Still working on seed content for dailyappidea.dev. I have about 150 application ideas in the backlog, only 216 to go.
Let's see how many more I can get before I need to start crowd sourcing.
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"Hey you! What are you struggling with? TELL ME."
Why do they keep running away?
What do you think? Would you sign up?
Here is my planned proposition for becoming a paid member of dailyappidea.dev. Access to
-over 365 curated application development ideas (and growing)
- over 20 application generation strategies
- a monthly idea competition, with a cash prize for the best submitted idea
Worth $10?
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Started adding some application idea generation strategies to dailyappidea.dev using the CMS tool. Premium Users will have access to these strategy articles and the entire database of published ideas
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I cancelled my Claude Pro subscription. I'm just not using it enough to justify the monthly spend.
I've found it more productive to use AI Agents as a scalpel rather than a shotgun. They are great for prototyping or doco searches, but for anything non-trivial the tech debt starts snowballing.
Hours of prompting can save minutes of reading the manual.
Bear in mind - I mainly use their Auth, DB and Edge Function features for a SAAS website + backend. I don't really use their mobile centric features like Storage or Realtime.
Some challenges include: a) Their release cycle is pretty aggressive. I have to update my local environment at least once a week to keep everything in sync; and b) I'm based in Australia, but I have to use their Japan instance as the closest host.
The 'killer features' for me are a) their support for offline development - you can run the entire stack as a development environment locally on your own hardware and promote/merge at will; and b) the documentation is great and improves all the time.
A monthly Supabase subscription is still way cheaper than trying to roll your own equivalent using a cloud provider.
Bit the bullet and decided to upgrade to Supabase Pro - primarily for back-ups, branching and custom domain support. This goes against my default cheapskate approach, but since I'm going all-in on Supabase as my preferred BAAS, it is probably worth it.
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Just when I thought that dailyappidea.dev was feature complete, I found that I'd forgotten to implement the entire password reset workflow! Luckily, it only took a day or so to get things back on track.
Next step - learn how Supabase environment branches work.
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Making some progress now with dailyappidea.dev
The staging site is live on Cloudflare and Supabase, with most of the features working.
Next step is real (non-sandbox) Stripe integration for premium membership, then focus on the three c's, Content Content Content.
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My app isn't live yet, so it is hard to comment, but the test emails have been fine so far!
The other alternative I looked at was SendGrid, but their free plan was less generous and Resend had better documentation for Supabase integration.
For the record, my webdev stack is currently:
Angular - front end
Deno - back end (Supabase Edge Functions)
CloudFlare Pages - hosting
Supabase - auth, db, compute, storage
Stripe - payments
Resend - SMTP
I've added Resend to my stack because Supabase needs an external SMTP server to send more than 2 emails an hour. Resend's free plan seems pretty generous, and integrating with Supabase was very simple.
So far, so good.
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It has a blue tongue! Old mate wasn't too happy with my phone and was giving me a full threat display. Shinglebacks are harmless though - it's all bluff.
Shingleback Lizard - Tiliqua rugosa
Went for a walk this morning. Met a new friend.
Here is what I am currently working on. There are a lot of people looking for ideas for their next application project, so why not make a site dedicated to sharing these ideas? Next step is to deploy for beta testing.
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Just finished this one. Really enjoyed it. Pilgrim Machines was good, but was a slower burn. Choir of Hatred is more action focused while still being a thoughtful read.
On the plus side I've been doing a lot more exercise and getting a lot of domestic tasks done, but in terms of building stuff I need to find a way work through the seemingly infinite distractions of the family home.
Time to knuckle down.
Just realized that the new year marked the six-month mark of post retrenchment life.
I have deployed some windows store apps that went nowhere and have 3 half-completed SAAS projects. I need to lift my game or I'll be back in cubicle hell before I know it.
Ugh. Can I join the crowd complaining about how unnecessary and god awful the 'liquid ass' design change to IOS has been?
Can we maybe have a break from tech enshittification for a few years? Please? As a treat?
Oh no, I may have made a huge mistake. This game is way too distracting.
How am I meant to concentrate on building websites when I need to save the puppies and kittens?
Looks like I picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue...
winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox
Happy New Year to all.
I'm going to keep posting about my projects, sci-fi novels and gaming.
My New Years resolutions are to scroll less, code more and make some actual progress with the dozen or so projects I have in flight.
...but today's task is running the BBQ.
Belta gutalowda! Sasa ke, beratna?
Fine.
( Ficus fiction? Finessed fiducial figures fibbing! )
