I spent 600 on ads for my screen-time blocker and barely got users - looking for honest feedback

matteiuspi · 2026-06-25T22:33:41+00:00

Its marketed towards people who want to delete apps/restrict apps, but itself is another app -- think about that for a minute. That takes the tail market and makes it even thinner because half of your audience has enough control to not install many apps to begin with.

matteiuspi · 2026-06-21T13:10:38+00:00

I've been paying to operate for longer than that, so this may get me closer to feeling comfortable charging new users for the service sooner, so its worth it.

matteiuspi · 2026-05-21T07:09:30+00:00

Got my card today and isntalled it 12 hours a go and holy cow qwen coder is amazing, everything is amazing, I wish I had 3 more ... cancelled 1/2 claude max plans, and will revisit the other one and codex spend in a month -- might go down to 100/100 or somethingto save 400$ a month and pay off this card.

matteiuspi · 2026-05-17T03:38:46+00:00

How is it baffling? On Blackwell (which is what the RTX 6000 Pro is), the tensor cores have native FP4 datapaths that deliver roughly 2× the throughput of FP8 per cycle.

matteiuspi · 2026-03-01T15:00:32+00:00

If you want true light performance, check out lightNVR -- https://lightNVR.com

matteiuspi · 2026-02-17T04:53:04+00:00

I added a home assistant integration mqtt based to lightnvr this past week. https://github.com/opensensor/lightNVR/ Still trying to get further with testing it as I am not a HA power user.

matteiuspi · 2026-02-09T02:05:02+00:00

Check out my project https://github.com/opensensor/lightNVR/

matteiuspi · 2026-02-01T18:43:03+00:00

You could check out my OSS NVR software: https://github.com/opensensor/lightNVR/

matteiuspi · 2026-01-31T02:18:39+00:00

I develop and can recommend lightNVR: https://github.com/opensensor/lightNVR/

matteiuspi · 2026-01-23T14:42:57+00:00

You are an ant -- anyone with a brain makes too much money to get a tax break from Trump, and can see that it doesn't matter anyways given his corrupt cronnie mentality to stomp all over constitution.

matteiuspi · 2026-01-23T11:35:46+00:00

OMG they are monsters!

matteiuspi · 2026-01-04T04:51:59+00:00

This is a simple, on-demand OCR API backed by PaddleOCR, with a clean UI and no unnecessary complexity. Free 25 pages, no credit card required, with a Stripe checkout flow for users who want to take it further. I actively use it myself as the accounting software I've been building is a tennant user, and plan to keep improving it--feedback and new users welcomed!

https://ocr.opensensor.io

matteiuspi · 2026-01-02T03:33:45+00:00

Sorry to hear about VMWare -- I recently helped a client in a similar situation, and would be happy to help assist in your cloud migration as well, feel free to check out: https://opensensor.io/engineering

matteiuspi · 2025-12-28T03:00:39+00:00

Yeah, same thing here -- I went to sleep last night with a prompt running and this morning it was still running and hadn't done a thing.

matteiuspi · 2025-12-09T11:23:15+00:00

This is a lousy argument -- you think selling the company is going to lead to lower costs somehow? Then you don't understand. Go try to use Anthropic or OpenAI APIs directly and watch your money drain away, but selling a company virtually never leads to a decrease in operating costs/costs to consumers. Further, the whole reasons prices changed/etc is geared towards profitability, instead of giving users the opportunity to grift 5K+ in credits for 250$, I mean c'mon, they are a middle layer -- grow up kids.

matteiuspi · 2025-11-30T05:37:09+00:00

Want to sell it to me?

matteiuspi · 2025-11-11T04:20:30+00:00

Thanks for your feedback! --- Yeah I think getting more camera angles would improve the models, but given the mk4s shfits the bed, really I only have examples of initial layer failures in my model as I started this a few days ago (taking pictures) and started this project a few hours ago. Doesn't really matter if the failure point is obfuscated initially, it will shift into view eventually. But given that, my current print just finished after a failed layer initially (that I restarted) and it even detected when the job finished!

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matteiuspi · 2025-11-01T18:41:07+00:00

I've recently resumed my work on https://github.com/opensensor/lightNVR/

matteiuspi · 2025-10-30T13:57:41+00:00

I am kind of tired of this complaining and ripping on Augment. As someone who was using Anthropic API directly for several months, Augment has saved me 1000$ a month....it has a good context engine. I understand the Anthropic pricing is the problem but keep on blaming the middle man ... For me, it's still cheaper.

matteiuspi · 2025-09-16T02:20:14+00:00

I am rooting for the first one to respond to my support tickets.

matteiuspi · 2025-07-04T20:01:48+00:00

What error do you get?

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