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lpellis

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Let AI proofread your site. https://pagewatch.ai
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lpellis··on Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]
That was awesome to watch, one step closer to mars!
lpellis··on Show HN: Django SQL Sniffer – monitor SQL executed by a running Python process
Looks pretty cool, I've been using this logging setup that prints queries to the console, but it gets a bit verbose

import logging l = logging.getLogger('django.db.backends') l.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) l.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())

Does your solution work on windows?

lpellis··on LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace
Well, if you believe this article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7634705/Chinese-sch...
lpellis··on Backblaze down again due to DNS issues
They really should get a public status page, only way to know if problem is their side is twitter. Then again, companies rarely update the status to down..
lpellis··on B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers
There is also some layout issue when you open on an iPad, should be easy to fix: https://app.pagewatch.dev/6cbdb96d57e36c4262076131f95335e947...
lpellis··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Working on https://pagewatch.dev , a tool to find all kinds of website issues. Also a nice excuse to play with hasura and graphql.
lpellis··on Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
I built https://pagewatch.dev (a service to test your site for responsive/layout issues) over the last year. I have a few customers but it is growing much slower than I expected. If I were to start building it now I would spend much more time building some kind of audience, just driving even a few visitors a day is hard starting from scratch.
lpellis··on Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
Commiting to a single project for 10 years is awesome, must have been hard the first few years with very little revenue to keep the motivation. How are people finding your site? Mostly Google? I find getting any visitors at all to be a hard problem if you do not already have an audience. You misspelled bandwidth on your pricing page: https://app.pagewatch.dev/40f64ffa08475710b3630c1f35f9e7ee38...
lpellis··on Show HN: Scan your site for mobile issues
PageWatch is built using Hasura and GraphQL subscriptions, it has been a really big time saver (I initially started with just normal rest endpoints)

I really like how the scan for SpaceX turned out: https://app.pagewatch.dev/ab5bf18c112bb0bec4511a4aa6c3f8e694...

lpellis··on Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test
That was epic, it felt like an eternity before engine shutdown, and then the freefall took just as long.
lpellis··on Starship Launch in 1 Min
'standing down for the day' Hopefully tomorrow
lpellis··on Mmhmm
I dont know why they dont put their original video (from the producthunt launch) on the landing page, its really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8KhKBLoSMk&feature=emb_titl...
lpellis··on Progress bars still lie
Reminds me of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/612/

Progress bars are much better than spinners in many cases though, even if they lie, at least I get a rough estimation how long something is expected to take, and if it gets stuck.

lpellis··on Dev Fonts
I sort of get the point, but a lot of these fonts squash together == to look like a long =, making it really hard to distinguish == from === Can you tell from 'Iosevka Slab' that it is a triple equal sign?
lpellis··on Show HN: Easy search across tech forums – HN, IH, Reddit and more
This is pretty cool, do you have a list of the subreddits you search?
lpellis··on Small Copy, Big Impact
You have some minor typos on a few of your pages ('especally'), since this is about microcopy I thought I'd share :) https://app.pagewatch.dev/4dce7bbb223996f7f93881abd62a6c5962...
lpellis··on Show HN: Gumroad Analytics on Steroids
There are a few more ('multpile'), see https://app.pagewatch.dev/5bd5f1981870ddba1b713a45b4c6bc5600...

I think the prices are way too low, anything below $10/month feels the same to me as it is mostly about the friction of entering my payment details.

lpellis··on Show HN: Open Web API – Access any website without getting blocked
I would be very impressed if this works with actively scraping hostile sites like LinkedIn, there are not much detail on the site about how this works.
lpellis··on Web Scraping with JavaScript
You can just append .json for most subreddits, eg https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/ --> https://www.reddit.com/r/startups.json
lpellis··on The virtual device farm for rendering websites on multiple devices
It looks like it is just loading the pages in an iframe (through a proxy). It would be more useful if it at least set the user agent, should be easy enough to add.

I built a tool that does something similar, here is your site: https://app.pagewatch.dev/62189ac2393594d963561b5426c1215055...

lpellis··on James Randi Has Died
He actually did a collaboration video with Randi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QcJO8uHrc8
lpellis··on Wim Hof breathing technique can modulate immune response to pathogens (2014)
Magnus Mitbo (rock climber) had a cool video where they tried the technique for climbing. Results were a bit mixed but still interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2SLdjmapXs
lpellis··on What everyone knows and what no one knows
If A implies B (A -> B) then you cannot have A -> C Unless you meant it can imply both, but then still A implies B.

A dog (A) has 4 legs(B). Something that does not have 4 legs (not B) is not a dog (not A). A cow though (not A) could still have 4 legs

lpellis··on Show HN: Stop creating bad resumes. Use Resoume
Found a few more, mostly minor: https://app.pagewatch.dev/87cdfd49e2ece1f692ac7fdfcb58562477...

Landing page looks very clean, it was not immediately obvious to me though how the pricing works, what counts as an application?

How is AppSumo working out for you? I'm considering also listing my project with them.

lpellis··on 100k Stars
Really shows the crazy scale. It puts all the planets on exactly the same plane though, dont think that is quite right.
lpellis··on Show HN: PageWatch – Check your site for layout errors/spelling mistakes
Yeah I get that, I need some way to though to limit usage to an account, running these tests takes a decent amount of processing time / storage (cheap, but not free). I do hope to have just a URL box available sometime, when I have some better runway.
lpellis··on Show HN: PageWatch – Check your site for layout errors/spelling mistakes
I actually only added lighthouse recently, it is a very minor part of the tests. Everything besides the 'performance' and 'vulnerabilities' tab are custom built 100%. These are:

* The layout tests and fullscreen rendering engine

* Spelling tests and highlighting

* Broken links check

* Structure visualization

* Error/console logs

* Broke resources / images

Lighthouse does have some nice SEO related information that I'm planning to expose in an easier way.

lpellis··on Show HN: PageWatch – Check your site for layout errors/spelling mistakes
I'm injecting https://markjs.io/ into the page and then highlight all the misspelled words, then I crop it out of the screenshot. (it does mean I have to take basically two screenshots, one with the spelling mistakes highlighted, and one for the normal preview)
lpellis··on Show HN: PageWatch – Check your site for layout errors/spelling mistakes
PageWatch is a service I built over the last year to help find some recurring issues in websites. It can detect CSS issues such as container overflows, overlapping text or bad wrapping, spelling mistakes, slow pages and a few more. Built using Hasura (realtime GraphQL), Django for the backend, scrapy (crawling) and spaCy (language model).

To see what it looks like, here is a report on the SpaceX site: https://app.pagewatch.dev/bc10b8fdefd9cfbaca5626f6483515fb5c...

lpellis··on Ask HN: Side-project that became your full-time job?
Glad someone noticed :) Almost felt too silly but then I just decided to add it anyway. I would not really consider it off the ground yet, I launched on ProductHunt (#5 product of the day) which gave some initial users, and from then on mostly been cold emailing people. (Every site has some issues, so I can just point people to a free first report and its already useful) Actually I find marketing/getting traction harder than building it in the first place.
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