Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by Cthulhu_ » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 8:24 AM UTC

jjk166 wrote: post #53

Every couple of months I wind up making a quick s3 static site which isn't too difficult but doing it manually there are several steps spread out across many pages and it's easy to forget one if it's been a while. Every time I do it I wish I had written a script to automate it the last time.

Netlify is basically that, push to git and it'll auto deploy, along with serverless functions if you need something like a back-end. Github Pages works too for purely static sites. Cloudflare probably has a similar offering.

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by alltheworlds » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:59 AM UTC

A configuration management system. Actually I didn't build it, but have used different implementations at every job. Why can't this just be a commodity? It's not exactly doing anything very different in each case.

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by domenkozar » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 2:23 PM UTC

francisofascii wrote: post #23

A developer laptop with all the required software installed, environment variables set, ready to go.

Have you tried https://devenv.sh?

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by INTPenis » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 6:29 AM UTC

dmak wrote: post #22

kinggencha wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure how easy self-hosting those are, but any paid-for and/or online offering by a third party is useless. This should have been clear long ago, but the LastPass breach should have made it obvious.

To each it's own, but 1Password security design looks pretty solid. Here is their white paper: https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-p...

No system is perfect. You're making a trade off by self-hosting but at least when something goes wrong you know who to blame and what to improve. When something goes wrong in someone else's environment you're lucky to even know what went wrong, and you have no one to hold accountable.

So it's not IF something goes wrong, it's WHEN something goes wrong. Going around thinking IF something goes wrong is delusional, even if you end up being lucky and right.

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by dmak » Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 6:10 AM UTC

asim wrote: post #87

dmak wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is more likely to happen in crypto than any other ecosystem. The permissionless composabiblity is driving an insane amount of innovation.

The issue with crypto is no one is really defining a protocol in the way we used to used to understand internet protocols. I'm all for blockchain and P2P but only where it makes sense. I've tried to understand how that would work here but it feels like it's going to be a natural and slow evolution.

And how is that? I see a lot of protocols that are being built on top of permissionlessly.