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by santah 1mo ago
Awesome site and guide, I just don't understand why all dates have the month in front of the date. Isn't this very confusing to anyone outside US? I get why it defaulted to this format, but in this day and age - it's trivial
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Show HN: I built a super simple email reminder inspired by the RemindMe! bot
3 points by santah 6mo ago|2 comments
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by santah 8mo ago
https://next-episode.net It's a (now more than 20 years old) TV tracking website and community. I've been using Claude 4.5 Opus (now 4.6) more and more these days modernizing and redesigning sections that haven't
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by santah 11mo ago
20 years and counting, working on https://next-episode.net (it's a TV/Movies tracking website and community). I've dedicated this week to some maintenance tasks that are long overdue (mainly modernization of the c
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by santah 11mo ago
I can totally relate. In addition to "no one to bounce ideas off" - no one to really share the pain and responsibility with when there are problems. It's all on you. Thankfully, my users are very generous with their feedback,
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by santah 1y ago
This reminds me a of a very faithful (in browser) recreation of Windows XP I stumbled upon recently, may've even been on HN: https://win32.run/ Good times.
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Show HN: NoLinkPreview - Share links without triggering previews(nolinkpreview.com)
2 points by santah 1y ago|0 comments
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by santah 2y ago
I can tell you my reasoning. While developing the dark mode theme for my mobile app, I experimented with pure black background first. It looked off. I couldn't figure out why it looked off (design wise, but also seemed weirdly hard to
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by santah 2y ago
Simply identifying them by IP so that each Google bot instance is a unique user ...
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by santah 2y ago
I rate limit because of aggressive bots (scrapers and ones trying random injection attacks etc). And yes, it's returning 429 ...
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by santah 2y ago
Cool. Let me know if it turns out it's the same thing.
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by santah 2y ago
I can't find a problem with the 429 ...
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Tell HN: Server error (5xx) in Google Search Console may not be 5xx at all
80 points by santah 2y ago|17 comments
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by santah 3y ago
I don't believe these numbers. Here is a screenshot from my self hosted Matomo installation for my traffic today up until now: https://i.imgur.com/WcfQKdT.png Firefox blocks most analytics scripts by default, so these
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by santah 3y ago
9 and 12 boys. They carry dumb phones for calls only (we gave them one when they started going on multi day trips from school or outside of it at age like 6/7). They both have laptops and can game on and communicate with friends and cl
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by santah 3y ago
Not in the US, but yeah, I may be able to get a phone and an address through some 3rd party service(s), but I'm not sure it's worth the overhead, especially if it's just to pass the verification (and potentially users would n
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by santah 3y ago
Yeah for now, I use "Advanced Access" to get the user's email address and pre-fill it so they only need to create a username. Also these email addresses are automatically set verified (no need to go through the email verifica
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Ask HN: Is “sign in with Facebook” dead for indie developers?
25 points by santah 3y ago|14 comments
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by santah 4y ago
Just a quick question on your traffic / conversion stats. How come you have (almost) as many conversions as you have leads? How do you count these?
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by santah 4y ago
I'm still experimenting different things with it so I can't tell you how exactly I'll end up using it, but yeah, ideally it should go beyond what you mentioned ...
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by santah 4y ago
I've made a screenshot of what a users sees once they start the trial: https://i.imgur.com/Hc5taiX.png The most important Premium features are listed there.
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by santah 4y ago
Here is a screenshot of the list of the prominent Premium features: https://i.imgur.com/Hc5taiX.png
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by santah 4y ago
Please get in touch through the "contact us" link on the bottom of Next Episode so I can investigate what is happening. There was no recent change affecting the movies list (other than some design tweaks which wouldn't limit
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by santah 4y ago
Yeah, ads (for free users) and Premium membership which removes them and unlock features.
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by santah 4y ago
I run https://next-episode.net for about 18 years now. It's a website + mobile apps that help users track what they're watching (TV shows and movies). I wouldn't say trends over the years affected the business muc
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by santah 4y ago
Thanks!
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by santah 4y ago
No cloud providers as far as I'm aware. They were all from the same 4-5 ASN networks, all based in Russia.
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by santah 4y ago
Wasn't really worried about that. I didn't do it as a super quick burst, but in a space of multiple hours. First because the proxy servers were super slow and second - I couldn't automate it - their servers had some kind of b
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by santah 4y ago
I tried but couldn't redirect back to my website as they stripped / rewrote all JS.
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by santah 4y ago
Yes, constructed the honeypot URL using the proxy site and called it (thousands of times) so I can get them to fetch it from my server through their IP so I can log it.

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