jbman223

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by jbman223 3y ago
Next is writing code entirely. Whatever has the most robust documentation will be the next big thing, since AI agents will be writing the code for the programmers.
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by jbman223 4y ago
This is a great project at CMU. Worked on it from the beginning as an undergrad. It’s a very unique project: students have the ability to be involved in almost all of the roles of the project - from mentoring high school teachers to writing
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by jbman223 4y ago
The approach was fairly simple: access to the college board’s website was geo-IP restricted for about 5 days time. It would start with a small collection of states, and each day over the five days another group of states would get access to
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by jbman223 4y ago
You’re welcome - Glad it helped!
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by jbman223 4y ago
Reminds me of a passion project I started in high school that went completely viral and took on a life of its own. Wrote a small script for my friends to check their AP scores a few days early. Required high schoolers giving clear text acce
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by jbman223 4y ago
That’s not exactly true - as an Amazon affiliate you do see the exact items purchased under each of your specific tracking IDs, as well as the price it was purchased for, category and device group it was purchased using (desktop, tablet, mo
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by jbman223 4y ago
I got lucky, the subdevelopment I live in has been upgraded from classic Centurylink DSL to “Spectrum” fiber (1gbps fiber line to the house for $60/month, no contract and no equipment or setup fees. Growing up a few blocks away, it was
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by jbman223 4y ago
Not too difficult! Monetized with ads, the project was making a significant profit (>$15k per year; all of it came in on one day) - the difficult part was trying to do anything else with all of those users.
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by jbman223 4y ago
In high school I made a site to help students view their AP scores early. It ballooned in popularity over the past 8 years. At it’s peak in 2020 and 2021 it was getting over 1.5 million students in 2 hours on the day of release. It was quit
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by jbman223 4y ago
Tabler is a really awesome theme - sits right on top of bootstrap, and gives a very cohesive look for backends/admin interfaces. Also, the corresponding email template library is fantastic and only costs $30. Doesn’t seem like the proj
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by jbman223 5y ago
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is looking at Facebook Groups. The advertising can be weird because it is somewhat of a grey area, but most Facebook groups pages are run by companies or moderators who are looking for a little extra cash.
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by jbman223 5y ago
Anecdotal evidence - but I feel like this could be completely valid. One of my biggest side projects for many years was a student tool centered around test scores. It was a niche use case with a huge amount of students using the tool on one
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by jbman223 5y ago
When an NFT project proposes a value share and airdrops amongst token owners, and also has a royalty fee paid on every transfer [1], I think the “up line” and MLM aspect come more into play. There is value for you to inflate the price of th
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by jbman223 5y ago
Sending away all of your PII to be verified in games isn’t much better (in terms of intrusiveness) than running anti-cheat software in the first place. Additionally, will it be any harder to get around a system like this than a traditional
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by jbman223 5y ago
Check my other reply to the sibling of my original post for a little more detailed story. I need to check out IndyHacker. B2C products have a longer growth cycle if you’re not full time, as prices are lower but the markets are bigger. My ma
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by jbman223 5y ago
My most successful side project - by traffic volume and by usage - is a viral site idea which consistently generates over 1 million users in July of every year, those users generate about 20k in revenue yearly. It solves a problem I had in
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by jbman223 5y ago
I’ve had great success building B2C apps as side projects. It’s more about matching your passions to solving issues. Otherwise you’ll burn out and produce crap before you ever make anything people use.
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by jbman223 6y ago
Most open source software is neither decentralized nor publicly owned.
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by jbman223 6y ago
You’re saying that user preference shifted, but in reality, Google’s preference shifted. That, to me, is the problem highlighted by this story and others.
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by jbman223 6y ago
It’s easy to say “Ignore Amp” when you’re not a content site that depends on Google Search to stay alive. Sadly, for a large amount of sites on the web, what Google says is what goes. Chasing a #1 keyword ranking puts food on people’s table
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by jbman223 6y ago
Nope, still done though code, at least in the base framework.
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by jbman223 6y ago
“Nobody ever needed rollback” is a very naive statement. Nobody needs rollback, until they do. And the one time you need it, having it will make up for ALL of the time spent on getting it set up correctly. Properly having rollback and other