Interesting, as an American, I read the date in the video (02.04.2025) as February 4th, 2025 (I agree that the DD/MM/YYYY format makes more sense, but dates are commonly listed MM/DD/YYYY everywhere here). It makes me realize when doing a worldwide release, it's important to be as explicit on the date as possible.
I built a service that makes sure your forms are always working — no more lost leads due to something breaking. Currently bringing in over 1k/mo: https://formtester365.com
It fills out the form as a human would (daily or on whatever weekly schedule you want) and then confirms it was received. It currently supports Gravity Forms on Wordpress due to their API for confirming submissions, but a new version that supports all web forms is nearly ready.
One of the main use cases is for agencies that want to make sure clients sites are always working.
> There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind—the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.
> The humorous story is strictly a work of art—high and delicate art—and only an artist can tell it; but no art is necessary in telling the comic and the witty story; anybody can do it. The art of telling a humorous story—understand, I mean by word of mouth, not print—was created in America, and has remained at home.
I'm not sure I agree the humorous story is purely American, though doubtless Mark Twain was one of its masters.
Thank you — I had tried a search on hn.agnolia.com for "natural gas" in the last week, but I see now that was the wrong search term...I posted simply because I wanted to see the discourse on this study.
This guy is doing something similar with heat pumps and water storage - specifically utilizing radiator and boiler along with heat pumps: https://www.2040energy.com
Great suggestion! I just added this — and it worked as expected (mostly). If the Apple Music app is in MiniPlayer mode, it will not automatically switch to the full player, but thankfully, closing the MiniPlayer immediately drops you into the search results. Thanks!
This makes me sad (even as I wish them the best). Postmark may be one of my favorite services 1) to actually use and 2) as a company. Their product is actually fun to use and powerful. As a company, Wildbit is one I've always had high respect for. Their "People-First" approach says it all, and they seem like a company that truly acted on that.
I understand the reasons for the acquisition, and I hear the message that product continuity is the goal, but I can't think of an example of a product acquisition that hasn't resulted in a worse experience (at least with a product as good as this one). I'd love to hear examples if anyone has any.
I'm happy for Postmark overall though, and I want to express gratitude for creating a great product and company.
My side project, FormTester 365 https://www.formtester365.com has been doing a little over $700/mo now. Many customers are agencies who want to be alerted if a client's web forms stop working.
It tests website forms daily (currently as a Gravity Forms plugin add on) and confirms that they were successfully submitted. I'm working to add support for general web forms in the next few months. Feel free to send me an email if you're interested in being notified when that feature rolls out — jon (at) creativeculturemedia.com
I had the opportunity to play a very small part in a previous project of Ryan’s. He’s a great person and I’m incredibly happy to see the success he’s had.
It’s encouraging to hear stories like this — you don’t know how any particular side project (hobby) might do, but the right product at the right time can be what makes all the difference. And you don’t need to have VC money and tens or hundreds of developers working on something to bring genuine value to people.
It's interesting to consider how many details on our online maps might be there because of submissions from random people who may or may not be submitting official names or details. When you zoom in to see these minute details, there's no way that Google or Apple can fact check every suggested change, so they have to assume that most submissions are truthful in order to hopefully provide details down to the most local zoom level.
The parking lot and back driveway of the metal shop next door is on Google as a street, with a name - 50th Street. And nobody knows why. I've deleted it from Waze ages ago, but Google has yet to catch up, if they even pull map data from Waze.
There has been a huge debate in Detroit over Google maps. Entire neighborhoods have either been renamed or created. Great example, 'the eye' which never existed before Google maps. Now businesses looking to take advantage have renamed themselves with eye in the name so I guess it's going to stick.
