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by semireg 5y ago
Balena (formerly resin) publishes a list of supported devices for their OS. It’s been a good list to work from. https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/hardware/devices/
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by semireg 5y ago
Raise a family. Sure, step one is fun… but the rest is pretty cool, too.
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I wrote an electron app a few years ago and it’s grown into a real business by surpassing my consulting income. I had to solve a few dozen really tough technical issues surrounding supporting USB on both mac and windows, fonts, etc. Feel fr
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by semireg 5y ago
I’m so upset at this. Not anything about Freshworks. But just how disappointed I am in Zendesk. 1) when I started my own niche electron app I paid for Zendesk and the SOBs put a limit of like 2MB on attachments. So users would email large s
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You forgot to pluralize applicationS…
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by semireg 5y ago
A few months ago my tiny side project blossomed into a 6-figure income stream. It’s an electron app that designs and prints labels. Users import spreadsheet data and generate barcodes. Since I have a customer base and a target market, I’ve
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by semireg 5y ago
I’m entering grey beard territory, been on HN for years, and I still don’t know what the [-] button does. Is it a downvote? Or does it just collapse the parent so I can read more without clutter? You’d hope downvote UI would be more explici
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by semireg 5y ago
I’ve read this sentence 10x and laugh every time. “…up to five trains that can move about a kilometer of half a mile through a loop of tunnel.” Reads like the author is about 20 deciliters into their gallon of wine.
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I built an app to design and print labels on thermal, inkjet and laser printers. It’s built with electron and it uses a handful of native modules to communicate with windows/mac usb devices. That way, a user can literally download my a
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by semireg 5y ago
I love articles like this. I largely transitioned from obj-c/Swift/Kotlin mobile app dev to “modern”JS via Babel/Flow/webpack and now TS. I love it. I love the control of building my own language.
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by semireg 6y ago
I’m an indie solo dev selling label printer software. The niche force is strong with me... my business is basically selling the software equivalent of colonoscopies. I can only speak for my own experience, but Capterra offered me and my cus
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by semireg 6y ago
I am 8 years an addict to HIIT via Les Mills Bodypump. High rep low weight. Some of my best thinking is when I “time travel” through an uncomfortable 5-min track by thinking about one particular tech/bug/architecture decision. Bei
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On the second day of ownership of the first MBP w/out MagSafe my father in-law tripped on the cable and it yanked the new MBP off the table and the force of the MBP bent the USB-C plug something nasty. The only way I’ll ever forgive Ap
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Or split the difference and stain with a gray stain to create wood grain that matches the grays of the screen.
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by semireg 6y ago
I credit my success as a mobile app dev consultant to Stanford’s iOS videos back when iTunes U was a thing (2012). I will have to watch these because damn if I don’t have a ton of questions about SwiftUI architecture best practices. Pro-tip
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by semireg 6y ago
I’ve been a remote contractor for almost 10 years and we never used video conferencing. Pandemic hit and boom, everyone’s using their cameras. Except me. I’ll turn it on for 15 seconds to say hi or introduce myself to someone new, but no on
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by semireg 6y ago
I just had shoulder surgery and I happily bought these direct from your website. Thank you, and I’m sorry this happened to you. p.s. Can’t wait to try the drugs.
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Revenue is in the same ballpark as BannerBear with similar growth. However, most of my licenses are one-time and I just recently introduced a subscription. Like BannerBear, my competition in the desktop space is very expensive for customers
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by semireg 6y ago
Another solo founder here with a similar product (it generates images), similar revenue and similar age. I went the Electron route so my solution uses local compute and you get to save designs to your desktop. You can batch process thousand
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by semireg 6y ago
If you live in a small town your cost of living is much lower. If you don’t spend money, you don’t need to make as much. I’m a consultant that integrates hardware and software that started with mobile and BLE IIOT and now perform maintenanc
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Pre-ordered. Thank you!
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I’m a computer “scientist” and haven’t read a single one of these. And now I’m even more ashamed because I want the StackOverflow cliff notes. Seriously, this should be a book with commentary. Does such a thing exist? Maybe a project for Wa
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by semireg 6y ago
Maybe this is an opportunity to create a new kind of Show/Ask HN, called “Who’s got questions?” For example. I’m a self-described senior electron/react/iOS app dev and I have created exactly one API in my life using node&#x2F
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by semireg 6y ago
I use the excellent imageworsener compiled to WASM to dither the images in my label printer electron app, https://label.live Read more at http://entropymine.com/imageworsener/
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Replied! Thanks for the suggestion.
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Yes, it’s a big challenge. There are three solutions I see: 1) Rely on PDF and browser print APIs, which means you give up direct USB access and even some paper size API which is kind of a deal breaker for thermal printers. 2) Rely on a bro
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by semireg 6y ago
TLDR: Small wins over the course of months and months of trial and error. I never considered myself a hardware integrator until I accidentally became one. Oops, e.g. fake it until you make it. Looking back at college, I received barely pass
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Yes, it’s ramen profitable, bootstrapped and growing. It’s just me at the moment and I’m still juggling full-time mobile app and IOT consulting. Since Label LIVE is a React app wrapped in Electron I’ve given a lot of thought to bringing it
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Oh, definitely due to a small market WITHIN a small market. When users acquire speciality business hardware they don't reach for macOS. I'm trying to change that... one device at a time. MASS and LabelScope were mostly proof of co
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by semireg 6y ago
I am fascinated by hardware with poor software support so I built two highly unsuccessful native mac apps: MASS and LabelScope to work with weight scales and label printers. You can read their defunct websites at https://semireg.

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