Howdy,

It's a Mac OS X app that creates a local proxy to a remote server that has a SQLite database. Then you can use tools like TablesPlus or any other GUI to access and manage your remote database. The app does not just download the database locally. It accesses the SQLite database on the remote server, and proxies the results back.

I haven't released the app yet, but I'm looking for some beta testers to run through this app and find any edge cases that I've missed.

I wrote a little manifesto here: https://remotesqlite.com/

If you're interested in signing up to be a beta tester, you can sign up here: https://remotesqlite.com/beta/signup

As a beta tester, I'll give you a free license, in exchange for you putting the app through its paces and providing any feedback or bugs or issues you might come up with.

Thanks. ~Spicer

To follow up on something, there's no ChatGPT helping landlords automate paperwork. I just used AI tools to build the code. Not sure how it's evil to help a landlord do their job. In fact, this paper work is very helpful in allowing the tenant to apply for rental assistance. Some landlords can even slow down a tenant's progression in gaining rental assistance because they don't do the paperwork correctly or on time.

Sorry you don't get the business idea. My guess is you're not a landlord in Oregon. The paperwork is very time-consuming, and often gets your case thrown out of eviction court if it's not done perfectly. Oregon has become an extremely landlord-friendly state. The first step of getting the notice correct is so important.

Also, there's a lot of value in having a third-party service notice for you. Then there's an arm's length transaction showing that the proper notice was served in the proper way.

There's lots of sleaze-bag lawyers out there that will represent a tenant for free because they immediately see something wrong in how the service is done. They know the case will be thrown out. And they could pass on their legal fees to the landlord, who obviously has money. This happens over and over and over again.

So there's actually a lot of value in what I am offering landlords here.

I'm not sure I understand your "rather insulting" comment about posts being written in ChatGPT. Of course I use AI to help me write better blog posts. Just like I would use AI to write better code. I would call it insulting anyone who doesn't write a blog post using AI. AI is an incredibly powerful tool, and anyone who doesn't run their blog posts through it isn't trying to use all available tools to make the best possible product (ie a blog post). With that said, all the ideas in the blog post came from me. I had several rounds of edits with AI. So I simply disagree with your submission that it's dumb or insulting to use ChatGPT to write a blog post.

Yes, this is hacker news. But lots of investor types here. Also this strategy is completely automated using some pretty slick golang code.

Ask me anything about the trade or code......

I really hope The National Association of Realtors change course and begin to focus more on excellence than moats!

I like these guys. https://polygon.io/

Thanks for this!

Yeah, some companies have cornered the market. My ISP makes it really hard to cancel but on the other hand they are the best speeds in the market.

But on the other hand, the NY Times makes it super hard to close down your account. I tell all my friends to choose other newspapers because of it.

Interesting. Never thought about that. So true.

Great point! I title was something I considered. I wanted something provocative. (without being click bait)

Great point! Sort of like the club line. If you run a dance club you want a line of people out front to show that place is hopping.

Former VIP host here. The club line isn't really for advertising. Paying people to stand in lines at clubs hasn't been an effective strategy since the 80's maybe.

Now the line is a (punishment + holding cell) for dudes who have to buy their way out of the line by opting for bottle service.

Ideally for the club it moves just fast enough that the patrons in line don't give up and go somewhere else.

Are you saying at any point in time someone in line can indicate to the bouncer they will buy bottle service and enter immediately? That sounds highly improbable...

Clubs in my city don't pay people to stand in line either, you either reserve your group in the guest book or didn't and are waiting longer for an "opening". Some clubs are at legal capacity and a line builds up but mostly they frisk everyone and ask for ID which takes a while and causes a line to form, which also benefits the club as a sort of popularity advertisement to others on the street.

Yes that is what I am saying. No one waits in line outside when they could be inside spending thousands of dollars.

The line is for low value customers only.

Nutella Cafe tried to pull the same thing when they opened their first location in Chicago, and would stop taking orders until the line built up out the door again. I'm guessing the strategy (rightfully) backfired, as the cafe looks generally empty these days.

Lines are great for hype, but don't try to artificially create them at the cost of customer experience.

I was interning in Chicago when they first opened. I remember looking at the menu and it was so thoroughly boring (i.e. normal bakery/diner goods, but made with Nutella) that I didn't even consider going there.

It always blew my mind how long the line was when I walked by. It had to be just tourists who were willing to wait in that long of a line just for the novelty of being able to say they've been inside an official, Nutella-branded store.

Also hire some luxury/super cars to park out front (this actually happens in china).

That happens in San Jose also! (Santana Row)

Santana Row is fascinating. It looks to me like it was manufactured to please the "traditional" rich crowd. The people going there are very distinct than the typical engineers of Silicon Valley.

That's why the trick of parking a nice car on a street wouldn't work in SF, Palo Alto or Mountain View.

There isn’t a lot of traditional rich in San Jose, they mostly hang in Atherton through Palo Alto, and then in the city and north bay. Santana row attracts (or did 15 years ago) a lot of Chinese and Indians, but they are mostly new rich.

That's what corner stores in Berlin do, it's mostly related to their not-so-stealthy money laundering activities though.

In Thailand they have supercar/superbike parkings outside malls.