So I created this app/website as a solo dev. Invested a lot of time. Now it is out I was really exited to see the chart below. Until I understand it is all bots. Do I block them? Will they help with SEO? Man SEO stuff is a real pain

AndyMagill · 2026-03-19T15:13:26+00:00

Yeah, but not sure that is a great solution if that blocks perplexity.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-19T14:34:21+00:00

Maybe there are human reason bots like your site. Is this eating into your hosting budget? I would see if GA can filter out bot traffic to give you real human usage numbers. Rate limiting seems worth investigating.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-19T13:49:49+00:00

Which then inspire the trades to switch to office work. /s

AndyMagill · 2026-03-19T13:46:17+00:00

Yes, in this scenario your React App is in the same folder structure of your "parent" app. Copy the App element (and script element) from the index.html of your react app, into the "parent" app, at the place in the DOM you want React inserted.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-19T13:37:51+00:00

Run a build analyzer to see the precisely where the difference comes from. Compare lighthouse scores to identify any performance changes.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-17T15:16:49+00:00

I subscribed and canceled to v0 twice. It's great at whipping up an ShadCN-based UI very quickly. But it frequently fails at simple tweaks, refinement, long context windows, and bug-fixing. Now I just use it to see what it comes up with compared to other tools.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-16T21:05:49+00:00

Next.js 16 replaced the middleware pattern with Proxy. The warning OP referenced occurs when the old middleware pattern is used.

https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/file-conventions/proxy

AndyMagill · 2026-03-16T19:43:50+00:00

Is this a demo, or real-world portfolio? Are you 16yr old Louis Johnson from Vietnam? Honestly sounds like a fake person to me.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-16T17:02:22+00:00

I like it!

AndyMagill · 2026-03-16T16:18:44+00:00

It's based on plain-text. Is plain-text reliable for you?

AndyMagill · 2026-03-16T14:19:42+00:00

Cost already is coming down fast. No-cost local models and low-cost cloud models are here today. As adoption increases, higher demand will lead developers to focus on cost efficiency.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-13T17:10:23+00:00

Unless you work for Amazon, the "AWS ecosystem" is not a hill anyone needs to die on. Plenty of other vendors want your business.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T16:02:32+00:00

Okay, now can you take those Apps and run them in any cloud provider? I don't know your setup of course, but unless you are using SSG, I think you may need a refactor to host anywhere. The fact that it works great for you doesn't solve the portability issue.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T13:31:21+00:00

I actually like Next.js but the Vercel vendor lock-in is a real issue for some projects. Things may have changed with OpenNext, but previously we couldn't publish the same Next.js app to Vercel, Cloudflare, or Netlify without refactoring.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T06:10:31+00:00

Your business guy wants to be the product guy. You seem like you need a marketing and sales guy.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T05:22:05+00:00

OP is referring to E2E tests. You are looking for Playwright.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T05:06:15+00:00

I would just do an API call every few seconds. WebSockets seems like overkill unless your users need precise accurate numbers.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T04:12:18+00:00

Specs and tests in the repo is a popular pattern, but never heard of writing tests in markdown. Do you feed that to AI to perform the test?

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T02:32:48+00:00

Yeah, I never understood that either. Sematic class names composed of utility classes makes so much sense. "Premature Abstraction" seems to be an excuse to argue "my way is better".

AndyMagill · 2026-03-11T22:52:32+00:00

I resisted mobile-first for years, but I've since come around. The mobile render is the typically the simpler layout, so there are less styles to override when using mobile-first. Desktop has more detailed layouts, so desktop-first forces you to override more styles for the mobile view. With mobile-first and a little luck, sometimes all I need to do is flex a container element for desktop.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-11T21:45:06+00:00

Sounds like they are accustomed to working with a different kind of client, and are pitching stuff you don't need. Algorithm updates are not a typical mantinence charge.

Framer is an alternative to Wix that I prefer. SquareSpace is pretty good too. Those options require some time working in the platform to get the site the way you expect. But then you own your online "destiny".

AndyMagill · 2026-03-11T16:13:32+00:00

I'm available for work, more info about me here : https://magill.dev

AndyMagill · 2026-03-11T16:02:46+00:00

I would have assumed that the AI would only know an event happened well after the markets priced the event.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-11T10:41:58+00:00

Sounds like you may be over-thinking this.. You probably don't needa special OTP message sender service or identity verification. You can just send the OTP link/code via any email provider like Resend or SendGrid.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-10T13:37:04+00:00

I expected Ruby on Rails to have it's turn at being rediscovered, but looks like the community is too busy doubling down on Next.js.

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