ollerac · HackerTrans

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I'm launching 31 projects during the first 31 days of the year to break through my fear of launching and just put stuff out there.

If you're curious or want to join in, I'm running a behind-the-scenes newsletter: https://31launches.com

ollerac

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They already did: https://ui.supabase.com/

ollerac

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I ran into so many issues with content-box a decade back I never thought about it again and always defaulted to border-box.

I think it's absurd that I can set a div to a specific width (100px, 200px, whatever) and the padding or border will make the div larger than that width.

It makes it so hard to think about designing a page when you have to continuously add together padding, margin, and border with the width to get the actual width.

You're right about flexbox and grid solving most of these issues -- and responsive design has pretty much done away with using exact pixel widths for anything, but I still run into some cases (especially around creating grid layouts that automatically reflow) where CSS columns and floats are the best approach (not often, but it still happens...) and then you need to rely on the width being the actual width, you know?

ollerac

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I recorded a thorough guide based on weeks of research about how I hired an English-fluent VA from the Philippines: https://share.getcloudapp.com/8Luog9qo

ollerac

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The easy way 10 years ago was FTP or rsync. It seems like that's still the easy way.

I'm wondering why nothing simpler/more automatic has popped up.

ollerac

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I didn't say it was harder today, I asked: "why isn't it easier today?"

I would think with improvements in tech, things would actually become simpler.

ollerac

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Hi Peter, what's the easiest way to set up a profit-sharing agreement with people working with me? Is there a standard contract?

ollerac

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Web app capabilities built in to the foundation of HTML and the browser.

Elements that know they're user-editable (images with upload controls attached to them to replace the image that's there, dates that trigger calendar controls when clicked, and inline editing for other elements that actually works and is consistent across browsers).

An offline database in the browser that has the concept of user accounts and resetting passwords baked in, as well as subscription payments, and has a universal API that can be automatically deployed to any hosting platform.

All of this would make building web apps and games trivial for so many more people -- write some basic HTML, upload it to one of a million platforms of your choice with a click, and you have a testing ground for a product that can grow.

It would be a way for anyone on the internet to build something useful and get it out there without learning a thousand technologies with a thousand nuances.

ollerac

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This is incredible work and very close to my heart because it's similar to a project I've been dedicating most of my personal time to for the past 4 years [0].

It's amazing how much work you can skip when you treat the front-end of your app as a pretty interface for your database. I think a lot devs were inspired to go down this road by Meteor.js back in 2012 when it was released [1].

I think a tool like this is the future of web development: create the interface and boom, you're app is already working. That kind of instant validation of your work is addictive.

The problems arise when you want to change how data is processed behind the scenes before displaying it or after the user edits it. Or how it's connected to other users' data. But I think these issues can be solved either with reactive hooks or some of the innovations coming out of the GraphQL space.

I think you can get pretty far with a system like this:

  * User accounts
  * Automatic data syncing
  * Collaboration
  * Deployment & hosting
  * Payments
  * Form submissions

All of this is pretty trivial to get working out-of-the-box with very little effort from a dev. So no one has to reinvent the wheel.

And these features, if done well, are all that 90% of businesses need to create value for their customers and become profitable.

I'm really excited about this space. My email is in my profile if anyone wants to talk about it further.

[0] https://remaketheweb.com/

[1] https://www.meteor.com/

ollerac

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It's because of components.

Web app dev has started focusing on single, separate, reusable components instead of trying to design everything on the page at once.

Often, in these components, the HTML, CSS, and JS is still separated, but now (theoretically) you can plug that component in anywhere (even a different app) and, as long as you feed it the right data, it should just work.

ollerac

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I believe you're looking for something like Outseta (https://www.outseta.com/)

They're a membership platform that supports:

- Payments

- Sign up forms

- CRM

- Authentication

- Content protection

- Email marketing

- Help desk

- Notifications

Pretty amazing if you ask me. I have no affiliation with Outseta, but I do follow the founder on Twitter.

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