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nreeceon Ask HN: Have you ever used SQLite as a client/server DB for a high volume site?

I know Pieter[1] uses SQLite for Nomad List[2] and Remote OK[3], both high-traffic sites. Maybe you can tweet him to learn more.

[1] https://twitter.com/levelsio [2] https://nomadlist.com [3] https://remoteok.io

nreeceon Yahoo Pipes

Hey Dan, Feedity's founder here. Thank you for using our feeds service! Just so you know, besides HTML webpages you can also create feeds for dynamic webpages with client-scripts, as well as social media profiles.

nreeceon Ask HN: A modern-looking UML diagram tool?

I came across a recent blog post[1], that mentioned some text-to-diagram tools, out of which I liked Gleek.io and nomnoml in particular.

[1] https://avdi.codes/tools-for-turning-descriptions-into-diagr...

nreeceon Show HN: A website speed test tool to compare uBlock Origin with plain Chrome

Question for the developer: any particular reason you're using Chrome with xvfb rather than just headless. Its been stable for a while.

nreeceon Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

Absolutely agree, RSS feeds help save so much time for end-users, and makes contextual skimming much easier in one place.

* Shameless plug *: Our little service, Feedity - https://feedity.com, helps create RSS feeds for any public webpage, even JS/XHR/SPAs, and social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), via a visual feed builder and REST API.

nreeceon Ask HN: Self-Hosted Mailchimp Alternative that you Use?

Sendy is a popular self-hosted alternative: https://sendy.co

nreeceon Ask HN: How to create secure backups of my smartphone?

Checkout IDrive for multi-device (including smartphones) backups - www.idrive.com

I use ArqBackup, which is great for multi-target backups, but I don't think it supports smartphones yet.

nreeceon Show HN: CloudQuery – Turn any website to serverless API with SPA support

This looks good!

* Shameless plug *: Our little startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, helps create XML/RSS feeds for any public webpage, even JS/XHR/SPAs and social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), via a visual feed builder and REST API.

nreeceon The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS

Hey thanks!

nreeceon The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS

RSS never died. On the contrary, its usage for content aggregation & monitoring has been increasing over the years, specially in the business world and niche markets.

I'm speaking from my own experience running Feedity - https://feedity.com, a growing startup that helps with custom feeds for unstructured sources like webpages.

nreeceon RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

This looks great!

* Shameless plug *: Our little startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, helps create custom RSS feeds for any webpage, even social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), via an online feed builder and REST API.

nreeceon RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

You can create Facebook (and Instagram, Twitter) feeds with Feedity - https://feedity.com

nreeceon Ash HN: What are examples of SaaS companies that don't charge per user?

Basecamp has been doing so for a while, which is daring for a project management app to do while their competitors do the opposite - https://basecamp.com/pricing

nreeceon Ask HN: Who is your domain registrar and hosting provider?

Namecheap for domains.

For hosting, it's a mix of Vultr, GCP, RamNode, ServerHub.

nreeceon Ask HN: What infrastructure would you use to host an open, free JSON-based API?

FaaS/Serverless will be a good starting point for something like this, so either AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions will be good enough.

nreeceon Ask HN: How to choose a business/brand name?

Igor Naming Agency has a very good guide[1] and online reference[2].

There's also SquadHelp[3] for running a naming contest.

[1] PDF - https://www.igorinternational.com/process/igor-naming-guide_...

[2] https://www.igorinternational.com/process/company-product-na...

[3] https://www.squadhelp.com

nreeceon Firefox removes RSS support

Running a profitable RSS-driven startup (https://feedity.com), I've come to the conclusion that RSS is not a consumer technology. It's a business technology, and a critical notification 'protocol'.

Millions of businesses, 'knowledge workers' and infovores rely on RSS for their daily workflow and learning, without which they'll have no other reasonable alternative to stay updated with decisive information and insights for high-volume, high-frequency, low-noise Web content.

Starting from Google Reader's shutdown to Firefox's removal of RSS support, it's just that these consumer vendors have not been able to leverage its business use-cases. It's a feature for them that they couldn't monitize, because that requires a different tool-set, which is not their primary product.

RSS is a backbone, much like a simple API, but it was touted as a front-end enriched with ads, analytics, widgets etc., that didn't/can't work for the casual consumer.

RSS ecosystem is alive and healthy for it's vast and core audience, irrespective.

nreeceon Show HN: Start actually reading what you saved in your bookmarks – Meet Mailist

Cool, anyway to auto-sync with Google bookmarks?

nreeceon Show HN: Start actually reading what you saved in your bookmarks – Meet Mailist

Congrats for the launch! Looks good.

Is there a way to import or sync existing browser bookmarks? I'd prefer to keep bookmarking in Chrome (cross-device), like many other users I suppose.

nreeceon Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service

Nice simple solution to a sure problem. Kudos, and good luck!

Lately, we've had great experience using Hangfire (https://www.hangfire.io) for async job processing in .NET. It's an awesome piece of software.

nreeceon Ask HN: Developers, how do you keep SSH and web URLs organized at work?

+1 for mRemoteNG (although it uses Putty for SSH), but it supports a lot more: RDP, VNC, Telnet, raw sockets.

nreeceon GitHub Alternatives

+1 for Assembla. Reliable service, and free private repos too.

nreeceon React is the new jQuery

Nitpicks aside, it seems to me that React/Vue are only/mainly useful for two-way data binding. If it's just one-way binding (i.e. JSON to template), then jQuery with something like Handlebars will be just fine. Correct me if I've misunderstood.

nreeceon Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

* Shameless plug *: Our little startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, helps create custom RSS feeds for any webpage, via an online feed builder and REST API.

Custom feeds can even be created for dynamic content, utilizing Chrome for full-rendering, and many other tweaks & techniques under the hood for seamless & scalable indexing.

nreeceon Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

Absolutely, RSS feeds rock! They're much less "noisy", and best of all - untouched by algorithmic sorting.

* Shameless plug *: our service & API at https://feedity.com helps create custom feeds for any public webpage.

nreeceon RSS is undead

RSS never died. On the contrary, its usage for content aggregation & monitoring has been increasing over the years, specially in the business world and niche markets.

I'm speaking from my own experience running a growing & profitable startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, that helps with custom feeds for unstructured sources like webpages.

Our upcoming API and content explorer (a different kind of 'feed reader') have received thumbs-up from some customers who opted for early-testing.

nreeceon It's time to head back to RSS?

RSS feeds rock! They're much less "noisy", and best of all - untouched by algorithmic sorting.

* Shameless plug *: our service at https://feedity.com helps create custom feeds for any public webpage.

nreeceon Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

  sudo apt-get install cockpit

nreeceon Show HN: Web scraping page analyzer

Cool tool!

* shameless plug * Our little startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, helps create custom RSS feeds for any webpage, utilizing Chrome for full-rendering and many other tweaks & techniques under the hood for seamless & scalable indexing.

nreeceon Haven: Snowden's New App Turns Your Phone into a Home Security System

I couldn't figure out on a quick read if it can be made to work on Raspberry Pi running a Linux variant. It would've been a great holiday project.