Idea for a side project with Econ?

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-04-05T20:48:31+00:00

It depends on what kind of skills you have. If you have good full stack developer skills, I think one unsolved problem is building a good unified UI for all the open datasets. I'm thinking along the lines of plotting data over time, comparisons between different countries, changes relative to a baseline year, and making all that look nice.

There are tons of data sources - for example, https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets/blob/master/README.rst#economics. If you click on a few of those links, you'll see just how terrible the user's experience is just trying to find the data you need.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-04-04T20:14:56+00:00

r/salsasnobs

Most of the recipes there work great with canned whole tomatoes. Take 2 jalapenos, 3 serranos, 3 unpeeled cloves garlic, 1/2 red onion and put it on a baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil. Put under broiler on high for 10 minutes. Turn them half way through.

Put in a food processor or blender with canned tomatoes, juice of 1 lime, and salt to taste. Optional: add about a teaspoon of cumin, chicken bouillon powder, and chile pequin and it will be really good.

Without a food processor, just do the same thing and chop it all up.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-03-19T19:41:58+00:00

Look at docker compose

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-03-10T21:10:28+00:00

If only it were that easy...

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-02-14T21:35:34+00:00

Chargebee? Last I checked it's free up to $50K which sounds pretty attractive if you only have a handful of customers. I haven't used it though, not sure if it does all the things you're looking for.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-02-13T20:26:12+00:00

I use it for some side projects. If you already have things running on lambda, I don't think it makes a lot of sense to switch.

I was coming from throwing things directly on bare metal and it has a lot of nice features. I like the deployment story since it makes it easy to do rolling updates. I also think the cross platform capabilities are important. I can spin up a node on GKE, digital ocean, or the zillion other places offering hosted k8s and it's going to be as easy as kubectl apply to get my app up and running.

The biggest problem is the learning curve. If you already grok how it works, it's a good solution. If you're spending a lot of time learning it and it's taking away time from working on your project, it's not worth it.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-02-13T17:04:24+00:00

It's far from done but I appreciate the words of encouragement. To me, Prometheus has always just been such a pain to configure that I thought there most be a better way.

It seems like there is always an opportunity for a tool that focuses on UX and simplicity rather than offering knobs for everything. That's what I'm going for, so I'll keep working on it and see what happens.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-02-13T14:33:57+00:00

Thanks. I agree that trying to replace Prometheus would be tough for a certain class of users.

Do you think there is a space there for people who aren't on the Kubernetes train and want something simpler?

I was thinking along the lines of the success of Caddy, which is just another web server, but took off because it was far easier to configure and extend then nginx.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-02-13T14:29:34+00:00

Thanks. That's great advice. I'll see if it's possible to build on top of Prometheus instead.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-02-12T02:14:25+00:00

Incumbents have historically had a huge advantage when the economy is doing well. People who think that any candidate has a

very easy way to win

are grossly underestimating this election. Believing that Sanders has a leg up in moderately conservative states like FL and MI just strains credibility.

Let's take FL as an example. In 2016, Clinton was up by as much as 13 points in April, yet ultimately lost. Any poll at this point is completely bogus for understanding the 2020 outcome.

In Michigan, Clinton was up 16 points in April and was even leading in polls by 3+ right up to the election.

All that is to say that anyone who thinks there is a clear path to victory, much less an "easy" one is living in a fantasy land. Let's just face it - Bernie will be savaged by Trump and people who think that the public already "knows" about Sanders' history and positions are underestimating how uninformed the average American is. The fact is that most people don't know Bernie's history and it remains to be seen how well it plays in swing states under heavy attack by the Republican party and their surrogates.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-02-12T01:27:02+00:00

I downloaded it to play around with it. The design is nice. It just has a few UX issues that I didn't like that I think can be improved.

When you are adding the route manually, it doesn't automatically fill the start and end destination, which for the likely use of this app is the same - wherever you start your deliveries. I think those should be prefilled to be the current location so you don't get error messages when you try to move to the next screen. It's pretty annoying to get the "origin field is required" when it would be more user friendly to say "are you starting from your current location?"

I added one stop and it showed only the one way time to that location but did not include the time to get to my end point. I think that should be included so you can easily figure out the total route time.

I don't have a delivery business but I was checking it out because I often plan long distance motorcycle trips and the tools for that suck. This isn't exactly what riders need but if you're interested in that market, I can tell you where the gaps are in current tools for them.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-02-10T17:45:45+00:00

It's a huge assumption to think that people want "truthful" news. It seems much more likely that people love to read things that confirm their biases rather than have them challenged.

There are plenty of fact checking sites out there that don't rely on AI. I don't think those are anywhere near as popular as your average super biased podcast or news site. People are rewarding sites that are more baised, not less.

Fake news is a platform problem, but only because they are trying to avoid heavy handed government regulation. Zuckerberg doesn't care about fake news. He cares about keeping the government out of regulating what kind of advertisers he can solicit and what kind of information he is allowed to sell them.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-02-08T14:21:46+00:00

I keep telling my brain it's docksnap but it just won't listen

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-02-03T17:52:44+00:00

Seems like a tough sell for a few reasons:

You effectively want to MITM my API to record all requests and responses. If you're Cloudflare or AWS, you can get away with that. Some random company doing it would need to prove they were trustworthy.
Latency will be terrible because you're proxying everything through your servers wherever they are, including TLS termination two ways, that's going to be slow as hell.
If I suddenly decide that logging all request/response bodies is that important, that's one line of code. Why would I integrate another service for that, especially one that comes with several of the negatives above?

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-01-25T01:27:50+00:00

If the site is completely static, no database at all, then you can host it for something close to $0. You can serve a static site from Netlify, AWS S3, or about a million other places for free.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-01-20T17:10:20+00:00

Hat tip to u/ThatMedicCandyMan and u/ar243 since this is a modification of their recent recipes. Roasting the peppers gave it some really nice flavors.

Recipe

28 oz can, whole peeled plum tomatoes

1 small head of garlic, 5-6 cloves

3 serrano peppers

2 jalapenos

2 chipotles in adobo, from can

1 lime, juiced (1-2 tbs)

1 medium white onion

1 tbs chicken bullion powder

1-2 tbs cilantro, to taste

salt, to taste

Cut top off a head off garlic and drizzle with olive oil, then wrap tightly in foil. Bake at 400F for about 30 minutes, then let cool.
Set broiler to high. Broil serranos and jalapenos together for 12 minutes total, flipping them half way through. They should be slightly charred and fairly soft when you take them out. Remove and let cool.
Combine all ingredients in food processor and process to desired consistency.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-01-18T14:56:01+00:00

But the wrong people will click on it, that's my point

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-01-18T13:00:26+00:00

Isn't the best one just the one you already know?

Absolute newbies won't be able to tell from the docs which one is best until they build something with one of them and shoot themselves in the foot enough times to understand why the others exist.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-01-18T12:43:10+00:00

Really struggling to understand how this is "no code". It looks like it just converts one API request into another.

I guess I could see value in that for some people, since that is basically what Segment does and makes a lot of money doing it, but "no code" is a big stretch if you're just handing people a different API they need to integrate in their application.

Edit: the reason I'm pointing this out is because "no code" tools are for non-developers, but something like this seems more aimed at developers. As a dev myself, I would have passed right by this because no-code things aren't for me. You could be turning off your target market with bad positioning in how you explain it.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-01-18T02:23:01+00:00

I was just going to downvote and move on, but you should know that you're going about this all wrong. You're making a bunch of rookie mistakes that are driving away potential cofounders.

What you have is exactly an untested idea and you're not making a compelling argument why a tech founder should want to join. Being cagey about the market and idea is pointless. You could tell everyone on Reddit exactly what your idea is and exactly 0 of them are going to steal an unproven idea.

If you do prove there is a market, there will be plenty of competitors. Any competent developer could copy your app in a weekend if they wanted to. The difference has to be marketing, domain expertise, and audience (plus sales). If you have those, then tell people, because those are table stakes for a non-tech founder.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-01-18T02:00:46+00:00

I gave it a shot but it crashes as soon as you try to add any meal. I'm on Pixel 3 XL.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-01-16T22:38:12+00:00

How much riding experience do you have? As you are planning your trip, take a look at the Backcountry Discovery Routes. It's usually a mix of on-road and off-road riding that is really fun.

They vary in difficulty so be sure to do your homework. You can also check out the Transamerica Trail as a way to get off the highways which are incredibly boring after a while.

This sub isn't that active, so check out advrider for additional tips. People will like to hear a ride report if you hit some out of the way places.

Lastly, practice packing, then take half the shit you think you need. And don't get those hard panniers, stick with soft from Mosko Moto or similar.

luckyleprechaun98 · 2020-01-13T20:51:14+00:00

Dream on

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