction. Stakeholders have to value the quality of life more than anything esle.

I’ve been doing remote async for five years now. Nothing beats that lifestyle for me. I think it’s only natural to work that way. No alarms, only natural rhythms. Code when it works for you, tackle problems, respond to messages when it suits you best. What’s the point of remote work if everyone’s online at the same time? I don’t see the point as a developer. Business-wise, maybe—if you don’t have everything dumped into txt.

It doesn’t.

Software has been eating the world, and there’s no sign of it stopping.

Software gave people like me a way to escape dire economic situation, and is the main reason for increased social mobility as in having lots of options. That is attractive to every young person out there, and the demand goes up and to the right.

You can self-host it. That’s what I do.

Awesome, thanks for sharing! I’ve been building using yjs and it’s indeed something much more exciting than a bunch of bs we see with web3.

You might want to check out https://github.com/monicahq/monica. Requires an upkeep but the UX is great.

Ok, now I understand more. I think local-first and single-user mode is easy enough with the tooling we have right now (there are hooks, FS adapters that are almost plug-n-play). The trickiest part is still resolving conflicts/modifications across many sessions that multiple users have across time and lost sync periods.

Interesting. I’m a potential user. What do you have in mind that would make it a “simple reality”? I totally agree that it’s a mess right now. The hardest part for me was/is the sync and data consistency between syncs and modifications in-between sessions. I’ve used both OT and CRDT and the tooling isn’t simple.

Definitely would love to learn more about your use case. Recently I started to use DeepL and it’s great if the language selection is enough for you.

You might want to try Ionica (https://ionica.app). UX will be better than Foobar’s, that’s for sure.

I use Dokku and Caprover, Git hooks and two branches (staging, master) which I think is more than enough for a solopreneur. Dockerized apps are easy to reason about and fix in case of fires.