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Somewhat off-topic but this is an excellent opportunity to recommend this lovely chili sauce from Taiwan. [0]

[0] https://yunhai.shop/collections/su-chili-crisp/products/su-c...

I'm not at home right now and can confirm that I can access the website via proxy. Must be a quirk of my current network.

You have a lot of responses, but none actually address your question...

> Who builds an internal chat client, while building an online game, and then decides to build a b2b business around that chat client?

Someone who's done something similar — successfully — once before, that's who. The experience gained from Flickr certainly helped with Slack.

I like it (the germ of the idea, I can't load the actual website), but this is really https://repool.com with extra steps and (more importantly) more regulatory hurdles.

I would, but unfortunately I've already posted about it here from a profile I wish to keep anonymous. (This one is practically my name.)

I had a recent side project, a pdf generator of sorts that I made to solve my own problem.

I decided to try selling it, even though I was 100% confident that no one would buy it. During the first couple of days I’d also overpriced it, because I didn’t want anyone to buy it before I’d had the chance to fix a couple of bugs.

To my surprise (and frankly, shock) people were buying it. I was sure that requests for refunds would start rolling in immediately due to the aforementioned bugs, but they didn’t. I eventually lowered the price and even made it free, because the money was immaterial to me and I’d already learned my lesson from this project. (I also felt guilty for not setting up the infrastructure to ship updated versions to buyers, so I took solace in the fact they could get them for free on their own.)

I might go back to it, but the product is seasonal and doesn’t create recurring revenue so I’ll more likely be focusing on other things.

I’ve never had a project that hasn’t generated at least some excitement in the relevant community, so I might just have a knack for these things. Too bad I only just realized I could’ve been making some money from it!

1. Is that text before or after the first link to the website?

2. Is it a reasonable expectation for a website to be self-sufficient for a visitor, or should they have to read about it somewhere else?

I don't particularly like the fact that I went to textualize.io to casually learn more, only for it to ask for my E-mail with no context and then confirm my subscription to a mailing list.

Probably like this [0] but with less violence and more credible threats post custody.

[0] https://xkcd.com/538/

I'll add on to this, though I don't really want to — my entrepreneurship experience pales in comparison to OP.

However, I think I have a key insight.

What OP thinks is marketing is not marketing. Marketing is all about finding out what problems your customers are facing and making them aware of how your solution can help them solve said problems (ideally, you do this truthfully and your product is actually helpful, and it's even better if your product is the best solution available). Marketing is not simply throwing your product "out there" and hoping that customers will buy it, even if you slap a big label on it that says "this solves problem X."

Talk to customers. If the only two things you ever do is learn about people's problems and build things to solve them, you have a better chance of success versus someone with a billion dollar budget who does not do both of these two things.

Tailwind seems to be more mature and better documented. Apart from that, they're pretty similar, so if you're used to one you probably won't get much of a benefit from switching to the other.

I see that the example websites from Tailwind look much better than those from Tachyons, though I'm not sure whether that's just a matter of taste.

It's fascinating how many of these tools exist. Some users have already posted similar tools in this thread, here's a YC backed one [0].

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/requestly

I'd like to reframe your argument around expectations. Regardless of the difficulty of building websites, the bar is dramatically higher than it used to be. Look at what Amazon was able to get away with at one point [0]. The need for good security practices is also the highest its ever been (and will continue to matter more in the future).

So, in some ways, its never been more difficult to build a website. Thankfully FOSS lets us outsource a lot of the work.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/OAyZWnZ.png

Wouldn't this mean that all a stalker would have to do is hide an iPhone in your car along with the airtag?

Although at that point you don't even need the airtag.

I just shared that because that's how I learned I could SSH into my router at all. I'll be very careful around this stuff.

Wow, thanks! I had no idea this type of thing was possible these days. I was about to ask how you'd make that hosts file but found this in my router admin panel: 'Remote Console enables SSH access into the router from a WAN connection using the modems WAN IP address.'

I do have a pihole set up and I like the web interface for it, but I look forward to playing around with this for fun.

What is your pihole equivalent/alternative?

I couldn't find anything remotely to do with Christmas in this article. Did I miss something?

I just want to point out that you can also get booted off crypto platforms under the right circumstances. This is what happened to Ethereum after the infamous $60MM hack. [0] The key difference is only that the community has to agree, rather than a single entity — however this isn't strictly true, since founders and core devs hold outsized sway.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/ethereum-hack-blockchain-for...

I was looking for something like this recently, and found tmate [0], which is an open source solution to the terminal-sharing problem.

I have no idea what Termius is, but I have some feedback for you — your landing page takes over 4 seconds (!) to show anything for me on Firefox, even if I have visited the page before. This doesn't seem to be related to loading resources alone, since that happens fairly fast.

(I am not on a 56kbps connection.)

[0] https://tmate.io/

Thanks — that doesn't sound bad at all.

How much time did you spend on the touchbar integration? I was at an Apple store recently and saw that the newest Macbooks have gotten rid of the touchbar. I'm wondering whether making such integrations is still worthwhile.

I recall seeing something similar happening with subdomains and S3 [0] not too long ago, albeit that issue didn't involve DNS.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28351432