I downloaded to try it out, is impressively accurate. Even told me the model backhoe I was looking at! I can't believe there wasn't already a successful app in this niche.
I can't shake that this would have felt like magic 5 years ago, but now it's so casual and not even that impressive. My mind is like "cool, now what?". I guess cars aren't that complicated.
I discovered that I could use VBA from Word to shell out to cmd bypassing all of the security. This opened a world of possibilities...
This being the era of AOL punters I created a neat VBA utility in a Word doc to that used netsend to spam other computers in the school. Shared the file widely.
Then I used the technique to explore the network... eventually was able to use net use to connect to a remote drive in the school administrator's office where I found a text file of every student birthday, home address, and SSN... which I then could use to sign into anyone's account (password was derivative of name and SSN).
Culminated with pwning a school rival by putting all his files in a password protected zip on the desktop and dropping a batch file in his startup folder that printed a text file with the password to the printer when he logged in.
fly.io looks OK feature-wise, but requires a credit card to do anything and there's no indication of how you can accidently exceed the free tier. That's a dealbreaker for me - I want to evaluate some PAAS offerings for a company, but it's a hassle to get authorization to use a company credit card, especially when I just want to kick the tyres.
Heroku, Render, Railway and most others let you at least run a toy app without needing a credit card, fly.io is doing themselves a disservice here.
Maybe, but still it means I'll just pass on fly.io and go with render. Their feature set is not that compelling that I'll want to jump through hoops to get company authorization or have to deal with expenses to use my own card.
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