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by semireg 6y ago
I’m a solo developer that built and maintains https://label.live , a label design and print app (Electron) that has the ability to generate barcodes thanks to the open source project BWIP-JS (and all the turtles beneath it). My a
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Holiday Torture – VCard/vcf to CSV Converter for Address Labels(label.live)
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by semireg 6y ago
It's that time of year when your business (or spouse) needs a few hundred address labels printed. If you were like me, you dreaded having to mail merge, deal with spreadsheets, tinker with CUPS label printer settings, or Avery sheets.
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Oops! This is embarrassing. Looks like I broke the gatsby. Thanks for the heads up.
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Ask yourself: What is the best hardware on the planet with the worst software? LABEL PRINTING I realized a few years ago that, if my clients fired me, I’d have to go get a “real job.” My expertise has been Industrial Internet of Things (IIO
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by semireg 6y ago
Thank you. Almost teared up at the end when I read it was Stage II. Big congrats!
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by semireg 6y ago
Can you help me understand how you, as a user, would prefer to see it add up?
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by semireg 6y ago
I’m an indie dev that wrote a useful Electron app for designing and printing labels (both rolls and sheets), data import, rendering batches of images, etc. My competition is either free (DYMO/Brother) or $500 commercial software for ex
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by semireg 6y ago
Does anyone know if there’s a need for better label printing integration? I noticed Shopify’s docs specifically mention DYMO printers and they discontinued Zebra printer support. That seems crazy to me. I’m a solo dev that’s built a desktop
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Hey, thanks! I didn't grow up dreaming of becoming a label printer app expert, but here I am... at your service. I'm glad to be here for you. Please reach out (via Label LIVE support) if you have any questions/comments.
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I'm ramen profitable at this point. Sales are increasing each month. And yes, one person operation. There are only a few players in this market, and their solutions cost upwards of $500 per license, plus yearly support/maintenance
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The tooling has become insanely good, so long as you trust the shoulders of the giants you’re standing on. For example, a month ago the Electron team introduced a bug that made my Microsoft Store app think it was outside the store. The user
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by semireg 6y ago
Maybe Apple consumer forums, but I’ve had amazing support from the developer forums. Especially Quinn “the Eskimo” ... saves my butt every 6 months it seems, and isn’t the least bit offended when my questions relate to an opaque electron co
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by semireg 6y ago
Yep, Label LIVE uses fabric. It’s all wrapped in a React app that syncs state with redux, and app state elsewhere (e.g. user design files saved to disk).
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I ship. But I fall flat on my face when it comes to YouTube explainer videos and blog posts. I published 4 videos when I launched my app over a year ago and have been coasting on those ever since. I have so much new (and relatively) excitin
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by semireg 6y ago
No. The whole idea of the fold-in was to be the opposite of a fold-out (playboy). In MAD, the folded out asks a question or poses a riddle. Folding-in provides the answer and laughter.
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by semireg 6y ago
This is so tough and I’m still trying to figure it out. A few years ago I built an MVP label printer app on Electron/React using all sorts of native node modules for a seamless design and print experience. I support dithered images, to
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by semireg 6y ago
We're having a really good time! We just welcomed our second son into the family last Saturday. That day WOOSHED by, and certainly memories were made. Fwiw, I don't find the situation depressing at all. I'm loving the slow-fa
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by semireg 6y ago
I’ve always used “days are long, years are short” to talk about raising children. Pulling our two year old out of daycare makes you really reflect on how slowly time moves for them when their only concerns seems to be legos and applesauce.
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by semireg 6y ago
I built an electron app using the react boilerplate to get started. My app uses a handful of native node modules that let me interface with Mac and windows environments in a fairly seamless way. My app is sold directly from my website using
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by semireg 6y ago
As a solo-developer I’ve been nurturing an Electron app named Label LIVE. I spent most of April adding a feature to render multi-label “sheets” (think Avery/ULINE labels) as multi-page PDFs. It’s been really fun, because each label on
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by semireg 7y ago
A second child (due May 25) and adding “sheets of labels” support to Label LIVE (www.label.live). Basically, rendering dynamic text and barcodes to a PDF in the format of Avery, ULINE, etc. The epitome of Microsoft Office mail merge /
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by semireg 7y ago
I’ve lived 20 years as an amateur SQL database designer and last year I designed my first production nosql schema on mongo. Nosql is a different world... collections, embedded documents. I’m not sure it’s 100% “correct” but it’s working gre
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by semireg 7y ago
The Lancet article [1] describes smoking as an increased risk factor. I wonder if his lungs were compromised in some way. Tragic. 1. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by semireg 7y ago
You’re assuming the USB read and writes block, but they are in fact async and work quite well for this purpose. My app is document-based so the user may have multiple label designs open. Because of this, USB is handled from a central locat
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by semireg 7y ago
This topic fascinates me because I've successfully built an app and business around an Electron app (no Linux, yet) that connects to USB devices on Mac and Windows. The app uses native node modules for USB (not chrome). I've been
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by semireg 7y ago
This situation is obviously a casualty of desktop computer security abstractions (e.g. Apple’s sandboxing) leaking into web/oauth to the point of utter user confusion. The picker/chooser idea is interesting because it’s also mimi
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by semireg 7y ago
I’d imagine that many users don’t comment because they feel their salary mix is too sensitive. I’m a mobile app dev consultant that also maintains a few node/docker appliances for industrial IOT clients. I make enough to dedicate 10 ho
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by semireg 7y ago
Another great barcoding library is BWIP-JS at https://github.com/metafloor/bwip-js/ You can immediately generate QR codes from it using this link: http://bwip-js.metafloor.com/demo/demo.html
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by semireg 7y ago
After 5 years on iOS/Android I wanted to build a cross platform desktop app. I came up with an idea (make thermal label printers a joy to use) and started hacking a proof of concept using https://github.com/electron-rea

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