Fun software but the only issue with Instant is their pricing. Once they gain adoption, I expect them to significantly raise their rates, I can seen them charging over $1 per GB easily. And like with any vendor lock-in, you’re stuck paying whatever they decide to charge. Observe with caution I'd say
Why lock-in? The interface is just a conversation and the non-programmer won't know whether it's InstantDB or whatever else in the background, as that's the whole point of vibe coding. I can only see issues taking out your data into another system, but even that can be vibe coded (can it?)
What I dislike about Twitter lately:
- overarching political propaganda
- crypto bros
- AI bros
- profit chads
- constant fighting over idiotic topics, some driven by Musk itself
What I care for when I open Twitter:
- news
- hearing from other people from the dev community
Threads need to realize the importance of the blue check and implement it. Prior to Musk, I would see a tweet, open the replies and look for the blue checks to see what "prominent" people were responding. Now that the blue check means nothing, that's impossible and you have to weed through all the content.
You can argue that's a good thing, that a person with 10 followers might be as interesting as someone with 100,000 followers, but it's not for me.
But you still have to pay don't you? I like verified users, but I also want to know who is prominent user. So maybe two badges? One just for verified ID and one for prominent user (the old blue check).
Remember when we used to call that filtering and it was a feature and not a con?
Not for actual censuring in cases where it’s demonstrably harmful - but I’m not required to give attention to someone’s opinion just cause they feel like blasting it into the void. Twitters gone too far the other way.
The greatest idea corporations ever came up with was to convince us all that we can individually stop what’s happening. Remember the fantasy that many of us grew up on that recycling would save the planet? Turns out things like plastic recycling is a joke.
Or how about when the oil companies invented the idea of “carbon footprint” to convince the public it was their responsibility to curb emissions, even though the vast majority of pollution isn’t from consumers?
The editing functionality is delegated to the CMS. Respectively content changes flow through the exact pipeline as changes originated directly from the CMS would. In fact, we allow the CMS to completely control the actual editing experience.
The main point of this feature is that if an employee does find a typo on some article, they can just fix it rather than going to the CMS, finding the actual place where that text is stored, making the change, etc.
I think they care. Vercel is VC money. Not even close to profitability. Anyone building anything but a toy needs to take into consideration that Vercel might not be here in 2 years from now
The APIs aren't free. For a large site, creating the embeddings and then serving lots of users would quickly get expensive. Although I do think this is overpriced.
