Render.com has been a lot more stable for me than Fly.io. After 3-4 months of running into issues running on Fly.io, I went with Render.com and have had no issues so far.
I think Fly.io employees are a lot more active on HN which is why you see them mentioned more often. They also write great blog posts which get a lot of attention here.
I also agree with the sibling comment. I came to Fly.io being sold on servers running close to the users. But I didn't see much of a peformance improvement with my web apps as they all have to communicate with Firebase. There's probably situations where this technology makes sense, but I haven't found a use case yet.
Enabling the three navigation buttons is the first thing I do on every new phone I get. You can navigate a lot faster with the buttons compared to the gestures.
There was also a lot of other history outside of Jacmob...
There was iBot by Ruler Eric who got sued in Florida court by Jagex, with Jagex winning. iBot started of as a color bot, then eventually completely transformed into byte code editing.
Before Powerbot/RSBot, there was Arga, and before that, Aryan. IIRC Arga was the first bytecode editing bot, and Aryan was just a modified RuneScape client.
There was also a C++ Chinese bot used amongst all the Chinese farmers during the Arga days IIRC. This bot apparently working at the packet level (this is what AutoRune did back in the RSC days) and had super low resource usage. However had access to this bot definitely had a huge leg up to any other offerings.
Scar always existed, the forums exploded with activity inbetween the bot nukes (Aryan dying, etc.). I also remember SRL, and the horrible Pascal that came with it. All the random event solvers (e.g. magic box weren't open source -- they were hidden behind a compiled DLL that shipped with SRL).
Weird history, but I'm still in contact with a lot of people from the scene I've met 10+ years later.
I have been seeing a lot of Retool lately on my Facebook News feed.
What's amazing to me is that they're using his CDN. Does this company have such terrible code review that they forgot to use their own CDN? Definitely makes me think twice about the quality of Retool's software.
Why not just use TransferWise? Wiring money can get expensive, I agree, but there are many P2P currency exchange platforms out there these days that cost next to nothing.
Doubt it. I've worked for a SAAS company in the past that practices the incentivized review behaviour. Genuine (organic) reviews were indistinguishable from incentivized reviews. Poor reviews, which are the most valuable for this type of research, were always removed.
I agree with all your points. Being a gringo now for awhile in this country -- this hits the nail on the head in my experience.
Beautiful country though -- it's hard to leave life on the Praia here for something else.
My experience as well r.e. the reviews. You'll get emails of people wanting an extended trial or wanting your app for free, or threatening to rate your app a 1 star review. When you contact Shopify about this problem -- they simply tell you to "work with the merchant."
Being almost 1 year into this, and having app that's now finally paying my bills, I'm feeling that I am just becoming another Shopify tech support person. My next venture/app will definitely be outside of this platform.
Also, Shopify's free themes are all terribly slow. Kinda ironic considering how hard they're pushing us recently with new storefront app performance requirements.
I had a similar problem with a car rental agency 2 years back in Netherlands. A small scratch and they were coming after me with 2k euros in damages. I had their CDW, but they refused to acknowledge it stating some TOS nonsense. Took me several months of constantly calling their office (they never reply to emails) to settle for a tenth of the cost. Took me another month to get a the receipt and written confirmation that the case is now closed & settled.
The lesson I learned here is to use my Credit Cards CDW and deny the rentals insurance always.
Tbh, I feel that most car rental agencies make their profits through these crazy insurance schemes.
Agreed. Between Gsuite, Gitkraken, Figma, VSCode, PopOS, and my $700 Ryzen 4700u laptop, web dev is absolutely stellar. Would never go back to Windows or MacOS. Everything with PopOS and this AMD laptop works out of the box.
I can definitely understand people sticking to Windows though if they need gaming or Office.
I think Fly.io employees are a lot more active on HN which is why you see them mentioned more often. They also write great blog posts which get a lot of attention here.
I also agree with the sibling comment. I came to Fly.io being sold on servers running close to the users. But I didn't see much of a peformance improvement with my web apps as they all have to communicate with Firebase. There's probably situations where this technology makes sense, but I haven't found a use case yet.