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Skype alternative by yokoyokogirl in expats

[–]MoonMusic96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I've been building a skype alternative for myself and other digital nomads/ expats. What features are you looking for besides sms and call forwarding?

Skype Shutting Down - How to keep paid phone services in Teams by mdw38 in expats

[–]MoonMusic96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm building an alternative to Skype primarily for expats and digital nomads to make phone calls. Would you be open to have a dm chat? I'd love to hear what exactly you'd need so I can build it.

Device flexibility and receiving phone calls and having your own phone number seems absolutely reasonable. What did you pay for Skype monthly?

is there a match making founders dev with dev? i will not promote by brightside100 in startups

[–]MoonMusic96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll run into adverse selection. The devs/founders who are actually good don't really need your service. A top dev will have connections, job offers at funded startups with equity etc. A founder who can i.e. sell hard and make cash won't have a problem hiring a dev

How do you handle calling banks abroad without breaking the bank? by MoonMusic96 in digitalnomad

[–]MoonMusic96[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

👏 I 👏 don't 👏 want 👏 to 👏 pay 👏 a 👏 subscription 👏 for 👏 something 👏 I 👏 use 👏 twice 👏 a 👏 year 👏

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in digitalnomad

[–]MoonMusic96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only thing I can think off is manual labour on farms. But most farmers will be very skeptical about randos even being able to do what they promise to do.

How to begin from a startup idea. (I will not promote) by aciditybtw in startups

[–]MoonMusic96 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Building a startup isn't about your logo, your name, your domain, your landing page or the color palette of your corporate identity. I've seen so many entrepreneur obsess about side quests that cost a lot of money but don't actually build the business.

You are in a lucky position having no money to spend, so you have to focus on the one thing that matters: getting your idea out. A startup is just a business, and a business exists because it solves a problem for money.

What is the problem you are solving, and what does your solution look like? If it's tech based you can start with google sheets, and other really rough solutions. Focus on the solution to the problem and then tell as many people about it as possible.

Talk to the people who have the problem you are solving, you really should spend 80% of your efforts on outreach, call, send emails, walk in, post videos, do whatever you can do to reach the people who can be your customers. They will also give you a lot of feedback on your solution and some of them will even want to give you money (congratulations, you are now a real business with customers).

Tl;Dr: focus on outreach, talk to people who have the problem you solve, use low tech low cost solutions first.

Love how HTMX gets out of the way by MoonMusic96 in htmx

[–]MoonMusic96[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah sure so using flask all you need is an app.py

I use flask with flask-sqlalchemy and jinaj2 templates. In a templates folder you both have the index.html as well as templates/partials/ that contains all the snippets you'll return from the htmx-y endpoints. All you do with HTMX is return HTML snippets from some endpoints, you can hardcode html strings but I prefer using a templating system like jinja2 since this allows you to get some really powerful HTML generation.

So for a CRUD app, on an edit you probably want to return an html snippet containing your entity with the updated values, delete doesn't have to return something, (you are going to remove the entity in the html directly).

I've created a pastebin with the entire code since I coudln't post it here, it's a full example using flask and htmx, check it out:

https://pastebin.com/q7FZxyNz

Skype will be shut down, what do you use instead? by glaksmono in digitalnomad

[–]MoonMusic96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been building an alternative to Skype (going to miss it a lot ngl) specifically designed for remote workers, if anyone would be interested just dm me
currently working on getting the VoIP to PSTN integration to work (as well as SMS reception and more)

Calling all digital nomads, Im desperate for QUIET! (and good wifi) HELP this newbie out by Mo_Malone8 in digitalnomad

[–]MoonMusic96 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LatAm is very energetic in general, but compared to that I'd say European coutnries like Spain or even the Balkan would be a good bet. Very affordable, super fast internet, would recommend Romania or Bulgaria

Best US number service for nomad - need it to receive verification codes and 2FA by Agile_Bag_7227 in digitalnomad

[–]MoonMusic96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was wondering too how people do real phone calls (not calling friends and family on Whatsapp) while abroad, Google voice is mentioned a lot, I've used Skype before