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I think its a personal call. If as an engineer you value your art you will go deep, be the best at what you do, and be valuable in the correct context. If you're a product manager you just need to know enough to communicate with engineers or to make informed technology decisions. Either way, whatever you are or do, there is in my opinion more merit in pursing depth in whatever you do.

Thank you for that. Yes I did fill out that form. I only realised the shadow ban several months after it was implemented. The clues were not being able to update user handle, server error thrown when accessing profile, content suppression. So it's serverwide. I've decided to move on. I closed my account.

I don't see how the OP layering utilities on top of python remediates on the claim that the language is not "production ready". Which it clearly is.

I think you could adjust your mindset on this issue.

AI is a tool.

If you already have the fundamentals neccessary to call yourself a software developer, ie. architecture, algorithms, language coding standards and style guides, UX, maintainability, robustness, correctness etc. then AI is just accelerating that for you, not exempting you from it.

If you need to scratch a learning itch then that's something else, and AI can help there too. Just ask it.

I also think if your product idea is so sensitive to a launch timeline that precludes manual coding not to fail, then you have a bigger problem.

Thanks again for the insight that you would purchase based on value.

I personally would like to see more developers rolling out professional software as themselves.

Opinion appreciated!

Hey, thanks for checking it out and for the feedback.

Yes, it's deliberately simple from a workflow point of view, ie. choose file->remove background->set background color (optional)->save file.

The real value proposition is that it brings the same AI that similar online services provide to the desktop with a once-off perpetual license.

A video walkthrough of it being used is definitely a good idea as you mentioned. And yes it fits in the tool category - easy, single purpose, and simple.

Thanks for the critique of the website UI. We definitely don't want to conjure up PowerPoint from the 90's!

Much appreciated!

By the way, what do you think about trying to sell an app under a personal brand rather than a product website or company name?

Commercial Python desktop GUI apps are feasible.

Slightly tangential but perhaps somebody could answer this question:

So having decided that rather than trade as a fictitious company and go the "personal brand" route, I'm interested to know who has successfully sold their own desktop apps from a website with their personal domain eg. JoeBloggs.com. Do buyers really care so long as the software meets their requirements, or does the psychology of a trading entity really affect peoples' appetites to purchase?

Reasons include authenticity, the ability to self brand for freelance dev work, and being able to list ad-hoc products as I develop them without having to market each one separately.

Comments welcome, as well as success stories, or otherwise.

It's basically a group of devs calling the shots. Like any open source project code audits could well be an afterthought with post-incident remediation. Also the average Bitcoin user isn't going to download the source code and inspect it. They just trust that these devs are and always will act in their best interests.

This reminds me of an incident at the beginning of the Ukraine situation when the owner of a heavily used library used in many prominent upstream projects decided one day that his ideological position was so strong that he would initiate a supply chain attack in his code targeting Russian users by IP or something. There was nothing to stop this. That's the nature of open source software.

It's neither trustless nor regulated.

Thank you for clarifying that Bitcoin is fundamentally a protocol. However, if the network has de facto settled on a certain implementation, then what does that say?

Linux and PostgreSQL et al would exhibit characteristics of whatever their respective gatekeepers let in.

Btw, I'm not making a definitive statement about Bitcoin's insecurity per se. I'm rather via process of invalidation querying how the ubiquitous claim, that it is an unhackable, secure (basically untouchable) money alternative to fiat, actually holds.

The fact that the software behind it is a centrally controlled project?

How does having Bitcoin be a software project with innumerable contributers make it a secure, distributed store of value? Just asking.

This question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41548440

I'm in the beginning stages of a write-up about it for an SPA. It would be useful if there were more current working examples online like the other frameworks to demonstrate how to use the library. It's a swiss army knife and the shortage of real world examples and patterns of its use in modern use cases eg. components, as an spa, etc is a real shortcoming right now. https://fj.indiewp.com/jsrender-and-jsviews-for-your-next-sp...

A return to purpose

My take on it is that if someone is genuinely interested in signing up for a service then they'll verify their email as part of the signup process. I enforce verification at signup. This eliminates 100% spam. It becomes a policy decision and not a technical one.