topoftheforts

I've tried it, but the issue I have is serving multiple API requests at the same time

any advice on falling asleep quickly? I love naps but most times it take me 30+ minutes just to fall asleep (+ feeling groggy when I wake up) so a 15min nap would often take an hour of my day

SEEKING WORK | UK or Remote | IT Consultant / Full Stack Web Developer

Technologies: PHP, Laravel (7yrs exp), VueJS, AlpineJS, MySQL, TailwindCSS, AWS, Azure, RESTful APIs, Adwords, GA Ecommerce, Git, Twilio, Stripe, Docker

Email: topoftheforts[at]gmail.com

CV: Please email and I'll send it over

I have 12 years experience in full stack web development, I have managed small dev teams and have been a one-man IT department for small startups and non-profits. I believe in focusing on business results and revenue. I worked a lot with marketing departments in conversion tracking, conversion optimisation, A/B testing. I love building, making web applications and creating value.

Looking for a part-time role, ideally 3 days a week. Remote only but willing to travel occasionally.

Location: United Kingdom

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Laravel (7yrs exp), VueJS, AlpineJS, MySQL, TailwindCSS, AWS, Azure, RESTful APIs, Adwords, GA Ecommerce, Git, Twilio, Stripe, Docker

CV: Please email and I'll send it over

Email: topoftheforts[at]gmail.com

I have 12 years experience in full stack web development, I have managed small dev teams and have been a one-man IT department for small startups and non-profits. I believe in focusing on business results and revenue. I worked a lot with marketing departments in conversion tracking, conversion optimisation, A/B testing. I love building, making web applications and creating value.

Looking for a part-time role, ideally 3 days a week. Remote only but willing to travel occasionally.

Any example? I'm just curious as I don't think I'd be able to understand anything at that speed, but I'd like to try

Out of curiosity, which podcasts do you listen to at 4x or more?

SEEKING WORK | UK or Remote | IT Consultant / Full Stack Engineer

Technologies: PHP, Laravel (7yrs exp), VueJS, AlpineJS, MySQL, TailwindCSS, AWS, Azure, RESTful APIs, Adwords, GA Ecommerce, Git

Email: topoftheforts@gmail.com

I have 12 years experience in full stack web development, I have managed small dev teams and have been a one-man IT department for small startups and non-profits. I believe in focusing on business results and revenue. I worked a lot with marketing departments in conversion tracking, conversion optimisation, A/B testing. I love building, making web applications and creating value.

Looking for a part-time role, ideally 3 days a week. Remote only but willing to travel occasionally.

Location: United Kingdom

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Laravel (7yrs exp), VueJS, AlpineJS, MySQL, TailwindCSS, AWS, Azure, RESTful APIs, Adwords, GA Ecommerce, Git

Résumé/CV: Will provide via email

Email: topoftheforts@gmail.com

I have 12 years experience in full stack web development, I have managed small dev teams and have been a one-man IT department for small startups and non-profits. I believe in focusing on business results and revenue. I worked a lot with marketing departments in conversion tracking, conversion optimisation, A/B testing. I love building, making web applications and creating value.

Looking for a part-time role, ideally 3 days a week. Remote only but willing to travel occasionally.

I use APIs at the moment so I don't have to worry about that. Considering renting cloud GPUs in the future if it grows, for now it wouldn't be worth it

An API that uses the Real-ESRGAN model

Since I got access to Dall-E, I got obsessed with AI tools, and I was really excited to see Stable Diffusion offer an API. I couldn't find a tool that made it super easy to generate high quality images, so I made one.

The backend was made with Laravel, the frontend uses Laravel Blade views with VueJS where needed and TailwindCSS for styling.

Any feedback is appreciated, and happy to answer any questions!

If I can ask, what generates the most income, the Mac apps or the iOS one?

It's fun but I wish they didn't set the 3d glasses as default, it nearly gave me a headache

Well done, functional and easy to use!

Have you tried travelling abroad? It’s still much more complicated than it was, you have to check both countries requirements, spend money on tests, fill additional forms

It looks like moderation is one of the biggest problem we're facing in tech, in different ways:

- fake reviews which make the ratings useless

- scam apps that riddle the various app stores

- abusive / illegal content on platforms that can't afford better moderation

- moderators who struggle with mental health issues, as per this tweet

- footballers receiving racist comments on their socials

Is there space for a startup to solve this problem with AI? And should it be a B2B or B2C scenario, as in working with platforms to moderate in the backend or being a user app / extension that does it in the frontend?

For example, Fakespot works great with Amazon but it's an extension you have to install, so it's not available on Safari / on Mobile. So it's still quite unknown and I'm not sure how much it can grow

The linked community’s login page hijacks the back button and I hate that as much as this marketing stunt. Clever idea but no actual product behind it, disappointing

Just tried it for 5 minutes, the UI looks really clean, the UX is not the best though. I've been trying to add contacts with the "batch" feature, I tick some checkboxes expecting to add them to my list, but there's no apparent way to do so. They stay checked and I don't understand why and what that means.

I'm not sure what "mark people as in touch" is, and to me it sounds the same as adding someone from your contact, but it looks like this is a different operation from adding a contact to the list.

I like the "more" tab and its contents.

Out of curiosity, as I'm interest and work in UX, did you test this app with some real people / how did you test its UX?

As much as people complain about the community in here, this is the best online community I'm part of (even if as a lurker mostly), and I'm always impressed by the quality of moderation. And now that I find out it's only dang doing it, it's even more impressive. Well done and keep up the good work!

Any advice on how to get there? I'm a contractor after having worked full time for a few years. Working with a very few long term clients, just me.

Is your daily rate very high, are you delegating work to other people, or what is it?

The bundle is $249. If you don't think 8k people would pay that to have lifetime access to components that look great and allow you to build a great looking website in hours, you don't really understand the dev market.

As a developer, Tailwind UI is a god send, I've been waiting for years for a great looking CSS framework with pre-made components

(Also, they had a pretty big audience already after selling Refactoring UI which is a really useful book for developers that can't design, like me)

This is a repost favorite on HN apparently

Previous discussions (from oldest to newest):

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15643663

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648652

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21831931

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21835417

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22365795

Why do services like whatsapp need support for GIFs? We have URLs people!

Here I just send an URL to the GIF to my friend via whatsapp. They click on the link. They look at the GIF. That's it.

From a user's perspective to see a GIF I just have to click a link. And to send one I just send a link. How easier can it get?

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I swear HN's community has the brightest minds yet so often it fails to understand simple user experience stuff (see the infamous Dropbox comment)

I hadn't heard of it, also I happen to be Italian so that's perfect, thanks!

Two things come to my mind:

- this is basically an ignorance tax

- sometimes I wish I had no conscience, I would be much richer

Is this the beginning of the end for YouTube? As someone who deeply hates how much fake news have been spreading in the past few years, I still find this very worrying, especially since the WHO has been very inconsistent with their messaging during this pandemic [1] and sometimes plain wrong [2].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-chie...

[2] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

I always find this very frustrating, how hard can it be to put a demo (or even just a screenshot) of your product? Did they not think someone visiting their site would want it?

On this note, the worst offender in my opinion is Voyager for Laravel [1], where the "play" button has been put over a screenshot of the product, but when you click on it there's a 90 second video of a guy talking about the product. So. frustrating.

[1] https://voyager.devdojo.com/

In what way is he biased in this video?

> Notion covers most of the bases but its an electron app and its SLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW if you have a lot of notes in it. Takes 30 seconds for the mobile app to open and be useful for instance. Thats a dealbreaker for me. I need to be able to get a piece of knowledge on the go fast. If you can't give me what I want in less than a few seconds you go in the bin.

So true. I've used Evernote for years and recently started using Notion. Notion works much better for organizing and structuring stuff, but when it comes down to jotting down a quick note, I istinctively open Evernote. Just recently I've realized it's because of the speed, both on desktop and (even worse) on mobile, Notion just takes too long to start up.

Just now while writing this comment I tried to open both of them on my Windows laptop: Evernote took ~1s, Notion ~5s between launching and loading the content.

It might as well be a combination of the two, but to be honest I don't think it's an issue. If those ego boosts are what keeps you building something useful, that's great and you probably deserve them.

It's a bit like social networks for exercise (Strava etc) - the whole thing is just people looking to show off because they've exercised, but if that's what's keeping them in shape, then great!