The amount of Mastodon icons on that page sadly also confirm my feeling that Mastodon in general is a very "Anti AI" bubble and it became a lot less fun to hang out there if you are even slightly interested in AI or working with it. Not even talking about being some AI hyper, just someone who sees benefits in some fields and my daily work life.
That's the only issue I have with ebooks and the reason why I would never read a technical / reference book on it where you want to jump around and have your fingers in some pages to flip back and forth.
If you want to start in that niche you really need to double down on a specific subset of that niche to get people to use it. Right now you are not offering much over Facebook Events or Meetup and the tech / design in this case doesn't matter when all that matters is that you have people using it for their events.
I'd take a look at how Luma (The only seemingly competitor in that niche these days) is doing it, they are focused on a very small group of large cities and started being mostly for crypto related events. Only these days it feels like there's more variety in the events depending on the city. Doing a generic "I was annoyed with Meetup" strategy won't work.
I think you're right that to start up something like this, it needs a niche, but at the same time, these kinds of apps are for discovering and meeting new people, do you have any ideas of how to find the balance between the two opposites?
Building a social network / two sided marketplace will always be one of the most complicated projects as the technical part doesn't really matter so much but the distribution is the only thing that is important and there's not really a single way to make it work. The only thing that doesn't work is "build and they will come".
Yep, verifying the IPs is still the way to go. You often see websites that do it wrong when you set your user agent to Google Bot and they give you a different version of the page without validating that.
I wish they would improve the extension support in Safari. I'm on Safari full time but I always dread the moment I have to install an extension. If the extension even exists (Firefox / Chrome is easy, so developers always do that and they don't have to pay Apple a fee) download some app, then click some button to open Safari settings, then enable the extension there, then give it permissions in the Safari menu bar. Horrible UX.
That gives you the extension, but the workflow within macOS for users is still very user hostile. Problem with extensions might be that the training data isn't that great as there's not that many open source Safari extensions.
I use 1Password, RSS Button (To highlight if the page has a feed, so I can subscribe with my own Miniflux instance), 1Blocker (Ad blocking), Tampermonkey for loading userscripts on some websites, Readdeck extension to easily send something to my "read later" pile. It's not a lot of them, but every time I want to test a new one I dread it.
In theory that makes sense, in practice I've never had any issues with updating on day one and it's often necessary if you want to develop for iOS / macOS anyway unless you have a dedicated developer machine.
So instead of doing the easy thing (Giving your Claude a read-only role, having snapshots etc.) you decided to patch the database which needs to be kept in sync with every PG release and build a landing page?
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