Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It does make sense.
X could be very improved with that, I think.
Yeah, so the general theory of startups would be that when it starts, like you start making money, you start hiring people to do stuff, right? Do stuff that you, like marketing, for example, do stuff that you would do in the beginning yourself. And whatever, community management and organizing meetups for anomalies, for example. There would be a job, for example.
And I thought like, I don't have the money for that. And I don't really want to run like a big company with a lot of people because it's a lot of work managing these people. So I've always tried to like automate these things as much as possible. And...
And this can literally be like, for Nomadlist, it's literally like a, it's not the different other stars, but it's like a webpage where you can organize your own meetup, set a schedule, a date, whatever. You can see how many Nomads will be there at that date, so you know there will be actually enough Nomads to meet up, right? And then when it's done, it sends a tweet out on the Nomadlist account.
There's a meetup here. It sends a direct message to everybody in the city who are there, who are gonna be there. And then people show up on a bar and there's a meetup and that's fully automated. And for me, it's so obvious to make this automatic. Why would you have somebody organize this? It makes more sense to automate it. And this is with most of my things. I figure out how to do it with code.
And I think especially now with AI, you can automate so much more stuff than before. Because AI understands things so well. Before I would use if statements, right? Now you ask GPT, you put something in the GPT for and in the API, and it sends back like, this is good, this is bad.
This is the difference now. And that's very recent, right?
A lot of cron jobs.
It's like, I literally, I log into the server and I do like pseudo crontab dash E. And then I go into the editor and I write like hourly. And then I write PHP, you know, do this thing dot PHP. And that's a script. And that script does a thing and it does it then hourly. That's it. And that's how all my websites work.
They're called like health checks. So it's like healthcheck.php. And then it has like emojis, like a green check mark if it's good and a red one if it's bad. And then it does like database queries. For example, like what's the internet speed in, for example, Amsterdam? Okay, it's a number, it's like 27 point megabits, so it's an accurate number. Okay, check, good.
And then it goes to the next, and it goes on all the data points. Did people sign up in the last 24 hours? It's important, because maybe the signup broke. Okay, check, somebody signed up. Then I have uptimerobot.com, which is like for uptime, but it can also check keywords. It checks for an emoji. which is like the red X, which is if something is bad.
And so it opens that health check page every minute to check if something is bad. Then if it's bad, it sends a message to me on Telegram saying, hey, what's up? It doesn't say, hey, what's up? It sends me like an alert. Like this thing is down. And then I check. So within a minute of something breaking, I know it and then I can open my laptop and fix it.
But the good thing is like the last few years, things don't break anymore. And like definitely 10 years ago when I started, everything was breaking all the time. And now it's like almost, last week was like 100.000% uptime. And these health checks are part of the uptime percentage. So it's like, everything works.
Yeah, it feels good to look at, you know?
Yeah, all right. We're okay.
For sure. It used to send me the good health checks. It all works.
And I'm like, this feels so good. But then I'm like, okay, obviously it's not going to need to hide the good ones and show only the bad ones. And now that's the case.
Yeah. Every JavaScript, every PHP error gets sent to my Telegram as well. So every user, whatever user it is, doesn't have to be a page user. If they run into an error, the JavaScript sends the JavaScript error to the server and then it sends it to my Telegram. From all my websites.
So I get like a uncaught variable error, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And then I'm like, okay, interesting. And then I go check it out. And that's like a way to get to zero errors because you get flooded with errors in the beginning. And now it's like nothing almost.
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