fodoj's comments

On: How to add alt text to 1000 images with GPT-4 Vision AI

[fodoj]

I've shared how we at mkdev.me auto-generated alt image descriptions for all of our existing (1000+) and new images.

On: Show HN: I've built speech to text transcriber for my wife's thesis interviews

[fodoj]

Hey, HN! So my wife is writing her thesis and she needed to do 12 hour-long interviews and then transcribe them to text. I've built this small product for her and it saved her a ton of time. It uses around a dozen AWS services, most importantly AWS Transribe and AWS ECS Fargate, and is built on Ruby on Rails, with Stimulus.js and Bootstrap. I've shared complete stack on StackShare: https://stackshare.io/transcripto/transcripto. I tried to keep it simple and make it as affordable as possible.

On: Deep dive into runc and OCI specifications

[fodoj]

I agree that the final “thing” that runs containers and provides isolation is Linux kernel, it’s also pointed out in the article :-) Thanks for the feedback! Bocker looks like a fun little project indeed

On: How Russia's government blocked our business – and how we dealt with it

[fodoj]

In this case it's worse: there was _no_ complaint on _our_ business. They just started blocking millions of IPs only to ban Telegram. And we are not Telegram. :)

[devel0per_1 → fodoj]

Oh I see. Our company servers were banned too during the Telegram thing. Though you can fill in report on roskomnadzor website and explain them there is a mistake and you're not Telegram. They should unblock it soon after this.

On: Maintaining code quality when nobody cares

[fodoj]

it's she :)

On: How and why we moved to Vue.js

[fodoj]

I didn't mean calling tools themselves "junk", but rather dozens of auto-generated files which don't give me any profits at this time. I am pretty sure all these things make a lot of sense, and we are getting to the point where trying out WebPack might make sense for us.

[franciscop → fodoj]

How is that possibly true? You even named the junk:

Babel, postcss and yarn.

And then you stated a 3rd person saying:

"It’s not junk, these are the most important tools"

Disrespectful AND lying, nice combo you got going...

On: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

[fodoj]

I made a platform where people can hire a mentor to learn programming (ruby/rails, frontend, devops, big data). I've focused on mentorship with a per-week payment, so not a 1hour tutor or 15min "solve concrete task" service, but a real, long-term mentor dedicated to sharing all the knowledge with students.

Initial customers base grew from the free ebook I wrote and various blog posts available on the website. Lots of success are due to email newsletter, which I'm trying to keep useful and rarely send any ads there.

I'm taking 20% from each payment and that's be growing quiet well so far, especially after entering english-language market. Website is https://mkdev.me/en

[touchingwood → fodoj]

Love this idea. How do you vet the teachers and how do you make sure they keep going through your site (and not just go direct)?

[fodoj → touchingwood]

I am very careful with picking mentors and I generally just trust them to do their job. :-) It might not scale well long term, but that's the problem I don't need to solve right now. Right now if some lead tries to go directly to mentor, mentor always 1. Reports it to me; 2. Tells this lead to pay through mkdev.me.

It's simply much more convenient to mentor through mkdev.me than to do it on ones own.