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I have something similar at https://livelane.qubic-ventures.com. Started as a simple weekend project, but it’s becoming quite the headache. All sources are mainly from official government sites, which means many are very unreliable.

Some have public APIs, others require registration where it takes months to hear back.

I currently have about 30 ingestion scripts that more often than not break down.

I then also have an iOS app, but that ships with a bundled sqlite database.

The main differentiator is that I’m purely focussed on providing open source alternatives, whereas alternativeto does everything.

Having filters to better filter through the large list of alternatives is on my TODO list.

But in general, I think both (and many other directories) can co-exist without issues. I personally think alternativeto is a little mainstream anyway, whereas my directory is focussed on people who explicitly want to selfhost, but obviously there is overlap.

I'm still working on https://openaltfinder.com; a place to help you discover open source alternatives. Got quite a lot of traction this month due to Google/Apple Maps renaming Lake Ontario.

But overall it's a struggle, the site is still in Google jail/sandbox, so it's not even seeing any Google impressions. So most traffic is due to being very active and posting wherever I can.

I'm still working on https://openaltfinder.com; a directory to help people discover open-source projects. Added quite a bit of new features over the last month, including a new weekly newsletter, and a way for people to find beginner friendly issues: https://openaltfinder.com/contribute

It's been tough, for some reason both Google and Bing completely erased my site from their indexes.

Another thing I'm working on: https://getpinnd.com - A small social network for map makers.

Personally I wouldn't use `@apply text-center` over just `text-aligh: center;`, but I do use `@apply text-red-300` or `@apply px-2`, simply because I like the set of defaults Tailwind comes with.

I tried building my own set of defaults, but eventually decided that just using the Tailwind ones is much easier.

I use @apply in quite a few projects, mainly because I like the defaults in tailwindcss. I know it defeats the point of tailwind, but I find that it works nicely when using BEM.

I've added it to my list of projects to look into, so should be added fairly soon!

Thank you, hadn’t heard or SimStudio before, have added it to my list of projects to add.

Sorry about that, wasn't aware that this was an issue for people in Vietnam. If you want, you can direct email me at contact[at]openaltfinder[dot]com, or you can reply here with the project you wanted to submit.

Two side projects I’m actively working on:

https://openaltfinder.com - To help people discover selfhost-able open source projects.

Been maintaining this for almost a year, and it’s been fun. Keeps me up to date with new OSS.

https://getpinnd.com - A small social network for map makers to created shared lists of places.

Was just a spur of the moment, and ended up building it in little than a week.

At least to me, before LLMs, those people could somewhat be trained. You could give them feedback, and they would improve and learn the code.

Now your feedback is just another prompt for them, the code might be slightly better, but the person learned nothing from it.

I’m currently doing a project with someone who only uses LLMs, and it’s exhausting and mentally draining.

Whenever I give feedback on something, the answer is just “let me tell Claude”. The person has no understanding of how everything works, and most of the code reflects that.

The other day he hardcoded in a demo mode, simply because he didn’t even know how to set up a local environment and set environment variables. I’m confused as to why Claude didn’t even knew this, but it might just be the prompting.

I limit LLM usage myself, and if I do use it, I try to use it on extremely specific tasks. It’s the only way it works for me.

I honestly don’t understand how all these companies are getting away with generating AI code. Even in a small project I quickly fall behind on my understanding of the project.

Just cancelled my Claude plan, so that I can switch over when it expires in a week. The usage limits somehow just make me less productive with it.

How does Claude Code compare to OpenCode Zen? I’m on the $20/month Claude plan, and was considering OpenCode Zen as well.

Due to the quota changes, I actually find myself using Claude less and less

I wrote this little web app over the weekend, the idea was to make you think about your next purchase by introducing a 48 hour countdown. In 48 hours you come back and decide if you really need this product, or if it was just an impulse buy.

All data lives in your browser (IndexDB) - https://buyitlater.vercel.app

It’s the same here in Hong Kong. I can’t use any of my cards (personal or corporate) for OpenAI or Anthropic.

Have to do everything through Azure, which is a mess to even understand.

I would love to experience this, but I'm only at the level were I occasionally open ChatGPT or Claude, asked it a question, and then get frustrated because it can't even give me a straight answer, or makes incorrect assumptions.

I can't even imagine having multiple agents write code that somehow works.

Glad I’m not the only one experiencing this. The Stripe dashboard constantly freezes up for me, even registering a click takes 10-20 seconds. Often it will just go white. Incredible annoying.

I've been thinking about setting up a small website that lets you input what you wanted to buy, and after 24 hours sends you an email asking if you really wanted to buy/needed this.

I absolutely love Astro, and it's my default for new projects. And I honestly feel like it's the only framework using React/Vue for their intended purposes; which is as an interactive layer on top of your SSR UI.

It would, because then at least you know it's an earthquake, and you kind of know what to expect. Not know it was an earthquake, and wondering why your building is shaking and making so much noise, thinking you're about to die in some freak building collapse is pretty terrifying.

I've only ever experienced a big earthquake once, which was in Bangkok a couple of months ago. And if I had known it was an earthquake, I probably would've reacted differently. Not knowing what was happening, and genuinely thinking my building was about to collapse on top of me was one of the scariest feelings in my life.

That seems to be mostly because of the way they've implemented their docs. It's definitely not something I have with my own sites.

The flicker seems to be because the collapsible nav items are done on the client, and closed by default.

I'm not sure where the title issues are coming from.

I moved away from Next.js, and switched to Astro. Originally I just wanted to go back to basics, but didn't want to bother with having to set up all my routes, templating, serving static assets, build tasks. Astro just handles all that, and it's SSR by default.

I also feel that Astro uses React/Vue as it was intended, as an interactive layer on top of HTML. It also made me realize how little I needed JS frameworks to begin with.

Next just started to feel like to much magic, the server actions felt weird, and just lots of things that required the "NextJS way".

I recently completed https://askannie.it.com, at first it was just a tool that I used myself after constantly copy/pasting YouTube transcripts into ChatGPT. A couple of friends liked it, so ended up building an app around it.

For a next project I'm exploring building something that let's you quickly embed charts. Similar to what Google Charts was, but I still haven't found a good alternative.

Great work, I've been using Stock Events on iOS for a while now. It's what got me into dividend investing, and it's fantastic to just keep track off all the dividend income.

Really fun, I love playing GeoGuessr, but really like the idea of using videos.

Some notes on the UI:

* I found the 50/50 split between video / map a bit annoying, especially on a 13" MacBook

* The volume slider takes up a lot of valuable space, and felt like your normal scrubber to scroll through the video

* Once you confirm a location, the whole UI changes again

* Overall (especially on my smaller screen), there was a lot of scrolling involved to get to buttons

I’m in Bangkok right now, didn’t even think about it being an earthquake and thought my building was coming down. Sprinted out of the building, watching our rooftop pool collapse and rain down debris and water.

I think that’s the most scared I’ve ever been, thinking that was it for me.

I constantly run multiple projects without issues. Usually it’s both front- and back-end. I just assign random ports.

Same goes for databases, I just map it to a different port.

You might be interested in Astro (https://astro.build/), I've build my first project with it, and it's great to somewhat go back to basics, but without needing to set up my own server with templating and tasks for static assets, etc...