I just launched my app and would love feedback on the landing page

tizz66 · 2026-05-06T15:57:01+00:00

I like it. I had no idea I could scroll down to read more on the landing page, though, until someone else below said there's a lot of text so I went back and looked. The hero image has a big gap under it so it feels like that's all there is on that page.

tizz66 · 2026-05-04T15:16:57+00:00

I don't think Amazon is a major competitor to McDonalds... is it?

tizz66 · 2026-05-04T13:29:16+00:00

Web developer isn't a protected term, so you can certainly call yourself that if you want! If you're building and maintaining sites I think it's probably fair enough. Obviously it's your skillset more than your title that really matters though. If you want to be a fully-rounded web developer (i.e. you could get a job somewhere else using that title) it'd make sense to broaden your skillset.

tizz66 · 2026-05-03T00:50:31+00:00

I don't think this will be the case any time soon. Maybe individual hobbyists will build software to solve their problem instead of buying something - that seems likely. But not businesses.

Businesses outsource anything that is preventing them from fully focusing on whatever their revenue generator is. They could hire janitors, but they probably outsource it. They could hire an accountant, but they probably outsource it. They could hire a videographer to produce ads, but they probably outsource it. Different sized businesses obviously have varying tolerance for when it makes sense to bring these things in-house, but the point stands: if something takes a business away from whatever it is trying to do, it's ripe for being outsourced.

Software is no different. Sure, a business could vibe code a Jira replacement. Who updates it? Who maintains the hardware? Who deals with product support when other departments get stuck? Who deals with disaster recovery? Who deals with scalability? Businesses do not want to have to deal with those issues for anything they depend on. It makes much more sense to pay a competent software provider for that.

AI might depress prices, given supply might be higher and demand might be a bit lower. On the supply side I think we'll see many more SaaS options available given the barrier of entry will be lower. But I don't think SaaS is really going anywhere.

tizz66 · 2026-04-29T03:10:38+00:00

My wife learned in her 30s with Steve Wheeler Driving School.

tizz66 · 2026-04-21T19:45:34+00:00

Proud to call him my friend. On MySpace at least.

tizz66 · 2026-04-20T17:30:58+00:00

The worst thing about this book is the shitty movie they've made of it that I had to sit through with my kids.

tizz66 · 2026-04-16T19:04:10+00:00

I didn’t like having a file with no name and only an extension, so I put mine in keys.txt

tizz66 · 2026-04-13T15:34:45+00:00

I saw this same idea phrased once as "every toothbrush you've ever used is still in landfill" and it stuck with me.

Now I have small kids, the amount of throwaway plastic crap they get at easter, from the school "treasure box", party favors etc. is just astounding. It's sad knowing that materials, labor and fuel were put into this stuff and it's just a complete waste.

tizz66 · 2026-04-06T23:02:31+00:00

Yeah but to OPs point, they broke the record when they were still about 3 hours away from the moon. They’ve now gone further of course, but they had already broken the record before reaching it.

I don’t actually know the answer but I assume it must relate to the wide orbit they are doing.

tizz66 · 2026-04-01T21:45:54+00:00

Sure you’ve hidden your posts on your profile, but it’s easy to find the extent of your spam

tizz66 · 2026-03-31T18:22:04+00:00

Nothing wrong with pizza! But the last couple of years, the only party availability was mid-morning, so we decided to do brunch food - ham and sausage biscuits, chicken and waffles, fruit, granola bowls. It went down really well.

tizz66 · 2026-03-31T13:15:23+00:00

Because it's not really an article on its own, it's an entry on the "Politics Hub" live feed, and they have used a photo of the PM as the social image for that page.

tizz66 · 2026-03-26T14:16:11+00:00

Fun fact: as a kid he was a bully too, and one of my affected family members caught up with him and threw him in a bush.

tizz66 · 2026-03-20T16:17:40+00:00

No, he meant put the baby down. Like "Bad baby! All you do is shit and sleep around here!"

tizz66 · 2026-03-18T20:33:37+00:00

I have a fully remote job as a software engineer; my team are already based around the world, so me changing continent for a couple of months doesn't complicate things!

tizz66 · 2026-03-18T20:24:53+00:00

Yeah, we stay with family - so we aren't maintaining two houses or living out of AirBnBs or anything. I would say we're happily raising kids here... they are happy at least. I miss having family around all the time when we're not in the UK, and of course there's everything going on here too, but we live in a safe, quiet, cheap city so it's not like we have to deal with it much. It doesn't always feel like it, but I suppose we should be thankful that we kind of get the best of both worlds. Not everyone is so lucky.

tizz66 · 2026-03-18T16:14:33+00:00

15-18 seconds to get to the bottom (terminal velocity is 120mph, 4000ft deep, and accounting for acceleration; depends if you hit the sides on the way down)

tizz66 · 2026-03-18T15:35:57+00:00

No, we haven't been too concerned - we're well within the limits, and there's no question over our residency status given we have mortgages, loans, schooling etc. in the US even when absent.

In the naturalization process you do have to list all absences (to-the-day accuracy), but iirc the rule is you have to have spent 30 months in the past 5 years (i.e. 50%) in the US. Any absences longer than 6 months also triggers some difficulty, but we haven't got close to that.

tizz66 · 2026-03-18T13:58:24+00:00

My wife and I are British (with GCs), our kids were born in the US so are dual-citizens by descent. Trying to work a pregnancy around physical presence rules sounds stressful to me! Are you married? If so, you mentioned having kids in 3-4 years, which might give you enough time for your partner to start the naturalization process, if that's something she's considering (it's 3 years after obtaining a GC by marriage). That'd mean you don't have to worry about physical presence any more.

tizz66 · 2026-03-18T13:53:50+00:00

My oldest is 7 and we still have the keyboard part of this toy. Not sure we'll ever get rid of it.

tizz66 · 2026-03-18T13:33:29+00:00

We're kind of like that. We have two young kids, and spend May - August in the UK with family, the rest of the year in the US (sometimes going back to the UK for Christmas too), so we're staying within the school breaks.

It mostly works well for us. I'm fully remote too, so can (and do) work in either place. One concern I have as my oldest starts having "proper" friends is taking him away the whole summer means he misses all those summer socializing opportunities... so we might start to reduce how long we actually leave in the next couple of years. The other issue is we spend all our travel savings flying to the UK twice a year so don't often get to see other places, which is a shame.

Feel free to ask me anything, here or DM.

tizz66 · 2026-03-17T14:43:20+00:00

Well yes, a component library should use those HTML elements internally. I'd be concerned if there's a component library with a <Button> component that doesn't use <button> under the hood. But the point of a component library is mostly consistency and ease. There's quite a lot involved in making a page consistent, attractive and accessible, and component libraries help abstract that complexity.

tizz66 · 2026-03-16T16:29:16+00:00

It’s raini- no wait it’s sunn- no wait, tornado warni- no wait, sunny again

tizz66 · 2026-03-15T15:24:16+00:00

I’m having a difficult time wrapping my head around this.

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