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mmarian
1,458karma·1,053submissions·July 28, 2019
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Latest projects:
* AI Copilot for LibreOffice Writer: https://librethinker.com/
* A personal blog about tech and startups: https://developerwithacat.com
* Hacker News alerts for comments and replies: https://hackernewsalerts.com/
I open source my failed projects at: https://github.com/mihailthebuilder
I'm on LinkedIn for anything: https://linkedin.com/in/mihailmarian . Make sure you add a message before you send a connection invite.
recent activity (1,053 total)
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Right, but why not use GitHub accounts?
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Contact us forms should be quick to complete. Doesn't look like that's the case with yours?
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Don't think you should manufacture engagement by asking people to comment in order to get free credits.
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You should show actual examples.
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I think you should do an explainer video on how to use it and how to interpret the figures. Not many people (incl myself) remember how to look at these figures, they just arrange their mortgage and fo…
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It is, in that it's got the added feature of monitoring comments on your posts. You can see from this code that it's a bit trickier to do that (and harder to scale): https://githu…
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Yep, quite a surprise. I saw hnreplies had about 3k users so I thought I could get at least a few hundred. Ah well, the silver lining is that I learned about HN RSS feeds, Django Ninja, and Q2 async w…
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I see your point. For me, the addiction is in the content, rather than the delivery mechanism. So I end up checking the site too often for what I want, which in this case was replies to my posts. Othe…
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For my personal projects - Inside my CapRover managed cluster of services, all on the cheapest Hetzner VPS. At work it's AWS RDS.
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Thank you, really glad to hear that!
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I use netdata, works like a charm https://github.com/netdata/netdata
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If you use Atlassian Confluence, their draw.io integration is really nice.
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Oh, yes you're right, I never read that properly, how odd. Well, it's been working fine and I can't be bothered but I'll keep this service in mind. Thanks!
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Formspree has a free plan, 50 subs/month: https://formspree.io/plans . No ads either. I'm in a similar situation, a site with one form submission a month ( https://…
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Fair enough, I was wondering whether I was missing something out. How many users do you have at the moment?
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There are already plenty of services that do this though, eg formspree.
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> Downsizing ain't a knee-jerk thing here, it's a costly process. Not if you're less than 2 years in the company (in the UK). Which probably applies to a large proportion of software…
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Alerts for any replies you receive from your posts/comments: https://hackernewsalerts.com . It's a side project.
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I've been using Astro with React and it's a breeze.
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I've built https://hackernewsalerts.com which does that, and also checks for comments on your posts too.
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> The UK is "MBAs eating the world" on steroids, except they're History graduates who went to Eton Aren't political leaders from most democracies from an elite background? > …
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Appreciate the level-headed take.
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99% of tech companies have bigger problems then :) I say this as someone who's done interviews for several different professions; tech is by far and wide the most binary and detached from busines…
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At worst you can just go into sales engineering no? Better paid anyway, same amount of travel probably.
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Sorry, I don't follow, more of what?