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by semireg 3y ago
As a solo developer answering emails that basically point people to various guides and FAQs I’ve published … I need this. Zendesk claims to have an AI component but forces you to input all training data into their own wiki knowledge base. I
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by semireg 3y ago
This is the 3rd big rebuild of the site. Even though the website uses the same tech stack as the electron app I decided to hire a sub contractor to build it, that way, my dev energy could stay concentrated on building features. I think we f
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by semireg 3y ago
I was reluctant to offer a subscription because of how much I personally didn’t want to use one. However, it’s proved useful for many reasons: 1) seasonal use e.g. agriculture, 2) flies under radar of some approval and expense report requir
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by semireg 3y ago
It’s about 20% recurring and 80% one time license sales. My high level business plan is that my app is probably useful to 1% of businesses worldwide. This equates to $500,000,000 or $50M/year over 10 years. Big goals!
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by semireg 3y ago
Yes. I already had an LLC for consulting. The other side hustles are dba “doing business as” and registered trademarks.
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by semireg 3y ago
No no, thank you!
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by semireg 3y ago
$500/month (3 figures) is a great milestone. I remember talking to a mentor that said, “you have something people will buy, stop working on features and focus just a bit on marketing.” It was good advice because now I’m regularly gener
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by semireg 3y ago
If spinning up a dev build on my M1 took 18 seconds, M2 takes 13 seconds, and an M3 takes 8 seconds... and I do this 50-100x per day, then the time saving can certainly be worth it.
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by semireg 3y ago
It’s so funny, because I’m engineering from electron to container to saas. You’re going the other direction. I’m the label printer app dev that reached out a few days ago. Great job, Kyle!
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by semireg 3y ago
And we used to be able to board an airplane without taking off our shoes! (US-centric hot take)
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by semireg 3y ago
I really hope this is enabled again through an "advanced" setting. Swipe to Change Watch Faces: YES
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by semireg 3y ago
"This figure shows an overlay of an image of the Moon on top of an image of the sky recorded simultaneously by the 36 detectors of Euclid’s VIS instrument." https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023&
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by semireg 3y ago
Fixed. I was using "Date announced" instead of "Release date" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS
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by semireg 3y ago
The work days are long and the macOS versions are short. Is it just me or does Snow Leopard feel like 4-5 years ago? I've been using macOS since the original X (10.0.0) was released. This is what getting old (40) feels like... Paired w
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by semireg 3y ago
Fwiw, I have a 16" M2 Pro and had a close call with losing it to water damage, so I picked up a M2 Air and it is FASTER than the Pro for most of my jobs (electron/Xcode dev). The Air is so much lighter that I much prefer it to the
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by semireg 3y ago
e.g. housing cooperatives https://coophousing.org/
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by semireg 3y ago
True story in the asymmetry of support vs sales. My “best customers” are the people who google for a solution, download, it works, and they buy a license. Done and done.
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by semireg 3y ago
Interestingly, and perhaps ironically, Label LIVE is used by FAANG to print labels for their mobile testing labs where hundreds of mobile devices run their apps on real hardware, server racks, super computing clusters, and labeling prototyp
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by semireg 3y ago
True story. You can play with the app by downloading and installing. By default it generates PDFs.
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by semireg 3y ago
Wow. I didn’t know this history. Poor MessagePad… Eat up Martha!
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by semireg 3y ago
I didn’t want to muddy the original story, but I had nest cam footage of the actual theft but too blurry to make a positive ID. I saved the footage. The guy was very tall and built like a football player. With sandals. When I met the guy th
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by semireg 3y ago
I was standing in the grass of apartment complex. Find My app says “distant” and I move phone over window “nearby” … back and forth it would toggle between distant and nearby. Open and shut case, Watson.
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by semireg 3y ago
Small town Minnesota, USA
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by semireg 3y ago
I had AirPods Max stolen from our car a few months ago. A week later they popped up on Find My a block away. I hopped on my bike and tracked to a small apartment building. Using Find My will show you a “warmer … warmer … colder” kind of UI
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by semireg 3y ago
Yes, I have a room with 100 label printers. They aren’t powered on. If I make changes to the built-in driver then yes, I take out the printers and make sure they function as expected. The way my app works is by sending raster images to the
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by semireg 3y ago
An hour to a few days. Sometimes a week of back and forth to 1) make it work, 2) make it work right, and 3) make it work fast. Many times there’s a PDF for the printer “language.” Think ZPL or TSPL. But even then, each printer has quirks (t
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by semireg 3y ago
I bought a hundred different label printers off eBay/amazon so I could reverse engineer and test all the different protocols. Now my app works with most label printers on the market and manufacturer’s send new models to me without even
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by semireg 3y ago
I have come to appreciate downloadable apps that work out of the box. This immediate gratification lowers friction because users can walk away if it’s not right for them. Don’t waste your user’s time. I made a decision early on with my elec
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by semireg 3y ago
It would be helpful to mention “signature” in the Data Integrity section. It’s not mentioned specially until later, which is a bit confusing … unless I’m confusing HMAC with the signatures related to CAs mentioned later in the article. Are
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by semireg 3y ago
Steelmanning in public may as well be mansplaining. But steelmanning inside your own head is a noble exercise.

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