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Gemini (Google) has a good-enough-for-personal-projects free tier. Openrouter has free models (I'm assuming the training data is valuable enough to keep this going for a while)

> saved his company $145,000. This is akin to saying "I saved money on lawyers by doing it myself"

There's a company ( http://turso.tech ) that can host sqlite as a service. One of the features allows a replica local sqlite file to be used for reads and the writes still go to th…

There's an electron app that doesn't require hosting at all. It's a desktop solution. https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-electron

https://support.getgrist.com/self-managed/ may suit your needs.

and android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.shiftyj...

consider not storing running_balance (or at least expect it to be written to a LOT). Based on the above description that's going to be a hot table with a write/update of 1 per seco…

google's game streaming service - Stadia

https://www.drawbattle.io/ is a great bonding game with no audio needs

Blockada is also a similar app (local vpn that filters by dns) https://blokada.org/

I use mermaid and flowchart in github readmes using an extension for chrome. The basic idea is that the libraries are part of the extension, and the markdown calls out what kind of…

This is great news. Side note: with a name like Phoenix, would it make sense to start at 2.0? :)

I used Dokku (and Dokku-alt) on Digital Ocean with the goal of making deploying easier. I ended up getting rid of it (and Docker) because for a small scale system, Docker wasn't wo…

I saw a presentation on this last month, and found myself wanting to invent a problem just so that I could solve it with this type of scaling. Great presentation and great product.…

make sure to document well. When you're scaling up a team and moving from a coupled code base to independent codebases a good amount of assumption happens, especially around how ma…

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