I wrote up my thoughts on why we need to ditch ports for local dev in a blog post: getlode.app/blog/stop-us...

I only just realized I came accross this website through some natural search on qwant when in search for an alternative for screen studio.

Nice!

Just be carefull that it's not always the same veeeery small percentage, without reaching new people, you won't have growth

I'm going to try and get some traction on the new beta I'm working on for my developer tool (getlode.app). I just finished the windows version and a ui revamp. It now has a light-mode as well 🎉

Still have to work out the last few kinks and come up with some marketing mails/posts

Ooh, I will look into that. Thanks! Never used azure and it's still not cheap, but much more reasonable

I'm in doubt on whether I should just self sign my app for the service verification I want to do. Signing with a trusted cert can always still be done when I get some (payed) users

Yeah, I don't get why they can't do it like apple: Register with a (small) fee with a creditcard or with some small verification; Trust the certificate. Revoke the certificate and never hand you another one if you betray the trust...

Now it's just another money machine for 3rd party cert providers

If anyone has tips to do it cheaper, please let me know ;)

I wanted to sign my code so that I can verify it from a service to make sure not every app on the computer can contact the service and do certain administrator actions without verification

getlode.app Streamline your local development flow with instant SSL protected .test domains

If you want to check it out; Join the beta on getlode.app

You'll receive a mail when it's publicly downloadable (currently working on the mails 😅)

If you find out, let me know since I'm also building a developer focused tool, and trying to figure out the same thing ;)

Try to not focus on the features of your product. Instead try to focus on what pains a user experiences which are solved by your tool

Which I now spot a typo in... Damn, let's try that again 🙈

Today I'm starting on the MVP for Lode (getlode.app) after finishing the landing page this morning (Last step was the opengraph meta/image).

I actually develop on macOS, but no matter your OS, localhost is not a good replica. The blogpost describes what kind of differences you can expect though. One example would be how browsers handle cookies differently for localhost