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OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family

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Re: OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family

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FWIW if I were to do this I'd do echo > index.html to make it available to anyone, Worldwide, for free! For the fancy version I'd make priceperlitterperkm URL parameter to make it work not just for my area. But that's like an entire additional like of code. My point being... I'd make a Web page, on app, no deployment, no tracking.

PS : echo "blabla" > index.html is actually becoming my new World reaching publishing method. I do have a home server with a Web server. I connect to it via ssh keys... so ssh homeserver 'echo hi >> /var/www/self-published/index.html' and voila. I'll probably share my gist this way from the CLI. ssh homeserver "echo '$(ls)' >> /var/www/self-published/index.html" if I want to run a command locally first, not on homese…

Bonus : ssh homeserver -t 'vi /var/www/self-published/index.html' for manual adjustments.

Re: OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family

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Availability and location cannot be solved with a note pad.

Neither are needed to solve the problem of "splitting the gas bill".

If that were the only problem the author was solving, that would be relevant. But he is solving much more than that.
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