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ialexpw

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ialexpw··on Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
This is surreal reading that this was 10 years ago - I'm sure we came across eachother on Facepunch back in the day and I remember all of the amusing threads. Congrats on this landmark.
ialexpw··on BuyVM: Example of refreshingly honest and transparent provider
Just a small correction - I believe it's 3 months or longer with an active service (90 days). :-)
ialexpw··on Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
Own island + trading would be great. You could end up having an island that "specialises" on a certain comodity and trading with other players.
ialexpw··on Show HN: Notion Styled Avatar for Your Profile
You seem to be just using: https://cvbox.org/

I managed to generate the exact one from your homepage using this.

ialexpw··on Show HN: xn--gda.at – another URL shortener written in only HTML
There's no source to suggest this is only HTML? Seems like it's in PHP. Is it open somewhere?
ialexpw··on Show HN: Fosscord – open-source and selfhostable alternative to discord
Some of the (main?) contributors to the project aren't exactly nice sounding individuals either..

(e.g. https://github.com/fosscord/fosscord/issues/56 https://github.com/fosscord/fosscord-client/issues/22)

ialexpw··on Show HN: Free Landing Page Builder and other cool stuff for business startups
Not sure on the content itself as it needs an email, but the website looks exactly like one of those "Buy our eBook now only $49 for the first 50 people, make millions today!"

I get instantly put off by these kind of designs so my only suggestion would be to improve the initial look of the page.

ialexpw··on Show HN: I build a cross-platform zero-based budgeting app: InstaBudget
Looks nice and I've been looking for something similar, although as another person has said $9.99 per month is fairly steep compared to bigger names that do "similar". I also use a zero-based app that costs ~$4-5 per month.

Might be good for an "early adopters" type of thing. Otherwise looks nice overall and congrats. :-)

ialexpw··on Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration
Using mobiles/social media is a lot easier to grasp than the steps under "How to do it". Copying files around a mobile file system and building a whole Android application is completely different to what you are talking about.
ialexpw··on New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars
You still need to get those materials into space somehow.
ialexpw··on Show HN: Go Budget, a full-featured manual budget tracker built with Flutter
Really nice looking app and I've been looking to move to something else. Will give it a try :-)
ialexpw··on Show HN: Pingr – Spent ~800 hours for a product with 170 competitors
Really like the website info/design, saw it posted somewhere a few days ago and was going to sign up. Only thing that stopped me (and maybe others?) was the price.

$10 for 2 URLs is quite high when comparing to other uptime monitoring services that have been around a lot longer, most likely would have signed up if the URLs were a bit higher or the price was a tad lower ($5-6).

Otherwise looks nice all around though. :-)

ialexpw··on Show HN: A privacy-first browser for Android with ZERO permissions
I'm confused about the advertising, it specifies "No Ads on Snap Search" all over the site and showing "Ad Blocker" as a main feature, then you have an "advertise with us" area to show ads.

https://snapsearch.online/advertise-with-us/

ialexpw··on OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
I experienced a similar thing while testing it. Had it on another monitor with an app in full screen and it just locked onto a single frame.
ialexpw··on Show HN: Coddle.app – Keeping a watchful eye on all your precious sites
Hi there,

Would be nice to see what it looks like and what it reports on in more details (like images) without having to sign up first. :-) Just the first thing I noticed.

ialexpw··on Postmortem of the failure of one hosting storage unit on Jan. 8, 2020
There was confusion with this. Originally they thought they lost all data, which is why a lot of people went crazy at them via Twitter, they later said there now might be a chance to recover data - luckily they ended up finding a way to recover it.
ialexpw··on Show HN: LessPhone – A minimal Android launcher to reduce phone use
Exactly this. And if it's really so bad that you'd need this, just buy a simple phone with simple apps.
ialexpw··on 'My son spent £3,160 in one game'
I mean, why should they? Most phone companies allow you to set budgets, I do not see this as an issue with the phone company in this scenario at all. As other people have said, parents should be monitoring their kids spending (if at all), most stores have an option to require the password - I do not see why this is not enough.
ialexpw··on Show HN: Killing credit cards – meet Bits, a privacy first borrowing app
There is a fee of some kind, it's not explained too well - "No weird charges, no complicated maths, no interest. Just a single simple monthly fee."
ialexpw··on Show HN: Send with SES
Looks good, are you planning to allow sign up via email? I do not use a Google account or Facebook.
ialexpw··on Show HN: The CO₂ Emissions for Flying
Normally I would agree, although the website is called "Shame Plane"
ialexpw··on Show HN: Yipgo – stripped down workflow manager
What will the pricing be once it's out of beta? Looks like something I would find handy, depending on what the cost is looking like :-)
ialexpw··on Show HN: Skylark – your own personal, private cloud for less
Does this use Scaleway VPS as a backend?
ialexpw··on Show HN: The most seamless password manager
"no code for the website owners to change/add"

How do they get the barcode on their site?

ialexpw··on Show HN: The most seamless password manager
Is this similar technology to https://getclef.com/ ?
ialexpw··on 4chan source code leaked (2010)
Huh, it isn't hard to find a good PHP developer at all.. (easy to find someone who can code better than that example)
ialexpw··on Ask HN: Browser based IDEs. Do they work?
I've just started trying to use https://codio.com/ it's pretty nice, not sure if it can take over desktop-based ones though.