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Good enough. It gets 60-70% of the work I need done for a lot less $ (keep in mind I am using these for personal projects that doesn’t generate revenue). If I was using it with the hopes of making money I think I would just use Codex at this point.

Yes that was my goal. Also noticed a huge performance gain going from ollama to mlx. Your mileage may vary.

I am running qwen 3.6 9b quantized model on my m4 pro 48gb and it is barely useful to do some basic pi.dev/cc driven development. I think 128gb desktops are the sweet setup to actually get meaningful work done. However, getting your hands on one of these machines is difficult at the moment.

As much fun as it is to run these things locally don’t forget that your time is not free. I am slowly migrating my use cases to openrouter and run the largest qwen model for < $2-3/day with serious use for personal projects.

This is amazing and exactly the problem we have been trying to solve with a friend. We also considered the terminal but people give up on maintenance because they forgot to buy that replacement filter, or never got a reminder when they actually had time. Also, it is not uncommon for families to divide these as chores among different family members.

I personally love the TUI but I also know that for most homeowners this is too “advanced”. This is why we built our solution as a simple web app [1]

Great project! Best of luck.

[1] www.wellrun.house

Yep.

This is so exciting to see, especially for older folk like me.

Almost 20 years ago, one of my professors told us before graduation that hot tech is mostly about the idea pendulum swinging back and forth. I immediately chalked it up to 65+ above white wise men snobbery.

However, this is exactly that. We started with static pages, then came Ajax and Asp.net and the open source variants, then we went full SPA, now we are moving back to server side because things are too complicated.

Obviously tech is different, better, more efficient but the overall idea seems to be the same.

Fascists are out for ethnic cleansing while the world turns a blind eye. Sounds familiar?

Industries where money comes in by the bucket have no problem spending it with a shovel for specialized knowledge they don't have.

If you're a contractor, your best bet is to focus on an industry to understand the needs of that industry better. Rather being a Python developer, you can be a contractor who builds usable solutions that happen to use Python.

Industry knowledge, referrals, good prior work and marketing are important. These $150/hr jobs won't fall into your lap unless you put an effort to position your lap that way :)

Expected? Yes. Normal? Yes. Only thing there is out there? No.

For every $30/hr posting on the net, there is another one for $100. I also personally know of folks who are making +$150 with Django. It really depends on who you work for.

Although you will see a lot more of `build Uber for $5K` type of one off jobs, there are some reputable companies who need more capacity on new projects.

If I were you I would cast a wider net and sample the market more.

Meetup was/is fundamentally a marketing platform for event organizers.

The value it brings is the user base. So it had to always find ways to bring people to the platform to keep the value for organizers. However, more casual users resulted in more no shows, legal issues, spammers etc.

As a result considerable amount of effort went into operations.

It was a great idea but as a business scaling it required proportional investment into operations, so it never made any real money.

That brought in most of the revenue. 1:50 ratio of organizers to users with $15/mo revenue doesn’t add up to much.

I am in a similar position and would like to know how you got started with rental units. Are you using a property manager like it was mentioned in a previous comment? Do you recommend AirBnB vs. long-term rentals?

I was part of the founding team of a startup that did exactly this about 2 years ago. I wish you the best of luck but sales cycles are excruciatingly long and the larger players that are working with razor thin margins may find the 4.5% bit too expensive. Happy to chat and best of luck with the startup!

Count me in too! I've been growing more and more frustrated with the tools in the marketplace.

This is very neat! Last year I had to essentially do this on GCP and relied on a very similar implementation. Everyone was surprised to see JS being used for data processing but it worked wonderfully.

One thing I want to ask is the retries, how do you handle that currently? I ran into multiple cases where functions would fail for transient reasons.

Living in the suburbs and having a similar 1 hour 20 min train ride to work, I ended up setting up a small workout space with a treadmill, weights and a rowing machine. It does the job but no substitute for a fully equipped gym. I applaud your disciplined schedule though. I still find it hard to work out consistently.

Interested in this due to my wife working in the space. Signup link?

I also am using your framework and I really like it. The quick video and dead-simple implementation made it a no brainer as a weekend project that can actually be published. Thank you.

Please email me at buragc at gmail

That's awesome, you are doing much more than I did in the past. Kudos. If you want to connect and bounce ideas you can find my contact in my profile.

Having built and given up on an app that did exactly this, I would like to learn more about your experience. I am in the process of giving away the app, back-end, etc. as a result of a flippa auction. https://flippa.com/6895313-curia

I am currently enrolled in the Machine Learning specialization on Coursera where the co-founder of Turi teaches the course and uses Turi for exercises. I wonder if they will kill the Coursera course too.

Actually used it this past weekend to create a long island railroad time table app. Submitted to Amazon for review just now. Wanted to drop a line and say thank you.

Was thinking of using neo4j for an upcoming project. Did anyone benchmark OrientDB against Neo4j

Although I love mechanical watches, I caved in and got an Apple Watch just for the purposes of seeing my next meeting time and getting alerts. So far it's been good, although I miss the elegance of the mechanical watch that doesn't need to be charged every night.

It would really save me time in understanding who to talk to first. Would it impact the final decision? No. But it would certainly help me prioritize candidates. It is really time consuming to go through 120 resumes to see who you want to talk to first (especially when you also have a day job of delivering software).

One thing that I really wanted to do for hiring is to be able to put resumes on top of each other in a tool and slice and dice over time periods to see how a person's career has evolved be it in terms of companies they worked for, skills they picked up etc. Does anyone else feel the same need? Storing the resumes in a queryable format is a good first step towards my dream :)

I have been working on a side project that needs to read dynamic table layouts and extract financial information. I was excited to hear about Tabula a few weeks ago but I had 0 success in getting even one PDF extracted.

I ended up using pdfquery package in python which heavily utilized PDFMiner under the covers.

Besides ABBYY soft (which is proprietary, licensed), does anyone have other recommendations?

Congratulations guys! Having tried my luck at this years ago the bigger challenge in getting past the front desk folks who see it as a threat. The funding will definitely help. Best of luck!

Nadella has worked on the cloud computing at Microsoft. Microsoft is betting big time on the cloud. Although MS never publicly admits, the OS business for the end user is slowly fading away with the tablets, smart phones taking over and Browser becoming the new OS.

You can see this by looking at their Office 365 strategy (iOS, Android release, online version push). Making Windows 10 free to 8 users, removing licensing fees for windows phones, making Visual Studio available for free. Making the ASP.NET vNext to run on Linux.

Instead, MS sees the growth in Azure. Whether they use Linux or Windows servers, MS can make money off of the enterprise/startup segment. Whether or not it is a sustainable strategy in the long run, we will see. But in the short term, at least for the "consumer" market, MS is giving up on Windows and it is moving its focus to Azure and the software that runs on top of Azure (Office, Sharepoint, Dev Services, XBox, Bing, etc).

The marketing strategy behind this is also interesting. Things are still labeled "Windows" to give the illusion that the "Windows" the end user gets on their new laptop is somehow "related" to the Windows in the cloud (Azure). Interesting strategy to make the "Windows" brand live for a little more at least..