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palidanx

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Founder of www.menutail.com

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palidanx··on Ask HN: Alternate uses for an SMS task confirmation system
That is super interesting! Are you still the laundromat management system business?

For recurring tasks and work schedules, do you know which platforms people are using nowadays?

palidanx··on Ask HN: Alternate uses for an SMS task confirmation system
Interesting, just curious for laundromats and gas stations what would the use case be?
palidanx··on Ask HN: When is a good time to buy a laptop?
interesting.. any idea how i would find 'that guy' in my metro city?
palidanx··on Ask HN: When is a good time to buy a laptop?
which sites can you find ultrabooks coming off corporate leases?
palidanx··on Ask HN: What are you switching to from G Suite legacy free tier?
I always thought the catch-all only goes to admin@yourdomain.com . You can make catch-all go to myname@yourdomain.com ?
palidanx··on No news is good news
Sending you here to a rabbit hole:

https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/favorite-cookbo...

(unfortunately there isn't a good food filter) https://www.kcrw.com/categories/books

Store just with cookbooks only in SF

https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/

palidanx··on No news is good news
On kind of a random tangent, during the early pandemic I began reading a ton of cookbooks. I found it interesting how the quality of recipes and techniques was so vastly better than anything I found online.

I think a similar item is happening with news. Online news is rather superficial where really long form things like books can give you the reflection to think.

palidanx··on Show HN: ToolJet 1.0 – Extensible open-source alternative to Retool
Question for new version of tooljet, is there any plug-ins to allow for login?

I have a use case where I have a spreadsheet where it contains user information

1. I would like users to log-in and be able to edit certain fields in their row

2. Would love them to be able to do a password reset (i'm guessing username and a hashed password would be stored on the sheet?)

I know retool is doing something like that but curious if this was on your roadmap or already done

palidanx··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
I make about $1,000 - $1,500 a month passive income with https://www.menutail.com

It is a website to make US nutrition facts label which had a huge pivot from a website on learning how to cook. Website is only updated when new government regulations come out which is pretty rare considering how long it takes (in the years really)

palidanx··on Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence
Whoa I can copy/paste images directly into the editor, sweet!

One question though, if I deploy a containerized version via docker and upload images, where do the images reside (it seems like the php uploads folder? Just curious if I had to redeploy the image what volumes I might have to mount as back-upp

palidanx··on Ask HN: Membership Management System
hey thanks for the link! Yea I think refactoring into multi tenant isn't going to be terribly hard as long as there is some foundational basics there.
palidanx··on Ask HN: Membership Management System
yea actually my garden uses that community garden app, but it hasn't met the needs because users don't have the ability to update their own info. But for the amount of time I spent researching to your point, I probably could have coded half of the site by now in rails. But I guess it is always a tco of a coder using their time vs paying 80 a month which in the long term isn't that bad.
palidanx··on Ask HN: Membership Management System
interesting suggestion! Perhaps, looking at an authentication solution around that also
palidanx··on Ask HN: Membership Management System
so basically it will have two sides

- admins --> ability to assign gardens, create users - users --> can log into their account and see the status of their account, which garden they are assigned to, and if they are in good standing

palidanx··on Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
What I've realized about Facebook is that there is no way I can convey a really convey anything really meaningful in such a short post.

What I started doing is writing a quarterly e-mail newsletter to about 80 of my closest friends and family about details thoughts I've had about life, travel, and personal experiences.

Some friends have told me I should write a blog and put all my thoughts out there on the Internet, but I think this kind of defeats the whole purpose to share something intimate to a smaller crowd that the general Internet will never see.

palidanx··on Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?
As an adult with braces, the enpuly waterflosser from aliexpress has been hugely useful.

Most waterpiks are super huge, but with the portable waterfloser, I can bring it in a restaurant with me and clean my teeth after I eat.

https://www.aliexpress.com/i/1005001441763647.html

palidanx··on Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022
In the book Apollo's Arrow (which came out in oct 2020), Dr. Christakis said

"Either way, we will be wearing masks, for example, and avoiding crowded places. I’ll call this the immediate pandemic period. For a few years after we either reach herd immunity or have a widely distributed vaccine, people will still be recovering from the overall clinical, psychological, social, and economic shock of the pandemic and the adjustments it required, perhaps through 2024. I’ll call this the intermediate pandemic period. Then, gradually, things will return to “normal”—albeit in a world with some persistent changes. Around 2024, the post-pandemic period will likely begin"

palidanx··on Should I sue Twilio for being a proxy for the relentless fraud calls I get?
Did you create a special TwilML Bin for this? Would you mind sharing if that's the case?
palidanx··on Ask HN: Firing up the ole RSS reader. What are some good feeds out there?
Just curious which rss reader are you using?
palidanx··on Ask HN: My team lead is incompetent
I think it would be good to learn what else your team lead is doing? Often team leads have more responsibilities than just technically leading a team. Such as

1) Working on budget and forecast

2) Developing project plans

3) Tracking milestones and project status

Of course it is more beneficial for the team lead to know what the team is doing, but it depends on how large your org is. I find that the larger the company, the less technical the lead usually is.

palidanx··on Ask HN: I'm building budgeting app. What features would you look for?
You should check out ynab and /r/financier
palidanx··on Ask HN: I need advice on my first B2B SaaS startup
I would suggest reading the book 'Predictable Revenue' https://www.amazon.com/Predictable-Revenue-Business-Practice... . It will help in defining your marketing segments and how to reach them.

When I first started my saas, I incorrectly didn't start by gunning for paying customers. You could make a cool product, but your goal is to make a cool product people will actually pay for.

The second lesson I learned was not charging enough, but once you actually get people in your paywall, those are things to refine later.

palidanx··on Ask HN: How should I take advantage of unlimited PTO?
I worked at 2 companies with unlimited PTO and didn't like the experiences at either company. In reality, there would be a real number management expected you not to go over.

I would take more PTO than expected and then get verbally told, "for your position, you are taking more than your peer group."

What I would do is have an upfront discussion with your manager to clear out what is within expectation. Is it 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 5 weeks?

The problem with unlimited PTO is that sometimes you can feel guilty taking more, because you aren't entitled to it unlike a set of PTO you would get at any other company.

palidanx··on AMD’s Entire Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Inventory Sold Out in Japan
do you have the link to the b450 gaming board and the ram?
palidanx··on Ask HN: Show your own blog/vlog
fixed! ty!
palidanx··on Ask HN: Show your own blog/vlog
Super extensive guides about my travels. Only 2 posts, but each took multiple weeks to write.

https://guides.shinzu.com/guides/

palidanx··on Ask HN: Personal Data Preservation Strategies
I'd move it to

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-storage-class...

Pricing is super cheap like $1/terabytes a month

palidanx··on Ask HN: What skill gave you the most ROI?
Going to go slightly tangential and say cooking. It is a skill which will save you money, help you be in control of your health, and is useful on a daily basis.
palidanx··on Netlify Dev
I use Netlify, but one of the issues I've had for CMS is easily uploading pictures like Medium. Are there any solutions to this?

I know in the github integration workflow, you have to manually upload the file and then link it which is kind of a pain if doing multiple images.

palidanx··on Ask HN: What have you found the most useful interview question to be?
"Tell me about the last time you failed"

It usually reveals character on how a person deals with tough situations.

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