Side-Project on Giedrius Statkevičius

Yet Another Failed Website (Startup?) Idea: Discount Search Engine

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:20:38 +0000

Main logo of the website

Hello everyone! I want to do a write-up of another failed website that I have tried to make in order to earn some side income. The attempt has been a bit different from the previous one - I have built a minimal viable product in this case. I have done that so that I could try out my hypothesis about the feasibility and viability a bit more but, of course, it took more time. But I have tried to take every shortcut that I could have thought of.

Is it a good idea to use Prometheus for storing ASCII paintings?

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 10:35:31 +0000

In the Cloud-based computing world, a relatively popular free and open-source software product called Prometheus exists which lets you monitor and observe other things. One of the components of its user interface lets you execute ad-hoc queries on the data that it has and see their results - not just in a table but also in a graphical way as well. For example, this is a query time() which plots the current time using two dimensions:

Lessons Learned From Trying To Validate a Software Business Idea for the First Time

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 13:42:13 +0000

Like almost everyone, I also dream about starting my own business so that I could be free from the shackles of someone else and I would be my own boss. Or it could become potentially a source of passive income.

As such, I have started reading some literature and sites like Indiehackers to learn about how others start their own software businesses. After all, software is the thing that I am most skilled in and so I ought to connect that with the other things which are involved in having a successful business to start my own software company.

Introducing SAM: Similar Alerts Manager (My Side-Project)

Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:50:22 +0000

 _______ _______ _______
( ____ \( ___ )( )
| ( \/| ( ) || () () | SIMILAR
| (_____ | (___) || || || |
(_____ )| ___ || |(_)| | ALERTS
 ) || ( ) || | | |
/\____) || ) ( || ) ( | MANAGER
\_______)|/ \||/ \|

(sorry, I do not have a professional designer at my disposal)

Why?

At the moment, Prometheus only supports a rudimentary way to look up what alerts have been firing in the past and there is no way to “persist” those metrics: there is a synthetic metric called ALERTS which shows what alerts were firing in the past. That is not enough to be able to tell globally what alerts have been firing after Prometheus has restarted. You could use a full-fledged solution like Thanos to solve this problem however that is very cumbersome if you only want this small feature and…