leros

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by leros 6mo ago
My mobile app is pretty decent actually. Other than some stylistic differences, I can't tell where the native wrapper ends and then embedded view starts. The embedded view is a SPA though so it never does full page loads.
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by leros 6mo ago
Yeah, I had a lengthy customer service email template explaining how to install the PWA for when people asked about a mobile app. Almost nobody installed it.
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by leros 6mo ago
Its a monthly/annual subscription. They can pay on the website or via native payments in the mobile app. The subscription works no matter where you bought it.
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by leros 6mo ago
From what I gathered with my imperfect data, almost nobody was using the app as a PWA even with an in-app nudge for it. I instantly got lots of downloads when I released iOS and Android apps. My users just don't want PWAs for the most
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by leros 6mo ago
There's usually some random mandatory updates I have to do about 1-2 times a year, so you need updates even with no development. My React-Native wrapper app handles native auth and native payments, so I occasionally need to tweak that,
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by leros 6mo ago
I have an app that is literally just a wrapper around the website. The mobile website and the mobile app are the exact same experience. Before I built the app, people were constantly asking me to build a mobile app. Yes, I had a PWA but peo
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by leros 7mo ago
Fwiw, I stopped using ChatGPT and went to a competitor because the checks slow down ChatGPT so much that the webapp becomes unusable in anything but a new short chat. CPU usage goes to 100%, you can't type, the entire tab freezes, etc.
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by leros 8mo ago
Looking back, how do you feel about your slate of past projects? I'm curious as TinyPilot is your most successful project and it looks like the most business-oriented thing you built: as in, its a product aimed at serious businesses. W
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by leros 9mo ago
How odd. I googled their name and a few sentences from their post. They post stuff in a few other places too. They appear to be some sort of electronics installer from China. I don't see a single promotional link anywhere but it's
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by leros 9mo ago
I see junior devs hyping vibe coding and senior devs mostly using AI as an assistant. I fall in the latter camp myself. I've hired and trained tons of junior devs out of university. They become 20x productive after a year of experience
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by leros 9mo ago
My personal policy is to not use cloud services that I can't get good support for. That rules out the big clouds for me unfortunately.
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by leros 9mo ago
Companies do the least they can to employ people. That means paying them just enough and giving them just enough perks. I'm sure they'd provide housing if it was needed to competitively hire. I've seen big companies like Micr
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by leros 9mo ago
I'm sure their terms of service allows them to do stuff like this
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by leros 9mo ago
You could probably become rich wholesaling gravel in your city. There are plenty of opportunities all around. Execution is key.
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by leros 9mo ago
Not really. I know the original email was something like "Alert: you have a new thing: X Thing" And the new emails are a prompt something like "we know all of this about the user and all of this about the X thing, write an em
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by leros 9mo ago
The best clear example I've seen of LLMs making money is a company that now generates custom email text instead of using standard email templates. They increased engagement by some meaningful metric like +15% which translates into hund
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by leros 9mo ago
I know lots of junior developers using tools like Cursor. When talking to them about it, they say they're not really learning how to program and don't know what they're doing most of the time. I do question how effective they
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by leros 9mo ago
I've used WebAssembly for complex cross platform SDKs. I write the core SDK once in WebAssembly and then wrap it with an API layer for each SDK. It sure beats updating and testing complex logic for 30 different SDKs.
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by leros 9mo ago
It is very cool art!
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by leros 9mo ago
How is MapBox going for this free tool? Is it costing you money?
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by leros 9mo ago
I was at Microsoft in 2007. We were told to say "Bing it" but everyone was using Google to look stuff up for work.
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by leros 9mo ago
If you want to be extremely resilient with your infrastructure, you should be multi-cloud anyway. So you can rely on US infra like AWS and also something like Hetzner. Then you're still good if the US stuff goes crazy.
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by leros 9mo ago
I'll check it out! Fwiw, after spending a few minutes on your website, I see nothing that indicates your software works on Google Drive or Photos. It just looks like a Backblaze alternative. There might be some room to showcase your of
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by leros 9mo ago
I haven't seen entrepreneurship generally be looked upon favorably in the corporate world. It's often a red flag that you'll get bored in a niche role or be difficult to manage. At least for technical ICs. As I understand it,
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by leros 9mo ago
Does this not require a massive database of tiles? I ask because I've been looking to self host some sort of map tile server and they seem to have database in the hundreds of GB.
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by leros 9mo ago
Things lining up (aka luck) is important but people who work hard create more opportunities for that to happen.
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by leros 9mo ago
That's ok for enterprise stuff where revenue per user is high. I'd hate to lose a 5/6 figure deal because I have to spend time rolling out some sort of enterprise auth solution for a client.
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by leros 9mo ago
Firebase Auth if I don't need enterprise stuff. Auth0 if I do. I'm curious to explore some alternatives for enterprise auth like Clerk, but haven't yet.
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Ask HN: How do you backup your Google account?
4 points by leros 10mo ago|3 comments
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by leros 10mo ago
Sounds like you could target a small niche that is currently using a broader more generic product. I'm always surprised by things like the fact there are several software solutions for managing gyms, but there are also specific solutio

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