Sharing a thought experiment turned helper function I’ve been using for a while: what if you scope server cache by browser session? Even though the idea sounds ridiculous, it’s been making my life easier.
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Dear customer,
I hope this message finds you well. Today, I come to you with a heavy heart to share some important news regarding Defer.
After a rewarding journey filled with incredible support from users like you, we've reached a point where we must decide to discontinue Defer's services. This decision was not easy, especially considering the vibrant community that has grown around our platform.
As of May 1, 2024, Defer will no longer be available.
We understand this news might be disappointing, and we want to extend our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. The journey of building and growing Defer with you has been an invaluable part of our lives.
Thank you for your understanding and your support throughout this journey.
Warm regards,
Bryan CTO Co-founder, Defer
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I just discovered Defer after Planetscale shut down their fee tier and migrating to Supabase. Supabase turned out to be less efficient at the long running tasks I have set up for a side project, causing my service to hit next.js 10s timeouts. Defer.run fixed my issues in a few lines of code, it was an incredible experience. Logs were great, dx was great. They will be truly missed.
It sounds like you're not interested in stats on your listening behavior. There's a section called Missed New Music that points out releases you might have missed, and there a button saying 'See stats for playlist' which lets you check missed music per playlist. If that isn't interesting either, Brew probably isn't for you
Is audile basically randomizing Deezer's entire library?
I think you're right re: Spotify's built-in song discovery. Brew.fm's concept as is now would be easy to copy for Spotify, they'd be crazy not to if enough people seem to find value, and I'd love it if they do.
A way to properly differentiate would probably be by serving a (slightly) different audience. I can imagine Brew.fm is a little overkill for the average Spotify user, who'd rather hit play and lean back. It'd be cool if there's room for Brew.fm long term by serving the more hardcore music fan, who's more than happy to put extra work in, in exchange to feel on top of new music, and closer to the artists.
Here's a demo of how I use Brew.fm to keep my 2 most used playlists up to date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh2Ognb4PgU.
I have no plans to monetize the tool. I'm scratching my own itch here and am very much at the mercy of Spotify. I'm hoping to keep this one a hobby project.
I’m a software engineer and work at a HR startup in NYC. We’re growing fast and are often asked to reach out to our own network to refer people. There’s a hefty bonus if someone we refer ends up being hired. As a recent immigrant I haven’t been able to refer anyone, since I don’t know a lot of engineers in the US yet, outside of my colleagues. I recently learned it’s ok to refer people we haven’t worked with personally, which lead me to build Engineer Friendly.
How it works:
- Log in with Github
- The site auto imports your public repos and gists
- Create job openings by linking to existing posts on eg LinkedIn
- Connect with other engineers on the site through private chat
- Added bonus: without applying, you get to track your potentially worth over time, based on the invitations you get
- Added bonus #2: You’ll always talk with engineers instead of recruiters
- Added bonus #3: If you do choose to apply, you’ll get a warm intro, increasing your chances of being hired
Feedback is welcome and highly encouraged
I might update the copy on the website, realizing there's not a whole lot of explaining going on :)
On the scalability: I'm a big fan of not overcomplicating things early on. However, I'm planning to build a feature that lets you select a daily/weekly preference so you simply get a summary of what was added that day/week. I'm also planning on auto-tagging genres based on the track previews using essentia.js, so I don't have to spam metal heads with EDM daily. Lots of room for improvement, but waiting for it to become a problem first.
I'm hoping to simplify this process, or at least educate users about common practices. Still talking with a lot of users before I feel confident enough to build a tool or a FAQ for it.
I'm a software engineer and work at a HR startup in NYC. I started in music, first playing keys in a band in Europe, then building soft synths, which got me in touch with Korg, who got me in touch with Red Bull, who turned me into a game developer, and before I knew it I was a software engineer living in the US. Not sure how all of that happened, but the truth is, I miss working with artists.
Brew.fm is an attempt to help others turn their dreams into reality where I couldn't: make a living from music.
I started with a collaboration market place, after interviewing dozens of artists, and realizing some of them had a huge leg up compared to others, because of an early collab with an established artist.
It's pretty straight forward: you log in with Spotify, verify your artist account, and Brew.fm automatically imports all your tracks and turns them into collab requests. It will detect future releases as well, so no manual labor from your side needed other than those 2 steps. People can reach out through private chat after which you decide to share personal info (eg email) and arrange the collab.
So far 79 people signed up, very open to feedback.
Some time ago I made this flappy bird-like web game teaching kids a thing or 2 about exoplanets: https://rbplanetsgame.web.app/