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Our current CI process within a single Turborepo includes: - Linting - Type checking - Running tests (backend and helper packages) - Build - Deployment We’re considering adding Cypress tests and Lighthouse scores for key pages. What steps are included in your CI pipeline?
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I wonder if anyone has published commercial apps with ffmpeg in them. Any caveats? Does FFmpeg allow it?
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I'm trying to build my electron app for Windows. I'm on a Mac. This is the first time I'm doing this, and there seem to be a lot of options for buying code-signing certificates. Does anyone have any suggestions for the best and the cheapest option?
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At Dea we're probably spending 60% on product & engineering, 20% on content & marketing, and 20% on business related activities. Would love to know what everyone thinks is a perfect split of time and what your actual time spend looks like.
Recently moved all of my apps to a $5/mo VPS using Coolify Saved tons of $$, and can self-host my NextJS/FastAPI/Ghost/Postgres instances etc. Coolify has an API that can be used to automate this setup for common self-hosting scenarios (NextJS, Supabase, Gatsby, Remix, Postgres, FastAPI, Mysql,...
How do you find new ideas? Where do you keep track of them? How do you decide what to work on and what to shelve? Really excited to hear people's workflows and stories.
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I'm looking into the following vendors to build out peer to peer chat capabilities for my app: Sendbird: https://sendbird.com/ TalkJS: https://talkjs.com/ Stream: https://getstream.io/ ChatKitty: https://chatkitty.com/ Does anyone have any experience implementing them? How did it go? 
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I have updated the Query homepage with the aim of increasing its usage. https://qery.io
I want to collaborate with you to create a product around a simple chat tech I have developed. Here you can find a demo: https://query-chat.fly.dev Open two tabs in your favorite browser, invite a friend, and test it.
Hi I'm trying to embed pdf files inside my electron app with react. react-pdf is being a pain, and I'm wondering if there's an easier way to do this?   
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Hi! i m new here! How has your experience been with the wip community? How has it helped you in your indiejourney? Any tangible results might be good to share.
Purely hypothetical: If I would be building a website for indie hackers/developers, what is your preferred way of logging in? E-mail/password, magic link, Google, GitHub, other?
Has anyone setup their content_security_policy policies for Rails/Turbo projects? I had to disable my script-src and default-src because it was causing issues with my project. ``` Rails.application.configure do   config.content_security_policy do |policy|     # TODO: fix this...     #policy.def...
Is LeafletJS project dead?  What map libraries do you use? I need something free to use with Open Street Maps for my cafes project. I don’t want to use Mapbox. Any recommendations???
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If you have a moment, need your thoughts on this :) Recently I rebranded til.dev to tilcards.com because I couldn't afford the renewal cost (~$350) It's almost a month in and I got some fund to renew it.  Now the question is  • list the domain for a higher price to sell (since I already spent ...
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I have additional 30-40 minutes a day in the morning before my day job and I want to use it for working on my side project.  I want to have the same strategy as Pat Walls from Starter Story and sit down in the cafe on the way to the office.  I don’t want to carry my laptop with me every day, bu...
When scraping jobs, you encounter job descriptions in different formats, also from different ATS. How are you showing them in your job boards? Are you taking the original job post and feeding it to AI to ask it to "format" it to your liking? How are you handling the scraping of all the page con...
I'm running a open source 3dicon library 3dicons.co #3dicons For the past three years, I've been paying around $50-$60 per month for bandwidth and hosting on DigitalOcean. However, I noticed a sudden increase in my billing costs, with last month's bill rising to $125, and this month, it's alread...