rozenmd

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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   I started off as just another uptime monitor, and just kept adding features as my customers suggested them. Eventually I took stock of what I had built, and started building it into what it is now. Some more takeaways from the start of the
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   Yep: https://github.onlineornot.com/ Edit: of course the uptime monitoring flicks back up the moment I post this...
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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. It supports: * Custom domains * Private Status Pages (password protection) * Automatically posting incidents to you
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   Hint: bot detection is one of Cloudflare's products
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   Most folks demo everything from logging into the app, to viewing onboarding and the main dashboard. It's boring as hell. Demo the differentiated value - what do you do better than the existing solution? Just show that, and how it'
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   one job and one side gig is already plenty, I wouldn't recommend more than that (assuming bills are paid etc)
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   I used React, and Tailwind CSS
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   JS development in particular is relatively verbose, so folks started writing little helper libraries to get things done faster. Folks open-sourced their libraries, others contributed, and we eventually wound up with frameworks.
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   It's not an API, but I get frequent compliments for my project's docs: https://onlineornot.com/docs/welcome
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Pretty sure she wasn't around for over 30k years
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    If there is, I couldn't find it. It'd be awesome if there was a standard "doNotTrack" style variable for CLIs. With wrangler we went with WRANGLER_SEND_METRICS, as well as a user prompt to opt in/out.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Personally I'm building an automatically updating status page service with built-in uptime monitoring. Starting with built-in monitoring, and integrating Uptime Robot, I'm making it possible to make a pretty, accurate status page
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    Ask HN: It's Demo Day. What are you working on?

    20 points by rozenmd 4y ago|22 comments
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    They start breaking down after months, not days.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Oh hey, I've got one right here: https://github.onlineornot.com/ Based out of Virginia, USA for the initial check, followed by a random sample of 19 locations around the world to confirm it's actually down.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Good to see it's not just me - seems to be flip-flopping: https://github.onlineornot.com/
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    It's fairly common with serverless functions - folks will start a project on serverless, expecting very little traffic. Eventually, they get lucky, and their Lambda functions are running non-stop, incurring a fairly large premium over
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    That's the premise of my whole business - there's definitely a market for an automated status page! ( https://onlineornot.com )
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I monitor GitHub externally here: https://github.onlineornot.com/ Seems like a huge spike in load.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    With wrangler2 ( https://github.com/cloudflare/wrangler2 ) you can deploy a static site to Cloudflare for free (you don't get any of the features of Cloudflare Pages though): echo '# Hmm' > index.md npx
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I used create-react-app, React by itself with a hand rolled webpack config, and Gatsby. Next.js feels like a team is working for you behind the scenes making everything faster for you, all you need to do is update.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Find a french startup and come over on the tech talent passport. Most remote friendly tech jobs I've seen offer a 90k euro base, at which point you live like royalty in most cities.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    - Next.js web app for the boring stuff (CRUD) + Postgres - Remix web app for a distributed and fast status page frontend hosted on Cloudflare Pages ( https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/ is an example)
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    No - I have a Pixel 3 as well and the last uptime was last October or so
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Alex Hillman's The Tiny MBA. Essentially, the book contains 100 short lessons about running a business. Running a business can be extremely lonely and a solo fight against your own mental health. I often re-read the book in difficult t
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Edit: nevermind.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    You don't. If it doesn't fit your mental model of programming, just don't use it.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    You could live with dignity here in France on minimum wage, how about the US?
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I'd recommend Volumio - gets you Spotify connect for your raspberry pi, and if you have a NAS, it can index that too
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Be a user of a product, realise you can do better, implement core functionality common to all solutions in the space, figure out where the incumbents aren't paying attention, out-execute them in that space.