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Re: Lessons Learnt Failing to Monetize My Ruby Gem

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Post by rogem002 » Tue, May 05, 2020, 9:12 AM UTC

ge96 wrote: post #5

wastedhours wrote: post #3

I also recommend the "app standup" as well - my side projects usually have a Telegram bot that sends me a daily message of performance, users, any cash generated etc... really does help keep the momentum going.

Is that a thing? Like a site/portal/dashboard you log into, shows a bunch of your apps/random servers and their statuses... I was thinking about this myself. Ideally would be real time or at least some kind of pub-sub/poll.

I've seen a few portals (Like Heroku Dataclips / Metabase) which offer this.

That said, I shoehorned it into my daily routine otherwise I'd just end up not checking it for a few weeks at a time.

Re: Lessons Learnt Failing to Monetize My Ruby Gem

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Post by rogem002 » Tue, May 05, 2020, 9:13 AM UTC

rurban wrote: post #7

"however GitHub paused verifying applications in January. This really screwed me as the marketplace guidelines said I was not allowed to be listed on the GitHub marketplace if I offer a paid service outside of GitHub Marketplace." Anybody knows the background on this screw-up?

I think GitHub isn't trying to push the marketplace as hard as they were a year ago. I suspect the success of GitHub Actions makes the whole marketplace a bit of a risk they'd rather not waste time on.

Re: Lessons Learnt Failing to Monetize My Ruby Gem

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Post by ge96 » Wed, May 06, 2020, 11:48 PM UTC

rogem002 wrote: post #11

ge96 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a thing? Like a site/portal/dashboard you log into, shows a bunch of your apps/random servers and their statuses... I was thinking about this myself. Ideally would be real time or at least some kind of pub-sub/poll.

I've seen a few portals (Like Heroku Dataclips / Metabase) which offer this. That said, I shoehorned it into my daily routine otherwise I'd just end up not checking it for a few weeks at a time.

These are just database query "aggregates"? I'm looking for random stuff like I have an anemometer I made that collects data... I still have to get into websockets(I've made some) but concerned about home network security.