Hi all,
I'm looking for some help that would require a little more involvement than what is usual on Indie Hackers. My service, https://fastmap.io, is "launched" but I'm not marketing it because it doesn't have enough real-world use for me to be confident in it. I've got a feeling that the first few users will require more hand-holding while I work out the kinks.
This is a HUGE ask so in return, I would be happy to test out your product as well. I'm good at giving detailed, honest, and actionable feedback. To sweeten the deal, I've been in tech for 8 years and would also be willing to offer technical advice / bug fixes assuming you are building a webapp with a Python backend.
Fastmap is designed to parallelize Python code in the cloud and is good whenever map is too slow but spinning up infrastructure would be overkill. It's especially good for two things:
It should suffice to say that I will give out plenty of free compute time for testing purpose :)
Sounds pretty interesting, what libraries can you use? Numpy/Scipy?
I have some pretty heavy tasks at pagewatch.dev that would be nice to move away from celery, but those require an html parser and maybe image processing, is that possible?
@lpellis Love your project. It actually caught a broken link I wasn't aware of. It was immediately obvious what it did and how to use it. My only feedback would be nitpicks:
Thanks, that useful feedback.
For the scrolling issue, I do think there is something. Try opening the site with the devtools emulator set to Galaxy S5 (360x640 is the most popular screen resolution), you will see it does scroll a few pixels. (not a big deal but as a user it does annoy me a little bit, the horizontal scrolling 'locks' for a little bit before normal scrolling sometimes with one hand)
I could definitely add better explanations though
Ah, I see it. Looking again, you were very specific about the resolution that appeared at so I think that's on me.
Yup, so numpy / scipy are possible now and arbitrary Python-language libraries will be available soon. Which image processing library were you thinking about using? I'm not sure yet whether I'll support libraries with C bindings in the short-term.
I checked out your project and it's a great idea - especially for SEO-heavy content sites. I doubt I'll ever have more than 50 pages of content for mine but I can certainly try out your free plan tomorrow and provide feedback.
I would at the very least need Beautifulsoup (for html parsing).
I'm wondering if passing a lot of data (large html strings) might be a bit of a bottleneck though?)
Beautifulsoup would be certainly be doable.
For the HTML strings, it depends on how large. Fastmap works best when CPU resource needs are greater than network load. My guess is if it's raw HTML without images or external js, the network load will be low relative to processing needs.
I'll put together a test case and send it over - probably next week as I'll be taking the rest of this week off.
I'm down! just signed up. Will have a lot of free time during the weekend. I have two projects in mind which I'd love to try to host there and more than happy to give you some feedback.
Awesome. I got your email. I'll email you back to get you setup asap. Let me know how I can help with your projects as well!