I'm already logged in on the cloudflare dashboard and trying to disable the CF proxy, but getting "404 | Either this page does not exist, or you do not have permission to access it" when trying to access the DNS configuration page.
Pretty much everything is down (checking from the Netherlands). The Cloudflare dashboard itself is experiencing an outage as well.
Not-so-funny thing is that the Betterstack dashboard is down but our status page hosted by Betterstack is up, and we can't access the dashboard to create an incident and let our customers know what's going on.
This essentially killed my (EU-based) startup in the project management and collaborate space. Before MSFT bundled Teams with O365 we were rapidly growing and closing enterprise customers in the automotive, energy and education industries with high retention rates. Right around the time the Teams bundling started our retention dropped, churn went through the roof, growth slowed down, we failed to raise our next round because of it and had to drastically downsize the company, causing even more churn (about 80% net churn in 2 years). This move by the EU is good, but too little too late - 99% of the companies that were hurt by this have already shut down, and the ones still running will take years to recover...
The exchange rate used to get to the $236 amount is the "official" exchange rate stated by the government which even the government itself doesn't use. 10 million rials is $20.28 based on the real exchange rate used by literally everyone inside the country (see bonbast.com for the real rates - also, as an aside, "bonbast" means deadend in Farsi, which aptly describes the current economical situation in Iran).
For context, the minimum wage is $152 per month (around 75,182,000 rials).
The economy has gone to shit in the past 10 years. The minimum wage was around $425/month, or $2.4/hour back then, compared to $0.86/hour now.
The Rail has lost much of its value since then but the salaries haven't increased enough to cover the brutal inflation, resulting in extreme poverty for the majority of the population and situations like the one explained in the article.
And to top it off, disabling auto recharge doesn't prevent Twilio from charging your account. They won't charge your card but they won't stop processing requests when your balance reaches 0. We were just hit with toll fraud and even though auto recharge was disabled, they continued processing requests until our balance reached NEGATIVE 4,000 USD and then suspended the account. We received to emails in total:
1. Your balance is running low at -65 USD
2. (30 seconds later) your account is suspended, I checked the account an hour later when I saw this email and the balance was -4,000 USD
I asked support why they continued charging our account even with auto recharge disabled, but they just ignore the question.
Support says it's our fault, asks us not to dispute the charge (although there has been no charge yet as we disabled auto recharge), and said it will take 10 days for finance to issue a partial refund (that was 24 days ago).
I have some similar experiences. Especially with people saying "let me do what I love" or "give me a position where I can learn new things".
People like variety - the initial love doesn't last long. After a few weeks/months it gets boring and repetitive. Learning the shiny new tech is only fun until you you've figured out how it works, but the project doesn't end there and you have to deliver a product in the end. But for most people who exclusively want the "position where they can learn new things" fixing the bugs and doing the finishing touches is no longer fun once they've figured out how the underlying tech works - they leave for the next position where they can learn another shiny new tech and you're left with a half-finished project (usually with subpar code quality because this was the first project they did using the new tech).
IMO the Google vs Apple, Apple vs Epic Games and all other similar cases are secondary. My main issue with Apple is that it is violating user rights - the users, who owns the device - should have the freedom of doing any thing they want (including installing any app they want) with the device. It's not Apple's place to arbitrarily decide what I can or cannot do with my phone.
Not only are there Islamic/Arabic and Jewish themes, there are also Persian themes. Padishah in "The Padishah Emperor" comes from Persian and means king.
I know Drupal is not the best or simplest thing for doing this out there. It's not even that good in terms of performance. But it's flexible and extremely fast when it comes to development time. Deskulu was not supposed to be scalable (it's not going to be Zendesk). I built the first version this over a weekend to handle our own tickets and then it's just been doing bug fixes/updates every now and then.
It would've been impossible to do it in such short time with anything else (at least for me), and it's saved us hundreds of dollars over the past months.
I'd call that a win.
I couldn't agree more. Sending out automated sales pitches is spamming people and that's the main reason I didn't add auto-reply feature in the code. I go through the tweets that get added to the spreadsheet and try to engage the ones who might actually benefit from using our product with my personal twitter account.
The tool is here to help you find the people who might be interested in your product easier (look through 30 tweets instead of 100s). It's not supposed to/should not be doing the actual sales pitch automatically.
Yep, I agree that this is not a perfect solution, but it worked for us.
I'd mentioned in the blog post that out of 34 tweets that were added to the spreadsheet, only 6 of them were solid leads. But going through 34 tweets to find those 6 is a lot easier than going through hundreds of them over 8 hours.
I didn't know about tweetboss, but they all cost something around $50-100/mo. Although it seems like tweetboss is a desktop app with $47 for lifetime license?!
This does not give you people who are talking about your own product. It gives you people who are already using your competitor's products but are looking to switch to something like your product.