someotheridiot

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by someotheridiot 6y ago
Yes, forced lockdowns means more people inside playing with their toys :) The site stats definitely show that. I did a post back in May showing the initial impacts: https://rebrickable.com/blog/257/coronavirus-impa
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by someotheridiot 6y ago
There are certainly some negative people on the site, but the moderator team do a good job of making sure any criticism is genuine and not a personal attack. Thanks for your continued support :)
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by someotheridiot 6y ago
It started off as a side-project for fun, now has grown so large it's my primary income. Unfortunately it hasn't left me with enough spare time to enjoy LEGO much though. My kids enjoyed LEGO Masters (Australia), and it certainly
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by someotheridiot 6y ago
There have been several attempts that I know of. But they all tend to have a low number of categories they sort into - tens vs the thousands of actual categories that exist. I have tried it myself and it simply needs more input data (ie pho
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by someotheridiot 6y ago
The sorting can be quite relaxing for some people (ie me). Kind of like a background task you can perform while watching a movie and calm your mind of things.
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by someotheridiot 6y ago
- Django + Postgres + Ubuntu. Runs on Linode with some AWS usage and Digital Ocean for backups (I prefer backups on different platforms). - Content is community driven, along with a team of volunteer admins to maintain it. - Copyright probl
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by someotheridiot 6y ago
Hey, I built this site and just noticed the traffic. If anyone has questions, ask away :) A better starting url is https://rebrickable.com/
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by someotheridiot 8y ago
2nd for The Bobiverse, it has some humour and had some fresh ideas in it.
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by someotheridiot 9y ago
Have you ever tried to use PayPal's documentation? Might make you feel better about Stripe :)
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by someotheridiot 9y ago
https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.
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by someotheridiot 9y ago
It's an "accen"t pointing to the fu"ture". source: unfortunately I used to work there when they came up with the name.
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by someotheridiot 10y ago
I loved it and paid for it. Sure, I didn't have to but I sure feel better having done so. Besides, I'd easily spend that money on a game that lasts a few dozen hrs at most so why not a tool I use every day?
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by someotheridiot 10y ago
Agreed. I've been using Django for only a little while, and sometimes find it quite frustrating. Then something finally makes sense and I realise I've been doing it wrong and the proper way makes everything soooo easy. The trick i
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by someotheridiot 10y ago
I had an account closed with about 2k in it and no amount of pestering them made a difference. Then suddenly, about a year afterwards (I think), they sent me a cheque with the balance. Also, I was able to create a new account after fixing w
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by someotheridiot 10y ago
https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.
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by someotheridiot 10y ago
After nearly a year of panicking about going from 7 to 10 and breaking all my tools, I finally did it a few days ago. Everything worked, nothing broke.
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by someotheridiot 10y ago
Yes, I've had lots of suggestions for applying the tech to other things but the problem is I have no interest in those other things :)
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by someotheridiot 10y ago
DBA (Postgres, Oracle, MySQL) https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.
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by someotheridiot 10y ago
https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs. I built the original site in a few months, but have been steadily
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by someotheridiot 10y ago
About $10-$20/day on 1.5M pageviews/month. My cpm/ctr sucks.
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by someotheridiot 11y ago
Yeah, ads and affiliate sales. It gets a decent amount of traffic (~130K users/month, 2M pageviews) but I have trouble monetising it.
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by someotheridiot 11y ago
https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs. The revenue fluctuates quite a lot though since I suck at that si
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by someotheridiot 11y ago
If their learning material is based on expert human games, how can it ever get better than that?
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by someotheridiot 11y ago
I don't show ads for every page view (only unregistered users), and click rate is more like 0.1%. Now I feel like I'm doing something very wrong... advice welcome!
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by someotheridiot 11y ago
$0.20 to $0.30 :(
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by someotheridiot 11y ago
https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs. My adsense earnings are terrible though, I've always assumed
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by someotheridiot 11y ago
I had 16M pageviews in 2015 and a hell of a lot less adsense earnings than you :( What's your CPM?
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by someotheridiot 11y ago
https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs. I guess it would only loosely be called "passive" as I
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by someotheridiot 11y ago
I'm excited about the sorting improvements. Large index creation performance has been an embarrassment (I often have to defend pg against Oracle!), hopefully this will make things vastly better.
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by someotheridiot 11y ago
https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs. I started in a few years ago, but over the Christmas break I put

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