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Hey, Robin here - the OP. Happy to answer any questions you might have about the software, hooking it up to your existing equipment, and whether it's applicable to your particular …

To get the ball rolling, I'll share my personal experience. When I was studying engineering, we had to do a load of AutoCAD drawing. I found it a nightmare because you constantly h…

Hi engineers of HN, I’m interested in building software to help boost your productivity, particularly when using your computer. Therefore, I was wanting to ask the two following qu…

Those are really good points - thanks for the well considered reasoning. On the smartphone side, I think we use them very differently - you wouldn't do engineering design on a smar…

FYI, I'm interested because I'm developing software that maps single physical keypresses (e.g. on your numpad) into complex control of applications: http://numpadsuperpowers.com Th…

In the mid 80s, personal computers were released with graphical user interfaces – they were controlled by a keyboard and a mouse. Take the Amiga 500, for example (https://en.wikipe…

Update after 7 days: I have removed the email signup and allowed a direct download. So far, the rate of downloads has gone up by a factor of between 5 - 10 times. Hard to know prec…

Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and insight into this. You make some good points on why an email sign up may not be effective. Therefore, I am currently running a test to see…

P.S. For reference, the software product is here: https://numpadsuperpowers.com and currently still has an email signup requirement before downloading the free trial.

Hey, I'm looking for people who have provided a free trial of digital download software before. Did you put your free trial download behind an email sign-up wall? I currently have …

Hey, Robin here - the creator/developed of the above drag and drop automation software. Feel free to ask here if you have any questions - I'd be happy to answer! Please let me know…

Just to clear things up, this is a desktop app that you install and run by double clicking, just like any other app. It's designed to work with your numpad (either the numeric keyp…

Hey, if you're interested in using keystroke automation to improve your productivity, then you might really like this software I've developed. It's called Numpad Superpowers (https…

Hey, this is a fully fledged app, but I'm giving away the first 125 licenses for free (forever) to get a decent user base - feel free to grab one for yourself :) I'd also be deligh…

Hi everyone, I’m posting this on behalf of Josh who has created EduBlocks – a drag and drop interface for Python which helps young coders make the transition from Scratch to Python…

Thank you :D

It'll only go open source if it reaches its crowdfunding goal. Otherwise, I won't open source and will have to find a different way to make money from the project. Possibly by clos…

Yep, just as you say, my backers will get everything they need to make their own at home with more flexibility and for a lower cost than I could make it for them. Software, hardwar…