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How JavaScript helped me buy my dream boat

Pawel Kadluczka on April 07, 2024

Programming is a superpower. With just a little imagination, programmers can do things that would be expensive or inaccessible to others. I had use...
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Chakir QATAB

I thought that javascript helped you to make money to buy it :) . that sounds more interesting, anyway good job what you did should help others with enough money to find boats

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Pawel Kadluczka

C++ paid for it :D

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Tyler V. (he/him)

I was also waiting for the "And then I added XYZ as a paid feature and made $10000000000000!" 😂

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Michael Tharrington

This is so dope! Looks like a great boat too.

Really cool that you made this free and open source! live near a lake and Craigslist is popping in my area... hmmm, should I buy a boat? 🤔

We see a cat sitting at a kitchen table in a suit with a newspaper and coffee, looking like a little businessman. The cat turns and looks out the window. We see the word "boat." written at the bottom of the screen. The cat turns to look ahead as the camera zooms in. The words "I should buy a boat." appear at the bottom of the screen.

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Pawel Kadluczka

Thanks!

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Chris Burks

Nice inspirational story for developing.
But I think it was a whole tech stack that helped with getting the boat.
I enjoyed reading. Thanks

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Pawel Kadluczka

Thanks!

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Vinayak

they had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

Lol really interesting story of how you purchased your boat.
Could you share the code so that others can also purchase their dream boat.

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Pawel Kadluczka

I made the repo public: github.com/moozzyk/boat-scraper

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Gabriel Donnantuoni Lima

Nice story, nice depth of details :)

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Pawel Kadluczka

Thanks!

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Ahmed Atwa

I wonder if you could have just run the application in the background of your pc when your pc is open instead of dealing with Raspberry

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Pawel Kadluczka

In theory this could work but I don't think it would be reliable in practice. I would be afraid of conflicts with my dev environment. It would be annoying to constantly think about this application running in the background - what if I didn't open my laptop for a few days and got no new posts? How should I configure pulling the posts so that it is simple and works reliably? How would I make sure that my daily activities don't break the app? I don't have any of these problems with a dedicated server. I don't mind dealing with Raspberry Pi too much except for the fact it is a bit sluggish. I am sure I learned more than I would have if I ran it on a mini PC home server (which is probably the best option).