Recent content by DogNamedRottles

I'm starting to realize how much of a data hog that Amazon is. Just navigating to their home page on mobile can sometimes reach up 10 MBs transferred. I tried a couple of solutions to help save on the bandwidth: 1.) I only pull down document resource types (text, html, xml, etc.) and any other...

Ah I see. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's going through this. You mentioned about Docker. Do you have a suggestion for an affordable way to store images? I plan on using Github Actions as my CI/CD pipeline and I want to at least be able to switch out image versions just in case one of the...

I'm building a scraping bot for a friend of mine to monitor his amazon products. His inventory is quite small (30-50 products) and the amount of times he has to check his products is infrequent (once a month or quarter) To provide more context, I have the service built out and it's able to...

Puppeteer is another good headless browser you could use. Have you looked into using proxies?

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If it's a pain to do ads, then it's not something worth doing

I do web/software development and make my income through various contracts.

This is sounding more the way to go.

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Real estate is definitely sounding like one of the ways to go. Although my concern is the rising interest rates. Like I mentioned before, building a site and then flipping it for a profit still requires a significant amount of effort. I need to keep the effort at a minimal while I focus on...

That's a no-go. Too many horror stories of developers rug pulling their investors.

That still requires effort and time which are both are already being taken up by my other ventures.

It's starting to sound like that financial securities are really the only way effective way with my current situation

I have a large cash flow ($10,000+/month) and I'm trying to figure out how to use it to increase revenue. Preferably, I like to do so injecting as minimal effort as possible as my current income streams take up a lot of my time and energy. I apologize for such a broad question but my gut...

Will ChatGPT make programmers obsolete? Hell yes. Us programmers should be considering a different career path in the next 3 years. Will that career change will involve programming? Did I satisfy every business person on here because I told them what they wanted to hear? You betcha I lied to...