Alex 🔔 | updatify.io

Today I turned 35 🎉🎂 A bit depressing number honestly, feels like half of my life is done But I hope next half will be much better than previous

@buildinpublic updatify.io - create release notes from your pull requests or tasks in jira(or any other) and then share them via variety of channels such as X, LI, email, embedded widget and few more. Keep your users updated with your product updates in just few clicks.

What are you working on this week?

@weswinder thats what sane people do i recently had to iterate over all copilot products and sometimes I feel like some manager gets promotion the moment he launched one more copilot lol

@_avdept i generally don't use anything microsoft makes so i mostly avoid this problem lol

lol this dude just blocked me for telling him gpt-5.5 doesn't have a codex model variant?? he was (understandably) confused because codex (the app) identified itself as "codex" in chat openai has done irreversible damage by using the term "codex" for a million different things

@mcsetty @ankkala im just explaining whats wrong with TUIs, not why you should or should not develop, lets stick to original topic

@_avdept @ankkala Fair that there are applications where it makes far less sense. Still seems strange to care given: - there are plenty of existing gui applications for these use cases - no ones forcing you to use these - someone wanted it enough to develop it on their own and share it

guy made an open source discord client and people are dunking on him for how bad it is. it feels like it wasn't this bad on the internet some time ago?

@weswinder github's yes, but microslops - there are hundred of them I think already

@_avdept also really bad, but as far as i know github copilot itself is just one thing right? microsoft versions are chaos

@josevalim you have typo in "Social coding is dead" >coding is dead fixed it for you

When someone replies to a pull request comment with obvious AI content, it genuinely saddens me. PRs used to be a place to teach/learn/discuss software but now there’s nobody on the other side. If I wanted an agent response, I’d ask mine. Social coding is dead.

@DilyanDimitrov @tinyshots_ Ah I see, I thought it was your real background for your app feels really nice, maybe consider putting it as real app background?

@_avdept hmm, the colorful background is just for posting the screenshot on X (tool is called @tinyshots_ )

I added email/pass for signing up alongside the Google Auth The most difficult part was to setup the self-hosted supabase to use custom email templates Tip: use 587 port for SMTP instead of the default 465

In my small launcher app for arch I took care about power usage since I intend to move to dell laptop once they come on sale locally For that reason i made sure there are no background calls when launcher is closed, there are no data refresh, unless its someting that needs right away after launch How often are you even thinking about power consumption of your apps?

@larsbuilds #5 on PH is actually solid, well done!

still on 5th place! but 6th place is catching up 😱 thanks to everyone who helped so far! 🙌 especially to the one who shared it on Linkedin 🤗🤗

@ThePeterMick btw for me step from 9 to 10 was really hard and kept being hard even after I tried it for few months feels like I can run indefinitely 9km/h but more like few mins at 10

first time I went to gym I could barely run at 6km/h today at 8.8km/h easy peasy let’s go I could bump it to 10 consistency wins, remember

@atmoio @grok tldr?

I'm done. I'm f***ing done.

@OlexGameDev you can run pre-commit/post-merge hooks to zip/unzip files though, thats what we've done with big binary files too

@_avdept 2. Yeah but for my game, Blender files is my huge concern. Any time I make a change to a Blender file, that was pushing 400mb+ each time and growing.

I've been using Ark VCS for a few weeks and just broke through 100 change lists. I am self-hosting it on a cheap Linux server on AWS for a few bucks a month. This is a source control for games. Highly recommend! ark-vcs.com

@denicmarko @updatifyio I think chances they decide to feature it - about 0% for some random guy with no connections?

@_avdept @updatifyio That only matters if they decide to feature your product. If they do; Weeknd gives you less traffic, but higher chances of winning top 3. Workdays are vice-versa. If they don't feature you, it really doens't matter.

I never launched @updatifyio on product hunt When should I do it?

@mcsetty @ankkala true, but current trend - make everyting TUI music player - do TUI emaic client - do TUI discord client - DO TUI these arent apps that runs in constrained situations

@ankkala @_avdept Yeah I understand TUIs aren't as rich as full GUIs, but they exist for use in certain constrained situations. Its like complaining that bikes aren't as fast as cars or that you can't fit 4 people on a motorcycle but you can in an SUV.

@GregorySchier it only gets harder every time

@_avdept SEO is definitely done. Our only hope now is direct audience building, word of mouth, and maybe ads

Google killing search. Is SEO done now ?

@DilyanDimitrov no, just remove bottom white card, and leave only front card(with form elements) right on colorful background

@_avdept do you mean something like that?

@peturgeorgievv @updatifyio how many votes you've got?

@_avdept @updatifyio I got one backlink and this is all I got from it

@mcsetty @ankkala pretty much everything starting fro UX and up to UI things you can't implement because its TUI

@ankkala @_avdept What's wrong with TUIs?

@OlexGameDev 1. Fair 2. Not sure it makes sense for binary data, usually compression isnt really helpful 3. I didnt refer to github, just git overall, there are bunch of selfhosted git solutions too

1. Git LFS has been giving me issues for 2 years of my game dev so far. Where going back to an old branch would lead to some deadlock around LFS files or "expected to be a pointer" issues. 2. Unlike git LFS, Ark actually compresses files on the server, which is great for my 400mb+ Blender files that compress down to 20mb. With LFS I had to compress the file myself and struggle to keep it in sync, and worry about blowing over the LFS storage limits. 3. It's a centralized repository.

addition to my omarchy quickshell powered launcher called Klych(from ukrainian call, summon) it takes just "+t" to enter todo creation and hit enter to save it, no need to play with focus or use mouse at all