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Is it open source?


Thanks for trying it! It's not open source, but it is a single-page app. You could download the source and run it locally.

The web app is calling Jina Reader under the hood. If you needed something a little different, it wouldn't be too hard to write a CLI tool to call Jina and achieve similar results.

It's cheap to host, so I'll be leaving this up for the foreseeable future.


Have you read the 2nd Edition or the first one?


the 2nd edition one is from 2021 and has some errors; there is errata for it

it's alright, a lot of stuff I'd characterize as a 'good start'


This looks very cool!


Isn't it too technical for customers like "freelancers & small companies"? They have to know how to install a npm package and use it which excludes most standard cms sites like wordpress. Why is this not a "no-code" drop in snippet where stuff could be configured in the dashboard.


Wufoo.com does this. The MBAs won over there though so lots of opportunities to be better.


Thanks for that! It will help us create a direction for mailik. Obviously we are small team that does side-projects from time to time, but we can take what's useful from it.


Nice idea, we will discuss how we could make it happen soon


Marketing, Sales and SEO for a SaaS of mine. Found out that is what sells your product and not the features of your product.


Do you have any recommendations for learning resources for marketing/advertisement/SEO ? I want to get into that, but it's a very noisy domain with lots of "experts" selling their knowledge, so difficult to know what is good or bad.


GPT 4. Read Alex Hormozi and Russel Brunson’s books (marketing) Frank Kern for Ads and Matt Diggity for SEO


Thank you!


Even one developer startups have had huge success using elxir https://plausible.io/


I think the name is pretty generic/bad. Maybe you could incorporate some nordic myth etc since they are adding the new runes api to svelte. One thing that could be nice is using something like Zod for input validation, I see alot of "// TODO: validation" ;) Otherwise it looks really cool and might be something I would use for my next sveltekit project, right now I just run with pocketbase + sveltekit for my app.


I've been thinking about the right balance for validation. Should I just do a simple checks (check if fields are not undefined, empty strings, etc…), or just plug in Zod.

I will probably go with the latter.


Really cool project, thanks for making it available for others to look at. It really reminds me of https://pocketbase.io/ which has sorta the same idea and can be extended with go/js. How does the database work under the hood? Is it also based on sqlite? Are rust modules built with a special runtime in mind like tokio or?


It's not based on sqlite. We have a custom database engine which we needed for performance reasons for BitCraft. We need to be able to control very carefully what is done in memory vs on disk so that we can manage latency for games and other real-time/soft real-time applications.

Rust modules are agnostic to all of that. Right now they're not async at all since they take place in a transactional context and you don't want to await while a transaction is held open.


Nice, what tools did you use?


I made the game in Unity/C#. I started using paint.net but later switched to aseprite for pixel art, esp animations. Audacity for audio editing. Davinci Resolve for the trailer. So mostly free programs, I think Aseprite is paid.


Denmark's farming industry's ERP system run on a system called Ø90 which is written delphi, java and cobol. Still being actively maintained by IBM today.


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