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by semperdark 9y ago
It's probably the point where what you're selling is so amorphous, customizable, and expensive that it's different for each customer and you want to be able to say "Yes, we solve that problem" to everything. Maybe 7
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by semperdark 9y ago
Really impressive stuff, so here's some unsolicited career advice. You may get some internship offers if this post gets enough attention. They can teach you a lot, but since you seem to be able to learn on your own you should consider
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by semperdark 9y ago
> less than 0.01% of the world's energy consumption Actually, it's 0.08% and rising. The energy for 1 transaction could power almost 6 U.S. homes for a full day. https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumpti
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by semperdark 9y ago
I thought that was funny as well. If anyone's going to be nationalizing them, it'd be the US, and I'd wager that non-US residents would like that even less.
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by semperdark 9y ago
You're absolutely correct - I'm not sure how I didn't notice that. Thank you for the clarification.
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by semperdark 9y ago
Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I think the value of personal data in advertising is inflated right now. P&G spent $7 billion on online ads in 2016, and has been making a lot of noise about moving away from them. Many of those con
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by semperdark 9y ago
The 33% counts Yahoo, which is powered by Bing.
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by semperdark 9y ago
I'm no lawyer, but from similar situations I'd imagine that they would need to make a reasonable effort to block EU users from using the product to get away with that. Eg. forcing users to use a VPN by hiding the download button f
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by semperdark 9y ago
I want to read that version of the article!
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by semperdark 9y ago
Your copy says: "Instead of paying $1,800+ per project, or hiring an in-house UI designer with a $70,000+/year salary, Fairpixels Pro gives you the best of both worlds at a fraction of the cost." At the same time, your cheape
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by semperdark 9y ago
Interesting, I actually had no idea. Thank you for the link.
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by semperdark 9y ago
Your locale is fine, and it's also mis-written on the post itself. He mentions having ~25 employees in another post I clicked through to, so I'm going to say it's probably supposed to be $750k.
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Do keep in mind that he rather famously avoids investing in tech companies.
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by semperdark 9y ago
I've also noticed this on financial/stock news articles. I've seen a few of them use full 4-word names for corporations ("The Coca-Cola Company") dozens of times in one article, and multiple times per sentence.
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by semperdark 9y ago
Hi there, I just noticed that I had a new reply. I've sent you an email.
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It's essentially a meme now. Either he conned AOL into giving him a sort of chief innovator job, or AOL was in on trying to market him as their very own Steve Jobs. He got onto a bunch of news programs a few years ago where they fawned
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by semperdark 9y ago
Spot on. We've had success with in-house consulting for medium-to-large development projects, and we're in talks with a few MSPs now to help them offer managed custom applications to their customers. In terms of long-term scaling,
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by semperdark 9y ago
This is actually largely what we're trying to do at Sonadier.com. The basic idea is that you can build most enterprise CRUD applications with drag-and-drop forms. While we realized it before starting, we didn't fully grasp how muc
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by semperdark 11y ago
We've been working on documenting platform specifics pretty heavily at info.sonadier.com, but I hadn't thought to document business guarantees. Thank you for the heads up! They should be added shortly.
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by semperdark 11y ago
Forms is a drag-and-drop database application builder meant to abstract users and developers from the same repetitive CRUD code. If you're familiar with Microsoft Access, it's like that except it's web-based and handles user
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Show HN: Forms – Drag-and-drop database applications (with scripting)(sonadier.com)
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by semperdark 11y ago
Getting there, we've got a few thousand users at the moment, largely from HN and ProductHunt. Feedback from tech-savvy users is incredibly valuable. https://www.sonadier.com/
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by semperdark 11y ago
Your link seems to be broken
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by semperdark 11y ago
We do have embedding support at the moment, still working on programmatic access. It should be available soon, via a REST API.
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by semperdark 11y ago
Rails and Postgres, hosted on AWS
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by semperdark 11y ago
Don't worry about it, it's not inappropriate at all. Good luck with your product!
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by semperdark 11y ago
Thanks for letting me know, I'll get that up asap!
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We've also got a demo of the form creator up at https://forms.sonadier.com/forms/demo
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by semperdark 11y ago
Which kind of junk data do you mean? We have quite a few constraints based on fields, so a number field will only accept integers/decimals and it's validated backend. We also have a regex system that is validated backend, so you c
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by semperdark 11y ago
It won't be very fun to make, but the architecture should support column level controls for sure. Row level I'd have to look into in more depth. Right now we already have a system for hiding columns from specific tables where they

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