Hey Peer, wanted to take a chance and say thanks (as a paying customer) for building cal.com, and doing it in public. It's been extremely helpful for me personally, I learned a lot by following your process, your handbook, and your codebase.
My story: making real world working products to train and show your skill.
I learn program to make my own products. I made several working products but they didn't work as a business. I need a job to survive.
I tried to use Upwork to get a gig. There was a team hiring enginners. I showed the tech lead my repo and my working web apps. He is impressive. I get hired.
There are some luck involved. It turns out that my tech lead is not a good programmer. Maybe his lack of experitise is why he hired me. I don't know. But it helps to have working product and public codebase to show.
I have some Nginx access logs. Not many logs. I need to parse those logs and analyse them.
Some questions I want to answer from my logs:
1. Which API is slow
2. Which API is broken, ie. returning 4xx or 5xx
3. Which API is called most often
I don't want to integrate some backend software into my code. At least not at this stage.
Hopefully there can be a website for me to upload my logs. After uploading, it would parse my logs and show me some plots. Google doesn't introduce me to such services. Maybe there are some.
At the end, I spent 2 hours parsing the data with Python and analizing them with R. To save myself 2 hours' life, I would pay for such a service.
I thought of making such a product myself. But I want to implement some other idea first.
If you know such kind of service, please let me know :)
A few days ago came across the MIT-licensed GoAccess. It generates both terminal and HTML based reports that should address your needs. You run the tool from the command line, so doesn’t solve the website-to-upload-a-file requirement, but that could be a fun little project (if someone hasn’t already done that).
Thanks. I've spent a few minutes on them while I did my research.
I got the impression that I need to install some software or integrate them into my backend. They are more like system monitor. Maybe I was wrong. That's not how I wanted do it.
I hope to upload my nginx logs and get the results immediately.
FTX's failure is hardly Crypto's failure. FTX is a centralized exchange. Crypto, at least when it was created, is/was against centralization.
But yes, cryto industry is much more centralized than before. Centralization without regulation is the root of all evils.
We don't need deep tech understanding of Cryto to know that centralization without regulation is problematic. History of finance has proven it again and again and again.
Those who trusted FTX are either dumb or greedy. Perhaps both.
As a crypto adopter, the best we can do is:
1. Stay away from unregulated centralized company like FTX, Binance, Tether, etc.
2. Stay dicentralized.
Thanks for sharing Akita. It looks promising. It seems to be an early stage product. I would keep an eye on it.
Like you said, there should be something like a mixpanel for API usage. Now when I think of it, it is not as an urgent problem as user data analysis. I need to collect user data after I have qualitatively validate my product and started doing marketing campaign. But I would not need to analyse my api usage after I hit a certain level of usage.
API monitor seems to be a less urgent and easier task with less market size.
I want to pay for it, if there is any simple service that I can integrate in 2 hours out there.
Speaking of a full investment (Data warehouse + datadog and alerting framework), I actually don't know what it is, lol. I'm an dumb developer, I just want to pay, read docs, write some integration code in 2 hours, test and then use the service. I have visited datadogs webiste before I post. The amount of info there is beyond my comprehension (or beyond the attention budget that I am willing to spend).
I would argue that crytpo is not pure lottery. It's a risky investment. As every assets, crypto can be over-valued or under-valued.
As someone from China, where central government limit foregin currency exchange, Bitcoin is a god-given tech. I'm not arguing for its value and i don't mean to persuade anyone. This is my opinion. I believe in its value. And guess what? I miss the crypto train too. And I have zero crypto investments. Because I don't want to take unncessary finantial risk when I cannot. I didn't borrow to bet on Bitcoin. In fact, I didn't bet at all. I didn't envy those who bet and win. Because there 100 losers for each winner.
Hard working provides higher expected return than betting.
Wise investmens and hard working provide higher expected return than hard-working alone.
It's a risky investment in the exact same way a lottery ticket is a risky investment: unless a particular lightning bolt of luck strikes you, it stands to reason that no underlying value is being created to return to your investment, _particularly_ for the shitcoins. They're just "toss a few thousand dollars at the dartboard and see what pumps" pure luck. As evidenced by the falling knives people are trying to catch right now.
> I would argue that crytpo is not pure lottery. It's a risky investment.
Unless you have funds to throw on it and you become rich without ever moving a finger. I mean yeah, congrats for your ability to "see" the future, but I struggle to understand how you created any value, how there's anything more than luck and income inequality to support a case for your new wealth to be legit. You're just extracting value from whoever came after you, in what is a classic Ponzi scheme.
If you already had capital to begin with, you never even really "risked" on it. If you have $10 milions and you risk $1 milion, that is in no way a risk comparable to someone who owns $1k and risks $100.
> As someone from China, where central government limit foregin currency exchange, Bitcoin is a god-given tech.
Why? Most usage of crypto I see is either tax eavsion or on the black markets. Drugs, weapons, fake ids and much much worse. China is doing well and the rest of the world is considering limitations on crypto as well.
> Wise investmens and hard working provide higher expected return than hard-working alone.
I agree on this, but fuck this world where you can get richer than people who work without doing any hard work.
> China is doing well and the rest of the world is considering limitations on crypto as well.
Well, it depends on how you view the condition. I believe that a citizen should be able to change any local curreny to foreign currency. If citizens are not allowed to do that, they are exploited by the governemnt, who can simple print money to finance its corrupted operation. And that's what happen in china.
I don't care about the price of bitcoin. I care about the ability of moving my money wherever I want.
Not to defend lootbox game. But some positive thing: it makes some people's life less boring. Lootbox doesn't make games interesting. But lootbox generates money to hire good designer, programmer to create interesting games, at least for some players.
A more cynical perspective is that the designer and programmer are tasked with using all tricks possible to coerce their players to pay money. While the players spend a lot of time and money on it, their life is only less boring akin to an addict’s life being less boring when they’re on a high.
As someone used to work for Chinese mobile game companies. $110k sounds average for a pay-to-win game. But the game is new. Designers would create other slots to make money.
I played a game called Kingdom Conquest then Kingdom Conquest 2 that I could see exceeding this. The game reset every few months and you’d have to spend the money all over again. I quit after my “kingdom” and all the other English speaking people got brutally subjugated by our Japanese counterparts. We just didn’t spend nearly as much money as them and totally lost.
I will pick one interesting open source project and start contributing.