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I am trying to market it more, tried a partnership, unfortunately it didn't work out, so this year the plan is to do the marketing myself or continue building and improving the product and hoping the quality of the product will lead to word-of-mouth marketing.
[0]: https://uxwizz.com
[1]: https://wplytic.com
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In this case the server would be POSTing a status to you ("I'm not ok!"), not responding to a ping.
Are you looking for something that accepts a metric from your end (number of appointments found) and alerts on a rule (Zero appointments found in the past 24 hours)?
Out of all the side projects I’ve tried, the one that’s been the most lucrative consistently is buying boring index funds. I kinda wish I just doubled down on the boring route sooner .
Which ones?
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I’ve been working in software since ~2004. Mostly working with startups as tech lead/team lead or full-stack. Half of these companies were about big data/data science. But applications of AI/ML always attracted me more :)
What about AI/ML attracted you more? I’m at a point in my studies, and I can either go down the big data route (more backend focused) or AI (frontend focused, i.e. how the computer interprets data), and I just can’t decide. Any insights would be much appreciated! :)
Personally I've always been fascinated with AI/ML, because of reading too much SciFi as a kid :) Plus modern LLMs are a bit like magic - you can make computer do amazing things if you just manage to say the correct incantation :)
I've also spent a large chunk of my career around big data (worked in a couple of startups). Data is interesting and important, but it was boring for me.
Long story short. If you like learning a lot of things - AI/ML would be a wonderful field. But you'll need to keep on learning. If you like messy code - also AI/LLM.
If you like working with data, predictability and stability. Then big data might be your thing. Also if you like digging into different business domains and connecting numbers to processes and people.
I've been writing an email newsletter on backend dev for the past few years - https://quastor.org/ Basically, I look through all the Big Tech engineering blog posts and look for interesting posts. Then I'll write up an article talking about the tech stack and the main takeaways. I've been learning Adobe Illustrator + After Effects recently and am now starting to add some visualizations + graphics to accompany the art…
Out of all the side projects I’ve tried, the one that’s been the most lucrative consistently is buying boring index funds. I kinda wish I just doubled down on the boring route sooner .
> buying boring index funds Which ones?
Honestly, was definitely worth it. Even though his fee is 1%, which all the personal finance YouTubers say is high, he's saved me over 100k with a few very key financial decisions where I almost shot myself in the face by accident.
Out of all the side projects I’ve tried, the one that’s been the most lucrative consistently is buying boring index funds. I kinda wish I just doubled down on the boring route sooner .
Just a bummer that these index funds are unavailable to expats :(
I run a Chrome extension that gives SEO, speed, and security tips after crawling all the pages of a site: https://www.checkbot.io/ There's a lot of sentiment on HN about SEO ruining the internet but the SEO tips I promote are ones that make content more readable for humans (e.g. setting image ALT tags, avoiding broken links, giving each page a unique title, using valid HTML) rather than tricks for gaming Google: http…
I run a Chrome extension that gives SEO, speed, and security tips after crawling all the pages of a site: https://www.checkbot.io/ There's a lot of sentiment on HN about SEO ruining the internet but the SEO tips I promote are ones that make content more readable for humans (e.g. setting image ALT tags, avoiding broken links, giving each page a unique title, using valid HTML) rather than tricks for gaming Google: http…
Tried running my site through Checkbot, it's lightweight and helpful. "Indexable" pages has been a pain, can't seem to find clarity there on why our stuff is discoverable yet not indexed.
Some general suggestions: add a site map, submit your sitemap and pages via Google Search console, see if changing the internal linking of pages helps (e.g. pages that have links in the header/footer will seem important to crawl/index, maybe hubs for or "related pages" links for related pages would help), get more (and better quality) backlinks, and make sure pages don't look like duplicates (as Google will group together repetitive pages).