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Russell Smith

Russell Smith
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@russ

I love programming, photography, and rallying. Recurse Center A1'22, YC S12, ex-CTO/co-founder of Rainforest QA. Currently hacking on some new things.
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Joined November 2019

At the moment I'm not using anything - I just store logs locally, and if I need them I can usually find them. Centralized logging - the last time I used something paid was LogDNA - now renamed - www.mezmo.com/pricing - it was pretty solid and not too expensive. They still seem to have a free plan for tailing only.

You could delete it at the end of the cycle; but that kinda feels like a dark pattern. IMHO it's better to pro-rate it and refund the difference and get it done.

What did you launch?

A robotics podcast, called the Sense Think Act Podcast: sensethinkact.com/, specifically the website, an introductory episode, and the first interview, and we pushed it out on social media.

The second episode just aired. I'd be happy for feedback, if you have any thoughts on what could be better.

I'd prefer to be able to nominate which days I'm working, and have those days count towards streaks only. I like the streak, but don't want to work 7 days a week.

I mostly use Graphviz (graphviz.org), but it depends on exactly what you're trying to do!

YC nail this, imho - "Make something people want" - unpacking this myself to: talk to users, build, survive.

  1. Just shorter and simpler would get me to try it. If you're giving away accounts, maybe you could do the whole signup over email?
  2. Ya; it's hard - just check your ip / block in blacklists. You can build reputation by getting folks to take the messages out of spam.
  3. cool
  4. ya, so still the problem is that I have to trust the message is un-tampered with inside your infra.

1)) By "signup over email" you mean the passwordless login over email? I thought about this one before and am not 100% convinced about it yet ...

4)) Yes I know that it's hard to trust the system :), that's why I planned for SimpleLogin to be open source from the beginning. For now, users still need to take my word for it ...