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RHRhea Vandermeer3d ago
I put off making a product video for about six months because every previous attempt turned into an afternoon in an editor. Recorded the screen capture, dropped it in, picked a template and had something I was not embarrassed by in under an hour. The part that actually saved me was the automatic captions — most people watch these on mute and I would not have bothered otherwise. My one complaint is that the template choice matters more than it looks like it does; the first one I picked made everything feel like an advert.
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TOTobias Lindqvist9d ago
Set this up for a small open source project after people kept asking where they could send something. Took about ten minutes and the first support came through the same week. What works is that supporters do not need an account — that single thing removes most of the drop-off I saw with the alternative I tried first. Payouts have been on schedule. Marking it four rather than five because the analytics are thin; I would like to know where people are arriving from and I cannot tell.
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MAMarguerite Osei15d ago
Been using this for about four months for content planning. It is genuinely good at surfacing things I would not have thought to look for, and a couple of those became our best-performing posts of the quarter. Worth being realistic about what the numbers are though. The growth figures are directional rather than exact, and I have seen a few topics flagged as rising that were really one large news cycle. I treat it as a list of things to go investigate rather than a list of things to go write, and on that basis it earns its cost.
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DEDevashish Raman22d ago
I have used this on every backend project for years and it is still the first thing I install. Collections shared across the team save a genuine amount of onboarding time, and the scripting is powerful enough that we run a decent chunk of our integration checks through it. The honest criticism is that it has grown a lot. What was a fast request client now takes a while to start and pushes cloud features I do not want. It is still the tool I reach for; I just notice the weight now in a way I did not three years ago.
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PRPriyanka Balachandran1mo ago
Moved a marketing site and two documentation sites over last year. The thing I did not expect to care about was deploy previews on every pull request — being able to send a designer a working link instead of a screenshot changed how our review process works. Rollbacks are one click and have saved me twice. Build minutes are the thing to watch on the pricing side; our docs site rebuilds often and we hit the limit faster than I planned for, so check that before committing if you deploy frequently.
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DIY & Electronics

Boards, sensors, test gear and kits.

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About DIY & Electronics

The maker and electronics corner covers development boards, sensors, kits, prototyping tools, home automation projects and the software around all of it. It is the most hands-on subcategory on this site and a genuinely good place to browse, because the projects people build here are frequently more inventive than commercial products in the same space.

The board ecosystems have settled into a useful division. Microcontroller boards are simple, run one program deterministically, use very little power and are the right answer for anything sensing or actuating. Single-board computers run a full operating system, handle networking and complexity well, and are the right answer when you need a real system rather than a control loop. Choosing the powerful option for a task that needs a microcontroller is the most common beginner mistake, and it usually shows up as reliability problems and a project that cannot run on a battery.

Wireless-capable microcontrollers have made connected projects dramatically easier, and the home automation subcategory has grown around them. The advice worth giving there is to prefer local control over cloud dependence: a light switch that stops working because a company shut down a service is a worse light switch than the one it replaced. The open home automation platforms exist largely for this reason and are worth the setup.

On safety, one firm line. Low-voltage electronics are forgiving and a good place to learn. Anything involving mains electricity is not, and it is not a place for experimentation without proper knowledge — the failure modes are fire and electrocution. Use certified power supplies, use proper enclosures, and get anything permanently installed checked by someone qualified. Lithium batteries deserve similar respect: correct charging circuitry, protection, and no punctured or swollen cells.

For the software side, the tooling has improved enormously. Modern editors with board support, over-the-air updates for deployed devices, and higher-level languages running on small hardware have all lowered the barrier considerably from where it was a decade ago.

The best projects in this subcategory tend to solve one small annoyance in the maker's own house, which is also the best advice for what to build first.