I was halfway across the world when I needed to make a lot of phone calls to my bank back home. So I pulled up Twilio's docs and built this app to make phone calls and send SMS from anywhere.
I tried monetizing it by selling it to digital nomads but this kind of problem is not recurring enough or painful enough to justify them paying for it
So I ended up open sourcing it
A study about this from researchers based in Netherlands was recently linked to on HN. They found a correlation between a drop in juvenile crimes following a GTA release.
You're being overly optimistic. I wasted half a day trying to dual boot arch alongside my existing windows 10 install on a dell xps 9700 a few months after it got released in 2020. I could not even get a DE working because of some issue with my dGPU driver.
I had my fair share of driver issues with manjaro as well but it was much easier to get going than arch despite the rich wiki.
I can imagine it's easier to install on older~ hardware with no dual boot though.
I had the same experience within an app to manage doctors appointments on iOS.
For some reason I was locked out of the app by cloudflare and I ended up having to call my doctor's secretary to move my appointment. It took 15 minutes on the phone for something that should have taken less than a minute within the app.
Even my friend who worked for that company had no way to fix it. I don't know whether to blame the app developers or cloudflare here.
I wouldn't call Linux an obscure use case, it's particularly great for workstations and old laptops that struggle with running Windows.
I was halfway across the world when I needed to make a lot of phone calls to my bank back home. So I pulled up Twilio's docs and built this app to make phone calls and send SMS from anywhere.
I tried monetizing it by selling it to digital nomads but this kind of problem is not recurring enough or painful enough to justify them paying for it So I ended up open sourcing it