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This is delightful!

The only issue I've ever had with these types of tools is they usually charge a monthly subscription. That probably makes sense for some kind of agency, but as an individual I don't need a subscription to a logo service. I just need a simple logo now, one-time.

Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users on Thursday February 22, 2024 @10:44AM (#39468769)
Hey neighbor! SOS mode here in north AL too.
This is incredible and terrifying at the same time. Does it support long context? As in, can I voice chat with an instance of an agent, and then later in a different chat refer to items discussed in the previous chat? Can I also type / text with the agent and have it recall items from a previous session?
One piece of feedback: the landing page looks really nice and features a picture of a workflow with web scraping, which is something I’m actually looking for. But then I go to the templates and search web scraper and nothing comes up. Am I doing something wrong or looking for the wrong term?
Re:Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock on Sunday November 19, 2023 @12:02PM (#38334649)
Can confirm. Had a good experience using Terraform Cloud on personal projects. Tried to bring it to my Big Co team but leadership / accounting couldn't get over the sticker shock from their resource based pricing.

Azure DevOps does a good enough job for us.

Re:Show HN: Red Goose – Convert your website to mobile app on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:09AM (#33034367)
Very interested in using this as a short term solution for launching on Android. Is there a way to see a preview of the app, interact with it, etc. before we pay? Want to verify everything works.
Re:Ask HN: Was this a phishing attempt? on Monday April 25, 2022 @07:57PM (#31162408)
Careful, you might end up getting scammed into working at Amazon.
Re:Ask HN: Are there any rural tech communities? on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:02PM (#31128100)
Huntsville, AL, & Chattanooga, TN both have tech communities. Huntsville has NASA's MSFC and Redstone arsenal, so there's a ton of tech talent from all over the country there. Companies like Boeing, Blue Origin, Lockheed all have a presence. They're now starting to see non government / defense tech companies spring up, Like CommentSold. Gener8tor is launching a new accelerator program there.
Re:Discord is a black hole for information on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:24AM (#30313018)
There’s a huge opening in the market between slack and discord for community conversation and organization. My startup is working on this right now with a web3 implementation.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? on Friday October 22, 2021 @01:51PM (#28960310)
The second part of your answer is hilarious and depressing.
Re:How Lotus is going to build lightweight electric sports cars on Saturday September 25, 2021 @10:07AM (#28653336)
This is what scares me about electric cars. This type of design seems more likely to mean disposable cars. This is the automotive equivalent of a glued in non serviceable battery in a phone.

From an environmental standpoint this seems like a step backwards. It can be cost effective to replace entire damaged engines and transmissions even in older vehicles. People are keeping cars for longer, currently the average is over 8 years.

Re:Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase' on Saturday July 03, 2021 @10:07AM (#27721705)
They’ll help you improve your work performance with a Performance Improvement Plan for sure
Re:Old electric cars are a raw material of the future on Saturday May 15, 2021 @01:19PM (#27167049)
It actually is that many vehicles don't have a steel chassis. The Model Y for instance has an aluminum chassis to save weight. There even other materials such as Carbon Fiber used in some high end vehicle.
Re:Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing? on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:06PM (#26282479)
The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here.

Ask HN: Best approach for managing failed login attempts?

Should I lock a user account based on X amount of failed login attempts over Y amount of time? Should X be 3 attempts and Y be 24 hours? Or should it be a higher number over all time?Once locked should the user have to request an unlock email with a link? What's the best approach?

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Re:SapphireDb – Open-Source Alternative to Firebase on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:12PM (#22056708)
In the Stackblitz example the Angular client is connecting directly to the SapphireDB database with credentials stored in the app.module.ts.

Could you build a scalable real world, production application this way?

With no in the middle NodeJS web server handing business logic? Handle all the business logic in the Angular client and just CRUD the objects back to SapphireDB? Essentially just Client--> SapphireDB

Or am I missing something here? I see there's a asp.net configuration, which would be Client--> Server--> SapphireDB

Is there a package or support for connecting a NodeJS server to SapphireDB database?

Also, is this production ready?

These are good points. I've worked in this space and it's a huge time sink. And you can't afford to get it wrong because you're dealing with people's livelihood.

I'm currently working on a time attendance solution with an emphasis on usability for non technical users. You'd be amazed at how much paper / friction still exists in this domain.

Do you guys also do payroll bookkeeping and processing? What about customers who want project/job cost accounting for payroll and other expenses?