I'd highly suggest getting a designer, or somehow thinking with more of a product mindset? I fail to understand what it does quickly, which shouldn't happen to a potential customer.
The dev is asking on the site for people to support the development with subscriptions, but they say here they have basically zero subscribers. So 11k daily users hasn't translated to something that people want to actually pay to support. That could change.
At the time there were dozens of search engines and new ones every day. Everybody knew what search engines were, and what they offered. Google did not invent the form field -> SRP pattern; people were already used to that. Google was able to rise above the field because 1. yes the homepage was nice, but more importantly 2. the results were so much better than competitors.
I don't understand the comparison to SQLite online because what are the well-known competitors, and what is it even trying to do?
This is accurate. Back then nobody went to google and was confused when it was just an input box. They went there already knowing it was a search engine and that search engines needed input. They came back because the results were so good (relative to competitors).
The clean interface just stood out as the other competitors at the time we're bogged down by ads. So a quick loading page in a time of slow internet connections, was a very nice user-centric feature.
It is very straightforward to hire UX designer in a contract, or even just ask ChatGPT to design an interface that is better than a software engineer's minimum effort (and possibly experience) in UX.
And what currency is it in? Seems so odd to not put it in dollars or euros.
And FURTHERMORE, the $ sign is incorrectly to the right of the numbers. It should be $10. Personally, this shows such a lack of product thinking, and simply hacking away at a tool instead of delivering a service.
Not sure if it contains other books from the series, and it has been likely posted already a hundred times, however here is a huge list with some interesting subdirs filled with books also pertaining electronics, ham radio etc.
Attics and cellars of retired, or more likely deceased, engineers probably. Most such books were never in ordinary libraries and would be discarded when the new edition came out. The American Radio History [1] web site looks like a good place to start.
I have Babani's 1st and 2nd Book of Transistor Equivalents and Substitutes [1] and several National Semiconductor data books and application books from the 70s, '80s and '90s.
I almost never refer to them any more but they were so central to my life as an electronics engineer that I can't bear to throw them out.
I recently picked up some at a Radio Rally (Hamfest), you might find some gathering dust in the corner of a university or government electronics lab if they have not already gone in the trash.
I couldn't agree more. While it's enticing to show your creativity in something like scrolling, it almost always negatively impacts the site...as it definitely has here.
