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Dutchie987 commented on Scanned page by page: 67 years worth of old Radio Shack catalogs   radioshackcatalogs.com/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
GenerocUsername · a year ago
Took too long to load.

I bet you are getting a lot of traffic to an image heavy hobby site

Dutchie987 · a year ago
Site loaded almost instantly for me. Paging through some catalogs was very fluid also.
Dutchie987 commented on Ask HN: Can anyone recommend me an open source software to calculate footfall?    · Posted by u/utkarsh858
Dutchie987 · a year ago
Hire people to stand at the entrance with a hand-counter (one for entry, one for exit). Have them jot down the count every half hour. Cheap, easy, foolproof.
Dutchie987 commented on Ask HN: What do you miss from the 2000s-2010s Internet?    · Posted by u/Gooblebrai
Dutchie987 · a year ago
I miss everything not being monetized.

I miss not being online 24/7.

Dutchie987 commented on Why are Chrome sidebar extensions so unpopular?    · Posted by u/xiguali
Dutchie987 · a year ago
Rejoice! For you have learned a valuable lesson!

Next time, first look how well the competition is doing before coding up the same thing.

As for why vertical tabs are not popular: for me it's because it is annoyingly similar, and right next to, the navigation pane of the website I'm looking at. This leads to clicks on the wrong "navigation pane".

Dutchie987 commented on Show HN: HqRadio – Best online radio app   hqradio.info/?source=hack... · Posted by u/ekinsdro
Dutchie987 · a year ago
Websites like https://radio.garden and https://www.radio.net/ do the same without having me install yet another app.

What is your unique selling point? What does HqRadio bring that the many other station streaming apps and websites don't?

Dutchie987 commented on Call the compiler, fax it your code [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-25... · Posted by u/ayoreis
reaperducer · a year ago
Slightly related:

There was a time when web browsing was crazy slow and expensive, but there were e-mail services that were also crazy slow, but free.

There were mail to web gateways that you could e-mail a URL to, which would then reply with the contents of the web page. You'd then send another URL from that page, and get another reply, and so on. Free slow-motion web browsing.

I say "slow-motion" because this was back when getting a response to an e-mail took hours or days, not seconds. So you were lucky to get through three or four links in a day. But it was free, and we had other things to do than surf the web anyway.

Dutchie987 · a year ago
There where even mail-to-ftp gateways. I vaguely remember using bitftp (?) to get a copy of the Utah Raster Toolkit that way. Long time ago...
Dutchie987 commented on Ask HN: Would You Pay for a Compiler?    · Posted by u/nopipeline
Dutchie987 · a year ago
If the cost is lower than the value provided, yes, of course I'll pay!
Dutchie987 commented on Ask HN: No interest for my idea (private LLM and RAG for teams), how to proceed?    · Posted by u/namanyayg
namanyayg · a year ago
agreed (and upvoted). I built this within an hour to be able to collect contact information of interested people.

The main purpose of the app is allowing team members to search through the entire company knowledgebase

E.g. one can search through Jira to find all open tickets relating to a particular feature

Or, you can search through slack to find threads relating to a topic of your choice

Dutchie987 · a year ago
Don't tell us, show us the value of your project!

Show how it would work in practice, show how it is better than normal Jira search. Show why I should use your project instead of the many, many others?

Dutchie987 commented on Show HN: I built a tool to validate temp email   manage.email/validate... · Posted by u/edricj
Dutchie987 · a year ago
You posted this two days ago already.

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