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by vlucas 10mo ago
Not really sure how to answer this, because there are varying degrees of "self hosted" vs. "cloud hosted". This is a Next.js app hosted on Render.com, which is a managed VPS offering similar to Heroku. BudgetSheet is als
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by vlucas 10mo ago
BudgetSheet ( https://www.budgetsheet.com ) -> $6k MRR avg. for the year. Will likely have my first $10k month in January. Live Bank Transactions + Google Sheets. Links accounts with Plaid to track transactions and balances o
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by vlucas 10mo ago
This article is incredible. As someone who built their first website in Geocities with HTML framesets and tables, the history represented in this article is very accurate. Well done, OP!
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by vlucas 10mo ago
Stores like Dollar General and Family Dollar are not cheap dollar stores. They are convenience stores. And convenience stores always charge more... for the... convenience of not having to make a longer trip to a larger store. Price mis-
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by vlucas 11mo ago
You can't, and this was readily apparent in 2020 with Covid. Even doctors presenting factual information got censored and de-platformed by YouTube. The only real competing video platform that promises no censorship is Rumble ( https:&
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by vlucas 1y ago
100% correct. Taking 10% away to remove downside risk of the remaining 90% is an absolute no-brainer, especially if it is a meaningful sum of money to you.
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by vlucas 1y ago
Does anyone have a link to the actual rules/document they are asked to sign? I clicked on the "new rules" link in the article linked here, and it doesn't actually show all the rules. While it's nice to see the react
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by vlucas 1y ago
This headline reminds me of a great movie made on this exact subject: S1m0ne ("Simone", or "Simulation One") https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153 > A producer's film is endangered when his s
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by vlucas 1y ago
This headline reminds me of a great movie made on this exact subject: S1m0ne ("Simone", or "Simulation One") https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153 > A producer's film is endangered when his s
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by vlucas 1y ago
Or Google Apps Script! You can get a long way with some simple scripts to import data, etc.
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by vlucas 1y ago
There is no business that I hate more than TicketMaster. In 2016, the OKC Thunder were making a playoff run. They just advanced to the finals and tickets were set to "go on sale to the public" at 10am on a certain day. I signed up
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by vlucas 1y ago
> the only people who seem to think that operating systems should have "personality" are techies I am not so sure. It might even be the opposite. Techies and designers gave us the flat UI aesthetic, Material UI, Windows Metro d
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by vlucas 1y ago
True, but Apple did this to themselves. Their flat UI also drew a lot of ire for this initially, especially from accessibility concerned circles.
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by vlucas 1y ago
Nice find! Apple's new glass UI seems to draw a lot of ire, but I... kinda like it? It feels like the OS has some actual personality again instead of just being flat and boring. I can visually tell the size of click targets now and t
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by vlucas 1y ago
> “I think it’s definitely lowered the barrier,” Lin says of the LLM’s role in enabling DIY search engines. “To me, it seems like the only barrier to actually competing with Google, creating an alternate search engine, is not so much the
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by vlucas 1y ago
> If y'all view NPR as biased, I'm afraid there's very little hope for you. What do you mean y'all? What group are you putting me in? I am not a Republican. If you can't see the obvious bias in NPR's reporti
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by vlucas 1y ago
It has been extremely evident over the past several years that the news coverage and other content from NPR is far from politically neutral. If they can't maintain neutrality, they should not get public funding. I don't see how th
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by vlucas 1y ago
It's not about the $250 being too expensive. It's about feeling like you're not getting a good value - being overcharged for a subpar product. Quote from the article: > At $250/month for 4 databases without any replic
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by vlucas 1y ago
Given all the fake Tesla news and seemingly inexhaustible supply of Tesla haters, this was my first thought as well.
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by vlucas 1y ago
This is a great looking app that certainly fills a niche (don't listen to the naysayers here). Seems like your target niche might be indie hacker types who are not as familiar with all the server management and setup stuff (or just wan
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by vlucas 1y ago
Crime rates are largely inaccurate since 2021: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/07/13/fbi-crime-rate... Politicians and certain news sources are of course taking advantage of this, reporting how much c
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by vlucas 1y ago
This packages the entire Node runtime and all project dependencies. It's not that insane.
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by vlucas 1y ago
Anyone else think the new 2025 icons look... blurry? Not nearly as crisp as the variants just before it.
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by vlucas 1y ago
I checked your approach. My first attempt looked a lot like yours, but I used an AsyncGenerator. Then I benchmarked it and found out it was slow as heck so I started thinking about other ways to do it. Iterables/Generators seem like
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by vlucas 1y ago
Wow that is uncanny. We arrived at almost exactly the same solution and started working on it at almost exactly the same time. I went a little bit further with client islands, file-based routing, custom placeholders for async loading conten
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by vlucas 1y ago
Good writeup. I am in the camp that Tagged Template Literals are the ultimate answer for easy templating that is native to JavaScript. The bit about using native Signals with them is spot on too. Nothing else really allows the clean separat
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by vlucas 1y ago
I like the spirit here, but I would argue we need a few lower level APIs built into browsers first instead. It will be near impossible to get everyone to agree on a standard template system. What the browser CAN do, however, is provide some
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by vlucas 1y ago
Amazon already has Cognito. It's garbage. https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/
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by vlucas 1y ago
Comparing Better-Auth to Clerk or Auth0 misses the point entirely . People choose Better-Auth because they want to own their user auth and users table themselves. Auth can be complex, but it's such a key and important piece of your bu
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by vlucas 1y ago
> It’s easier to win an argument by citing SSR compatibility issues than it is to ask, “Why are we using React for a blog?” I've asked myself this a LOT - the past few years especially. I think the biggest reason, which the author d

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