Would be nice if this had a newsletter for updates like "Hey, X is cutting costs and your free happy meal will be cut to 2 nuggets starting 1st of March, and end completely next June"
Free for Developers
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Re: Free for Developers
#72It would be neat if HN could offer something like "Login By Facebook" that returned user/create date/karma. Would make a nice testbed for offering free stuff while having some high pass filter like "HN account > 3 months old and has > 500 karma."
I'm the only developer out of all of my colleagues that even knows what HN even _is_.
I’m the only one who stuck to it. I’ve given the address to all my interns along the years (and my employee), none of the interns read it.
Perhaps that is why I’m the entrepreneur ;)
But they make me feel like a boomer. Why gets their info through plain text?!?
Re: Free for Developers
#73It would be neat if HN could offer something like "Login By Facebook" that returned user/create date/karma. Would make a nice testbed for offering free stuff while having some high pass filter like "HN account > 3 months old and has > 500 karma."
Absolutely not, there are already people on HN pandering to the crowd just to get karma points, let's not make karma points more meaningless than they already are. This suggestion is so rich coming from someone with 34,500 karma points.
It's interesting that I've using HN for nearly 2 years,yet today was the first time I checked someone's karma. Didn't know it was a thing.
Re: Free for Developers
#74Please point it out if I've missed it, but any list like this, of information that is changeable, should really have a publicly posted date of when the information was last confirmed.
Commit history could be used to figure it out: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
That will only give you the date it was added, not the last time it was checked.
Wikipedia does that through bot, adding an "accessed " to external links. I supposed you could do the same here. You could even use Actions to generate a list of entries in need of checking (e.g. haven't been checked in 6 months).
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you feel about the Stack Overflow solution to this problem? My app has 300 features. Beginners get to use 8 of them. Once ten people think you are not a wretched toad, you get to use 20. Once you've solved a problem for 200 people, you can edit other people's posts. In fact doesn't HN not let you downvote until you get 500 upvotes? It's been a while.
It seems to work well. I am an occasional contributor so I don't have very much power there but I understand that communities collapse without this control since they get dominated by drive-by losers. I'm not one, but there's no signal I can provide that I'm not one. Metafilter has the model where you spend money as a signal that you're not one. I guess I'd pay $20 one-time as an upgrade that is revocable. I am a Wik…
This would have been a killer feature on dating sites around the time I was using them: some people were spending more time on those than there were hours in a day:)
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#77Is there a cloud provider that doesn't require a credit card for free tier?
Re: Free for Developers
#78It would be neat if HN could offer something like "Login By Facebook" that returned user/create date/karma. Would make a nice testbed for offering free stuff while having some high pass filter like "HN account > 3 months old and has > 500 karma."
I would be totally into OAuth-type integration with HN that I could use to lock people out of my site.
Re: Free for Developers
#79It would be neat if HN could offer something like "Login By Facebook" that returned user/create date/karma. Would make a nice testbed for offering free stuff while having some high pass filter like "HN account > 3 months old and has > 500 karma."
I disagree. I rather have people post honest, thoughftul opinions rather than pander to a crowd with low quality feel good posts to get freebies.
This is why I sometimes enjoy browsing a certain technology forum that shall not be named. It's all anonymous and you can bet that people will at least be honest with their feedback.
Re: Free for Developers
#80My 2 cents on this - I have used the Oracle Cloud free tier trying to get the VMs running. The default resource usage seems higher than what you would get on Hetzner/ionos/digital ocean and the resource monitors are a good chunk of that usage. Configuration was also considerably more difficult for someone with little experience such as myself... Achieving the same task (setting up a BookStackApp server) took consider…
I would argue that Oracle had more to do with that than the fact that it was free... Using the paid version would probably have been even more difficult.