I've been working on server side VDOM based web framework in Ruby that streams DOM-patches to the browser. It uses Haml as React uses JSX. The syntax makes it really nice to use. It's pretty fast but it needs a lot more work before it's ready to use for any real world projects. Would be cool if someone tried it out and maybe even made some improvements.
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#272I'm working on a TUI Jupyter Notebook editor, euporie, which allows you to run and edit Jupyter Notebooks in the terminal: https://github.com/joouha/euporie It's useful for editing and running notebooks on remote servers over SSH, or inside containers where setting up port forwarding is not possible or too difficult, or if you just like working in the terminal. It's open-source, and I have no idea how I would go abou…
This is incredibly cool. Unfortunately, I don't think it's something I would pay for. But the bit I tried out seems great! I like to live in the terminal and this seems like a nice way to keep doing so :)
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#273Active Trackers: https://activetrackers.com
A fitness web app I built during the first year of COVID to track pull-ups, push-ups, etc. A couple of my family members purchased a subscription, but otherwise it hasn't gotten any traction.
I have monthly goals for push-ups and pull-ups, so I still use it every day to track my progress.
It's built with Laravel, using Spark, Jetstream, and Tailwind. Before building the app, I had only dabbled with Laravel, so building it was a great learning experience.
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#274SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
Wow, you don't make any money on SteamDB? It seems like the sort of thing that should be able to make a lot of money. Even very minimal ads would probably bring in hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year, and if you hate the idea of ads it seems like you could probably sell a premium subscription for some of the info you have that would be useful for devs, like imdb pro or crunchbase pro or somethin…
I can, but I have no interest in doing that currently.
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#275Thank you for this thead!
I am currently working on a new open-source project, completely free to help enterprise manage their authorizations on a ce realized application: https://www.authz.fr/
Main benefits whereas existing projects is the simplicity of use and the frontend web UI which is generally in paid offers.
It comes with Service Development Kits in multiple languages (Go, NodeJS, PHP, Python) and more to come soon.
I hope someone could find something interesting here :)
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#276Go Transit: https://gotransitapp.com/ I've built and maintain website + iOS + Android apps for public transit for several small municipalities that don't have a good solution. I usually end up adding cities if I visit there and an unhappy with their app offering. Most of these municipalities use a smaller 3rd party vendor for tracking their buses, but often, the user facing application is sorely lacking. My applicati…
A bit of an unfortunate naming/seo clash as GO Transit is the public transit service in Ontario Canada.
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#277SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
The amount of value I get out of your service is nuts! No better place to figure out whether a multiplayer game is worth getting... Daily users is hard metric to game or lie about.
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#278Radiant: https://getradiant.app/ Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad. Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music…
Unsolicited feedback: If this were also offered as a web-based application I'd probably use it (sitting at my desk all day I don't want to use my mobile device for music). Maybe sell rotating ads or sponsorships (on screen but not in the audio stream, please!) to make some $. Very cool.
That's exactly what is coming next for it! A fully-fledged web app. It's actually built using web tech so it's an easy port. Just need to rebuild some of the native bits for web (ohh I might get to use wasm!) but once that's done it should be good to go. Planning on pushing out in the next 2 weeks.
And yeah while I don't need to run ads on it at the moment, if the right sponsor wanted to work with me I'd be exceptionally happy to do so.
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#279Momenial https://momenial.com — a mobile app for creating certificates for webinar attendees. Currently making $0/mo. I'm actually building this app as a "case study" for my upcoming book, an opinionated guide to building mobile apps, from ideation, dev, ops, and marketing. I've been blessed with working at various company sizes and wearing multiple hats: founder of two failed startups, VP Eng at a telco and a large…
Strong concept. One of my clients does CE training and I currently have to create new PDF certificates whenever they create a new course or move info a new state. Have you thought about casting this as a simple API and charging devs like me for it? I would just pass along the cost to the client, maybe with a bit of a markup. Or maybe even better (for you), I'd instruct the client to bank $10 at a time with you (recharge their account) and maybe that would allow me to generate 100 certs (or whatever makes sense here) before they have to recharge and deposit more.
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#280Early Bird Edit: https://earlybirdedit.com/
I hate scrolling through twitter, so I built a service to email me the best tweets in my feed. It's self signup and there's a discount code in the signup process if you'd like to be an Alpha user/avoid the fee.
A handful of friends are using it and for the most part it's doing what I wanted it to do.
Not sure what the future holds given the recently cancelled 3rd party apps debacle.
P.S. I adventured into writing this on the Firebase stack (Firestore and Cloud Functions). Probably wouldn't again – the cold starts are simply too slow and the mitigations they suggest haven't been effective.