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Building DB Pro at dbpro.app hit me up at james@dbpro.app
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upmostly··on CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music
This guy clearly has never picked up an instrument and persevered to the point where it's actually joyous to play and make art with.

He clearly picked up a six-string one day, strummed it a few times, failed at a G chord and said his fingers hurt.

upmostly··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
Right now, I’m working on a startup with my cofounder called Hypership – an all-in-one platform designed to cut through the chaos of modern web development. After years of building products, I’ve seen how tangled the ecosystem has become. It feels like every tiny feature is another SaaS subscription, with its own login, data silos, and integration headaches. Want error logging? That’s another $20. Need analytics? Another login. And don’t get me started on the documentation for half these tools.

Hypership is our attempt to fix that mess. We’re building a platform where you can deploy, manage, and track everything from one place. No more juggling 15 different tools just to keep your app running. The vision is simple: let devs focus on building great products, not wrangling disconnected micro-SaaS.

https://hypership.dev

upmostly··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
Valuable feedback, thank you.

Perfect example of form over function, although I like showing a much bigger version of our product screenshots for mobile users. I can't think of a better solution.

To add something else to my original comment: We're going to try Reddit ads very soon. Has anyone used Reddit ads and had a successful experience?

(Basically, we really like Reddit for finding the first x customers)

upmostly··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
Thanks for the heads up.

The images on the landing page are off center by design. It's supposed to be quirky/snazzy.

upmostly··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
We just launched a platform to 1-click deploy React apps, among other things, so our target audience are Devs.

This is all very fresh (as of 1 week ago)

- Show HN: Did quite well - Post to Reddit (r/sideprojects, r/saas, etc): Did better than expected. 40 sign-ups to our waitlist over 24 hours.

If you don't have a product ready (like us), have a Waitlist on your landing page. Ours is built using our own dev-tool, so we're showing off the product and collecting sign ups.

It also helped that our landing page looks really good!

https://hypership.dev

upmostly··on Show HN: Hypership – The All-in-One Platform for Deploying and Managing Web Apps
Hey, Hypership co-founder here!

Hypership is an all-in-one platform designed to make deploying, scaling, and managing web apps as seamless as possible. We built this because we found it frustrating to juggle multiple tools for deployments, user management, analytics, events, and more – so we combined all of that into one platform to save you time and let you focus on building your app.

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any suggestions! Also happy to answer any questions you might have. If you’re interested, check it out at hypership.dev!

Thanks for taking a look!

upmostly··on Julius: Open-source reimplementation of Caesar III
The soundtrack from Caesar 3 has stayed with me for years! Amazing!
upmostly··on Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)
Synergy wasn't replaced.
upmostly··on Show HN: I made a web game that makes practicing basic arithmetic fun
I tapped a number, then an operator and was told it wasn't valid. Wordle and other games let you tap each tile to build up your answer.
upmostly··on ChatGPT Is at Capacity Right Now
Hideous music auto played. Viewer beware.
upmostly··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
I guess you don't pass the creative thinking test...
upmostly··on [dead]
Is it just me, or does this landing page and product feel half-finished? Missing video, coming soon, no logo...
upmostly··on Show HN: An IMDB Clone
Exactly. You do not want to poke the bear...

Why do you think there isn't a good alternative to IMDB?

My advice would be to take down this domain and repo immediately and go build something that wouldn't attract the attention of a large litigious multinational company.

upmostly··on Show HN: An IMDB Clone
IMDB are a renown litigious company. That domain name will not last long after they catch word of this being a thing.

You only have to speak to the owner of OMDB (Open Movie Database) to understand how litigious IMDB are.

upmostly··on Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
Next time you read the testimonial section, copy paste the author's name into Google. You'll find that they're made up.

They also share the same stock photo of the smiling woman in red.

It's borderline fraud.

upmostly··on Collision Detection (2015)
I'm building a Web and iOS game (https://brawlbugs.com) as a side project and started implementing collision detection from scratch.

Terrible idea. Use a library like this if you're in the JavaScript ecosystem:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/detect-collisions

upmostly··on Ask HN: Are you using SQLite and Litestream in production?
I recently discovered PocketBase (through HackerNews, no less..) and have fallen in love with its simplicity and ethos.

I've been tinkering with it over the last week, but have yet to hear of someone using it in production.

I'd love to hear more about your use case, and any other thoughts you can share when using PocketBase.

upmostly··on Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database
Nail. Head.

The amount of code I now "write" (I've started calling it directing) and features I've put into my side projects has been more than the last 5-10 years combined this last year.

I successfully created a sold a product within 3 months. Start to finish, because of the productivity power I received.

People are misusing it.

upmostly··on GoatCounter creator is hoping to raise at least €1k for basic living expense
True.

I knew my comment would be downvoted.

Interestingly, one comment above said the author did not release an update in over a year...

upmostly··on GoatCounter creator is hoping to raise at least €1k for basic living expense
Can I offer a more pessimistic view?

This is Darwinism.

If the author has a seemingly popular and monetisable (sic) product with real users, yet has failed to achieve the state of ramen profitable, then perhaps this is fate.

Perhaps he's not able to be at the helm of a product that people would rely on in their production apps.

What if the author of this app is unable to run the product successfully and is forced to close it down. What happens to the thousands of users who have integrated his product in their stack? An expensive migration. Loss of profit for them.

Perhaps it's better to choose another product that is able to be profitable.

upmostly··on Happy New Year HN!
I have a fantastic feeling about 2024...

HN is somewhere that feels like home to me. As it does for a lot of people. I'm grateful to have it in my life.

All the best.

upmostly··on A Database for Game Engines
Arguably the most mature engine for building games for the web, Phaser (think Vampire Survivors), isn't even listed.

I wouldn't trust this list.

upmostly··on Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
I got http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/

The best possible result.

upmostly··on Inngest raises $3M seed to build the reliable workflow platform for every dev
Used Inngest a few months ago and now use it, with RedwoodJS as part of every project I work on.

It makes absolute sense to "event everything".

Also, the dev-ex is incredible. Especially in conjunction with RedwoodJS.

Well done, chaps!

upmostly··on Ask HN: React Native or Flutter for a new app in 2023?
Neither.

The developer experience for both is awful, especially after you've been spoiled to an amazing dev ex from RedwoodJS.

upmostly··on Googling for answers costs time (2020)
They have. We pay $20 per month to get priority access.

A lot more than I've ever paid to use the Google search engine.

Paid for service over ads is the new way forward.

upmostly··on Animated Drawings
A friend told me about the project last week, so I did some Googling and discovered the GitHub repo by searching for AnimatedDrawings and Facebook.
upmostly··on Animated Drawings
I'm working on an app called Monstdraw.com that uses this code if you're interested in collaborating? My email is in my bio.
upmostly··on Animated Drawings
Small anecdote: I discovered the codebase for this project last week and assumed that it had already been advertised and popularised. Apparently that's just happening now.

I deployed the Docker container and got it working fine and I'm already thinking of plenty of cool use cases for the code.

I get the impression that a few startups / apps are going to be launched off of the back of this. A few ideas:

- Animated story book using GPT (I'm working on)

- Animated greetings cards using photos (works really well)

upmostly··on The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
I can't describe the feeling I feel when I view a website like JetPens, but it's there.

It's the same feeling I had when I visited my first website.

It's that same feeling I got when we had software instead of web apps.

Tangible springs to mind.

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