> Why does every product page do the fading in thing?
This is probably going a bit off-topic but I recently switched from Android to iOS and god damn those slow animations are killing me. They seem like an industry standard nowadays. I really don't get it either.
Finland is virtually 100 % cashless. Open markets, grocery stores, restaurants, second-hand shops, flee markets, etc... — they all accept cards. I cannot recall a single place that didn't accept cards. They do accept cash too, though, but most people nowadays use cards.
I have been living in Athens for a few months now. Most brick-and-mortar places, if not all, accept cards but when you go to an open street market, it's cash-only. Also, if you buy something like tobacco, they only accept cash even though they have POS systems in place. It has something to do with the taxes (or circumventing them?).
Mainly tech/programming stuff for which Kagi is outstanding. Lately I've searched a lot about a city (restaurants, places to visit, events, ...) I moved in and it works for that too.
While I think your questions are definitely relevant, in practice, you search less than you think.
I consider myself as a heavy search engine user but, based on Kagi stats, I was surprised how much less I actually searched compared to my estimate. My actual range is about 500-800 queries a month when I originally estimated upwards 1500 queries a month.
Happy customer here. Kagi is by far the best search engine there is.
When I first started using Kagi a year ago or so, I compared results with Google every now and then.
Now? Never.
10 bucks a month for a tool that I use multiple times every single day is more than reasonable. The results hit home virtually every time.
There are variety of features to customize your searches but truthfully, I never found the need for them. I've only blocked/deprioritized some domains, that's it. The results are just so good.
After defining your target audience and doing a competitor analysis, build a quick landing page with a waitlist. Try to drive traffic there with social media posts (and maybe with paid ads). Loosely said, the more people signup your waitlist, the more they want to pay for your product.
Anecdotal, I once planned to build a sports related mobile app with music platform integrations. I scraped together a BuyMeCoffee page and wrote an extensive Reddit post about the app idea. The post got hundreds of upvotes and comments within hours — and three people even paid via BuyMeCoffee!
It was quite easy to tell I had hit a jackpot. The idea failed though because Spotify's et al TOS' are quite hostile when it comes to commercial apps.
Yep, that's it for me. A loyal, paying customer all the way from beta days doesn't seem to matter much. I truly hoped they would have kept their word and grandfathered the old subscriptions.
Burning your money on the AI and browser nonesense is on you. Don't count me in.
Reminds me of how some nurses in Finland were gifted with an ice cream voucher for their hard work during corona times. [1] The picture translates roughly as:
[The upper text]
"As a small thank you for your effort during the corona year, we'd like to offer you an ice cream during the hot weather in summer."
[The lower text on yellow background]
"The voucher is valid for the selected ice creams in this [kiosk]. You're welcome!"
Thanks for helping out, I'll go through the settings one more time. The customer service just repeated the same mantra that the tracking pixel is always added, regardless of what the Open Tracking setting is.
It makes sense. I'm the one selecting the tooling afterall so I should also be responsible for making sure to comply with whatever laws/directives there are.
This being said, it feels unfair when you try to comply but somebody fucks you over.
As you can see from the blog post, those tracking settings are/were disabled. As a developer I know that it's easy to leave wrong default values on checkboxes so I went to first disable them (it was enabled by default) -> enable -> disable.
The tracking pixel was added in test emails as well as in the actual emails nevertheless.
That's probably the only way with SendGrid to strip down all of the trackers. Single Send is simple to use but apparently dude's gotta write his own mailer script to send emails via the API.
I used to work in a payday loan company for couple years, and while my collegues were awesome, the business itself was/is absolute bullshit. Meaningful? Far away from it.
I decided to try my own wings, and that has been one of the best decisions of my life. Software work has become more and more meaningful because for one, I get to decide what's done and when.
When I see a problem in my world, I ask myself if this problem would concern other people's worlds too. If it's a yes, I'll start working on it.
Fundamentally, if I can solve a pain point for others, doesn't it make the world a better place?
My latest meaningful (hobby) project has been working on the General Index published by Carl Malamud couple months ago. Science should be free, and accessible so mr. Malamud released a dump with over 107 million academic papers. I've been building a public search layer on top of this, with my angle being to find connections between scientists.
How do you manage cases like Cloudflare 429 or other bot blocking mechanisms? I'd imagine your business is at risk if your customers' competitors implement efficient ways to block bots/scrapers?
This is probably going a bit off-topic but I recently switched from Android to iOS and god damn those slow animations are killing me. They seem like an industry standard nowadays. I really don't get it either.