Awesome List Updates on May 20, 2021

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1. Public Apis

URL Shorteners

• API: Shrtcode

  Description: URl Shortener with multiple Domains

  Auth: No

  HTTPS: Yes

  CORS: Yes

2. Awesome Game Remakes

Strategy

• fheroes2 (⭐2.4k) - Free implementation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine.

3. Awesome Humane Tech

Privacy / Wear our badge

• pihole-antitelemetry (⭐289) - Block non-consensual telemetry Google and Apple are collecting using pihole.

Translation / Wear our badge

• gtranslate - Front-end for Google Translate that doesn't track you and works without JavaScript.

• SimplyTranslate - Simple front-end for SimplyTranslate, a facade to multiple search engines.

4. Awesome Iam

Password-based auth / Identifiers

• Password Storage Cheat Sheet - The only way to slow down offline attacks is by carefully choosing hash algorithms that are as resource intensive as possible.

OAuth2 & OpenID / Macaroons

• OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice - “Updates and extends the OAuth 2.0 Security Threat Model to incorporate practical experiences gathered since OAuth 2.0 was published and covers new threats relevant due to the broader application”.

• Hidden OAuth attack vectors - How to identify and exploit some of the key vulnerabilities found in OAuth 2.0 authentication mechanisms.

• authentik - Open-source Identity Provider similar to Keycloak.

SAML / Macaroons

• The Difficulties of SAML Single Logout - On the technical and UX issues of single logout implementations.

5. Awesome Billing

Basics

• 5 things I learned while developing a billing system - A great introduction on all the various aspects of a billing system, from currency to invoices, including great illustrations on the logic of changing plans. All these topics are detailed in dedicated sections below.

Pricing / Usage-based Pricing

• Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models - Usage-based pricing is more optimal and more fair: it “allows a customer to start at a low cost, minimizing friction to getting started while still preserving the ability to monetize a customer over time”.

Pricing / Strategy

• The cup-of-coffee pricing fallacy - Explains why it is a sloppy analogy.

Pricing / Market Research

• Jeremy Howard - From Predictive Modelling to Optimization - “In insurance, the price is the product. (…) How do I change price to make shitload of money?” Or how to deliver results (optimal price for a customer) instead of delivering data (calculating a customer's risk, which had been the standard approach used by actuaries previously).

• Van Westendorp's Price Sensitivity Meter - PSM is a market technique for determining consumer price preferences. Allows for drawing a revenue curve to estimate the price point delivering the maximum revenue.

• Pricing niche products - “The most compelling argument against simply picking a price, though, is that it limits how much you can learn about your market.” Then the author setup vickrey auctions to discover price.

• Finding the max revenue price mark for digital products - “To find the optimal price that provides maximum revenue for your product you will need to field-test several price points; you then reconstruct the revenue curve and find the peak.”

• Personalised pricing and EU law - Some cases of price personalisation are prohibited in EU due to consumer protection and data protection rules.

Payments / Online Payments

• Idempotency in the context of payments - “Idempotency prevents race conditions. Idempotency dictates that multiple identical requests from the same client do not result in a different final state.”

6. Awesome Engineering Team Management

Recruitment / Negotiation

• Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer - “First part will be about conceptualizing the negotiating process, about how to begin the process and set yourself up for maximal success. The second part will be advice on the actual back-and-forth portion of negotiating and how to ask for what you want.”

Project Management / Estimations

• Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model - “Confirms the hunch that developers estimate the median well, but the mean ends up being much higher.”

7. Awesome Godot

Plugins and scripts / Godot 3.2+

• NativeLib (⭐85) - Plugin management system designed to easily operate with native libraries for iOS/Android. It also takes care about plugin dependencies and provides hassle-free native libs updating. Attribution and analytics: Adjust, Amplitude, AppsFlyer, Flurry, GameAnalytics, Tenjin. Ads networks and mediation: AdColony, AppLovin, TapDaq. GDPR and privacy: App Tracking Transparency, Ogury. Social: Facebook. Universal backend solution: Firebase.

8. Free for Dev

Tools for Teams and Collaboration

• HeySpace - Task management tool with chat, calendar, timeline and video calls. Free for up to 5 users.

• TimeCamp - Free time tracking software for unlimited users. Easily integrates with PM tools like Jira, Trello, Asana, etc.

9. Awesome React Components

Photo / Image

• lightGallery (⭐6.1k) - demo - docs - Full-featured lightbox gallery component.

10. Urban and Regional Planning Resources

Public Data Resources / OpenStreetMap

• OpenStreetMap - OpenStreetMap is the free wiki world map. This collaborative project is one of the largest databases of volunteered geographic information in the world. Its contents include points of interest, routable networks, and other geodata.

• MetroExtracts - Each day, OSM Extracts by Interline mirrors the entire OpenStreetMap planet and creates city and region sized extracts ready for download into formats ready for GIS.

• Overpass Turbo - Overpass Turbo is a web-based data mining tool for OpenStreetMap. It runs any kind of Overpass API query, shows the results on an interactive map, and allows users to export query data in the form of GeoJSON files (which may be converted to Shapefiles). It also provides helpful support for new users in the form of the "Wizard" tool. Using Overpass Turbo, you can query virtually any location globally using dedicated tags in Open Street Map.

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