tinyprojects

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   by tinyprojects 3y ago

   Much less - 99% of our transactions are < $20, so every time we get hit with a dispute it's already an instant loss in terms of the dispute fee cancelling out any revenue gained back from winning the dispute.
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   by tinyprojects 3y ago

   I've only trialled this system recently, but my current results are: 1 Win 2 Partial Wins (basically a loss with how much you get back) 3 Losses All these payments were fraudulent (a user doing credit card testing) and disputed by fore
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   by tinyprojects 3y ago

   Sure! I basically use PDF Lib to generate a letter with all my evidence bundled into one pdf file. It sucks up data from my database about the user's activity. Format is the following: Formal 1 page letter with company logo - "Dea
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   by tinyprojects 3y ago

   I was on Stripe Radar's free trial, but it wasn't as effective as I liked - it also turned out to be very pricey paying £0.04/screened transaction. I've now rolled my own combination of IP-based bans on creating checkout
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   by tinyprojects 3y ago

   100% this. I just used GPT-4 to help build an analytics dashboard using ChartJS. There's so many settings in ChartJS, it would have taken me a week to StackOverflow / Google how to get my charts how I'd like them - it took me
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   Tell HN: I made a knockoff Stripe Radar using GPT-4

   5 points by tinyprojects 3y ago|0 comments
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   Hire a Prompt Engineer(promptbase.com)

   1 points by tinyprojects 4y ago|0 comments
8. 38.▲
   by tinyprojects 4y ago

   I really miss firebase function logs. Even though it was a bit glitchy at times, it was the perfect simplified overview of everything on my backend, and fitted well with the simple UI of firebase. I'm sure I'll get used to Google
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   by tinyprojects 4y ago

   Also noticing this - very hard to find software engineers in the UK right now. Apparently we have a major skill shortage[1] - which I'm not surprised by, given how little CS/coding was pushed in schools 5-10 years ago. [1] https:&
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    by tinyprojects 4y ago

    This is fantastic! Bluebird Sues Cat is a masterpiece.
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    by tinyprojects 4y ago

    This is really cool OP - did you create the list of prompts? I'm working on Paper Website[1], which lets you turn a handwritten journal into a tiny daily blog. I've written nearly 150 posts[2] this way, and I think what's mad
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    I spent two years launching tiny projects(tinyprojects.dev)

    923 points by tinyprojects 4y ago|197 comments
13. 43.▲
    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks WIRED has gone down hill a bit recently.
14. 44.▲
    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    This is great! You've got something here
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    I write most of my blog posts using Sublime text directly into html code. There's no spellchecker, it's annoying wrapping paragraphs in <p> tags, but my quality of writing is 10x better. Something about my weird coder brain
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    I started a paper website business(daily.tinyprojects.dev)

    1511 points by tinyprojects 5y ago|257 comments
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    Thank you for the kind words!
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    50 Days of Paper Blogging(daily.tinyprojects.dev)

    4 points by tinyprojects 5y ago|2 comments
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    Product Hunt Is Doomed(daily.tinyprojects.dev)

    3 points by tinyprojects 5y ago|0 comments
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    Hey HN! I'm Ben, and for the past 18 months I've been building and launching tiny internet projects and documenting the whole process on my blog, Tiny Projects. Today I just launched my 7th project Paper Website. Paper Website let
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    Show HN: I made Paper Website – Start a tiny website from your notebook(paperwebsite.com)

    16 points by tinyprojects 5y ago|6 comments
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    Thank you! I applied as soon as it was announced - I probably waited about 8 months before I eventually got access. Even after that, there's hoops you have to jump through before you can go live. It's incredibly cool tech to have
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    Thanks so much for the feedback on this. There's a bit of a cost associated with paper to webpage conversions (and obviously hosting websites and images) - so I'm quite content with the current pricing. You can try a Paper Website
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    Not yet - but I'm working on a tagging/markdown system for the exact reasons you described.
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    Part of the fun with building tiny projects like this is they're really low stakes. I build them as an mvp in a matter of weeks/months, launch them fast, then get a feel for if I enjoy running them. If I don't, I axe them, or
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    It's using a combination of OCR and GPT-3. GPT-3 is basically being used as a glorified grammar corrector, trained on bad OCR sentences and their correct equivalents. If there's spelling mistakes, crossing outs, or bad OCR going o
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    Hey! I'm the creator of Paper Website. This is the seventh tiny project I've built over the past 18 months - I've been documenting the whole process on my blog: https://tinyprojects.dev I built Paper Website becau
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    If anyone is running into cold start problems on Firebase, I recently discovered you can add .runWith({minInstances: 1}) to your cloud functions. It keeps 1 instance running at all times, and for the most part completely gets rid of cold st
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    Oculus is also down
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    by tinyprojects 5y ago

    I've built a service that lets you create a micro-blog from a paper journal: https://paperwebsite.com/ It's given me great joy just publishing my unfiltered thoughts on the internet straight from my pen, which sou