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I would convince my boss to pay for a service that provided easy-to-use React components and implemented all the flows for inviting users to workspace, share by email or link, list who can access a resource, send invitation emails, etc, so I could focus on the damn app!
There was fairly cheap commercial options even then but that shop had a bad "dont buy what you can build" attitude combined with a maddening shyness about making any other use out of the things they'd built. Having written our own presort software, we couldn't then sell it or even open source it because that would be "a burden distracting from the core mission of the business."
I read this in 1999
https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/
and came to the conclusion that the basic need for a "web framework" was a system of authentication that did what most commercial sites do: let people create new self-service accounts with email verification and all of that. That was the essence of the tcl-based framework that Phil Greenspun was pushing but I didn't like tcl, so I wrote something in PHP that was meant to integrate with 'best-of-breed' PHP applications (install the authentication system, then modify various applications to use your authentication not then) as opposed to the "PHPNuke" approach which was popular in the industry which was "install some portal which had worst-of-breed implementations of most of the functionality you think you need".
What I found baffling was that nobody cared about authentication frameworks until they became something that worked "as a service" about 10 years later which is silly for so many reasons, not the least that a company that offers a service like that is going to either run out of money and shut down the service or get aqui-hired and shut down the service.
So you've found a problem -- now build a solution. :)
Cheap offsite backups. I know AWS and BB are the bees knees. But when I read the terms they. Have so many escape clauses built in. My bosses already had a poor experience with our backup provider simply deleting our backup set over a missed payment. Although there are better services they are quite shy about doing it again.
It takes a day or two to set up though, if you are not super technical like myself
I have a sea of documents, both physical and electronic, and it's always a struggle to scan/organize/find them. I'd pay good money for a software/service that manages my documents, from scanning to archiving.
Doing this again, and again, and again....
...truly sucks.
After not working on a codebase for a year, or two, I usually need to set up everything again -- and often run into very stupid/pointless issues that waste an hour, and often much more, just to get to the point where I can start the actual coding process.
This is pretty much why I've stopped coding. I don't have the time to waste any more.
Cheap offsite backups. I know AWS and BB are the bees knees. But when I read the terms they. Have so many escape clauses built in. My bosses already had a poor experience with our backup provider simply deleting our backup set over a missed payment. Although there are better services they are quite shy about doing it again.
So with that said, I prefer restic over borg for the S3 support.