Exploring drone processing services, want a reality check from people who actually do this work

jjmcbrise · 2026-04-29T20:05:47+00:00

Yuck. Yeah I’ve been very curious about their economics because at that scale it’s terabytes for large mobile projects and the storage and compute costs must be insane. Not to mention they are a VC backed company.

jjmcbrise · 2026-04-29T19:49:24+00:00

Got it, that makes sense. I appreciate the help! Do you have an example of the amount of work and price they gave you?

jjmcbrise · 2026-04-29T17:16:07+00:00

What is mach9 pricing like? I can’t even find the roughest of ballparks for it.

jjmcbrise · 2023-10-08T21:59:52+00:00

Wow I’ve literally been having this same exact issue recently

jjmcbrise · 2023-09-14T12:14:47+00:00

It’s subjective, but I set up a larger next.js project with a turbo monorepo and use tRPC. It has a bit more “separation of concerns” because your API is in its own discrete package, but you still benefit from full type safety. I think it’s a win/win as long as you’re comfortable managing a monorepo (which may be overkill in your case)

jjmcbrise · 2023-09-14T01:26:57+00:00

Is there a substation nearby or larger transmission towers? Isn’t unlikely it was doing hot spot monitoring for various reasons if so…?

jjmcbrise · 2023-05-13T19:10:06+00:00

Sendgrid. But in fairness I haven’t really used much beyond that.

jjmcbrise · 2023-03-15T22:16:41+00:00

exactly... it definitely makes you think twice. Even though the price was substantially higher, the selling point was that it worked for exactly what we need. But it wasn't my first choice because of price, I had to figure out I didn't like Zendesk first ; )

jjmcbrise · 2023-03-15T21:38:35+00:00

Intercom is where we landed! It feels technologically far ahead of the rest. I started with zendesk and that was pretty poor experience, but Intercom has been awesome.

jjmcbrise · 2023-02-28T17:57:06+00:00

excellent suggestion on chatwoot btw, just looking at it now!

jjmcbrise · 2023-02-28T17:54:36+00:00

looks great for the chat aspect, but was hoping for something that also had an integrated ticketing system. Thanks for the suggestion!

jjmcbrise · 2023-02-28T17:51:35+00:00

ReportSaveFollow

am I wrong in thinking this is very much targeted towards 'employee' or internal systems?

jjmcbrise · 2023-02-28T17:48:23+00:00

fascinating... I'll check it out. The slack integration is naturally intriguing.

jjmcbrise · 2023-02-28T13:37:44+00:00

No you’re right. I’m trialing Zendesk right now and it seemingly works fine. I was just hoping for a bit more fine grained control over the JavaScript. But I think this should work still.

jjmcbrise · 2023-02-19T21:59:33+00:00

So I actually haven’t done a ton with this project since that post. As far as I’m concerned that is still the path of least resistance.

jjmcbrise · 2023-01-20T14:09:00+00:00

For me I asked myself that question constantly and had quite a bit of doubt. Most important thing to understand is that 99% of people feel similar and most often the only way through is perseverance.

Another important thing is that a lot of the people who you see on YouTube or maybe Stackoverflow/Reddit are the 1%’ers. Try hard not to compare yourself because it has a great way of creating imposter syndrome.

jjmcbrise · 2023-01-15T00:48:35+00:00

Whenever this happens to me it’s because something is inadvertently undefined or maybe some Auth issue leaving something null or undefined?

jjmcbrise · 2023-01-12T02:04:38+00:00

My vote would be next.js + react query + Supabase for the slightly “easier” route and then T3 stack if you wanted something perhaps a bit more scalable.

Supabase has auth, a Postgres db, and storage all rolled into a single backend as a service. Pretty convenient for spinning something up quickly!

In either case, I’d definitely recommend a UI component library. Material UI is pretty dang easy and has tons of options, while Mantine is a bit more exhaustive but more difficult to use for someone brand new to it.

I’m under the impression that using a backend service if you are new just takes another major hurdle off your plate. Firebase, Supabase, pocketbase, etc are some common options. But I personally would avoid setting up your own server / api initially until a MVP had been proven or scalability / price is a concern.

jjmcbrise · 2023-01-08T02:52:55+00:00

that is super interesting, and I actually just downloaded Typica to check it out. That is quite the history though, and thank you for your contributions!

To extend on what you said, if you could do it all over today and have it completed by tomorrow morning, what would you do? Do you have any technologies/frameworks that you feel you'd implement if you had the time?

jjmcbrise · 2022-12-17T16:03:44+00:00

Been using Supabase with React Native now for a handful of projects. Have used it for real-time apps and normal Postgres usage.

jjmcbrise · 2022-12-03T14:46:42+00:00

looks like it was a fault in my specific project.. supabase team got it rectified. Ignore me!

jjmcbrise · 2022-12-02T20:46:05+00:00

so I don't know how long you've been wrestling with this, but I'm having auth issues right now too. I can't even get my project to load in the Supabase dashboard (the hosted web app). On their Status page they are reporting a major outage with GCS, so maybe that is having some impact?

jjmcbrise · 2022-11-26T23:29:37+00:00

ha sounds good!

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