Not too bad technically – Apple handles most of it with StoreKit. Maybe a week of work for the initial implementation: setting up products in App Store Connect, handling purchase flow, receipt validation, restoring purchases.
The harder part was deciding on the model. Freemium limits? Trial length? What to lock? I changed this multiple times. The code changes for each iteration were small, but the decisions took longer.
I cloned Paddle's NextJS starter kit[1] and incorporated my previous reporting code built with Observable Framework[2].
It actually took longer to get the website (domain, terms, privacy) approved by Paddle and my identity verified by its 3rd party than to vibe code the site with Claude Code.
As the other comment suggests, any printer will do. For this particular model, I think a 3D printer with "good resolution" will give the best results. So a resin printer will probably give a smoother finished model than a filament printer.
Loaded up the models into my slicer, looks like a pretty straightforward print. Should print on anything "mainstream", I reckon. About 4h worth of printing on my Bambu P1S.
> using data from sites like StubHub, Vivid Seats, SeatGeek, etc
Congrats! That is inspiring you kept the passion for this for over 14 years. I’m assuming your data needs changed over this timespan so how did you end up getting this data? APIs, scraping, something else?
No, it doesn't. That info from the website is a gross mischaracterization and seemingly an attempt at self-promotion. It's like saying that your building has walls and a ceiling and is therefore in the same league as Notre Dame de Paris and the Taj Mahal.
As an example, some of Corinthian's colleges (Heald College) were accredited by WASC. . . until they declared bankruptcy in the face of multiple fraud investigations and a $30 million fine.
The accreditation is an extremely low bar. In my view it is so low it is harmful because it totally fails to distinguish legitimate schools from shady ones. Accredited colleges run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous.
That's not to say the school that this article is from is bad. I don't really know anything about this school. But the fact that they tout mere accreditation as putting them on par with Stanford and that they can't correctly name the University of California, Berkeley does not inspire confidence. The fact that it is nonprofit is a plus, though, as the worst of the crap-but-accredited schools are for-profit ones.
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