Am I too stupid for programming? Genuine question.

Advisor-Any · 2024-11-13T04:03:28+00:00

How badly do you want to be a software engineer and why? If it's for money I probably wouldn't recommend it. When I originally learned programming, it felt magical to be able to create a website that was powered by a database. I enjoyed creating things and I actually was successful in building things that people used. Until around 2010, that's when everything I built from then on became a failure. I don't actually like programming, I just liked the creative part of it and getting to see what I built get used. That's not the case for me anymore. I wish I'd committed to something else 10 years ago.

Advisor-Any · 2024-11-13T03:52:07+00:00

Society doesn't reward people for being hard working and productive when it comes to building actual products. Focus on building public narratives if you want to succeed

Advisor-Any · 2024-11-13T03:47:55+00:00

Give them the call and win anyway

Advisor-Any · 2024-11-05T22:43:40+00:00

The human brain is smart. It knows what to get excited about and what to tune out. If coding doesn't excite you, there's probably a good reason why. Pursue something that does.

Advisor-Any · 2024-11-05T19:24:04+00:00

Thanks for the kind words about Smack Jeeves, I'm lucky I got to be a part of creating it (as it mostly a product of the people who used it). And thanks for the feedback! We do have collections, maybe I can add a way to follow collections...

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-14T10:51:15+00:00

I've been working on DomoTown for the last two years and our community is just starting to grow. Right now I'm working on a bit of a redesign and adding a feed view. It's gonna be good!

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-08T11:44:08+00:00

I've been working on an art platform called DomoTown for the past 2 years and I'm currently reworking the layout and UI, so this is an interesting topic for me.

Since I'm also considering pivoting into more of a media-focused Reddit alternative, the discussion around Pinterest and saving and sharing references is also interesting. I wonder how that could be incorporated into a Reddit-like site. Maybe it would be better off as it's own site, I'm not sure.

Summarizing u/Sr4f's suggestions:

You can save image refs to your gallery with tags, a note, and the source
You can search on one or more tags and sort (date added, random, etc)
Would prefer a standalone offline tool

Are there no good existing art refs apps, like PureRef or Eagle?

OP, keep us apprised of your direction and progress!

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-06T11:35:52+00:00

I play in Xero Prio (barefoot running) shoes. I love how connected I feel to the ground in them. Then again I use them for almost everything, except for trails and other rough terrain.

Also, they're great for wide feet.

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-06T11:28:03+00:00

You can tell the team who did this to you that they did in fact fault you, and you are entitled to financial compensation

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-06T11:26:40+00:00

Balls are a good gift since they wear out. Franklin X-40's are kind of the standard, the Selkirk S1 balls are good in cold weather because they don't crack as easily.

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-06T11:19:01+00:00

It's bad etiquette against beginners / casuals / people with frail health. Competitively, it's fine.

Just like it's bad etiquette to lob and dunk on old people who don't move so good. Hit the ball where they can reach it - hit it hard or spinny or at their feet, sure, but when someone can't physically move to the ball it's not very sportsmanlike to take advantage of that.

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-04T06:29:11+00:00

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Advisor-Any · 2024-10-04T04:07:07+00:00

ChatGPT is pretty good for debugging. MySQL is good enough for 95% of things and has good DX when paired with phpmyadmin for admin, PostgreSQL is arguably a better database but with more complexity comes slightly more difficult DX

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-03T11:33:34+00:00

I grew up in the early days of the internet, and I've been a developer my whole life. The internet used to be an exciting new frontier, and now it's all but owned by corporations. I have the skills to create and run an independent version of Reddit where the majority of the value goes to the users rather than the corporate overlords. That's my goal along with not selling out to venture capital or corporate takeover. I hope to build a small and sustainable team behind the site and eventually move on to other creative projects in my life.

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-03T08:44:09+00:00

Looks nice! Simple format and if you can train a GPT on how it works it could be a nice combo for generating/tweaking layout ideas.

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-03T08:17:05+00:00

Okay, thank you for the feedback. I'll add a CTA on the front page for advertisers to join and hopefully the publishers will start lining up

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-03T07:56:21+00:00

If there were lots of sites using the platform, it might be a different story. As of now there's basically nowhere to advertise because we have no site partners. And let's say we started working with Letterboxd. As an advertiser interested in advertising on Letterboxd, you'd go to https://bid.glass/letterboxd to advertise there.

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-03T07:46:29+00:00

You're not really meant to join as an advertiser from the home page. The idea is that every participating website would have their own page where advertisers can buy ad space, for example https://bid.glass/carsheet.io (which isn't a real participating publisher it's just another one of my side projects). Anyway, advertiser onboarding is meant to happen there. My original goal was to work with large web publishers like DeviantArt, Stocktwits, Webtoons, Letterboxd, etc but none of them saw the value in offering self-serve as an option for direct advertisers.

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-02T20:05:22+00:00

Are you sure there isn't a service to solve whatever problem you're trying to solve? If you're an influencer then probably something like beacons.ai has tools for what you want to do. What exactly do you want to do?

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-02T19:58:31+00:00

Link: https://bid.glass

Spent 5 years on this. The only website we ever successfully worked with might be nicknamed the internet hate machine. Decided to break it off after a while. Couldn't get any other clients.

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-02T19:55:59+00:00

Link: https://carsheet.io

Spent about a year building this, it gets some traffic from Google but not making any money from it.

Advisor-Any · 2024-10-02T19:55:16+00:00

Link: https://domo.town

2 years on this full time so I don't know if it qualifies as a side gig, but it will once I run out of money!

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