TheBreadCutter

IT Specialist. Building apps to help optimize retirement and FERS annuities for government employees. BJJ purple belt, wanna roll?

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Quick theming has been added to DashDork. It's a Netvibes alternative RSS based homepage. Check it out for free #buildinpublic

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@arjanth Check out https://t.co/5MIMpTE1qM and let me know what you think. It's as close to my beloved NetVibes as I could make it and I added some improvements.

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It’s an RSS widget style homepage which were popular years ago and I never understood why they didn’t catch on. Within a minute you can get all your important news headlines, etc and dig deeper from there for anything that interests you. For any NetVibes refugees it includes a feature that allows you to import your feeds via their OPML export.

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I built a Netvibes alternative

I thought I was the last person on earth still using it so I built an alternative for myself. I saw a lot of other people looking to replace it with something similar so I’ve made it public at https://t.co/5MIMpTE1qM.

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Not the typical Product Hunt app but we've launched it there - GovRet FERS Annuity Calculator: Federal retirement planning tool | GovRet https://t.co/ALaHpJl3ZH via @producthunt

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We released our new FERS Retirement Wizard and Calculator today! It makes determining your ideal retirement path (Immediate, Postponed, Deferred) easy.

Check it out https://t.co/L5q1GPqs5D

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In my quest to get my app off Heroku and onto a Hetzner VPS I've tried coolify, dokku, bare metal and finally went with @cap_rover. I was able to get my app running on a subdomain and hooked up to Postgres in half a day. It helps that https://t.co/GuI5gY0Uez is an expert at it.

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After gnashing my teeth and brushing up on Linux/VPS I finally got my site setup on a subdomain. I tried Coolify but LLMs seem way more knowledgeable about @dokku so I went with it. It provides a good path from Heroku and easy deployments from git check-ins.

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Welp, looks like I'm in this for the long haul so time to move off of Heroku to a more economical solution @Hetzner_Online. This gives me a reason to brush up on containerized development and deployments too!

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I mashed up a new demo video using @synthesiaIO for GovRet https://t.co/KByVMPCGHN

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Every session with https://t.co/GuI5gY0mp1 now I need to gently remind it "Don't ask me to "make sure" of things. You have the code so analyze it and tell me definitively whether or not to do so something"

[Nicolas Bichon @nicol3a]

Results of raising my app's price:

❌ Doubling the price: Too high.
✅ $1 increase: Success!

I'll try to increase it again in a few weeks. 📈

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I opened this account 2 years ago but never used it. Time to get engaged with other indie hacker and see if I can get GovRet off the ground.