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I'm not sure what you're actually trying to say by that. Svelte has fine-grained opt-in reactivity. If you don't declare a variable with $state, it won't be reactive. That's by design and not a problem.

> and reddit is hard to bribe?

It's not hard to write a post with an ulterior motive (like embedding an affiliate link) on Reddit, but it's hard to get people to vote for it so it shows up at the top of the thread. Meanwhile, content producers that feel entitled to be in the SERP are just spamming their ads and aff. links everywhere. That's why Reddit is better.

Nice work on creating the app! I can't see myself using it right now because it looks like Trello (which I currently use) just with less features and a smaller free plan. Perhaps you can work on some product differentiation further ahead!

Your analogy would be valid only if there were three car manufacturers and one of them basically had 60%+ market share. It's not the same.

Finally developers can be under the mercy of some random dude who owns the store.app domain and charges for instead, joy!

There's clearly no lack of existing solutions in the k8s space because a majority of the comments are currently "why not use X instead".

The $5 plan sounds good and affordable, but I think the VPS comparison is disingenuous because you can typically put a lot of things on a $5-10 dollar VPS. I pay $20/mo and have something like 30 low-usage apps running on a single server. With Railway that would cost me $150.

Some of the costs people rarely consider for europeans is VAT (25% extra) and the decreasing price of european currencies. In the last ten years USD is 30% stronger against EUR and about 40% against my local currency. So for me this is more like a $60 dollar product than $30, and that's not just feelings.

The problem here is everyone thinks their product is so damn valuable. I happily pay $20/mo for OpenAI because it genuinely speeds up my work every day. I would easily pay twice that. In terms of saved time this product will maybe save me 20-30 minutes per month? It's individual for everyone, but judging by other responses I'm hardly alone here in this sentiment.

It is different in the sense that you can sign up for it without having a Facebook account and actually not have them connected at all. It's good enough for me. What was not good enough was having your Messenger friends randomly inside your VR headset, and that has been fixed.

Problem is this product is worth like $30 in total.

Agreed. Value-wise this is a $30 product with one year of free upgrades, not $30/month.

I would like to see a similar blog post, but for React.

I hope you will mature one day and that you will see that whatever bad experience you had with PHP (probably many years ago if not decades) is not universal.

This app is dead in the water. That doesn't mean it's not gonna provide some usefulness to groups of people, just that a iOS-only, freemium group chat will never reach mass appeal if their goal is to make money off of it.

Do you see any problems with there only being one browser engine that is relevant?

Looks cool. Any chance you would provide a docker-compose.yml file for self hosting? Right now it's not really simple to do so.

Old Node version probably, try version 18 or 19.

There's a TypeScript port that works rather well: https://github.com/beenotung/ts-liveview

It took me about six months to notice anything to be honest. I've been on it for almost two years now and I still don't feel 100% but I feel like it's a very very very slow gradual improvement.

npm can't install the correct version of Node to use automatically, but nvm can using "nvm i"

Getting older projects to run was a huge pain for me when I started working with JavaScript, but I have found two easy steps to get around this:

1. Use nvm + an .nvmrc file in your project to pin the major version of Node.js you are using. I recently got a five year old Node 8 project up and running with no issues using this method.

2. Try to avoid packages that has binary dependencies (like node-sass). 99% of binary issues are fixed when using the correct Node version, the only other problem that can occur is if you switch architecture (eg. x86 => ARM).

That's obviously the price per seat.

You should have priced it at $15 for a permanent license desktop app. I'd pick it up as a snack purchase. But I'd never pay $5/mo for so little.

> Small SaaS > 4 billions requests & 1PB of data per month

Pick one!

You can never truly own anything. Even a hut in the forest will have property and municipal taxes attached to it. With domains it's really about who you are "renting" it from. For example many country TLDs are run by government-affiliated organizations so you can feel pretty safe that you can at least get a fair treatment in any dispute. With generic TLDs I'd generally try to stay away for serious projects.

People who make laws can't see the future, it's a constant race to curb corporate behavior that is deemed unacceptable and the laws evolve as new loopholes are found and exploited. Corporations know this and take it into account when making a cost/benefit calculation. A while ago Facebook was threatening to pull out of the EU. When nobody cared they ponied up the tech required to stay. They will this time as well.

That would work for a while but if you ever needed to set it up on a new Wifi network you would be screwed, as the app is required for initial setup.

Awair recently deprecated some of their devices making them into bricks instead of allowing them to continue working locally. I'd stay away.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Awair/comments/y7i5ku/awair_discont...

Very creative project!

Bangle.js 2 sounds like a good option. The hackability is second to none. https://banglejs.com/