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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
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I open source my failed projects at: https://github.com/mihailthebuilder
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He's promoting pay per crawl again. Wrote a blog post last year on why I don't see it working https://developerwithacat.com/blog/202507/cloudflare-pay-per... …
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I was wondering that too. Maybe it's because it's harder to clear the threshold from asknew. I remember a blog post saying posts get more votes in general because of the influx of submission…
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Marketing + Pro Serv if I had to take a guess.
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Related
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086771
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661231
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649644 …
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Look at a software project that has a ton of paid users. Build a copy of it and offer it free. Guaranteed to get people trying it.
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How come? I test drove a couple and they felt much better than the 2017 cars. The only minor faults I could find were the spongy breaks and the slightly glitchy digital dashboard.
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I know right?! I was shocked when I saw that some 2017 Toyotas and Kias were as expensive as 2023 VW electrics.
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Where's the engagement? I'm not seeing any comments on Substack.
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Cloudflare's bot protection has many options. Anubis-like PoW is one of the many features. Everyone that runs a publicly-exposed server needs bot blocking of some kind.
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Well, ask yourself - do you spend time on PH? I never did.
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I used to follow Ben Felix who provides opinions based on empirical research: https://www.youtube.com/@BenFelixCSI/ Might end up demotivating you though if you want to do somethi…
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I have some exp with this domain, and thought of building something in the space. The problem is you're competing vs Cloudflare, a huge incumbent who offers this for free (up to a point). So star…
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Since you're BYOK, have you tried self-hosting LiteLLM? It's what I use for the BYOK option on my service.
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https://archive.is/C11Dj
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An amazing service. I use its 20+ free LLM options to allow completely free usage of LibreOffice AI extension with no signup https://librethinker.com .…
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> Is the goal to build something and learn something from the experience, or try and build something with adoption in mind? It's primarily to build for adoption, although I also wanted to take…
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https://archive.is/rcgAy
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On mobile - Sudoku. On PC - Counter-Strike and MDickie's wrestling revolution (although haven't done so in a long time).
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I have a similar belief, but of South and East Asia. YouTube made offshoring much more viable.