This year I’ve started migrating many of my personal software projects from Heroku to fly.io to try and keep my costs down. One of the major pain points with Heroku is the pricing of their managed database service Heroku Postgres. Don’t get me wrong, its great but it also adds up quickly. For example a tiny, anemic instance is available for $5/month and a slightly more moderate basic instance is available for $9/month. This adds up quick if you’re like me and launch a few apps every month.
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Heroku Scheduler style rake tasks on fly.io
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Scraping Marketing Leads using Ruby and Selenium
Over my life I’ve started (and stopped!) dozens of small businesses and side hustles. Central to each business venture is finding marketing leads. In some cases this is simple. For example when I was a magician I would market locally in party supply stores and online. By forming a relationship with this business I was able to leave business cards, and this would do two things. First I would hopefully get phone calls for magic shows and second to date me today. But how would I do this for a local business that needs to actively reach out and market themselves online? There are some very clever things we can do.
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Welcome!
Here is the first post of my blog. Over the years I’ve had various blogs on various platforms, mainly to promote my businesses. The latest was my record label homepage (last updated in 2017), and before that I was promoting my magician business (last updated in 2015) so this will be my first writings in a long time!