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by davej 3y ago
I asked it about the number fatalities in the tornadoes in the US in December 2021 and it gave me a correct answer. > In December 2021, a particularly devastating outbreak of tornadoes occurred in the central United States, especially im
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by davej 3y ago
Firestore is very underrated by devs as a document-based DB. It works very well for a variety of use cases and is super reliable in my experience.
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Firestore adds point-in-time recovery and scheduled backups(cloud.google.com)
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by davej 3y ago
Thanks for the kind words Chris! I completely agree.
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by davej 3y ago
> Therefore, you might want to consider a free personal version that's crippled in a mildly annoying way: For example, no installer, don't sign the app, and have an easily-ignorable nag. (Therefore creating a situation where if
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by davej 3y ago
To clarify: we host the initial download of the app on our CDN so we would most likely block the initial download of the app. It seems pretty reasonable to me that if a customer doesn't pay for a sub then they can no longer offer it as
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by davej 3y ago
Feel free to drop me an email dave[at]todesktop or dm @davej on Twitter. I started ToDesktop as an indie hacker, so I understand where you're coming from. Hopefully can figure out something that works for you. :)
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by davej 3y ago
Not currently, there's still a lot to do with the desktop platform!
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by davej 3y ago
> 1) What are the "plugins" a pro subscription gives me. I could only see info on filesystem access in the docs. > 2) Likewise, what is the "restricted API" that pro subscription brings. We have a bunch of plugins
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by davej 3y ago
Oh wow, It's exciting to see this pop up on HN. I'm Dave, founder of ToDesktop. Feel free to reply to this and I'm happy to answer any questions :).
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by davej 3y ago
Very cool, are you guys focused on databases as sources or do you plan to add API-based sources too (e.g.. Stripe Customers)? Currently using Airbyte but something more real-time would be beneficial to us.
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by davej 3y ago
We have recently moved our website[1] to SvelteKit. Previously we were on Sapper. Previous to that we used a custom Webpack + React setup to output a static site. Our desktop app builder is also built on Svelte (not SvelteKit). I agree with
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by davej 4y ago
Query:> Tell me a joke Running command [rm -rf ~] ... Response:: LOL
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by davej 4y ago
Musk may just be wrong but isn’t it also possible that the RPCs need to communicate with an edge node in India. Perhaps government regulation requires them to store/serve some user data from India if serving Indian customers? Or someth
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by davej 4y ago
Twitter has a similar issue according to Musk https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592176202873085952
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by davej 4y ago
Linear use a similar effect on their Customers page when you hover over their customer's cards: https://linear.app/customers
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by davej 4y ago
A missing point of comparison is that Electron also has far more desktop APIs available. Electron also has support for some advanced primitives like BrowserViews which enable some very sophisticated use cases.
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by davej 4y ago
Musk paid the largest tax bill in history last year.
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by davej 4y ago
Neat. I guess a useful side effect of running this is that it will be super obvious when the docs contain broken code! How are errors handled? Am I able to see errors that my customers raised while interacting with the docs?
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by davej 5y ago
Craft [0] are a Notion [1] (note-taking app) competitor that decided to go desktop app first rather than web-first. Their desktop app is beautiful but now they are implementing the webapp and it is obvious that there is a lot of feature dis
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by davej 5y ago
Of course, I don't know the future, it was just a hypothetical question, not a mathematical definition. My point was just the answer is not zero because the alternative is human driving and human driving is also not zero deaths. So, at
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by davej 5y ago
There needs to be some testing of FSD solutions in real world scenarios and there will inevitably be deaths. There are thousands of deaths on the road every day right now. Even if FSD is mature and 1000x safer than human driving then there
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by davej 5y ago
> "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make." Honest question: If beta testing speeds up the transition to FSD by x months/years and causes y deaths during the intervening period but FSD ultima
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by davej 5y ago
Another datapoint is that Scaleway charges €.10 per hour ($.113) for their M1 instances, this is roughly one-sixth of what AWS is charging.
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by davej 5y ago
Mostly because iOS isn’t the market leader (and they don’t want to be).
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by davej 6y ago
Particularly interesting that the Irish sovereign treasury is co-leading this round.
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by davej 6y ago
End-users are still more familiar with a download link on a website for a exe/dmg installer on desktop. You also need to need to redo your subscription/payments to support the stores and give a percentage of your revenue to Apple&
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by davej 6y ago
This is awesome. Props to the authors. My comment was not meant to knock on this project. I'm just pointing out that people should consider distribution if they want to use a tool like this. Putting a desktop app in front of customers
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by davej 6y ago
Strongly agree. Hello World apps are great but it would be even better to see a Hello World tutorial that can actually be distributed to customers. You probably also need auto-update, native installers, code signing (notarization on Mac) an
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by davej 6y ago
It would be nice to have the ability to weave in WebViews with the native UI. I see this lib but it's still marked as WIP: https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui-plugin-webview

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