I really want something like this that will work for pages behind a login. Would love it for my bank and credit card transactions all in one place, without having to use a 3rd party data mining service.
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drewrbaker commented on The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales howtogrow.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/jmvldz
I remember working at a company where we used a vendor extensively in their mid-tier plan. We wanted an enterprise plan with more features, so we reached out to buy it.
So, their salesperson was shooting a penalty with no goalkeeper: All they needed to do was send an offer, and we would negotiate and close the deal.
Instead, they called my CTO multiple times, all at awkward times, like during his lunch. When he didn't pick up, they started calling HIS WIFE. The CTO eventually unplugged the vendor, and we had to find an alternative.
Ironically, another competing vendor we contacted did the same: they never stopped calling, they never wanted to schedule a proper meeting by email, and when you picked up, they didn't want you to hang up, even when you were busy.
I don't know how sales in tech can be so bad. Not even car dealers are like that. If I see a form stating, "Contact us for pricing," I am never doing it. I don't want to be grilled for 30 minutes on BDE calls: "Can you even pay us?" and then another hour of death by PowerPoint until they finally give you a price. That is, if they don't spam calls first.
Love that goalkeeper line. 100% my experience with so many SaaS companys.
@netlify I hope you see this. You are terrible at the buyer-pull. We want log shipping, but to get that, we have to go into the "enterprise" tier... We are a startup with very little money, and what is log shipping worth to us? Not hundreds a month. Honestly it's worth a little less than whatever the cost of us moving to Vercel is (where log shipping is not part of enterprise).
So now I've now been through multiple sales emails from them trying to get me on a call to "discuss how we can help you" which I know is just going to be Netlify trying to upsell me into a bunch of "enterprise" features we don't need. Just tell me the price and let me click a button to enable it!
This looks like exactly what I need, but our DB is Postgres on Supabase and I don’t think their version supports transaction locking…
drewrbaker commented on Show HN: Book and change flights with one email bonbook.co/showhn... · Posted by u/themagyar
Would love to be able to have this buy my the flight at an optimal purchase time. Like I say “LAX to JFK for Jan 10th to Jan 15th, between $400 and $600” and it will wait until that is seen and then buy for me. That would be a real new feature.
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> and dont do stuff like hijacking the scroll, zoom or other common behaviours.
The hijacking of scrolling pisses me off so god damn much that I've considered building Firefox from source and modifying the code to completely eliminate a website's ability to set the scroll position.[0]
Front end devs, I implore you. Stop acting like you think you know what the user wants in regards to scrolling behavior. Smooth scrolling already exists natively in every browser. There's no need to try to re-implement it in JavaScript. Your implementation will not work in every browser, and will only cause strange stuttering, bouncing, or even end up somehow completely disabling scrolling altogether. Do not try to get fancy and implement "momentum" into scrolling. You're changing a well-understood behavior into something that is unexpected and jarring, and likely it won't work anyways.
Do not change the scrolling amount. My wheel sensitivity and browser setting are configured so that 1-click ~= 2.5 lines of scrolling. Do not impose your preference of 1 click ~= 1 line on me. You do not know better than me.
And disabling zooming? WHO EVEN DECIDED THAT WEBSITES SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DO THIS?! It destroys accessibility! Sometimes there's text or an image that's just a little too small to recognize. I'd pinch to zoom in...but some moron front-end dev has adopted the beyond-bone-headed mentality of "removing features is a feature!" and makes their site tell the browser to not allow zooming because...why? Someone please, tell me why.
[0] I'm sure it's possible to write an extension that could do this, but any time you're manually setting the scroll position in code, you're bound to fuck it up. Rather just completely eliminate the ability to set the scroll position entirely.
As the poor sap who’s had to build lots of these types of sites, I’ll tell you that it’s not the devs that want this. It’s the damn client that keeps complaining about the “gravity” or the “momentum” or the “scroll speed” of the site. Locomotive.JS being the main thing clients want us to use… no amount of explanation of all your valid points will persuade them if “this one cool site we like had it”.
I will say this… the scroll speed being different between Chrome, Safari and Firefox doesn’t help our cause… wish these were normalized at the very least so we can avoid “it feels better in X, but we use Y browser” notes.
Allowing an easing function API for scroll would be a middle ground I could live with. It’s better than what we have now (a bunch of award winning sites emulating scroll with translates).
drewrbaker commented on The theory versus the practice of “static websites” utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/ingve
At my agency we probably build two custom sites a month. We used to do this with PHP WordPress templates, then we moved to Nuxt server side rendered on Node (Heroku), but now we are all static site Nuxt on Netlify and it’s SO MUCH better. Headless WordPress as backend. As long as you/client can deal with the build times it’s fantastic from a speed, SEO and uptime POV. Also just way cheaper to host it. Incremental Static Generation seems like the ideal solution, looking forward to that with Nuxt 3.
drewrbaker commented on Concord bank offers a 100-year CD concordmonitor.com/100-ye... · Posted by u/Octokiddie
Loans against a retirement account are treated as distributions under the tax code.
You are correct. I did not know that.
Explained here: https://finance.zacks.com/can-retirement-accounts-used-colla...