It's a good problem to have.
Again, dumbfounded they completely passed on this use-case ...
Otherwise looks like an ideal kitchen TV/Movie playback device.
Isn't this very confusing to anyone outside US?
I get why it defaulted to this format, but in this day and age - it's trivial to automatically adjust it to the user's localization / preferences.
Hey HN. I was always a huge fan of Reddit's RemindMe! bot and wanted to have something like that outside of Reddit, so I finally built it!You can try it here: https://mailreminder.net/I looked around before I started making it myself - there are a few such services, but:1) none is as intuitive and simple as I need it to be 2) I can't trust any of them to deliver my reminders far away into the...
It's a (now more than 20 years old) TV tracking website and community.
I've been using Claude 4.5 Opus (now 4.6) more and more these days modernizing and redesigning sections that haven't been touched for a decade or two. I don't trust LLMs much, but by breaking the work into small, self-contained tasks and testing constantly - I'm making surprisingly fast progress.
I've dedicated this week to some maintenance tasks that are long overdue (mainly modernization of the code and the database), kinda delaying the inevitable (which is to work on harder tasks in my todo - like adding features to the mobile apps).
In addition to "no one to bounce ideas off" - no one to really share the pain and responsibility with when there are problems. It's all on you.
Thankfully, my users are very generous with their feedback, so when I do in fact do a "nice job" - I'm told so :)
For how long have you been building solo?
After 20 years, for me, I can tell you this - what helps me the most is exercising regularly (ideally on all weekdays) AND having kids.
Because of the kids, I rarely have the time to feel lonely and the regular physical exercises keep me in a (fairly) good mental state.
It felt the worst in my first years of solo dev, when all I did was work and hardly spent any time to socialize and take care of myself.
I'm sure it'll get better for you too as your project evolves and your life along with it.
Good times.
I built this simple tool that lets you share links without triggering previews or thumbnails on social and chat platforms.I often wanted to share a link without drawing attention, breaking the layout of a conversation or leaking content (coughRickRollcough) through preview crawlers - but I couldn't find a tool that did that. So I built one.Created with CloudFlare Workers and Pages, it basically...
While developing the dark mode theme for my mobile app, I experimented with pure black background first.
It looked off.
I couldn't figure out why it looked off (design wise, but also seemed weirdly hard to read) until I played with a bunch of other mobile apps with dark mode (which I used already and liked) and noticed their backgrounds are not black.
Then I just tried a couple of shades of "almost black" and the improvement was huge - easier on the eyes and more pleasurable to read.
I don't have a scientific explanation why this is the case, just I wanted to kinda directly answer the question with my anecdotal experience of why I do it.
And yes, it's returning 429 ...
I run https://next-episode.net and recently (a few months ago) - I noticed it started getting pages not indexed because of “Server error (5xx)” in Google Search Console (GSC):https://next-episode.net/img/upload/5xx.pngOn the website everything looked good and all reported links worked fine.I tried validating these errors at GSC as fixed, but it would always report back that the issue is still...
Here is a screenshot from my self hosted Matomo installation for my traffic today up until now:
https://i.imgur.com/WcfQKdT.png
Firefox blocks most analytics scripts by default, so these articles rely on very skewed data.
Any other devs with self hosted tracking solutions want to share how their browser stats look like?
They carry dumb phones for calls only (we gave them one when they started going on multi day trips from school or outside of it at age like 6/7).
They both have laptops and can game on and communicate with friends and classmates.
They have old iPhones they sometimes use at home (with no sim cards). Those don't leave the house and are very rarely used (mostly to chat in friends groups).
They don't watch youtube (except for music sometimes). They know what TikTok is (because all their friends watch it), but they don't (currently) have interest in it (mainly because we've had long talks about how terrible doom scrolling social sites and short videos is).
If at some point we give them smart phones with sim cards, we'll heavily restrict social media sites and apps, but I plan on keeping the dumb phones in use for as long as possible (hopefully until 15-16).
Also these email addresses are automatically set verified (no need to go through the email verification process).
I guess I can make it work without the "Advanced Access", but it'll be a lot more cumbersome and I wonder if it's worth it.
On my service - https://next-episode.net - along with signing in with username and password, there is an option to sign in with Google and Facebook.3 days ago, I get this email from Facebook "Complete business verification for Next Episode" which notifies me that my Facebook app (which handles the Facebook login functionality) now needs to be connected to a verified business account.This is...
How come you have (almost) as many conversions as you have leads?
How do you count these?
https://i.imgur.com/Hc5taiX.png
The most important Premium features are listed there.
There was no recent change affecting the movies list (other than some design tweaks which wouldn't limit the number of movies you see in your list).
It's a website + mobile apps that help users track what they're watching (TV shows and movies).
I wouldn't say trends over the years affected the business much, but I'm playing with the ChatGPT API currently to try and improve some aspects of the functionality and maybe add some new cool AI powered features - so there's that.
