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Re: I quit my job to make free web tools

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

teh_klev wrote: post #29
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you not concerned that you are leaking exactly what domains people are looking up in realtime? If I used a service like that I would expect some degree of privacy that goes beyond this. It's crazy to me that you're doing this to be honest https://plausible.io/nslookup.io/pages?period=realtime

There is no privacy issue here, there aren't source IP addresses attached, you can't tell who's looking these up. It's up there with Amazon's (for example) "other people bought" recommendations, you can't tell who did the looking up. They're just domain names which are effectively public records. And even if you thought you registered a super secret domain name (no such thing), maybe the registrar looked it up, or so…

I do understand all of that, still it feels weird to me. If I'm looking up a staging domain I'm not trying to broadcast that to the world, for example

You know the Qualsys SSL Tester tool? That has a checkbox about making the result public or not and that is because by default people wouldn't expect the domain to be leaked (even though it's already public information that doesn't really matter)

Re: I quit my job to make free web tools

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Post by andris9 »

hwers wrote: post #22

I'm always curious how many visitors you have to get to reach $500 per month numbers from ads. I understand the author probably can't reveal exact numbers here but if anyone knows rough but real life numbers I'd be curious to hear (I haven't ever done ad based revenue myself and I don't trust CPM numbers I'd read by googling, or the spread is just too broad).

Just to compare, https://nodemailer.com had 194k pageviews (42k “active users” as reported by Google Analytics, whatever that means) in January and the BuySellAds payout was $156.45

Re: I quit my job to make free web tools

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Post by pushcx »

imgabe wrote: post #30

> Mobile game that divides the earth in hexagons Interesting that I hear about this twice in the space of a week or so. Neal Stephenson was talking about it on the Lex Fridman podcast too. Apparently it's not possible. You'll always need a certain number of pentagons to complete the tiling.

Nah, you just cheat a little and the error is small enough to handwave: https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2017/bridges2017-237.pdf

Re: I quit my job to make free web tools

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Post by Brajeshwar »

imgabe wrote: post #30

> Mobile game that divides the earth in hexagons Interesting that I hear about this twice in the space of a week or so. Neal Stephenson was talking about it on the Lex Fridman podcast too. Apparently it's not possible. You'll always need a certain number of pentagons to complete the tiling.

Check this out then, https://www.ovr.ai, uses the hexagon co-ordinate system to cover the surface of a sphere. My co-founder told me recently that this hexagon system has been in development in the academic world for about a decade.

In our spare time, our team had been discussing on an ideal way to lay some form of "grid" over Earth so we can co-ordinate Climate actions & results between providers and buyers. We wanted a system that has been done before and we can build on top of it.

Re: I quit my job to make free web tools

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Post by scrapcode »

pul wrote: post #6
text2db wrote: post #5

I hope that you make more than your salary, how did you attract users to website? Its very hard to get users to visit your site. I have posted my site ( https://text2db.com/ ) on hackernews, product hunt and reddit for getting reviews but got very few views (guess the idea is bad?), please do recommend me tips on how to increase traffic for site. Thanks.

> I hope that you make more than your salary Not yet by a large margin, but it's going up slowly :) > how did you attract users to website? Currently, mainly through SEO. My stats are open [1], so you can see the percentage that comes in through search engines. In my case, there's a large search volume for 'nslookup', which is currently the largest chunk of traffic. An 'exact match domain' helped for sure. But in the…

I used to do a lot of research on SEO and the methods behind the madness of getting decent organic traffic, and it basically always boiled down to quality content built around targeted keywords, phrases, or related topics.

The way I always imagined to accomplish this was to write or hire someone to write this content and present it in a blog format. It does not seem that you do this on these properties, so briefly what kind of SEO optimization can be continually done outside of that? Are you still writing content as a guest poster and generating reputable backlinks? Engaging communities that are focused around your topic and promoting through those channels in hopes of generating backlinks? Or am I just in left field with all of this and what I thought I knew about SEO?

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Post by vlmutolo »

imgabe wrote: post #30

> Mobile game that divides the earth in hexagons Interesting that I hear about this twice in the space of a week or so. Neal Stephenson was talking about it on the Lex Fridman podcast too. Apparently it's not possible. You'll always need a certain number of pentagons to complete the tiling.

Astronomers came up with a cool way to tessellate a sphere called Healpix. The tiles are quadrilateral, though, so they may not have the same freedom as hexagons in the context of a game where players can move to adjacent tiles.

https://healpix.jpl.nasa.gov/

Re: I quit my job to make free web tools

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Post by text2db »

matt_heimer wrote: post #28
text2db wrote: post #5

I hope that you make more than your salary, how did you attract users to website? Its very hard to get users to visit your site. I have posted my site ( https://text2db.com/ ) on hackernews, product hunt and reddit for getting reviews but got very few views (guess the idea is bad?), please do recommend me tips on how to increase traffic for site. Thanks.

Don't let one random person dissuade you but my take is that while you consider your text format simple its one more thing I'd have to learn the structure and symbols for. An other issue you have is that if someone understands the concept of foreign keys already then they've probably already figured out basic create table statements. Lastly, learning a new tool for something that is just a blip (table creation only)…

Just WOW, amazing ideas you got there, I shall look into it , Thanks alot Dear.

Re: I quit my job to make free web tools

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Post by klyrs »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #44
imgabe wrote: post #30

> Mobile game that divides the earth in hexagons Interesting that I hear about this twice in the space of a week or so. Neal Stephenson was talking about it on the Lex Fridman podcast too. Apparently it's not possible. You'll always need a certain number of pentagons to complete the tiling.

Check this out then, https://www.ovr.ai , uses the hexagon co-ordinate system to cover the surface of a sphere. My co-founder told me recently that this hexagon system has been in development in the academic world for about a decade. In our spare time, our team had been discussing on an ideal way to lay some form of "grid" over Earth so we can co-ordinate Climate actions & results between providers and buyers. We wan…

Got a more specific link that discusses the actual hexagon system? And, your cookie banner is either a horrid dark pattern or broken as heck on ff/android.
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