ronyfadel

I was disappointed with how little charge the Anker 622 holds.

They advertise the 633 to hold 1.3 charges for an iPhone 13.

The 622, at half the capacity would only extend battery life by ~60% (not even one charge which is a big bummer)

I’m impressed with how high planes and rockets built almost 100 years ago got.

Setapp income accounts between 10% and 30% depending on the app.

The Setapp SDK tracks usage time and the app makes a fraction of user monthly payments (factored by app price and user time spent on the app)

I make around that with each of my side projects:

- VidCap [1]

- AI Profile Pic [2]

- Mission Control Plus [3]

- Batteries [4]

- Kay [5] (makes less, currently at $600 MRR)

[1] https://vidcap.app/

[2] https://aiprofilepic.app/

[3] https://fadel.io/missioncontrolplus

[4] https://fadel.io/batteries

[5] https://usekay.xyz/

Seriously who'd have thought that was the worst idea ever?

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a long while

You can easily pirate an ML model, host it and provide a backend service that uses it, and no one would suspect anything.

I don't think you can pirate e.g. the Facebook app binary and make it your own.

That is not even taking into consideration that shipping your weights to the client is akin to giving your product away.

The bottleneck with compute at the edge is (and will be) model size (both app download time and storage space on device).

Stable Diffusion sits at about 2GB for fp16, Whisper Medium at 1.53GB, LLAMA is 120GB.

Sure, Apple can ship an optimized model (<2-4GB) as part of the OS, but what if a capable app maker wants to ship one? Users will not be happy with an app sized at >1GB.

dang, can the title be fixed? It’s a bit misleading. It’s a training course.

If I only monetize the heaviest users, it should cover the cost for everyone else

Check my comment :)

personal project

Updated URL because Namecheap's redirect sure likes not to work:

https://wa.me/19893946588

Congrats on the launch!

In case you don’t use Telegram, I made one for WhatsApp: http://wa.me/19893946588

This uses the new ChatGPT API.

Benefits:

- no login needed

- accessible from your phone (easier to use compared to the web interface)

- available in a familiar interface (WhatsApp on mobile and Desktop)

Privacy:

- your WhatsApp id and the last 4 messages (back and forth) are stored, as needed to provided a conversational experience.

- the data is stored on Firestore.

This uses the new ChatGPT API.

Benefits:

- free

- no login needed

- accessible from your phone (easier to use compared to the web interface)

Privacy:

- your WhatsApp id and the last 4 messages (back and forth) are stored, as needed to provided a conversational experience.

- the data is stored on Firestore.

A plug here but check out https://vidcap.app/

It’s based on a finetuned Whisper and you’d get unlimited transcriptions for $4.99/month

Hijacking the comments to ask: what is the best way to get better at chess? (other than “just” playing matches, I’m already doing that)

R.I.P. battery.

Personally I've been using Brev [1] to do my cloud training, you get a cloud GPU instance that you can upgrade/downgrade on the fly, and makes supports VS Code out of the box.

[1] https://brev.dev/

(I'm not affiliated with Brev)

You get 3 free scheduled functions using firebase, and you can run Node.

To store data you’d use FireStore and/or Storage.

Both free for your use case (probably)

It misses out on the 2 best places I’ve visited in Japan (possibly ever visited):

- Naoshima island: a beautiful serene island dedicated to contemporary art. Such a surreal experience.

- Shimanami Kaido: a 60km bike path linking an archipelago of rural islands in the sea of Hiroshima. The bridges looking the islands are something out of Blade Runner.

Location: Remote (U.S. timezone)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, iOS, macOS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronyfadel

Email: rony+hn [at] fadel.io

About: Experienced iOS/macOS software engineer with 10 years of experience as a team lead at Apple, Snap, working on system frameworks and first party apps (iCloud, Files, Spotlight, Extensions), and consulting for top YC startups as well as F500 companies.

Currently interested in part time (3 days a week) contract work (I'm an indie hacker with a "side" business that's growing and that I need to attend).

I can work on building your MVP or on your existing codebase. Clean code, sound architecture and best practices. My clients have been extremely satisfied with my work thus far.

I guess, my internship project at Apple: I added approximate string search to Spotlight.

So even if you made a typo writing something, you’d still get correct search results.

Considering Spotlight is used by millions, I guess that’s super impactful?

This is so good that I can't tell if it's AI generated or a bunch of clips of Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs stitched together decently well.

The "belief" threshold has been crossed.

SEEKING WORK | U.S. timezone | Remote only | Part-time

Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, iOS, macOS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronyfadel

Email: rony+hn [at] fadel.io

About: Experienced iOS/macOS software engineer with 6 years of experience as a team lead at Apple, working on system frameworks and first party apps (iCloud, Files, Spotlight, Extensions), and 3 years of experience consulting for top YC startups as well as F500 companies.

Currently interested in part time (3 days a week) contract work (I'm an indie hacker with a "side" business that's growing and that I need to attend).

I can work on building your MVP or on your existing codebase. Clean code, sound architecture and best practices. My clients have been extremely satisfied with my work thus far.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, iOS, macOS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronyfadel

Email: rony+hn [at] fadel.io

About: Experienced iOS/macOS software engineer with 6 years of experience as a team lead at Apple, working on system frameworks and first party apps (iCloud, Files, Spotlight, Extensions), and 3 years of experience consulting for top YC startups as well as F500 companies.

Currently interested in part time (3 days a week) contract work (I'm an indie hacker with a "side" business that's growing and that I need to attend).

I can work on building your MVP or on your existing codebase. Clean code, sound architecture and best practices. My clients have been extremely satisfied with my work thus far.

Deploying has become a nightmare.

It used to be transfer your source files via FTP, now it’s setting up Docker and Kubernetes and I don’t know what.

Ofc the latter is better for teams, but now you must learn a whole stack just to deploy code.

I just made it clear from the beginning that that was what I was looking for. They had no issue with it. It does feel like 5 days in a 4-day grind sometimes, but at least I get the time to indie hack.

I’m a contractor working 4 days per week for a well known YC startup. I indie hack on Fridays and weekends.

I found the job on Twitter, almost by mistake. The 4-day workweek was a non-negotiable for me because the indie hacking part is so much fun, and it’s making me around $60-70k/year, and I’d very much like to keep on developing the business.