leros

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   by leros 2y ago

   I forget their name. You gave them access to your mailbox. They would pick up your mail, digitize it, and give you an email like inbox for your physical mail. It even had a spam filter. It was awesome.
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   by leros 2y ago

   I'm staying away from visual builders. I don't want to get locked into another solution.
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   by leros 2y ago

   I'm using this just for transactional emails. I have another solution for marketing emails. I was using SendGrid's WYSIWYG templates for many emails, but I'm re-doing them in my own code so that I can more easily change provi
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   by leros 2y ago

   Interesting. My account is 4 years old.
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   by leros 2y ago

   If they only diversified to reduce their risk, by doing something like buying an email platform.
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   by leros 2y ago

   Oh interesting. Is Twilio suffering overall? I've Twilio for SMS in the past. I just assumed they were a rock-solid company.
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   by leros 2y ago

   Isn't every retail store just a wrapper around existing logistics infrastructure?
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   by leros 2y ago

   There are still UIs on top of a DB. I've consulted for several fast-growing startups that import data from some antiquated system, report on it in different ways, and their UIs are just massive data tables. In many spaces, that's
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   Ask HN: Did Twilio abandon SendGrid?

   25 points by leros 2y ago|19 comments
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    by leros 2y ago

    I do almost everything in Typescript these days. Is it the perfect language? No. Are there libraries for everything? Yes. Is it easy to run? Yes. The bonus is that I'm using Typescript for front-end development anyway, so using TypeScr
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    by leros 2y ago

    You can't easily disrupt it because it's a two-sided marketplace between consumers and payment providers. You could launch a Stripe competitor called CheapPayments but it would still have to pay standard Visa/etc processing f
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    by leros 2y ago

    I don't know if this answers the question, but I think one of the big responsibilities of a leader is to make a decision when the decision isn't obvious and it's blocking you. Someone: "And we're building that shed
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    by leros 2y ago

    Firefox was a huge memory hog. People called it bloated. Chrome was the lightweight alternative.
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    by leros 2y ago

    Eons ago. Probably somewhere between 2005 and 2010.
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    by leros 2y ago

    I switched to Firefox when Internet Explorer was really, really bad. I switched to Chrome when Firefox was really, really bloated. Things haven't become bad enough that switching again is enough of an issue for me to do it. I'm su
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    by leros 2y ago

    I've been making this shift as well. Start thinking about what a good work day looks like. What tasks are you doing? Who are you working with? Where are you working? When? What technologies? Etc etc. Then start working backwards and fi
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    by leros 2y ago

    Don't do anything unusual like SMS. It becomes a friction point where you'll lose people. Email/password, Google auth, and maybe another social depending on your product space is what people are used to.
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    by leros 2y ago

    I feel like lots of people are currently talking about switching from Chrome to Firefox with the uBlock origin thing.
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    by leros 2y ago

    Is the website not static and hosted via CDN?
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    by leros 2y ago

    According to this article, Mozilla gets 86% of its revenue from Google Search payments so this ruling could be a huge issue for them.
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    Will Google's anti-monopoly lawsuit be the death knell for Mozilla and Firefox?(fortune.com)

    20 points by leros 2y ago|29 comments
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    by leros 2y ago

    Is that page using Fly.io for hosting? It took 35 seconds for the initial HTML to load and then another 22 seconds for the javascript to finish loading. I assume that's a static site, but is there is something else going on that made i
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    by leros 2y ago

    There are two philosopies for how to teach a computer science program: theory and job preparation. I've found the more academic universities focus on teaching you the theory of computer science. They're not preparing you for the j
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    by leros 2y ago

    YouTube to podcast is way easier than the other way around. I'm sure solutions already exist.
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    by leros 2y ago

    Yeah. Uploading legit videos is non-trivial. And if you ever upload the same video twice (which you think you might do during testing, right?), it's a violation of their terms and they disable your access.
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    by leros 2y ago

    That's because Booking was also committing some type of misrepresentation and taking revenue away from Ryanair through their browser automation. Even then, the infraction was sooo bad that they got a $5k fine. I think the hiQ Labs vs L
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    by leros 2y ago

    Have you seen the results of the hiQ Labs v LinkedIn case? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
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    by leros 2y ago

    Have you seen https://repurpose.io ? They existed before I started working on my service and they do the same thing.
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    by leros 2y ago

    No. The default API quota is not large enough to upload videos. You would have to contact Google, explain your use case, and jump through several hoops to get the quota increased... which is a huge process.
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    by leros 2y ago

    I was creating YouTube channels and uploading videos to them on behalf of my users. That requires using the YouTube API.