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bfioca

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About bfioca

Founder of RescueTime Applied AI @ OpenAI

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    >...it’s a useless tool. I don’t like collaborating with chronic liars who aren’t able to openly point out knowledge gaps... I think a more correct take here might be "it's a tool …

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    I love this approach. It feels far more like brand and messaging tuning and less like search engine algorithm hacking.

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    Comment #41048010

    Amazing work by a colleague of mine. Incredibly useful to have a metric and formula for how to decide when to apply AI agent technology.

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    Show HN: JACoB – Open-Source AI Coding Agent for Real-World Productivity

    Hi, we're Kevin, Chris, and Brian, the creators of JACoB (Just Another Coding Bot), an open-source AI coding agent designed to streamline the development process. As veteran develo…

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    Comment #28690322

    Thanks! We decided we’d give existing users the choice to upgrade because it’s quite different. If you want to migrate your account, you can do it from here: https://www.rescuetime…

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    Comment #28689611

    Oh wow that’s a super good idea.

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    Comment #28689241

    It’s a webview that runs a super small HTML page with vanilla Javascript. (No electron!) We looked and it’s not noticeably larger of a runtime footprint as the old version.

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    Comment #28689206

    Thanks for sticking with us! We've just hired someone to help with our Windows app who loves linux, so look for improvements to both of those in the future. Right now we're very fo…

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    Comment #28689192

    Sorry about that - pricing is $12/month or $78 if paid annually. We're going to add it back to the site - it was on the old version of the account create page before we added the n…

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    Thanks for your comment - really glad to have you over the years! I will say that lots of what you’re describing doesn’t exist in a form you’re used to in the new version, so you m…

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    Thanks for saying so! So great to hear.

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    Cool! Thanks for being a happy customer! And sure - (copying from a different response below) you can see all of the data that we track by looking at the diagnostics window in the …

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    I’m not entirely certain that’s true. Companies that are that restrictive are really judicious about costs and how much they’re willing to pay.

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    You’re describing my own situation, exactly. The years when I wasn’t at RescueTime I ran into problems like this and part of the reason why I wanted to help redesign the app was be…

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    Not yet - iOS is really locked down. We’re hoping to get something working at some point. Really need better access to Screen Time APIs though.

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    They’re still there, we just haven’t finished redesigning that page for the new version. For now, you can go here: https://www.rescuetime.com/anapi/setup/overview

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    Thanks for this. Yeah, it’s definitely entirely different. The transition is going to be tricky at first for folks used to the old version but so far it seems to be making sense to…