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You won’t believe it

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You’ll probably think it’s crazy what’s been happening this week.

From

  • setting up Ugeddit’s bank account,
  • to attending a social game design webinar,
  • to preparing our clean updated pitch deck,
  • to submitting our pitch deck to the LoI fund
  • to catching up with not only a master UX designer, but also
    • a very, very good and skilled HR and employee experience expert,
    • a process engineer and gamification enthusiast, and
    • a representative from NRC IRAP sharing great finance advice!

And most of that was just in the first 3 days of the week!

Now, here’s a recent rant from our founder, Sabian, about what happened in just the past couple days (Thursday & Friday)

You know that feeling when you just spent 6 hours solving what seems to be 2 small problems that inflated into great walls of China?

And then everything starts working perfectly?

Yes.

Warning: technobabble ahead

From my post yesterday, my computer suddently wasn’t able to connect to the internet, but I’ll tell you that after, because I managed to solve that in a similar way to what just happened today.

I spent nearly the entire day blocked by 2 ‘apparently’ small issues with setting up a new AWS server for Ugeddit with what seemed to be an easy way to set up scalable servers (Elastic Beanstalk + CodePipeline) that turned into several rabbit holes of endless configuration and misconfiguration

But then, I realized again I was building future things we don’t need yet, and went back to setting up a standard EC2 instance, fighting off the urge to set up environment variables (minorly still ended up creating an IAM role for EC2), then guess what?

Docker wouldn’t start up in our EC2 instance

I was getting very, very tired of trying to start the container on EC2 Ubuntu using

docker-compose up --build -d

being blocked by

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon. Is the docker daemon running on this host?

going back and forth between different forums and resources online for what felt like hours

…and then restarting the instance solved it…

And then starting our NodeJS API worked perfectly

AND then every test I ran on the API passed successfully

Say it with me: YES

And for that computer internet issue, my laptop was working perfectly fine, so I tested everything on this PC from Windows configuration, to network settings, to hardware diagnostics, to system restore and disk image restore, and GUESS WHAT SOLVED IT?

Restarting my router

And then my ring light suddently died

I’m done.

But no. I’m never done, because now we’re launching our next app update, and things are moving even faster than before!