I'm not sure what you're actually trying to say by that. Svelte has fine-grained opt-in reactivity. If you don't declare a variable with $state, it won't be reactive. That's by design and not a problem.
It's not hard to write a post with an ulterior motive (like embedding an affiliate link) on Reddit, but it's hard to get people to vote for it so it shows up at the top of the thread. Meanwhile, content producers that feel entitled to be in the SERP are just spamming their ads and aff. links everywhere. That's why Reddit is better.
fair point. but the same mechanism also suppresses minority views. which for them makes reddit worse. with independent sites everyone has to make their own judgement whether it is genuine or not. i can't say if that's better or worse, but i find the ability to express and share minority views to be important.
Nice work on creating the app! I can't see myself using it right now because it looks like Trello (which I currently use) just with less features and a smaller free plan. Perhaps you can work on some product differentiation further ahead!
Yes, sir! Thank you for the feedback. I will be adding new features in the future to help with that separation. I am really targeting the causal end-user on this app.
I see your point, but are they under this site mercy? This site is like a directory rather than a policy maker like app stores, it wont take % of any subscription for starter plus all the pros of lower development costs and what not. Say this site suddenly decided to remove your app? So what, your users can still go to your site and have the PWA, now if Apple decided to do the same to your app, good luck getting anyone to use it. Now is PWA the ultimate replacement? Certainly not, access to hardware, performance wise, games, you will still need them, but other than that, I think it’s a step forward.
The $5 plan sounds good and affordable, but I think the VPS comparison is disingenuous because you can typically put a lot of things on a $5-10 dollar VPS. I pay $20/mo and have something like 30 low-usage apps running on a single server. With Railway that would cost me $150.
I must be misunderstanding the pricing (talk about confusing) or the value proposition.
The way I understand it those $5 give you all the management features and $5 worth of compute.
But compute costs $10 GB/month for RAM and $20 per vCPU/month.
So in comparison to a VPS this costs $30 for a full-time 1vCPU/1GB machine, ignoring network egress.
At least as a VPS replacement this really doesn’t seem worth it. For that money I can get a 12 vCPU / 24 GB machine with my current provider, which includes 80TB traffic.
It is different in the sense that you can sign up for it without having a Facebook account and actually not have them connected at all. It's good enough for me. What was not good enough was having your Messenger friends randomly inside your VR headset, and that has been fixed.
I like how the original comment gave some thoughtful napkin estimates about how this product may be worth several thousand dollars as a function of time saved, and your counter argument is just "nah it's $30 total" with absolutely no reasoning or logic.
Like it or not, this is the kind of response from an engineer that falls into the category of emotionally cheapo.
The idea behind napkin math is you start with something real or reasonable to assume as accurate and then extrapolate.
The original comment did exactly the same thing the person you're replying to did. They just pulled a vague feeling about the product out of their ass. That "3-4hr/week" saving is exactly as founded as this commenter's "$30 total".
That they wrote more and did math with their vague feeling is less logical not more. It's masking an emotional hunch with the sort of language people use when they actually are being logical.
Some of the costs people rarely consider for europeans is VAT (25% extra) and the decreasing price of european currencies. In the last ten years USD is 30% stronger against EUR and about 40% against my local currency. So for me this is more like a $60 dollar product than $30, and that's not just feelings.
The problem here is everyone thinks their product is so damn valuable. I happily pay $20/mo for OpenAI because it genuinely speeds up my work every day. I would easily pay twice that. In terms of saved time this product will maybe save me 20-30 minutes per month? It's individual for everyone, but judging by other responses I'm hardly alone here in this sentiment.
The primary reason the Euro even got so high was the 2008 subprime mortgage fallout. After recovering from that it went to around ~1.1 and seems to remain there with some ups and downs. Considering the current sociopolitical circumstances surrounding the EU it's not strange that it's slightly lower than normal.
