8 comments

  • qixxiq 26 minutes ago
    I’d caution against your “free forever” offer. Most people tend to backtrack on it.

    There’s one case where it gets super popular, or attacked by spammers/bots, and the site becomes more effort to operate publicly than you want to do for free.

    In another case your girlfriend stops using it, as well as some family, and the continued maintenance over the years feels like it isn’t worth it (because there is always maintenance.)

    Either way you might want to shut it down, and promising “forever” to users feels problematic when you’re not being finically incentivised to keep it running. With the financial incentives it’s much easier to pass the burden on to someone else if you can’t run it for whatever reason too.

  • edu 2 hours ago
    Pirueta is not lollipop in Spanish, it would be “piruletas” (at least in Spain Spanish).

    Piruetas is pirouette, as in what a ice skater might do.

    • embedding-shape 1 hour ago
      > it would be “piruletas” (at least in Spain Spanish).

      In Spain Spanish I never heard them called anything else than "chupachup" (regardless of brand), guess it's a bit of a "Kleenex/facial tissue" syndrome going on there.

      • edu 1 hour ago
        Well, we would refer to chupa-chups (brand) to the ones with a ball head. And Kojaks if they had gum inside.

        Piruletas were the flat ones, either circular or heart shaped.

      • patillacode 1 hour ago
        What about the classic heart-shaped bright red "piruleta" from the "fiesta" brand?
    • patillacode 1 hour ago
      The funny thing is that I am Spanish, and I tricked myself because we discussed between "piruletas" and "piruetas", and I had the message prepared before the name change, my bad.
    • rustyhancock 2 hours ago
      That's a lucky escape.

      For some reason car manufacturers have this issue

      Mitsubishi Pajero (renamed in Spain).

      Ford Pinto (renamed in Brazil).

      Toyota MR2 (renamed in France although slightly different issue).

      Honda Fitta (renamed in Scandi countries)

      • mejutoco 48 minutes ago
        I would like to add Nissan Moco (snot/mucus in Spanish) to that list.
      • yomismoaqui 1 hour ago
        That's where LLMs with web search enabled help to check for dangerous project names in other languages.
        • latexr 1 hour ago
          You don’t need LLMs for this (or most things suggested in HN comments). http://wordsafety.com/ has existed for years.
          • sdeframond 1 hour ago
            They don't have "etron" thought, which might explain some poor naming by Audi ?
      • roscas 1 hour ago
        Hyundai Kona (renamed in Portugal to Kauai)
  • thispbowden 30 minutes ago
    Read this as "dairy app" and had so many questions
  • roscas 1 hour ago
    Nice, simple, light and dark theme, a calendar. I would remove the internet checks for your storage.ko-fi.com and it did some calls on pypi.org and files.pythonhosted.org. All it needs should be on the docker by default. But that is just me.
    • patillacode 1 hour ago
      Thanks for the feedback! Appreciated!
    • user3939382 55 minutes ago
      I find our standards and norms around network access to be unacceptable. Programs shouldn’t access the Internet without opt in by the user either as a setting or a UI interaction.

      We had many years of applications from the dial up error and prior that didn’t assume constant connectivity and we all survived.

      Even an OS enforced blend of oauth style initial permission and LittleSnitch where the user is asked what they consent to at first launch would be fine.

  • deaux 1 hour ago
    Wholesale accepting all of the stock Opus colors is certainly a choice.
    • patillacode 1 hour ago
      To be honest, my non-negotiable was that it needed to have some orange, but that doesn't work very good with a calm, minimalist app, so it remained as the accent color.

      The rest wasn't my choice, we just did a few tests and my gf chose the palette you see today.

      Having said that, you got a point and I didn't even realize it until you mentioned it.

      • stavros 1 hour ago
        I don't know, I thought the design looked really nice.
  • thepill 38 minutes ago
    How do you monitize the hosted version?
    • patillacode 11 minutes ago
      I don't, I just wanted to give back to the FOSS community.

      If someone finds it useful and want to collaborate with the project they can tip me on ko-fi.

  • lemiffe 2 hours ago
    The demo doesn't work (invalid account when using the creds mentioned on the homepage)
    • patillacode 32 minutes ago
      Thanks for the feedback, I figured it out, I guess I forgot about the trolls...

      Rolling out now...

    • patillacode 1 hour ago
      I just tried it demo/piruetas and it works, can you double check?
      • mr_sturd 1 hour ago
        Can confirm that that username and password are not working in the login page.
        • patillacode 1 hour ago
          I have tested many times, I have asked other people too... I cannot replicate what you are experiencing, sorry.
          • raonyguimaraes 44 minutes ago
            Edit: It was firefox, it doesn't work on firefox!
            • patillacode 8 minutes ago
              I use firefox and I have e2e tests that work in firefox, feel free to create an issue in the github repo explaining a bit what is not working for you
          • rscrawfo 55 minutes ago
            Same issue for me.
    • deafpolygon 53 minutes ago
      Same. It just doesn’t work.

      Also a bit confused about self-hosted vs “free”.

      • patillacode 29 minutes ago
        You can self host the app yourself or use the free hosted one I provide
    • nutthugger 53 minutes ago
      same
  • outime 1 hour ago
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    • patillacode 1 hour ago
      The funny thing is that I am Spanish, and I tricked myself because we discussed between "piruletas" and "piruetas", and I had the message prepared before the name change, my bad.