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boochiboo12

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About boochiboo12

@daylightco founder

I like gadgets and sunsets

@anjankatta on twitter

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    Comment #40488757

    Which dongle do you use? This is the best option at the moment till we can afford a more expensive chip in the next gen that accepts hdmi in Still on the hunt for a really good vid…

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    Comment #40488732

    If/when we release a bootloader unlock tool, and you can flash a custom ROM onto it, would that work for you.. be good enough?

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    Comment #40488724

    Appreciate the appreciation and thoughtfully laid out idea! I think we’re actually intrigued and open to build this! What helps to know: - is 1080p ok? - what’s the minimum size yo…

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    Comment #40460299

    our contrast can vary depending on the lighting envrionment, its the nature of non lambertian reflective displays with optical gain most of the time its pretty good! in dimmer envi…

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    Comment #40460256

    coming! should be a bunch of unofficial ones on twitter

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    Comment #40460245

    standard notes has an android app you could use! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.standardno... and we're working on OS level native OCR in the meantime you could …

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    Comment #40460240

    the simplest mod is notifications off by default but we've got a bunch of things in the pipeline also for example, one sec like 'app delaying / intentional friction' functionalitie…

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    Comment #40460220

    if you make something comparable for $729, i will buy it from you x 10 not kidding its hard to get things made at low batch sizes with good economics! (third party video based revi…

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    Comment #40460184

    you're right, for some folks it's not gonna be worth the price increase we understand that, and we hope we can bring the price down with scale for some of the folks who its worth i…

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    Comment #40460123

    you can try concepts on our thing! its a pretty damn good drawing app / procreate alt

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    Comment #40460104

    we're open to it! we just need to better understand what resources we need internally to support this effort and for the specific mediatek/qualcomm chips we're looking at

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    Comment #40460088

    yes we do! ipad mini and 13.Xin versions are kawaii af

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    Comment #40460083

    full refund if you dont like it its vulnerable for us as a small startup on a shoestring budget to offer this, but it is the right thing to offer (sorry we will update the page to …

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    Comment #40460076

    1) remarkable & ratta are traditional off the shelf eink and have to use a frontlight (above the display) which has many tradeoffs 2) daylight actually uses microperforations in ou…

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    Comment #40460036

    yup yes, we will release a bootloader unlock tool so you can do whatever you want

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    Comment #40460030

    they're coming!! but i appreciate your skepticism until there's more video proof, i am the same too many broken promises by other tech cos, i understand we have to earn your trust …

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    Comment #40459930

    those videos were shot on pre-production units. we may still not be perfect, but it should be a lot better on our most recent / PVT / production units we'll update the videos once …

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    Comment #40459905

    we've built our own PDF parser / renderer, so we have a pretty good beta PDF reader app we're building next up would be epub reader / support and then building our own notetaker & …

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    Comment #40459860

    - run the kindle app (android app) - run epub readers like lithium reader - use our PDF reader or others like adobe - go into the browser and download books - use google play books…

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    Comment #40459773

    should be fixed now, does it work for you? thanks for helping report a bug

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    Comment #40459768

    we're not eink like them! see my comment here :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457491

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    Comment #40459725

    we aim to build a monitor, but hardware companies arent very hot for VCs, so cash flow from selling the tablet is the primary way we are going to fund building a monitor, phone, an…

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    Comment #40459710

    it can pretty easily become / look like stock android if you switch out our launcher for one of your preference we also gonna come out with a bootloader unlock tool so you can cust…

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    Comment #40459691

    need more feedback on what the use case / killer apps to nail of a 'pebble watch returns' would be