Hacker News: flycatcha

New comment by flycatcha in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

flycatcha — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:52:05 +0000

Their FAQ states that previously installed unverified apps won't be able to install updates which suggests to me that they won't disable or uninstall them. Hopefully someone can confirm.

https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/...

Particle IoT acquired by Digi International for $50M

flycatcha — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:54:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.particle.io/blog/particle-is-being-acquired-by-digi-to-power-the-next-40-years-of-iot-innovation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787522

Points: 1

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New comment by flycatcha in "Beeper Mini is back"

flycatcha — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:01:34 +0000

Surprised this doesn't have more upvotes, without phone number registration Beeper Mini isn't actually back.

New comment by flycatcha in "Website hosted on ESP32"

flycatcha — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 19:06:05 +0000

The tutorial talks about how to do a local webserver where you manually navigate to the IP address. How is this being served over the internet?

Meow Wolf: Raspberry Pis, PCBs and RFIDs

flycatcha — Sun, 21 May 2023 18:52:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jalexthetechnologist.com/work/mw-vegas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36023723

Points: 1

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Animal Rights Activists Are Acquitted in Smithfield Piglet Case

flycatcha — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:44:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/science/animals-rights-piglets-smithfield.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33165566

Points: 3

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New comment by flycatcha in "One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants"

flycatcha — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 04:48:46 +0000

Wow. This is so eye opening.

New comment by flycatcha in "Ask HN: What's up with these DoorDash dark patterns?"

flycatcha — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 04:58:57 +0000

Totally, I imagine they incentivize / encourage bad restaurants to appear as ghost kitchen brands on their platform, and to algorithmically inflate reviews so that most averages appear to be over 4.0.

New comment by flycatcha in "Ask HN: What's up with these DoorDash dark patterns?"

flycatcha — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 04:56:32 +0000

Absolutely, my wife and I cook most of our meals. The bad experience I had with DoorDash earlier today was exacerbated by the fact that we're both at home recovering (suffering) from COVID at the moment and so using their service was more out of necessity than anything else and they really fell short.

Ask HN: What's up with these DoorDash dark patterns?

flycatcha — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 02:48:48 +0000

I'm in the Bay Area. We don't order using apps often, but when we do we find that so much of the selection consists of mediocre looking Chinese, Indian, pizza and Mexican.

Using the current Android mobile app, you can't actually drill into and read reviews which makes assessing the actual quality of the restaurant difficult.

And I've found that restaurants will run their own "ghost kitchen" shadow restaurant out of their main (poorly rated) location. This delivery specific restaurant has good reviews on DD, but when you Google that restaurant name nothing comes up aside from listings on the app. And then the food arrives and it's terrible and you match up the physical address and realize it's a poorly rated Indian restaurant by a different name.

Or, you order from one of these weird ghost kitchen brands and the actual restaurant doesn't actually get your order (despite the app telling you they confirmed it) and your second driver finally tells you to cancel the order.

Is it asking too much to have a service that's transparent, functions well and have the end product taste good?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338779

Points: 135

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New comment by flycatcha in "Eating meat is good, says the philosopher"

flycatcha — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:38:56 +0000

Thank you. What drivel, my god.

New comment by flycatcha in "Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?"

flycatcha — Sun, 08 May 2022 13:43:50 +0000

Do you know anyone who works at Google (or have a friend of a friend)? Employees have an internal tool called help my friend to assist with situations like this.

New comment by flycatcha in "Return to Monkey Island, Coming 2022"

flycatcha — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:35:39 +0000

MI3 undoubtedly the best - the artwork, the music, the puzzles. I revisited it a few years ago and it was still a joy to play.

New comment by flycatcha in "Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing"

flycatcha — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:52:16 +0000

I'm using Cloud Functions as well - where did you move them to? Lambda?

New comment by flycatcha in "Ask HN: Robust and affordable alternatives to Google Play for app distribution?"

flycatcha — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 04:28:31 +0000

Firebase App Distribution can work for this, except a) you would need to manually invite all 50 testers via their emails and b) updates aren't installed automatically - the user must download the update themselves (either via an email notification link which takes them to the App Tester web UI, or they can download the App Tester app itself).

The first part probably isn't an issue, but depending on how non-technical your users are, getting them to successfully install it and then manually retrieve updates may be a bumpy ride (I'm thinking back to what I read about the Iowa Caucus disaster).

New comment by flycatcha in "What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App"

flycatcha — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 19:23:38 +0000

To the OP, they do provide the raw HTML to Polaris Components (this is what I use -- I don't know React). Not sure if that's the same as HTML "components" though.

New comment by flycatcha in "What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App"

flycatcha — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 19:03:09 +0000

I think I remember seeing your thread (and responding to it). That sucks.

New comment by flycatcha in "What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App"

flycatcha — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:56:11 +0000

I had previously built a rails app using Shopify CLI and it failed review due to some endless cookies loop that I could not reproduce caused by their gem. In the end, I just rolled my own OAuth / user database / Billing - but talk about a waste of time.

New comment by flycatcha in "What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App"

flycatcha — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:52:01 +0000

This is 100% my experience as a developer of Shopify POS plugins (building features that "should" just be included in the core product). I entered their ecosystem 9 months ago bright-eyed with the hope of being the captain of my own ship and hopefully building a living; I now feel like I have essentially signed myself up to build core features for their app (and dealing with frustrated customers who, rightfully, believe this feature should just be free and included), with the added handicap of being a third-party developer, and making significantly less than what I would make if I simply worked or contracted for them.

For now my apps are growing each month, but the culture and practices have left a bad taste in my mouth such that I also know that this is not for me in the long-term, and hope to someday exit their ecosystem.