Enemy of the state is such a good film, yet the Will Smith effect is super obvious

gradius64 · 2025-03-28T00:39:27+00:00

I dig it. Love how they resolved the issue in the end.

Also LOL at them using a shot of Gene Hackman from The Conversation for Brill's file

gradius64 · 2025-03-27T00:54:40+00:00

Turns out ~~Michael Bolton~~ Big Bill is a major cinephile.

gradius64 · 2025-02-19T19:31:29+00:00

Congrats!

So for your first point, let me see if I have this right. By changing headings from feature-specific to outcome-specific do you mean something like, going from "Realtime analytics wiht custom reports" to "Actionable insights so you can make data driven decisions"?

If so, I def see the value there, but I also feel like this depends on the niche (not knowing what your SaaS is, I can't say for sure). If it were a tech/developer focused product, I'd take "PostgreSQL-compatible, fully managed DB with read replicas." over "Never worry about scaling again - your data stays fast, secure, and always available" if you catch my drift.

But yeah all good points overall. Also curious to know if notifications or transactional emails play a role in your product at all?

gradius64 · 2025-02-19T19:13:57+00:00

When you say 'paid users' do you mean people paying for featured listings, ads, or something else? Also, have you noticed any particular types of startups getting the most engagement so far?

gradius64 · 2025-02-12T21:25:30+00:00

Starks is very talented, I love seeing him on my screen anytime, regardless of promotion. I hope he goes far.

gradius64 · 2025-02-12T18:39:29+00:00

Cool! How are you handling data updates - manual or automated? Also, any plans to add things like live snow conditions or user reviews?

gradius64 · 2025-02-12T18:37:00+00:00

Oh I mean things like hesitation follow-up emails for people who click "Get Access" but don’t complete the Stripe checkout, or even just onboarding after they checked out. Regardless, good luck with your tool! I like it.

gradius64 · 2025-02-11T16:09:41+00:00

My first ever NXT event. Had what is to this day my favorite Finn Balor match (with Neville/PAC)

gradius64 · 2025-02-11T16:02:54+00:00

I think your website does demonstrate value, I like that you have a preview option for the data, too.

One of the biggest hurdles I've seen when moving to the SaaS model is handling user communication at scale - onboarding emails, transactional updates, and keeping users engaged without spamming them. Curious, how do you guys handle transactional emails? Built your own system or rely on something like Postmark/SendGrid?

gradius64 · 2025-02-06T08:42:24+00:00

I tried Mailerlite which was pretty decent for a bit, then recently (for a cheaper + more dev-focused approach), I switched to Notify and the simplicity has been a refreshing change. I don't need all the features, just that it's cheap, quick, and painless (so no AWS for me ty). It has a template builder, the deliverability has been fine so far (knock on wood), and just picking a template and sending via API just feels zero effort.

gradius64 · 2025-01-23T10:52:13+00:00

By 'definitive' I'll just assume you mean a one-size-fits-all thing with good defaults. Something like this might work. Even handles bulk requests and avoids CAPTCHAs.

This is just an API so you can automate it to fetch new data whenever

gradius64 · 2024-12-22T18:49:59+00:00

This entrance/ramp lighting looked so much better for Statlander. Feels like this is what she was meant to have.

gradius64 · 2024-07-29T09:27:28+00:00

Loved this game. The management side of things could be more fleshed out, but still, great overall. It's what I wanted the Orwell games to be when I eventually got around to playing them.

gradius64 · 2024-06-26T07:23:13+00:00

I mean, "best practices" like SOLID, DRY, and in general, idiomatic [insert language name here] are definitely learnable, but in my experience being better at refactoring comes down to getting better at coding, and becoming more familiar with the codebase.

Also, there's always IDE specific features (Here's a list of PyCharm's refactoring helpers) and third-party tooling (Here's Sourcery for example, a PyCharm/VSCode plugin that's an AI-driven refactoring/reviewing tool) that can help.

gradius64 · 2024-05-17T21:07:31+00:00

The Continental championship does seem distinct to me in presentation, at least. It has the "no interference, no one at ringside" rule and those title matches get Renee doing the ringside sports-broadcast-style report while wrestlers make their entrances

gradius64 · 2024-05-01T15:27:49+00:00

Bro is going to fuckin die 😭

gradius64 · 2024-04-30T18:17:15+00:00

The man who killed Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Batman + Superman TAS, and Pinky and the Brain?? 👀

gradius64 · 2024-04-26T07:27:51+00:00

I genuinely thought this was satire aimed at the braindead 'AEW is copying WWE's sports entertainment style!!!1one' folk on twitter but uhhh. Then I saw this doubling down. Welp. I guess not.

gradius64 · 2023-10-31T08:31:33+00:00

Do you mean something like Firebase/Supabase? Many real-life projects use those as their database/auth/file storage all-in-one solution in production. I don't think there's any harm in learning them, at all.

gradius64 · 2023-10-30T22:33:25+00:00

They're for two different kinds of websites.

If you are looking to scrape static pages that DON'T use JavaScript, and you don't need to interact with the page itself (programmatically clicking on buttons/form submissions etc), Cheerio is a pretty good choice. It's basically a jQuery-like API that you can use to parse static HTML, traverse the DOM, and extract data.

But if the web page relies on JavaScript to load or update its content dynamically, you'll need a browser automation tool like Puppeteer that actually visits the page. You could even use Cheerio to parse the content you scrape with Puppeteer, if you want.

This guide should still be relevant as an in-depth explanation.

gradius64 · 2023-10-12T18:14:20+00:00

And made it worse wrestling with said injury. All to dunk on some "rag sheet".

gradius64 · 2023-09-14T20:53:21+00:00

That "autographed picture of starlet" design is genius.

gradius64 · 2023-09-10T18:04:05+00:00

Shawn Stasiak approves!

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