As someone doing everything with vanilla JS and having troubles with getting deep into any web frameworks (especially React), Svelte has been a godsend. I'm in love with the philosophy and approach and its natural combination of JS/CSS/HTML is, in my personal bubble, second to none. Most recent experiment was https://meoweler.com, but I'm now trying more complex projects and can't sing high enough praises. I... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I'm a designer claiming to also know a bit of engineering. Proving it by building a programming game – https://yare.io – was very useful in all interviews. And I hope that in the current AI boom, building https://meoweler.com will prove at least tiny bit useful when trying to get into AI jobs. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Some use cases are still valid I hope. E.g. Content generation on a massive scale. An example of that that I'm tinkering with: https://meoweler.com. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

I have had a similar experience using ChatGPT to build https://meoweler.com – a travel website covering 5000+ cities with a surprisingly good content quality created over a long weekend. Something that was unfathomable for me 2 years ago. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

For an example of a content creation on a large scale, I made a travel website using GPT4: https://meoweler.com (plenty of hallucinations, but the content is still surprisingly high quality). - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

I worked in a school as a technician and wrote a room booking system. It shaped my life. It has brought sideline income for 16 years. It got me a job in the private sector. It opened the door for a number of large paid projects. I'm now a lecturer trying to pass on my IT curiosity to others. The booking system is https://freeperiod.co.uk. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago