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alexanderisora

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About alexanderisora

SaaS maker.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #42494204

    I will try to keep it alive forever. The only risk I see is people starting to upload bad stuff and Cloudflare shuts down my account. Hopefully, this does not happen.

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    Show HN: I made a simple Dropbox clone

    I made a simple site that allows you to upload files. It requires no sign up and 100% free. The biggest advantage is that it returns you the direct URL to your file. So you can use…

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    Comment #39988307

    I agree. It is nearly impossible! If they are young, they are full of their own ambitions and ideas. It is hard to cooperate. If they are old, they already have built something in …

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    Comment #39816952

    Thanks for the tip. I was too paranoid to link my blog here. You can read the post on https://twitter.com/alexanderisorax/status/17722497842517773... . I also added the link to the…

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    Comment #39816813

    Sorry for the ugly formatting. HN is not suitable for this type of post.

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    I parsed 968 launches from /r/SideProject and analyzed them with Claude 3 Opus

    The data: I searched for all posts from /r/SideProjects that contained these strings: "I built", "I made an alternative to", "I created a clone of". Most posts are Reddit API does …

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    Comment #37431337

    What is wrong with Mastodon?

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    Comment #37431333

    Even if I'm technically allowed to create a new account, I'm not doing this: I do not want to stress because of a risk of getting banned again.

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    Comment #37431304

    Even though I feel devastated (I have been growing my account since 2016), my post is emotions-free. Only facts. Did Y got Z. > d) Great point! But do you think people of China tru…

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    Comment #37431277

    The rule of thumb is to act like a regular human. If you are a savvy user, you have shortcuts for everything, you have scripts for optimizing your work, then be careful. Exporting …

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    I was permanently banned in Twitter

    Yesterday morning, I opened my to-do list. There was one nagging task that I have been delaying for months: reply to all DMs on Twitter. There were roughly 100 missed DMs. People r…

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    Comment #36073724

    i switched to Appliku 2 years ago. it was my best devops decision. saved me thousands of $. AMA.

  13. story
    Ask HN: GPT Will Replace Programmers

    The two primary challenges preventing GPT from replacing programmers are: 1) AI lacks the creativity and critical thinking ability of human programmers. 2) The 8,000 token limitati…

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    Comment #33192642

    I can name https://bit.cloud/components as an existing marketplace. It is a big challenge, yes, but also a big profit.

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    Comment #33192306

    We (the developers) can create a marketplace of micro-apps. It would be a separate business by itself.

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    Comment #33192291

    For example a programmer can create a full-stack micro-app for accepting payments. The programmer will make it super flexible, configurable and secure. It will be win-win for both …

  17. story
    Is this how smart developers will become rich in 2025?

    Nowadays, There are 2 ways to become rich for a developer. First, you can sell your hours to a company as an employee and earn its stocks. Eventually, you can get a lot of stocks, …

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    Comment #32164821

    Yes, this approach has been implemented by many companies. But those plugins' use scope is limited to a company tool. What that folk did is expanded this approach to the 'any app' …

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    Comment #32164279

    This is the biggest pain of the modern software development process. Freelancers or outsource companies are not interested in your business, they are interested in charging you for…

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    Comment #28469098

    I am long time paid customer of Appliku. I've built a SaaS ( https://unicornplatform.com ) and before was hosted on Heroku. Migrating to Appliku saved me $400/mo in cloud costs. My…

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    Comment #27231715

    By the way, I’m subscribed to your newsletter. For anyone interested, check out https://user-interface.io . This guy sends random stuff about UI. Pretty decent.

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    Comment #26414144

    Ah I see, thanks. I just think of myself as a 'coding SaaS founder' - so I placed this title. It is just the first title that popped out in my mind :) I did not want to bait.

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    Comment #26410758

    I'm sorry I do not use Docker. So I can not comment on that. I also did not try to run Windows or Linux on the machine.

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    Comment #26410749

    What title would you suggest?

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    Comment #26410742

    When I actively compile stuff, it gets slightly warm. 95% of time it is cold. I assume if you code/build actively being in a warm room or under the sun, it will get too hot.