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potato122on How a College Kid Made His Honda Civic Self-Driving for $700

Who needs a Tesla when you can build your own automated copilot using free hardware designs and software available online?

These days you can 3d print a .45, but would you really wrap your hand around that thing and squeeze the trigger?

This is a car...

potato122on Running Costs of a SaaS app

First, thanks for boldly sharing. It's quite an accomplishment to finish anything.

You guys definitely spent a lot where it doesn't count ($2k for a cool secondary domain, $1-2k for fonts and SSL, ...), but if you've made it all back then good job forget I said anything.

appname+app.com was probably not the best idea. Domain name hacks are confusing, and you are now indirectly working for appname.com

A startup's name means everything and nothing. All that matters is that it's short, relevant and memorable. clownmaker.com will always be better than clownapp.com

Alright I'm done with the unwarranted advice. Really good job.

potato122on Don’t Take My Folders Away: Organizing Personal Info to Get Things Done (2005)

I think we're looking for the same thing.

potato122on Don’t Take My Folders Away: Organizing Personal Info to Get Things Done (2005)

I'm on a MacBook. Is there some type of virtual folder type that I can use that behaves like any other folder? Something where the files and folders within don't actually 'live' there.

I don't like tags because they're not tangible. If they could live somewhere on the desktop where I could click them, or be nestable, I would use them.