First, I can't figure out how to open the settings of the app. Is there any? Right now I have your bar on top of the regular macos dock. Obviously that's not the correct behavior. I also can't figure out how to have it display on two monitors, and if it's like windows where it only shows apps that are active on that monitor in the bar?

Lastly, where's the contact or any other information for people with pretty standard questions like me?

Also it would be nice to not have to give screen recording permissions becuase I dont care about previews.

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I stumbled on the right click menu. I have no further gripes. This is amazing. Thanks for the great work. Smooth out the onboarding and I think you'd have a pretty polished user experience.

So each round trip route would cost around $4/month (2 calls per route * one call per hour * 24 hours * 30 days) This is quite a lot imo in raw costs, which doesn't even factor in my cut. I think in this day and age with so many free apis, your average person (myself included) would not think a simple traffic widget would cost ANYWHERE near that amount. On top of that, of course I wanted the udpate frequency configurable. Maybe some people want to have it update every 15 minutes. Unfortunately now we are generating x4 in costs. Factor in each user can add N routes, somebody could have 5 routes and now they're suddenly incuring $80! in spend. Which I'm sure _very_ few people would be willing to spend.

I originally thought I would just charge for usage so that the user would have incentives to tune down their usage. AKA I could put in an active hours feature so that they could put in only hours of their commute.

But then every single piece of pricing advice says to NOT taxi meter the users. And to be fair, despite the similar high cost nature of AI services, almost none of them at the consumer facing front charge per usage. They use the bucket of tokens method + overages. But honestly I think this is only viable for them because they are massivley subsidizing their users with VC money. If I remember correctly, the $20 plan many of them have would have to cost around $150 to break even.

I think it's the nature of these 2 levers of route count + frequency, which can generate such wildly amoutns of cost that makes it hard for me to imagine a world of a flat subscription plans.

Looking at other busiensses with comparable price dynamics, I found what I'm calling the "home security camera" model, where they charge a flat rate and +X per camera. Recently a large camera company moved to this because their flat annual subscription just wasnt working. IE charging the same for a user with 1 camera vs 10, and having to store 1080p vs 4k footage

What would you do in this situation? Sincerely confused

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We spent 3 weeks trying to fix it, which equaled $4500 in just my salary. we never ended up figuring it out.

https://brrr.money/

During the pandemic when everyone was trying to learn languages they were popping off. Like thousands would be in servers and you could just chat with people whenever you wanted. I would spend every minute commuting, cleaning, or any time I would've usually listened to podcasts bullshitting with random people and learning how to actually speak.

I've tried italki I've tried other platforms where it's bumble for language learning. They didn't even come close to how quickly I learned there. And you can't beat free.

I joined one for Spanish and French. I'm sure they exist for others.

you see a lot of it here from the 2010s. ex: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1176438

But I just ran into a comment on reddit saying that modern Google does not make a distinction anymore. If that's true it would be a hell of a lot easier for me. I could setup the subdomain proxying via cloudflare super easily. If I had to do a subdirectory I would either have to setup cloudflare workers or do some much more complicated reverse proxying

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-treats-subdomains-subdirectories-john-mueller-says/254687/

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As for the prior art, I was surprised you didn't mention watermelonDB. It sounds like what you are building but specifically for react native. I tried to use it but there were lots of really annoying api choices regarding how the querying works in the front end and their choices on how their ORM works. But the sync methodology they use seems to be sound, and as they say, they've thought long and hard about. https://watermelondb.dev/docs/Sync/Intro

The project as it is seems pretty low level. Are you planning on adding and ORM layer, or leave that up to someone else?

The last question that I always have is, how would this project create a facebook app clone? IE the user will almost always have subsets of tables that are much much smaller than the full tables the the backend has.

IE, a user should have various posts from the feed, and various users, photos, comments and liked tables downloaded for the next 30 minutes of offline activity lets say. In this system, it seems like we are syncing entire databases. But syncing small slivers of the entire system seems to be what a lot of your typical REST based apps do. Yet it is a problem I haven't been able to solve cleanly or with a unified plan of attack

Thanks

Gpt4 seems to think it has no relation to Germanic roots of the language but my gut tells me there's probably no way this ordering finds it's way to English without that history

https://chat.openai.com/share/0c9a56d5-75e3-493f-96b2-2ac3a8...

And honestly at the time the two felt kind of similar. Both were super scary, black boxes. But both were things that normal human beings learned to do. You didn't have to be some crazy genius. And a lot of times you really are debugging a car, except since it's physical, it's a lot more intuitive.

I once tallied up all the repairs vs what I would've paid mechanics and it came to 18k. Nowadays that's a price I can swallow and it no longer makes financial sense for me to do my own repairs.

But I now have a garage full of "free" tools and I can tell very confidently when mechanics bullshit me. But that happens less than just simply talking the lingo and having the mechanic appreciate that I know what's going on and can commiserate on how shitty a repair is gonna be.

I think most sw people can enjoy and go into the physical world. I think there's so many similarities and never understood certain people's reluctance or even badge of honor of being bad at working with physical stuff

I've been parts of 2 different engineering teams that wrote crap that I would cuss out but were super succesfuly, and most recently I joined a team that was super anal about every little detail. I think business success only gets hindered on the extremes now. If you're somewhere in the middle, it's fine. I'd rather have a buggy product that people use than a perfect codebase that only exists on github.

1. hiring freezes from twitter/blind 2. specific insurance providers from corporate info/ glassdoor 3. salary ranges from levels.fyi/glassdoor 4. specific roles and tech stack from google jobs/glassdoor 5. finding refering relationships through linkdin/blind 6. general company reviews, work life balance, from glassdoor/blind 7. then the actual application through the company website

It's a huge pain in the ass to hand-populate and research. Every platform has a piece of the puzzle but it's not in once place.

I don't think there's a lot of time to predestinate though. If you're haven't heard, the entire tech hiring boom of the summer is coming crashing down

https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/9722#pullrequestreview...