It started out as a take-home assignment for a job I’m interviewing for (they asked for about 10% of what I ended up implementing but I wanted to do/show more :). It’s an aggregator for crypto exchange data.

The app reads the public data stream from exchanges, handles the nitty, gritty details of each exchange’s websocket connections, deals with its quirks, cleans up and normalizes the data into a uniform structure (currently only supporting spot trades) then exposes it downstream as an SSE stream.

Uses Go, Templ, and Mithril.js, and is open source

Link: https://metra.sh

Github: https://github.com/hadydotai/metra-sh

What’s Cluely? While I can google and find out I just wanted to reflect how irrelevant that name actually is for a large portion of the internet.

Flamewars, internet jerks and online bullying has been around since irc. If not longer.

imo looking at the thread, I see a bunch of people throwing a few strongly worded comments at each other in a typical heated discussion online.

We used to call this flamewars.

Just another grifter

There’s a great deal of value in the “fullstack meta-frameworks” model of things. For one, using the same language on the backend and frontend is underrated feature.

But Next.js is not the only option on the market, so I partially echo your sentiment, not around React SPA vs React fullstack, but around Next.js vs a half dozen better alternatives for the React ecosystem.

> using the same language on the backend and frontend is underrated feature

I agree, but you can definitely do this without SSR or Next.JS. Common examples are tRPC, Zodios, or even just plain fetch calls with shared type definitions.

- https://trpc.io/

- https://www.zodios.org/

Even SSR is pretty easy to do without a framework. Just render the component with react-dom/server and use hydrate on the client.

> using the same language on the backend and frontend is underrated feature.

You don't need a framework for that.

The takeaway is that most people don’t think this way. A large portion of online recommendations for auth in Nextjs recommends middlewares for it. Knowing this, you’d expect a faster response time from the people maintaining the framework and stand to lose the most.

The Vercel-like auth company Vercel's CEO invested in default recommends middleware for protecting routes:

https://clerk.com/docs/references/nextjs/clerk-middleware

You wouldn't get a user's info, but you'd get free reign to explore every page of a product

Hey, thanks! That was terrible, something broke between deployments. Really sorry for that.

And thank you for trying it nonetheless!

Do you perhaps have any more feedback? I'd be grateful.

Is the copy message on the home page clear, does it communicate the intention correctly?

I do like your homepage, but my immediate thought was I want to see a specific example without having to read (maybe a photo). I'm assuming youre just proxying information and then showing proper OG tags, so probably good for marketers who have no idea what theyre doing

Thank you so much for the feedback

Yeah that's true, it's targeting marketers. I will try to look into giving examples, maybe show casing two social posts side by side, one before and one after.

Thanks again!

I suppose you could do that, but I reckon their main selling point is convenience. Same argument can be made for any cloud hosting service.

Why not just buy a VPS and set it up yourself, it's just more convenient for some people.

I see no reason for your comment, specially when the guidelines are clear about these types of contributions.

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html 4th paragraph from the bottom

  > Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is 
  > inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, 
  > flag it by going to its page and clicking on 
  > the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) 
  > If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

I disagree with that section of the guidelines.

I disagree with you completely about this article not being suitable for HN, but on the other hand, I have to respect this approach to people quoting guidelines.

I disagree with drug laws, but that doesn't mean I can possess drugs without penalty.

You know that doesn't work since you had to tack on "without penalty". I doubt tptacek expects to be shielded from disagreement and/or downvotes.

Clearly quite a few find this interesting since it made its way to the front page.

I certainly found this interesting and implemented the node.js package[1] in a project just now. I found it super easy to use -- much moreso than minimist[2] or commander[3].

[1]: https://github.com/docopt/docopt.coffee

[2]: https://github.com/substack/minimist

[3]: https://github.com/visionmedia/commander.js

I certainly didn't know about it. I had the exact same issue with argparse as the video on the page showed, I always had to look of the documentation to use it or copy and paste it from old scripts to get it to work. This is soo much better, I don't think I'll use argparse again.

There is also http://circular.io/

Oh cool! Did not know about this.