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by rozenmd 3y ago
100% - I could've built this in PHP if I knew it
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Node.js, React, Postgres - boring technology :)
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Folks have described my uptime monitoring business as an online laundromat, so I guess that's a "boring business"
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Cloudflare Registrar, they charge cost only ($9.77 atm)
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Cheers for the advice - not aiming for hyper-optimising for cheap hardware, it was just something I built out of personal interest.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Good catch, thanks
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2023: Focusing on a single product pays off(maxrozen.com)
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by rozenmd 3y ago
The T480 is the first computer I've run Linux on that 100% Just Worked (Pop!_OS), and I've been looking since around 2009. The trackpad even picks up gestures. Wakes up from sleep without issue. Same deal with plugging in my caldi
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Thinkpad T480 - https://maxrozen.com/replacing-my-macbook-m1-with-thinkpad-t...
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On getting my first ten customers(onlineornot.com)
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by rozenmd 3y ago
From indiehackers, 5+ years ago: Don't believe for one moment that 5 hours on Product Hunt or anywhere else for that matter represents a serious marketing effort. If you want to run a business rather just create stuff, your work has on
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Starting a Cloudflare Worker from Scratch(maxrozen.com)
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I agree - I find if you pick the "mainstream" regions like IAD you get close to 100% uptime, like what you see from my 3rd-party status page here: https://flyio.onlineornot.com/ Once you start deploying in SIN&#x2
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How to get your first ten customers(onlineornot.com)
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I needed a weekly report for my contracting clients to prove their web host sucked to the point where it was costing them significant money. They were paying for cheapest tier WordPress hosting at the time, and didn't believe me when I
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I remember having to write a presentation about Stuxnet while at Uni, it was insane. At the time they reckoned the authors had a functioning QA environment to ensure it actually worked (broke) the Siemens PLCs they were targeting.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
This is exactly what I mean by "market until you think it's too much, and then some" - if it was truly too much, the average forum member would know (imo).
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Yep, and reddit too.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I learned most of what I know from the 30x500 course by Amy Hoy/Alex Hillman, but the gist of it is reading and participating in forums, providing valuable advice, and writing articles that spread that advice further.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
A few ways: - Building a better product than the incumbents - Showing up, doing the work, every single day - Refusing to compete on price - Marketing until it feels like it's too much, then marketing even more Easier said than done, of
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I'm coming up on three years of running OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com ). I still work on it two hours per workday, before my day job starts, but it now supports uptime monitoring for websites, APIs and JavaScript apps
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by rozenmd 3y ago
The tweet text for those who don't want to visit Twitter: I started sending JavaScript, and no one noticed Status Pages used to be small (around 13KB), but they weren't necessarily fast. It still took a few hundred milliseconds to
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 16: I started sending JavaScript, and no one noticed(maxrozen.com)
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Check out the Samson Q2U. Ridiculously better sounding than a Yeti, 60 bucks on Amazon US.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
In case you're tempted to upgrade from your laptop's mic, consider almost any mic other than the Blue Yeti: https://dontbuyayeti.com/
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Can confirm: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/
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by rozenmd 3y ago
The website has been in varying levels of "availability" for a few months now, but you can't start an account without the app, and the app is blocked in the EU.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
The website response time seems to have peaked during the OpenAI drama last night: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/
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by rozenmd 3y ago
It's not so much a cycle as a helix IMO, things are better now.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
What does GPT change about solving customer problems and providing value?

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