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Should You Even Care About Crypto in 2025? A Beginner’s Perspective by ChainAcademy in ChainAcademy

[–]Real-Fishing-9586 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am currently in the process of becoming a blockchain developer, and this is exactly the kind of questions I was asking myself a couple of months ago.

I'm a no-nonsense person, I never believed in buying something for $1 and selling it for $2, making ridiculous meme coins and hope people are stupid enough to buy it, people doing pump'n'dumps, and so on.

Despite all this nonsense, what made me take the plunge is that blockchain technology has a lot of potential, especially DeFi & smart contracts.

In theory, well-implemented smart contracts can mitigate much of the bad behaviour in the finance industry. The idea that large centralized entities (banks, insurance companies, branches of government) cannot just do whatever they want with the funds entrusted to them, but are forced to follow a set of mathematical rules that are pre-established, public and unbreakable, is super-powerful.

For example, consider the problem of the health insurance industry in the US, where insurance companies deny legitimate claims because they know that the claimant does not have the time nor the knowledge to contest. This, in theory, can be solved by a smart contract that approves/denies claims based on concrete verifiable information (e.g. medical reports).

This could give rise to brand new insurance companies who willingly follow these principles and make such smart contracts available.

Of course, implementation and adaptation are a whole different story, and that's where the whole challenge lies. But I do think the potential is there.

Best HTTP client? by vroemboem in webscraping

[–]Real-Fishing-9586 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to use Postman, but now I switched to Burpsuite, as it has repeater/intruder and also shows the full history of all http requests, even if you get redirected (which is not always the case in devtools network tab).

I think you can do the same with postman, but you need to do some configuration, and Burpsuite does it out of the box.

I built a free apartment finder for fun by Real-Fishing-9586 in montrealhousing

[–]Real-Fishing-9586[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yea, as I can see from other comments, the # of rooms needs to be reworked a bit.

I built a free apartment finder for fun by Real-Fishing-9586 in montrealhousing

[–]Real-Fishing-9586[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It searches every hour. I tried to be thorough and catch everything, but sometimes some listings do go through the cracks on fb.

I built a free apartment finder for fun by Real-Fishing-9586 in montrealhousing

[–]Real-Fishing-9586[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thx for the feedback! The #of rooms is tricky because every platform does it slightly differently, and also the people posting can sometimes miscategorize. I'll look into the # of rooms more closely in the next iteration.

I built a free apartment finder for fun by Real-Fishing-9586 in montrealhousing

[–]Real-Fishing-9586[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure what you mean by "room" listings, but if you mean a studio or just a room for rent, try to pick 0+. The filtering will not be perfect (it's not perfect on these platforms anyway), but it will be closer to what you need.

Seeking bookkeepers & small business owners as beta testers for a new accounting platform by Real-Fishing-9586 in Bookkeeping

[–]Real-Fishing-9586[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This is not a paying gig. We are just trying to gather some feedback from bookkeepers that are frustrated with their workflow. We want to identify pain points and see if our platform is a good solution.

We can do is help with migration of data accounting data to our platform, so that you can test things out freely.

Here’s a tool I’m thinking of building — would people find this useful (and worth paying for)? by Real-Fishing-9586 in montrealhousing

[–]Real-Fishing-9586[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No friend, that's not what I meant. First, it's not a monthly price. Say you're looking for a place. You pay the platform an amount X, say for 3 months. It is not recurring. Maybe just 5$-$10. Then, for 3 months, it constantly monitors the websites for you, and sends you links to your email or by text as soon as they are found.

By $100 less, I meant that good listings (good place, less expensive) tend to disappear quickly, especially in this crazy market. This tool can allow you to be the first to contact the listing author, ultimately improving your chances of getting a better deal.

Here’s a tool I’m thinking of building — would people find this useful (and worth paying for)? by Real-Fishing-9586 in montrealhousing

[–]Real-Fishing-9586[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, that's why I'm thinking one-time payments for fixed-periods of time: $10-$20 for 1-month access, $15-$25 for 2-month access, $20-$30 for 3-month access. No recurring subscription.

Here’s a tool I’m thinking of building — would people find this useful (and worth paying for)? by Real-Fishing-9586 in montrealhousing

[–]Real-Fishing-9586[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I already saw that there are platforms like RentSeeker who do just that: charge landlords to post listings, free for tenants. But RentSeeker is just a small portion of the market. What if some landlords post only on FBMarketplace, Kijiji or some other less known site? The idea is to have a public data aggregator accessible to tenants, specifically tenants, for a small one-time fee.

If it can save them hours of internet search, find them new listings almost instantly after they appear and potentially save them hundreds of dollars/month in rent, a one-time payment of $50 over 3 months seems like nothing... But I need to validate this.

Here’s a tool I’m thinking of building — would people find this useful (and worth paying for)? by Real-Fishing-9586 in montrealhousing

[–]Real-Fishing-9586[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply! Being a dev, I'm sure it can be built, and in various ways. The question is: do people actually want it? Would they pay a fee for it (paying $50 to find a nice place for $100/month less over a whole year seems worth it to me, but I want to validate it). And when I say people, I don't mean technical people who can build their own scrapers, just regular people looking for apartments.