I'm 40% through getting my first 100 users for https://www.kruh.ltd. So far, I've only added a "banner" announcement on two of my products and mentioned it at the bottom of newsletters to their subscribers. It's taken a couple of months to get this far. I will probably launch in two phases of cohorts. I.e. in blocks of 50.
It also means circle in Czech and sounds like crew. When I happened upon the word, I was very proud of myself! I'm usually not great at naming projects.
Looking forward to trying this out. I do a lot of email testing locally for paced.email and vend.email. MailHog is 90% of the way there, but seems like it's fallen by the wayside...
Location: UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JS (Vue/React), etc
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rikkipitt/
Email: rikki at jemcode dot co dot uk
I'm offering 25% off all plans for https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email with BF2022. Not really had much success with BF/CM in the past, but alas, I'll try again this year now the products are in more solid positions.
Yes and the circumference of the earth is about 40 million meters. This is because a meter was originally supposed to be 1/10E6 the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris.
Earth’s circumference around the poles is now given as 40,007.863 km [1]. So when the French Academy of Sciences defined the metre in the 1790s [2] the distance they measured from equator to North Pole was off by less than 2 km.
I have read that the atronomers at the time actually knew that they were a bit off due to a mistake that was done by one of them.
They spent several years making lots of smaller measurements that were added up.
Each measurement was done twice to ensure correctness. One of the distances had two conflicting measurements, but due to a war, they could not return to make a third measurement and had to just choose one of them (the wrong one).
They chose not to tell anyone because they feared politicians would use it to discredit the metric system.
Nitpick: 1/10⁷, not 1/10⁶. They picked the power of ten that gave a reasonably-sized unit of length.
They also made things complex by then picking a unit of mass that’s inconsistent with that: a gram isn’t the mass of 1m³ of water, but of 1/10⁶ m³ of water (a cubic meter is 10³ liters, and a liter of water weighs 10³ grams)
The gram is the easiest to save by working backwards from Avogadro's number.
Avogadro's number is close to 24!, so we could redefine our mass unit as exactly 24! hydrogen atoms (or 4!!) and that comes out to within about 3% of a gram while being significantly easier to communicate to an extraterrestrial civilization.
Picking 1/10^9 would also have had the advantage of making the distance from the pole to the equator ~1 gigacentimeter.
Exploring a bit, picking 4 times that, as an estimate of the circumference, would give us a basic length unit of 4 cm (a pretty reasonable unit—bit over an inch and a half, fits right in with the variety of Chinese cun standards, for example). Then our immediate volume unit is 64 mL, which seems kind of small (on the scale of 2 floces), but ten of them make a decent "pint", so I think it can work—it's ~13% bigger than an imperial pint instead of ~12% smaller. the corresponding mass unit, at ~64 g, which again seems a bit small but manages to line up an average person's weight right around 1 kilo.
For me, it's: Earth is a blue marble - in "Mega-view" (Mm zoomed to mm) - with a diameter of a baker's dozen Megameters. The volume of a ball is one half of its enclosing box, so that's ~(1E7)^3 or 1E21 m^3. Earth is rock (3 Mg/m^3) and iron (8 Mg/m^3) and averages 5 Mg/m^3. Or just bracket it - water,lead,gold is ~ 1,10,20 Mg/m^3). Giving an Earth mass of 5E24 kg. Actual value 6E24 kg. Brackets of water and lead give 1E24 to 11E24 kg.
> a great way of drilling in these tidbits
For me it's: Arm-sized, hand-sized, fingernail-sized, and "tiny"-sized, are 1000, 100, 10, and 1 mm. Zooming these by 1000^n gives scale-model "views". Mega-view with planet balls, kilo-view with cities in your palm, meter-view with buildings in hand, micro-view with red blood cell M&M's (yum), nano-view with virus balls (chewy shell, stringy inside), pico-view with H2O bumpy basketballs, femto-view with nuclei marbles. It's easier to remember how big things are, once they're toy-sized, and you've handled and played with them.
Just something I crafted years back. Resulting videos didn't seem to user test well. I was set to dust it off, doing rapid iterative development over gorilla street usability testing... in Spring 2020. Ah well.
Oh. So there was a DNS issue yesterday? A custom of mine was complaining that my apps weee down and blamed CloudFlare. They didn’t inform me of this issue, I had to find out via HN/customers.
130 apps to get off Heroku is going to a massive pain to get through but it’s looking more and more likely…
I built https://www.quikk.co.uk which gives users a better audit trail and backup of their Xero accounting data. I’ve never really marketed it, but MRR-wise it’s doing ok. Promising volumes so far. I keep meaning to put effort into getting it into the hands of those who would benefit most from it but always get sidetracked with my other projects.
Throwing this out there, why not… if anyone would like to help me, let me know!
I built Paced Email which has team support. You can spin up any number of email addresses quite quickly. It has the added benefit of making email a little more async which helps keep your employees a little less distracted.
I’m in a similar boat with two email-based SaaS products. People often ask, “what if?”.
I’ve considered writing up a worst case scenario plan or migration document to help with initial concerns that these apps will just go away.
Are there any funds out there that offer their name as a form of backing to give customers increased confidence? I think a big name would help, not just the money itself.
Many large companies dealing with smaller companies add a clause to their contract enforcing that all code and deployment instructions go to a third party escrow and remains updated. They have the right to a non exclusive license to the code under certain circumstances. I’ve been on both sides of the agreement.
