rozenmd

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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   Hi, author of the article here, what do you mean by "likely more IBM ThinkPad DNA loss by Lenovo"? and thanks for the feedback - I've added a photo of the actual laptop now.
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   Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480(maxrozen.com)

   377 points by rozenmd 4y ago|618 comments
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   You could probably build on Cloudflare Workers + R2 to an extreme scale before you start being charged more than $5/mo
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   What I learned running a SaaS for its second year(onlineornot.com)

   3 points by rozenmd 4y ago|0 comments
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   OnlineOrNot's frontend deploys in about 60 seconds if the cache is warm, two and a half minutes otherwise. The backend services take about two minutes. (It's my own company, so I took the time to make deployments as fast as possib
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   With good form, your knees shouldn't be involved that much: https://exrx.net/WeightExercises/Quadriceps/BWSquat - your knees shouldn't go past your toes. fwiw high weight + low reps (4-6) if you want to
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   Machines trick you into thinking you're progressing. The first time I went from Smith machine squats to free weight squats, I couldn't walk the next day (went from 150kg on the machine to 80kg free weight).
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   I've been working on the same uptime monitoring/status page web app for two years (as of next week!), and decided to start building a CLI and API for it: https://github.com/onlineornot/onlineornot The CLI doe
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   It's more of a knowledge base, but I get frequent compliments for my project's documentation: https://onlineornot.com/docs/welcome
10. 640.▲
    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Even the Worker runtime is open-source now: https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd
11. 641.▲
    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Building stuff, mainly. I built a blog and several side projects to learn React, GraphQL, and ended up using them to get jobs.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Tailwind UI is basically that, and paying for it supports framework development.
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    2022: I Just Kept Shipping(maxrozen.com)

    2 points by rozenmd 4y ago|0 comments
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    This is me, since 2010 too.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    - drinking at least 500ml of water immediately after waking up (cannot overstate the importance of this before making any decisions. dehydrated brains make bad decisions) - lifting weights 3x a week (particularly monday/weds/frida
16. 646.▲
    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Is "affordable" really the differentiator you want to be going for? Cheap customers are the absolute worst. Your pricing seems to imply it's a one-off payment of $11 btw
17. 647.▲
    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Build with what you know, that way you'll be focusing on just building what your customers are asking for, and not also having to learn the technology as you build.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I don't share MRR anymore, but growing :)
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Launching is merely the beginning :)
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I made (admittedly, the 200th) uptime monitoring service - https://onlineornot.com I've been running the business for almost two years now (and it's now more of a status page that also monitors uptime), and it's s
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Build with what you know, that way you'll be focusing on just building what your customers are asking for, and not also having to learn the technology as you build.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Can you make more than $42 from using it? If so, worth it
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    In early 2018, GraphQL was new and hot tech, and I worked for a startup that kept breaking their GraphQL API. One day a field might be a string, the next day it might be an object. I got mad, so I built a service that snapshot tested the AP
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Thanks! It's been running almost two years now haha Apart from RDS, and a few ad-hoc serverless tasks, yep.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Before fly, each additional user was costing me a non-trivial amount (I built an uptime monitoring service entirely on AWS Lambda). I managed to build a proof of concept in an afternoon and slowly move most of my architecture across in a we
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I built OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com ) - it's a hosted Status Page, with built-in Uptime Monitoring. ---- As the 200th uptime monitoring service, folks often ask me what makes OnlineOrNot different - and they often f
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I love threads like this - while I've stopped sharing my numbers in public, I've watched folks blindly copy my uptime monitor's landing pages and then close up shop 2-3 months later when they haven't gotten rich fast. At
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    potentially, but it's probably easier to keep getting new hostnames than it is to keep blocking them (see piratebay)
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Similarly, you could proxy your service through another hostname?
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    It's taken me about 4 years to find success (in my opinion, YMMV) in a side project, you rarely hear about the average case. OnlineOrNot was my 6th project, first to break even.