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 Sasha Koss

Sasha Koss

@kossnocorp

👋 Hi, I'm Sasha, an open-source writer, indie maker, and serial strugglepreneur. Made @date_fns 𝗑 @chirrapp 𝗑 backupfire.dev
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What do you use for managing creds for .env files?
Sasha Koss
@kossnocorp

direnv

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KimSia Sim
@kimsia

Is the direnv used for development envrionments on laptop? or also for production environments on linux VPS servers?

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Dave Metrics
@davemetrics

Another vote for direnv 👆only in development though - on production I usually use a PaaS (Heroku, Netlify etc).

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Where do you host all your stuff?
Sasha Koss
@kossnocorp

I host Ask User at Firebase. You'll be surprised but Firebase is much more than just a DB. It's all-in-one platform for web and mobile apps: hosting with CDN, serverless provider, authentication API, file storage, etc.

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Where do you host all your stuff?
Sasha Koss
@kossnocorp

Primarily I host my apps at Firebase. I also use Google Cloud for some stuff like CI workers.

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I thought Firebase is for Key-Value store only. Where do you host AskUser?

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Sasha Koss
@kossnocorp

I host Ask User at Firebase. You'll be surprised but Firebase is much more than just a DB. It's all-in-one platform for web and mobile apps: hosting with CDN, serverless provider, authentication API, file storage, etc.

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Anyone else getting annoyed by the overuse of emojis everywhere?
Sasha Koss
@kossnocorp

Not really. Emojis have become part of our vocabulary and no surprise that makers use them that often. It's a cheap and easy to way to make a landing look nice.

Although in the future, we probably will look back and perceive that as candy-buttons of web 2.0.

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Daniel da Rocha
@ddrocha

Yeah... don't take ma wrong, I like emojis, but I do feel they are being overused!

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Pug Pugson
@pugson

Examples?

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Daniel da Rocha
@ddrocha

haha now you got me! It's actually just a "feeling"... this, and I guess I was in a bad mood when I posted this little rant :O

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Daniel da Rocha
@ddrocha

this: medium.com/webpack/webpack-4-…

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How do you handle your Privacy Policy and Term of Service for your project?
Sasha Koss
@kossnocorp

I personally ordered those from GetTerms.io. You can see the results here:

It won't be as great as texts tailored for you by lawyers, but it's much cheaper and still better than nothing.

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Do you know any tools for load testing web applications?
Sasha Koss
@kossnocorp

It depends on your stack and what kind of testing you want to have. Unit and integration tests are coupled to the language you use. For system tests (end-to-end) I would recommend Cypress.io: www.cypress.io/. It's a pleasure to use!

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Would you consider an idea worth pursuing if feedback about interest in the idea is split 50/50?
Sasha Koss
@kossnocorp

It depends on how interested are that 50%. If they are eager and ask you about release date then the rest 50% doesn't matter at all.

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How do you set goals for yourself and/or products? #wip
Sasha Koss
@kossnocorp

I don't do it as often as I think I should. But I believe it's a powerful tool that forces not only think in high-level about the product but also lets you review your work at the end of a cycle.

Few times I did post my monthly goals at Indie Hackers' (see that for examples how I do it):

I found it very useful as I got to think that I really want to accomplish in the upcoming month. Even though I didn't manage to fulfill everything, it got me a lot of food for thought. One aspect that I didn't like it is that month is a way too long period for rapid development and I'd like to stick to weekly goals.

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