I used to let my DSL modem handle PPPoE and NAT, so failover was easy, but found out fragmented IPv6 crashed the leased modem, and the replacement modem also sucks, so bridge mode + a custom PPPoE client (built from netgraph pieces, I'm not completely nuts) it is. Sadly useful in 2021, because PPPoE is somehow still a thing.
Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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#102I started building it for myself at first, scratching my own itch.
I don’t feel the same pressure as I had with my open source projects. I’ve been adding features when I feel the need for my own use (i.e. alerting system), or customers made a good point for why it’d be useful.
Also, I don’t work on stuff that nobody requested yet. For example, you can’t even change your account email yet.
So far it’s been fun working on it, and slowly getting paying customers. But it might take 1-2 years for it to replace my day job income-wise. That’s fine, it’s just about having the right expectations, and keeping up a sustainable pace.
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#103A native GUI library https://github.com/yue/yue . It was a disaster when I announced it on Hacker News, and I got numerous harassments from strangers. But anyway 3 years since then and I'm still working on it. Edit 1: 2 => 3 years Edit 2: If anyone is interested, I wrote a blog on the mistakes I made http://cheng.guru/blog/2018/02/18/lessons-learnt-from-open-s... .
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
My parents just had the radio hooked up to the same circuit that was driving the bathroom lights. You enter the room, turn on the lights and there was instant audio. Makes sense to put this into a product.
It's amazing how we are repeatedly going full circle: we managed to stigmatize a completely natural farting sound (you are in a bathroom so the smell is contained), and then come up with "solutions" to feel free to produce the same sounds. It took me a while, but I've convinced my wife that farting is ok, and that you should only worry about subjecting others to lousy odours, and even that only when you are visiting…
That’s my understanding of it anyways.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#105Writing about the practice and publishing my analysis is improving me and making me a better investor. I don't really care if it will greatly succeed in driving audience - as the biggest benefit from it, for me, is the practice of putting my thoughts into text.
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#106I'm currently learning about sales and marketing and think I can share my modest knowledge on the topic in a way that is fairly systematic.
One of the draws of programming for me—and I believe this is true for a lot of developers—is that software development is fairly a systematic discipline to get into, unlike sales or marketing, for instance.
The path to learning how to program is fairly systematic i.e. learning follows a well-defined path where you learn your first "hello, world", then learn about constants, variables, expressions, conditionals, loops, functions etc. Making recursion the first lesson is a recipe for confusion for most beginners to programming.
My goal with the guide is to explain sales and marketing—in a well-defined way similar to how programming is learnt—using plain language, while avoiding jargon, as much as possible.
Learning this way has been helpful to me and I think a guide like this would be helpful to developers out there that struggle with answering questions like whether to do sales or marketing first, build an audience before building a product etc.
I'm on the free tier of ConvertKit so I'm trying to figure the easiest way to automatically email subscribers a copy of the current draft of the guide.
Here's the current landing page: https://guide.ayewo.com/
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting project. I'm creating my own blogging CMS with a similar tech stack, Go + sqlite3 + Go templates. Works well so far. I plan adding plugins as well. Do you use a special library to support those?
I benchmarked some of the most popular go plugin libraries here in addition to the plugin package that comes with go: https://github.com/uberswe/go-plugin-benchmark Right now I'm leaning towards using https://github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin You should link your project, it would be interesting to follow.
I am also preferring hashicorps plugin :D Haven't tried it yet though.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#108What keeps me motivated is how much fun I have working on it. When I wake up every day, I look forward to hearing from my users. It gives me great pleasure knowing a handful of users love my product and use it on a daily basis.
While daily office grind bores me to death, working on my app is exciting.
The other factor is that it costs me $36 per month to run it - so cost-wise I don't mind since its low. I just need another customer to break even.
I don't think anything will change if it grows to a million users. I have not really thought about it.
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#109It's an open source map to expose fossil fuel polluters. Add custom points to the map by pasting the URL to your Tweet. It can even do longer map stories through continuous Twitter threats.
We started development during the NASA SpaceApps hackathon, we're still going without much attention because we like the idea. Making money is not intended.
edit: spelling.
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#110I develop https://firedating.me - my hobby project and a place for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) enthusiasts to find friends and a partner. My goal is to help FIRE people build meaningful connections and decrease the amount of loneliness in the community. I don't make any money, instead I've spent around $130 and 400 hours so far. It is actually a lot of fun to learn web development and encounter vario…