This is such a neat solution to a problem I am facing every day. Especially in an office environment it's simply not feasible to listen to voice messages. What ends up happening is that they simply get burried under all the "normal" messages and forgotten.
It might not be immediately obvious, but on WhatsApp at least, you can hold your phone to your ear and the voice clip will play as if you're on a phone call. I am making an assumption that Signal would be the same.
I always thought this was an iPhone feature, not strictly WhatsApp. Back when I used WhatsApp I tried this with my Android phone and couldn't get it to work. Definitely possible that I overlooked something crucial though.
I am currently at around $300/mo so still a bit off the $500 unfortunately. My side project, ErgStudio[0], allows people to use their rowing machine to do remote workouts together. I had the idea already a while before the pandemic started but when it hit I finally pushed myself to implement a MVP. My wife helped a lot doing the admin and as a photographer (we took all the promotion pictures ourselves to save money). This was also the first project for me which I took from greenfield to people-can-pay-for-this, which I am pretty thrilled about. At the moment, a bunch of university clubs in the US and smaller rowing clubs in Europe are using it. As a gimmick, when you see the meters rowed counter changing on the website, someone is actually working out somewhere in the world, using our app.
borg supports compression, restic doesn't (and there is no way to add it without breaking backwards compatibility because of how the file format was designed). That's all I need to know for my use cases.
I used to use borg and I migrated away from it to Restic when I somehow corrupted my backup archive. I dunno what I did, but I started getting "non-utf-8 filename" python errors every time I tried to access it. It might have had something to do with the archive being on a removable disk.
Anyway! I'm happier with restic now. It's never crashed for me, and it has native cloud backends. But it's ultimately just another backup application.
Is there any statistically-significant data on which backup applications are the most reliable? I'm not married to restic, but I'll judge it by first-hand experience in the absence of anything else.
Not really, no. It usually goes like in this thread: Someone had a problem with software X and switched to software Y. Someone else had the opposite experience. It's worth pointing out that Borg and other hash-deduplicating backup tools regularly find faulty hardware where other backup tools wouldn't notice the data getting corrupted (e.g. many people advocate for "plain" backup tools like rsnapshot or just having an rsync cronjob, but all of these are unable to check the integrity of backups). Sometimes, users point to the backup tool (sometimes they're right and it's a bug, but usually it's a bad stick of RAM or a hard drive loosing a few bits here and there).
And it's just a single go-binary, i just trow it on a win/bsd/linux machine create a key, start the backup. I love the simplicity of it, however for more complex plans i use git-annex.
Borg is much older and has seen production use for decades and had all the bugs worked out. Iirc rustic is still sub-1.0. Not ideal for backup software.
Borg sequentially scans your filesystem for changes and only then starts backing up changed data. (tbf: a lot of backup tools seem to do this)
Restic scans your filesystem for changes, and then also starts backing up the changes it finds in parallel while it is still scanning for more changes.
When you have millions of files, this makes a huge difference.
This is wrong. The difference between the two is that Restic uses multi-threading and Borg currently doesn't. Both just scan the filesystem and add files to the backup set as they go.
Hmm, maybe it has changed or I'm remembering wrong. It's been years since I tried borg, but I remember it taking something like 10 hours to scan for changes, and then another 4 hours or so to actually backup the data.
With restic, it still took around 10 hours to scan for changes, but it was also already done backing up all the data by the time the scan finished.
Speaking of which, borg in Debian is maintained by the Debian Borg Collective, and the nickname of one of the maintainers is Locutus of Borg:
https://tracker.debian.org/teams/borg/
Do you have any experience with the marketing part? I am kinda in the same situation but have no clue how marketing works and was wondering if you could share any insights.
I started my career doing some marketing and then moved to product management, all in tech at small startups. Even as a PM, because I joined companies of <50 people, I ended up helping out with marketing too.
Google Ads are pretty straightforward, so at this point I'm just running a couple and watching conversion rates - you basically just need to look at how much you're spending vs. how much revenue they're bringing in to figure out if they're worth it.
IG advertising is new to me - I'm planning to reach out to some dog accounts to see if I can offer free samples and possibly money for them to promote. No idea about what the going rate for that sort of thing is or how effective it'll be, but I'll find out soon :)
[1] https://github.com/Ff00ff/mammoth