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Liked on XI made a mistake. When Jack and I decided to organize this $100K Hackathon, my biggest concern was cheating. Unlike a regular hackathon, everyone participates from home. And because the winner is whoever makes the most PROFIT (not revenue), there are so many ways to manipulate the numbers. So I added a $99 entry fee. One thing I’ve learned from building businesses is that people tend to be more committed when they pay for something. I thought it would filter out spam, attract serious builders, and make the competition fairer for everyone. But I completely missed the other side. 3 years ago, I was a living with my apps. Today, I’m financially free. My life changed so much that somewhere along the way, I lost perspective on what $99 means to someone else. For someone in India, someone struggling to pay their bills, or someone trying to make their first dollar online, $99 can be a lot of money. And those are exactly the people I want to help! I’ve spent years sharing what I’ve learned, reviewing random people’s landing pages, and organizing free meetups around the world. Not because there’s money to make, but because I genuinely love seeing people build things and succeed. And somehow, I was so focused on keeping cheaters out that I didn’t realize I was also keeping genuine builders out. That’s my mistake. So I’ve decided to make the $100K Hackathon completely FREE :) Everyone who already paid got a full refund. I’m still worried about cheating. That problem hasn’t disappeared, and Jack and I will have to figure out better ways to verify profits and keep the leaderboard fair. But that’s our problem to solve. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts. Sometimes you need people to remind you of things you’ve forgotten. 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So much :') Thank you God!" i know I've been posting about my exit for like a week now, but it really is a big deal for me and my family! i'll share more about how this all happened and some tactical advice later this week, but for now i'm just riding out all the emotions to quote my mom, thank you God!!!!Liked on X@thefarmers_Dog it stands for Egg GzampleLiked on X🦍 Introducing Memorilla: memory as a modality for LLMs Memorilla turns everything a frozen LLM needs to remember into just 16 memory embeddings ⚡ It uses up to 4,212× fewer tokens and is 27× faster than full context inference while more accurate 🎯 Pushes the Pareto frontier over RAG and agentic memory in personalization, long-document and knowledge QA A thread 🧵:Liked on XThere's a huge product opportunity downstream of Tailscale etc too. At @tldraw we've started designing for "high trust networks" and it's been a beautiful thing. 1. Features that would be a nightmare on the internet are okay on my computer and mostly okay on private networks. Websites that execute user-generated scripts, control production systems, allow for users to send desktop notifications, spend tokens, or directly prompt my agent. Crazy stuff that would only make sense if everyone was in a committed polycule. 2. When everyone on the server can be trusted to have _external_ reasons for good behavior (eg keeping their job, or maintaining friends, family, church, mafia org), the software can be designed in a default social way. Most apps default to isolation, low horizontal visibility, highly restricted collaboration. Makes sense if the social contracts are inside of the app, but if you can trust that they live outside of the app then you can get wild. Example being small group chat names as an emergent comedy phenomenon because anyone in the group can change the name. 3. This can work for commercial products, too, not just internal stuff. 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Migrating Project Aldehyde to FlightControl (February 24誠鉉)

Migrating Project Aldehyde to FlightControl (February 24誠鉉)

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I migrated my website, (part of Project ), to FlightControl.

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I love their Spaceship themes! You get a random spaceship for every project you create..

Background

Before , the workflow was simple -- git push, wait 10 minutes for Vercel to build it, voila, updated website.

As grew to thousands of documents and images, RAM usage started to spike. In January 2023, got too big to fit inside a Vercel builder. More in .

I have had to change my workflow to build it locally and push it to Cloudflare workers. While this workflow worked, I had to wait 20 minutes for it to build and 5 minutes to deploy. Sometimes wrangler would fail on a specific network. Sometimes the build would never finish and I had to keep the program running forever. Not a delightful experience. Finally, the cache control seemed slightly awkward. A full JS-CSS redownload happens whenever I deploy my website. As far as I know, docusaurus has its internal hash output generator, but seemed to override it. I haven't investigated more, but I noticed far more flashing repaints on . (AWS CloudFront had far fewer repaints and seemed to cache correctly.)

After getting a positive first impression on FlightControl, I naturally moved some of my projects off from Vercel and . The best part was that I paid the AWS fees, and thus, I didn't need to worry about exceeding the build limit (in either time or space). Is the building taking longer? I can pay more. Does the build takes too much RAM? Change the CodeBuild instance to a higher one. Problems that can be solved with money are the most straightforward. Unfortunately, Vercel or Cloudflare does not allow me to pay for more build time or RAM.

Finally, ever since , I had $$$ of AWS credits I needed to use in the next two years, but AWS DX is a pain compared to more modern solutions like Vercel or ... and I didn't want to spend weeks of dev-hours just trying to configure EC2s. But also, at the same time, I didn't want to let go of all these valuable credits... so I was in this checkmated position, but FlightControl came to rescue me.

Anyways.

Configuring AWS Fargate Dockerfiles

FlightControl's AWS Fargate are provisioned with Dockerfiles, so I had to write some dockerfiles to make sure they build correctly. I used a jankily frankensteined pipe of and Node to generate my website (duh, I know) and needed a Dockerfile instead of using just Nixfiles.

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FROM node:latest
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y python3
RUN npm install -g pnpm
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY package.json pnpm-lock.yaml ./
RUN pnpm install
COPY . .
RUN pnpm all-in-one:build
EXPOSE 3000
CMD ["pnpm", "serve"]

Bumping up AWS CodeBuild size

As seen in , weirdly, Docusaurus chugged more memory than Chrome, and I needed a bigger code builder. I didn't want to make the AWS Fargate instance itself bigger because that would waste money when I wouldn't need that processing power for 99% of the runtimes. Luckily, there was a very straightforward way to bump only the builder. This is one of the most incredible benefits of working on top of AWS. Everything is already there.

Configuring Root Domain

FlightControl Docs only mentioned they only supported with the ALIAS keyword. Thus, there was no way to configure the root domain because does not support the ALIAS keyword.

But it was indeed possible! Using CNAME-flattening on , I was able to configure the root domain directly to (or AWS, under the hood?). More here: . I reported this to FlightControl, and they responded:

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Original Response

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After sharing my so-called "workaround"

As I noted, this is the charm of working with an early-stage engineering product team! You also contribute to the product as an early adopter.

Special thanks to the top-notch customer support

Along the way, the Developer Support was excellent. Replies within 2 hours. I heard they were a tiny team now. I hope they don't get Vercelized, where their indie hacker dev support worsens daily.

Conclusion

I'll slowly move toward all my hobbies or work-related stuff to FlightControl. I found a hidden gem. I am willing to pay for a Prosumer plan (like GitHub), but I am delighted with their permissive and generous free plan.

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