Ryan Badger

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Ryan Badger
@ryanseanbadger
Maker since 2009. alumni. Sold ufile.io now building . Also storage.to, imgpile.com, and a chicken wing chain in Bali wingsbali.com

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Me, spending 10 years to build a complete Shopify alternative that can be embedded into any website/app in seconds, with faster load times and fewer steps to checkout. Users: "$9/mo is too expensive" People building apps on top of Shopify that literally just let you change the
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Pretty sure this is true though? Appliances were made to a much higher standard. Then we moved towards “cheap” manufacturing and components. We live in a disposable age. There’s a lightbulb in a fire station in California that’s been on, 24/7, for 123 years.
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We need a 3rd olympics for the general public. Invitations are sent out to households at random and those selected have to compete. It would be the greatest sporting event of our generation.
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Christ we’ve entered the stage of the cycle where companies start just slapping the letters “AI” on any old shit. These are skates and unless they have 5G I find it highly unlikely they have AI…
Customer signs up via , passes all fraud checks, 2FA, chargeback protection activated. 6 months later, submits a "fraudulent charge" for every payment, net cost to me: $127.44 in Stripe fees, plus marketing acquisition cost plus support costs. Customer has committed a
*Knock knock* Who's there? Tailwind. Tailwind who? Tailwaind relative inline-flex items-center px-2 py-2 text-sm font-medium text-gray-500 bg-white border border-gray-300 cursor-default rounded-l-md leading-5 dark:bg-gray-800 dark:border-gray-600 relative inline-flex
I pay $99/mo for a simple API, one month I accidentally used my live key instead of test, triggered a load of identical calls and went over my usage limit. They charged me $600 in overages, even though every request was identical, assuming they have caching, the cost to them