I've created an API which have a companion WordPress plugin I use with, but after adding more and more features into the API, I wanted to try build a small business with the API, although I don't think it will get much response because but I still want to try it, then I faced the problem, how to sell it?

I wasn't a super knowledgeable programmer in fact I wrote this api with lots of googling, youtube videos, and help from AI, and the code looks like a mess and become messier everytime i add another features. But so far it still works fine and I've "stress tested" it with large concurrent request and it seems to hold up, so I think i am ready to give it a try.

Ideally if this can get some traction I would like to build a dedicated website with dashboard for users, but for now I'm thinking about RapidAPI to quickly start getting some users with a free plan, but I want to know if i understand this correctly, basically with RapidAPI i can just ignore about writing my own authentication within the api, all the users, quota thing, and simply just put the rapidapi layer on top of my api, is that correct?

Then I would just whitelist my API to only let rapidapi access it, so everything goes through rapidapi, including the usage limit, rate limit, etc.

There was another post earlier about the maybank new ezycash offer for cash out with 6 months instalment at 0% interest rate, and I notice some people dismiss it or think it's too little benefit to care.

For people that think it's dumb to take advantage of these kind of offer for just few hundreds bucks, that is because you don't have a full strategy to utilize these offers.

But before I continue I must note this isn't meant for people that lack self discipline and self control, all financials tools are neither good or bad, it's entirely up for the users.

Bank offers 0% interest of ezycash/instalment/balance transfer from time to time, here's how I personally use them:

1. On my CCRIS I have a ~78% utilization on all my credit limits from a few banks, the outstanding total is RM102,335
2. Most of these outstanding are either 0% interest instalment from balance transfer promo, or convert your spend to instalment promo.
3. Now HERE is the where the real strategy comes in, I rollover those outstanding whenever I clear up some limits, in plain words which means every month let say i pay RM 8k, this RM8k is then return to available credit limit, I then look for another promo like this, and extract that money out again with 0% interest, this means I'm constantly rolling the RM100k debt, which you can see it as bank lend me RM100k indefinitely, and I have been doing this for years.
4. Now how you utilize this RM100k is completely up to you, if you are risk averse, put them in ASB or US short term treasury for that sweet 5% with low risk, which is RM5k free every year, but personally I see those outstanding as an advanced salary paid to me, which i can just return the payment with next month salary, so I am basically just invest earlier with my salary, and I invested most of them in US index funds like CSPX, if you look at the return of S&P500 and the weakening MYR against USD, you can prolly tell I made roughly about RM 100k with these offers.

• The key here is to rollover your debt, the goal is to roll until the time you die and owes your bank RM100k and you win LOL, (or until that RM100k capital is nothing to you.)
• Pay your monthly statement on time, my CCRIS are all 0, of course the high utilization does impact your ability to apply for new credit cards and new loan, so make sure you plan around that, or decrease utilization by stopping the rollover if you plan to buy house or something in next year, because most of these debt are instalment of 12 months, some 18 months, you can easily clear off majority of the debt and reduce utilization back to normal level in just a year or max 2 years.
• THIS IS NOT SUITABLE FOR PEOPLE THAT LACK DISCIPLINE AND SELF CONTROL OBVIOUSLY.

By the way, taking advantage with these offer are way easier when most e-wallet doesn't charge you 1% for credit card top up, so now it may be harder with the increase cost, but there are other ways to achieve the same without e-wallet, just use credit card for regular day life spending works too.

I wrote more about this in my blog post:

Balance Transfer: The Interest Free Capital You Should Know - MalaysianPF.com

I've spent many cakes trying to breed a pair of Bellanoir Libero in hope to find "Musclehead" but so far no luck, I'm using a male Libero with:

• Siren of the Void
• Ferocious
• Veil of the dark
• Blood of the Dragon

with a female libero:

• Siren of the Void
• Ferocious

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Right now I'm trying to get find Musclehead so that i can try to mix it in, but no luck so far, is there a specific combo, like using odds number 3+4 passive, will likely to get more chance of random yellow skills?

The ideal combo i am looking for is:

• Siren of the Void
• Ferocious
• Veil of the dark / Hooligan
• Musclehead

I've heard people talk about Apex giving up on Asia servers and only focus on NA servers because NA servers is "where the money is made", and I feel like that's true now.

Watching NA streamers their chance of encountering a cheater is like 1 out of 10 games, but I'm here to invite you all NA player to Asia servers (any of them, singapore/hk/taiwan/japan) and play 10 games.

From my personal experience, there's almost 9 out of 10 games you will encounter cheaters, and most likely multiple teams of cheaters, the only difference here is if they are blatantly cheating or they try to play like a legit player with just wallhack on, either way, which cheater going to win the game is depends on their willingness to risk their account, that's it.

Climbing rank in Diamond is literally a nightmare in Asia server, and I even notice there's a new kind of services people going for, which is "hiring a cheater in your team", and that to me feels like the only way to climb rank without cheating yourself and risking your own account, and it seems like is what happening alot right now, I can see predator player in my game with a silver and bronze account using cheat every now and then.

I understand fighting cheater is a hard task and it's almost impossible to eliminate every single cheater, the best thing game dev can do is deter them from cheating, for example by increasing the cost to cheat with harsher punishment, but it seems to be the dev is not really doing any shit?

For example in this twitter post, they say:

Today, we've added another update that is intended to further protect our players and ensure the competitive integrity of Apex Legends.

But if you click into the link it's actually an announcement of their new skins COBALT KATAR ?? And what is the update since the ALGS hack? Is it RCE or what? Any explanation yet?

Currently I've been hosting way too many self hosted apps and many of them require database like postgres or mysql, at this moment I'm putting all my database on the same server I run all those apps, and each of them in a separate container using docker compose.

The problem is each of them use up a port, especially for DBs that I need to access from remote, and the process of backing them up isn't pretty also, I'm simply using a script to dump the db, and the backup is daily, meaning if i lose the database, I would lose all transaction up to last backup.

I am thinking I could just run single instance of each type of DBs on the server directly without DBs, but also not sure if it would trouble me in future if i want to restore DB for single apps?

Just curious people who trying to do youtube full time or just started doing it full time, how many hours do you spend daily working on your youtube channel?

How do you spend those hours? Research for topic? Scripting?