I'm hearing this sentiment a lot, and I agree. I hope Argos are forward thinking and aware enough to capitalise on this opportunity to improve their services further.
I'm working on Cali Challenge. A calisthenics workout app with a daily challenge that gradually increases in difficulty. It guides you through the different progression levels of core calisthenics moves like push-ups, pull-ups, and dips.
Hi there! I'm running the exact same setup and have encountered the same issues.
I have a little bash script [1] which I run on startup to fix the HDMI audio issue. I haven't got crontab working yet so I ssh in and run it manually.
I've tried 3 different controllers and ended up buying the 8bitDo ultimate as it supports 2.4g as well as Bluetooth. Also purchased a separate Bluetooth dongle and a usb extension cable to keep it away from any interference from the Beelink. Still have major issues with connectivity over a reasonably short distance (3-4m) in either mode.
Love the SER8 though, it's a great little machine and is well priced when on offer.
Had been looking at a one of the same controllers, using two over 2.4g with their dongle(s). May reset the whole thing when I do... have had trouble with the second connected controller always being controller 1, that I can't seem to fix.
I tried this out last week to add a virtual screen with Virtual Desktop on my Quest 3 (and MacBook Pro).
Really impressed with all of the configuration options which are available and how powerful and performant it is.
I've not had a chance to try it out for any other use cases yet. Not sure if I'll be sticking with Virtual Desktop either, also testing Immersed and Meta's own Workspaces app which both natively support virtual screens.
As with most things - it depends. Hard to give you a clear cut answer without knowing a lot more.
For us, multi-country added a lot of complexities because we expanded from the UK to Australia. So we needed to staff and integrate different teams (which is where most of the complexity was).
If you're a pure SaaS with no sales GTM, I think it would be a lot simpler if you can stay centrally operated.
I'm in a similar position to you. Group of friends which has formed from working across multiple companies over the years.
I asked a few recruiters this question and was really disappointed that none of them were interested in placing a group (even just 2 developers) together.
The only way we had any success was by talking with early-ish stage startups who were looking to build engineering teams. A friend and I spoke with a couple of founders who wanted to hire us both. Unfortunately one didn't have enough cash and the other opportunity was less exciting to us, so it didn't go anywhere.
We've since ended up working on a project together for a very early stage startup, compensated with equity as well as salary. We still have our day jobs though, it's an evenings and weekends thing for now.
Interesting. I haven't gone to recruiters but I would assume going as a group makes their jobs easier. We've done some moderately successful startups (small non-US market, though) in the past, but I don't think anyone has the appetite (or ideas) to realistically bootstrap again right now.
> I asked a few recruiters this question and was really disappointed that none of them were interested in placing a group (even just 2 developers) together.
Have you seen a recruitment agreement/contract? They're usually standardized to focus on hiring individuals, with specific roles, at a certain rate/method of payment. They want to send your resume to more than one client - how many companies want to hire a pair of people and would enter into a contract to conduct that search? Probably zero. Recruiters can lose their fee if the hires quit/fired before a certain date. What if only 1/2 or 1/3 worked out? Hiring a group would be complicated from the recruiters perspective, not worth the risk. They don't get paid unless they make the hire.
Imo, the group/pair should approach the CTO/CEO or engineering leadership and do negotiates that way instead. Recruiters take a hefty chunk of $$ and if you're trying to "market" yourself, going thru a recruiter is less professional as a small squad vs direct business development.
Hiya! I'm a long term logrocket user (around 9 years now). I've been looking at alternatives as the cost is so high for us as a startup (~300k sessions per month). Highlight looks great! I have a few questions:
1. Do you or are you looking to add redux recording? This is a must for us.
2. Why are session replay costs so high? Is there a lot of data stored? Nobody seems to have a cost effective solution once you get to high volumes.
3. I'd happily self-host to take the hit on the storage/database costs internally but $3k per month is unworkable for us. Is there a way around this (I can see how this would potentially break your business model)?
4. Do you have any plans to offer discounts for startups?
Regarding redux recording, we've heard this occasionally, but it seems like the library (and proper state management libraries at large) is getting less popular nowadays. That being said, I think it would be cool if users could report data to the session to visualize it after the fact and we could use Redux as a first step in that direction.
I made a ticket here; do you mind helping with some of the points I added?
Regarding pricing, at that volume, we charge less than Logrocket (you'll need to reach out to us about it for now: jay [at] highlight [dot] io). We also have features that let you only record sessions with errors if you don't want to record everything. Overall, our goal from a business strategy is to be your one stop shop for application monitoring, not just a specialized tool for session replay like logrocket.
