I developed a 3-D crossword tile-building puzzle. Everyone that tried it was vociferous "You should sell this!" My response was always "I already have a job and I like it. This is a hobby." And I consider it (mostly) completed, not abandoned.
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#292i tried marketing it, but i could not get developers interested because it effectively eliminates the need to do any backend development. most websites are CRUD and don't need a custom backend. this platform has it all. i haven't done any backend development on my own websites for years now for the same reason.
i'd love to get more people to use this, but where are developers that prefer frontend work over backend work?
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#293I like to buy used electronics online, but it's very tedious cross-referencing model numbers and benchmarks and such to determine what's actually a good deal. For example which is better, a 10th gen i5 or a 7th gen i7 at the same price? So as a pandemic hobby, I made a website to scrape eBay laptop listings, extract all the relevant data, cross reference against benchmarks, and sort the result by "value" (aggregate p…
This is awesome! I regularly encounter the same problem. Particularly when shopping for electronics, where there is a clear metric that counts (say, USD/Watt hour for batteries). But how often had I wished something like this existed for other items as well. Say, toothpaste. What do I care about the brand? I care about the abrasivity factor (RDA), and the amount of flouride. Or sweaters. I don't care that it looks li…
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
About $0.5 per hour for a 3080 equivalent. And yes, I have an image that I can spin up on-demand.
This seems to be a neat setup. I've found this script a couple days ago: https://github.com/gcloudrig/gcloudrig (haven't given it a try just yet but surely looking forward to)
The NVIDIA T4 VWS GPUs aren't as flashy as they used to be and there's no option for faster CPU cores in GCP, but for medium-setting ray traced gaming it'll still do the trick!
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#300Slack bot to streamline customer communications from many platforms. Emails, Slack chats, or mobile text messages can be forwarded to any #channel. All responses in the Slack thread are seamlessly sent back to the source.
Simple integrations already work fine. I am working on "Smart features" like auto classification and smart routing, and implementing of new integrations.
Need help with marketing :)