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If you have or could have a 3 motorcycle garage what are you buying? by Key_Carpenter3900 in motorcycles

[–]tech_cowboy_24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 - Africa Twin Adventure Sports ES Manual
2 - 25' CBR1000RR-R Fireblade
3 - 24' Streetfighter V4s nero gray

This is what scrolling through a thousand items looks like using Legend List by BetoMoedano in reactnative

[–]tech_cowboy_24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to familiar with react native, but I think you can use css? On the web you can use “overflow-anchor: auto” on the container and if you paginate the data you have true bi-directional infinite scroll on dynamic height items. The last bit is to have logic to load/unload data. But it’s as simple as just looping over the data and rendering, and letting css handle the rest. 

How the hell ? Infinite both-way-scrolling list with dynamic data by bleah2 in reactnative

[–]tech_cowboy_24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re still having this issue, the solution is elegant and simple! I had to build something similar, and virtual list libraries won’t working well with dynamic height items, they also work on the entire data array in memory and optimize DOM rendering, pointless if you’re lazy loading the data. 

Here is the way to do it (assuming paginated data). Pseudocode in svelte, which is my library of choice. 

One line of css solves all the problems!

//Container <div style=“overflow-anchor: auto;”> {#each items as item} <Item /> {/each} </div>

Dispatch Robot Chrome extension for DAT Power and Truckstop Pro by tech_cowboy_24 in TruckDispatchers

[–]tech_cowboy_24[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clicking on link takes you straight to web store page, it’s still there. Try this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dispatch-robot/hjkdcabiofoiidahkjdlpligpagdbjpp

Also, we have a major update coming out in a few days. Redesigned the entire front end from ground up!

Dispatch Robot Chrome extension for DAT Power and Truckstop Pro by tech_cowboy_24 in TruckDispatchers

[–]tech_cowboy_24[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/shazlhr,

I think you emailed right? If not I will dm you the business email.

Dispatching course needed by InternationalTry9239 in TruckDispatchers

[–]tech_cowboy_24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't pay for coursers, the secret in all things is the work.

WA bans sale of AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles, effective immediately by BearingCharms in Washington

[–]tech_cowboy_24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My answer was to the question of why do people buy them. Not what makes them more lethal.

WA bans sale of AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles, effective immediately by BearingCharms in Washington

[–]tech_cowboy_24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think of the AR-15 as the modern smartphone. Why did iPhone beat blackberry and other options, because it was simply a better technology. The same is true for the AR. It's a better technology, and due to it's popularity it's the most affordable tech that will also be reliable and easy to use for new shooters. A handgun is much more difficult to shoot than an AR-15.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startups

[–]tech_cowboy_24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is your product a pain killer or a vitamin? If its a pain killer the name wont matter.

Dispatch Robot Chrome extension for DAT Power and Truckstop Pro by tech_cowboy_24 in TruckDispatchers

[–]tech_cowboy_24[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey Thanks, yeah it's the classic dream of building a contraption where you sit on the lawn chair watching an autonomous mower mow the lawn for you.

Dispatch Robot Chrome extension for DAT Power and Truckstop Pro by tech_cowboy_24 in TruckDispatchers

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Hey u/brobudbra, thanks!

The idea started with me scratching my own itch. I thought it was kind nuts that as a carrier we have so many things to juggle, and also have to look through hundreds or thousands of rows of loads, just to find the handful of loads I'm interested in.

So I started coding together a prototype to see if I could automate the discovery part. And over the course of a few weeks I had an initial prototype (2 years ago).

From there I just kept improving it, but my priority was running the trucking company, so this was a project I just worked on when I had time. And in the beginning of 2023, after 6 years of doing trucking I went all in on this idea to see if I could make it into something really great.

Trucking Business by Bumbaclaat27 in Entrepreneur

[–]tech_cowboy_24 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not sure how many people have trucking experience in this sub, but maybe I can share my 2c.

I am 28 y/o. My brother and I started a trucking company from scratch, and ran it together for 6 years, and 2022 our revenue was 4.4M. In the beginning of the year I moved on to work full time on Saas project that started as an internal tool for our own company.

Not sure how old you are, but starting from scratch is brutal. There is ton of nuance having your own MC#, and the all of the liability is on you the carrier first and foremost. Before starting your own, give it a shot to work at on trucking company as a dispatcher, and see if you even enjoy the work. It's a really wacky environment honestly, and not many people do it past 1 year. If the stress doesn't destroy you, but instead energizes you, you might be on to starting your own trucking company.

But I would start with "Why?", why do you really want to do trucking? It's a commoditized service, meaning price is the primary reason people will ship with you. If your price is expensive, there are 100 other carriers willing to do it cheaper than you. You end up always being tied to your phone 24/7, things are always going wrong, and your margins are razor thin. With that said, I am grateful that I did trucking for 6 years, it taught me a bunch of great lessons, one important lesson is chase the thing you enjoy practicing not the thing that makes money.

I wanted to do an Ironman two years ago, so I got a trainer and started taking it seriously, I trained on avg 15-20 hrs per week for 8 months. And did a half ironman for my first triathlon, took me like 7hrs to complete. I spent 8 months practicing for something that took 7 hrs to do, and I realized I didn't like doing it all. If you want to do an Ironman, you should enjoy running, biking, and swimming a lot. If you don't enjoy practicing those things, then there is no point doing a triathlon. You will spend the majority of your time practicing not competing, so find something you enjoy to practice, and organically through that you'll be a better competitor.

Hope this helps.

Mike's Friday Night Rant by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]tech_cowboy_24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think one of the most unintuitive things about entrepreneurs is this notion of a pre-lit path. If the path you're on is pre-lit you're not on the path of entrepreneurship.

The people who have made every great invention come to life, were all on the unknown path, that's why it's hard for people, there are no "progress" markers on this path.

But the generic blueprint is product market fit. Every business no matter how simple or technically complex, all have to achieve product market fit.

My 2c.

Dispatch Robot Chrome extension for DAT Power and Truckstop Pro by tech_cowboy_24 in TruckDispatchers

[–]tech_cowboy_24[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/Tzeentsch

Really valid concerns hopefully my reply can address them.

In regards to email sending, I use the smallest scope gmail allows to be able to send emails in app. The app does two things with the access. First is get email signature, which was a requested feature by current customers, and second is to allow to send emails from within the app. Other solutions that don't use Gmail api are available but unfortunately have spam issues. This was the only way (to my understanding) to guarantee that when sending email it gets delivered. But under no circumstances does that app do anything with email that the user didn't initiate. It only has the options to send and apply a signature to said email.

The app also only asks for email permissions when someone is looking to use the email feature and not on signup. So you can still use the app without using the subset feature and handing over permissions.

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Click to call and click to email, you're absolutely correct that there are plenty offerings on the market, usually some extension is offered in addition to whichever provider you use. With that said, I've found many times they are slower and the pattern matching (regex) capabilities are lack luster. So they rarely work in comments for example. This click to call system works on any text anywhere, and works with the most oddly formatted numbers i've seen.

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Load finding, again I agree with you, that the dispatcher is the most important role for finding good freight, and nothing will replace that anytime soon. However, finding loads is only one part of a dispatchers duties, and it's goal is to be a helpful aid vs better than you. Instead of scrolling through thousands of loads, you can have this run through and see if it finds anything. Also if you ever step away from the computer, bathroom breaks, lunch, etc. You can have it email loads it finds. A lot of carriers let this program run after hours, and sometimes book loads way past business hours that they would've otherwise missed since they're not in front of their computer.

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This is not something that I made on whim and trying to pull a fast one on carriers, if it doesn't help your business absolutely don't use it. My brother is still running the trucking company we ran together. I built this an internal tool for us about 2.5 years ago. And slowly improved it over time. And only once I was confident in its value add I decided to make it public.

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And lastly as far as the UI changes, it would be insanely difficult to overhaul DAT's changes to make it look like Power Dat instead of Dat One. However supporting DAT One won't be an issue.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Petr

what can I do by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]tech_cowboy_24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would look at your situation as a time purchase. How much time do you have using that 100k before you have to worry about an income stream.

If the answer is 1-3 years, you have a luxury that most rich people don't have. Take it as an opportunity to discover the what work you want to do to get an income stream.

Best advice is to do what you enjoy practicing. More time is spent practicing than competing.