Readit Newsvilvadot commented on Show HN: A color picker for named web colors arantius.github.io/web-co... · Posted by u/arantius
I'm not sure what the intent is, and what other people do with it, but I thoroughly _love_ having these named colours for when I'm hacking and prototyping. I can just start typing out a colour and autocomplete will show me a list. But I don't find myself ever using them in production.
Also: Finally, a tool to help me decide between greenyellow and yellowgreen.
Same here! I even did a little tool to generate random palettes to get nice combinations for my sketches.
vilvadot commented on Ask HN: How does one go about bringing a hardware product to market? · Posted by u/collyw
I highly recommend you check Michael Lynch's blog. He built a hardware product and documented his progress from the very start on his newsletter: https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot.
It has been pretty fascinating for me in comparison to al the digital product stuff I'm used to.
vilvadot commented on Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned · Posted by u/NithurM
Right!. But did you inform your customers that You were shutting down, what did you do with all the Datum that you collected(User Auth). Did You give them the opportunity for them to properly delete their account data stored on some DO droplet VPC waiting to be harvested?
Great questions! I thought a lot about those at the time, I didn't felt comfortable sitting on a pile of data waiting for an attacker to try get it. So this is what I did:
Once I decided I was going to kill the project, I removed the option to become a paying customer to not get more, waited for the last of my paying customers period to finish (it was a yearly subscription). And released an update that made the app work strictly locally, user data does not reach my server (edit: there is no server anymore) and stays in the user's browser (it works like that now).
Kept the data for a couple of weeks in case anyone wanted to recover it to help them use it with in the new "local" version, but enventually no one did, so finally I deleted my db. So right now I have no access whatsoever to that data.
vilvadot commented on Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned · Posted by u/NithurM
I launched ByteVitae (https://bytevitae.com/) a couple of years ago, got a decent launch here and in Product Hunt, a bunch of users the first days ~3500 and a steady influx of users over the following months. I didn't know how to convert most of those users to clients, didn't talk to them, lost all interest after the initial launch and moved on after an amazing -26€ in benefits :P
I learned so many things and was such a fruitful ride that for me it is far from a failure. But on the business side, definetly a complete failure!
Even wrote a little post mortem at the time: https://vilva.io/blog/1-year-of-building-reflections.
Lesson learned: Talk to your users. Don't neglect the business/marketing side, specially if you are a techie who loves to code. Talk to your users. It is a marathon run, forget about the overnight millionare launchs, the launch is the "easy" part, growing steady from there is the real challenge. Talk to your users!!
vilvadot commented on Explore Seasonal Fruit and Vegetables in Europe eufic.org/en/explore-seas... · Posted by u/mountainplus
Cool! In Spain we have a (IMO) much easier to use site: https://soydetemporada.es
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Being alive in itself is truly remarkable. I've made great friends. I've met people who ended up disappointing me greatly. I've married a smart, beautiful, ambitious woman twelve years ago. We've went through exhilarating ups and soulcrushing downs.
I've worked for a startup, which almost went under several times. I've worked for a corporate thresher which sucked life right out of me.
I've worked on niche projects in my spare time, which so far have amounted to nothing.
I've had panic attacks. I've experienced months of mania and perceived greatness.
Life is a present which keeps on giving. I'm grateful. Accomplishments are a matter of perception, experience in itself is utterly exhilarating to me.
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vilvadot commented on Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? · Posted by u/zachrip
There is this guy who is pretty well known in the spanish dev community:
https://www.xataka.com/otros/soy-ciego-nacimiento-asi-mi-tra...
He often talks at conferences about his situation and setup, so if you understand spanish you might be able to find quite a lot on this. Also it might be worth a shot contacting him for more info.
Best of luck with your new adventure.
vilvadot commented on Show HN: I made an extension that adds time cost to Amazon products moneyistime.vilva.io/... · Posted by u/vilvadot
I like the idea, what are the chrome permissions like? Is the code open-source so I can analyze?
Sure, you can find the repo in the site, here it is: https://github.com/vilvadot/money-is-time/
Only explicitily asks for storage access to set a flag when the extension is enabled and to save the hourly rate.
It does have access to execute the code on amazon too, which basically is reading info from html and inject another html node.
It reminded me of Cory from Strangeparts, he had a concussion and seems to be handling it quite well, even recovering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs790JOeN3Y. Hope it can help you somehow.
Hope you best of luck with whatever you decide to pursue.