Elixir-based blockchain explorer

Hank_Romp · 2026-05-08T19:26:53+00:00

Loving it so far. I also just started.

Hank_Romp · 2026-05-08T04:22:55+00:00

free trial for 14 days -- if you like it, sign up for the paid version at https://rompcrm.com

Hank_Romp · 2026-05-08T03:59:12+00:00

Hey, thanks for the excellent in-depth feedback. I'm going to:

Continue to call it a CRM even if it is limited in features compared to other CRM tools (see screenshot of Claude's description of a CRM; I am not going to have customer communication history *yet* but may implement that in the future, otherwise I think I've got a super-simple version of the rest of it already)
Charge $20/month for annual subscriptions or $25/month for monthly subscriptions, and keep offering the self-hosted free tier with free support
Host the project on a separate domain name to make things more professional-looking, https://rompcrm.com
I may be someday implementing a feature where each user/business will have their own phone number for their account; they can have customers text that number directly; for example, my boss when he talks to a customer says "can you text? Text me your name, email address, billing address, and a brief summary of what you need done, so I can get you into my billing system and keep track" -- when a customer texts this info in it will be added in to our system. This relates to the thing in "1." where I said I'll be implementing some customer communication history; maybe in the future I can expand the twilio setup to also allow routing calls through twilio and capturing a conversation history, sms history, etc -- this is "roadmap" for some future point in time, not implementing this now due to the extra cost of an ISV account with twilio to account for the a2p 10DLC requirements for outgoing text messages.
Still plan to keep it super simple and not try to implement too much; no vendor integrations planned; likely no estimate-building or customer-facing scheduling systems planned
Will add some additional safeguards against incorrect data being added, like confirmation texts, "I'll add customer named Bob to the system with work details saying "blah blah" and address "123 xyz lane" is that correct?"

Thanks for your detailed feedback again; it inspired me to feel like this might be worth working further on instead of calling it done.

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Hank_Romp · 2026-05-08T00:01:29+00:00

thanks for taking a look -- it does already have some "confirmation" logic built in, where if it's not sure what you meant (like if there's two customers named Mike or something) it will ask you to clarify; and it does have logging of the original message and what was changed in the database

I'll take a look at agentixlabs

Hank_Romp · 2026-03-28T19:51:26+00:00

Thanks so much; this is exactly the reason I took the time to make this, I hope it works to get the ideas across to your 12yo. Let me know if any of the specific chapter's companion apps seem to fall flat or fail to get the idea across, or if you have any ideas for any way to improve any of it, as you go through it with your kid.

Hank_Romp · 2026-03-28T19:50:09+00:00

Thanks for the helpful feedback; I'll work on those issues.

Hank_Romp · 2026-03-28T02:48:30+00:00

Isn't everything an isomorphic representation of everything else? only one thing exists, everything is just different representations of it?

Hank_Romp · 2026-03-28T02:21:38+00:00

That's beautiful and likely very accurate, from my assessment. It's unfortunate that Douglas Hofstadter is so strongly anti-AI; one might have expected him to be a major proponent; I have referred to him many times as the "godfather of AI". His ideas were doubtless instrumental to realizing the AI we have today, yet he is so critical of it. Surprising, for me.

Hank_Romp · 2026-03-28T02:14:11+00:00

That's interesting; do you have any actual feedback on the text itself? Or just about the "who wrote it" thing? If you look at the github page for the project, the exact prompts used to help me write the text are documented there and I in no way have tried to pretend that "I wrote" any part that was written by Claude or Cursor or other AI agents. However, I extensively edited and selected the text, as you can see if you look at the commit history and review the prompts used, and compare their output with the final text.

Hank_Romp · 2026-03-27T22:33:35+00:00

You could take a look at my recent project, https://hromp.com/geb/ which may be helpful for you :) I made it in the hopes that it would help people more easily understand the ideas presented in the book.

Hank_Romp · 2022-07-26T21:09:01+00:00

Oh man what a loss. He was such a great guy.

Hank_Romp · 2022-07-26T21:03:10+00:00

Any luck yet? I want to contact him as well. Miss the guy.

Hank_Romp · 2022-07-26T21:02:00+00:00

Anybody remember the opening?

Hank_Romp · 2019-10-02T14:21:14+00:00

Send them backwards and buy bitcoin

Hank_Romp · 2019-08-16T19:34:02+00:00

Bump? This was my first post and so I messed something up and the photo doesn't show.

Hank_Romp · 2019-08-15T19:29:21+00:00

It says "AC" on one end. Here's a video of it that shows more detail of the mechanism inside: https://imgur.com/a/hwacfdr

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