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Post by remyp »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #221
remyp wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a big concern for us. Fortunately, we are self-funded and only answer to ourselves. I’d love to hear more about your experience - please feel free to email me (info in profile) if you’re not comfortable sharing publicly.

Two easy anecdotes, have seen it play out similarly multiple times over the past decade: - has in the sales pipeline. Client wants an invasive feature for reasons. No chance to say no, decides to build it due to . - has a platform that deals with anonymous . sues to take down mean and sue the user for defamation. No chance to defend, need to give in to survive the lawsuit. Those cases will come and they will hurt. It…

Thank you! This is super helpful.

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Post by oinj »

funksta wrote: post #38

https://hyperpaper.me/ – rich, customizable planner pdfs for e-Ink tablets. I have another related project that I'm slowly working on, essentially an RSS reader that sends daily pdf digests/newspapers to your tablet. Both are very fun and rewarding, and I love building things that help spend less time in front of a (glowing) screen.

I have one! It's very good and you even helped me customize it further.

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Post by kjksf »

pebblesun wrote: post #224
kjksf wrote: post #41

I'm working on Edna https://edna.arslexis.io/ It's a web-based scratchpad and note taker for developers and power users. It sits somewhere between Obsidian and Simplenote. It's particularly optimized for keyboard navigation: Ctrl + K / ⌘ + K to open note navigator where you can quickly create new note, switch between notes, delete notes. Even though it runs in the browser, when running on Chrome you can store notes i…

Is it inspired from this? https://heynote.com/

Yes, it's a fork of Heynote as mentioned in the docs https://edna.arslexis.io/help-win#credits

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Post by c_o_n_v_e_x »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #151

I've been building algorithmic trading models for the last 4+ years. After trading them successfully with my own capital for more than a year, I launched https://grizzlybulls.com as an alternative to the traditional hedge fund monetization path. Since launching in January 2022, we've significantly outperformed the market with lower volatility and reduced max drawdown: Model - Return - Max drawdown S&P 500 (benchmark)…

Congrats on your success to date. I spent quite a bit of time putting together a trend system based on breakouts in futures markets. The system itself was nothing overly special. I purchased a few decades worth of futures data, created and backtested the system with Tradingblox.

The biggest problem was that the system really needed a minimum account of $1m USD so that each position wasnt too large and to get the diversification across different futures markets.

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Post by rafbgarcia »

tip_of_the_hat wrote: post #134

I'm working https://annotate.dev , a tool inspired by the Stripe documentation, to let anyone create step by step code walkthroughs. Here's a sample of a walkthrough you can create: https://annotate.dev/p/hello-world/learn-oauth-2-0-by-buildi... Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!

Great idea! What did you use for designing the UI?

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Post by tehcolo »

I'm building an Open Source Loom alternative. Loom was bought by Atlassian in October last year for almost $1 billion. ScreenLink.io is a privacy focused alternative to this

The main focus on the product has been working on a cross platform application that can record and upload screen recordings, then on the backend it has been everything else to handle this

The source code is available here https://github.com/mangledbottles/screenlink

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Post by danielvanacker »

_kush wrote: post #112

I am building a macOS app to help reduce screen strain and dry eyes due to prolonged screen use. It's called LookAway -- https://lookaway.app

Nice app! Just downloaded however there's a bug where regardless of the focus time I set (when the app first launches) it always counts down from 20mins. If I edit the focus time in settings it will change.

I'm on an M1 OS 14.1.1

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Post by _kush »

danielvanacker wrote: post #407
_kush wrote: post #112

I am building a macOS app to help reduce screen strain and dry eyes due to prolonged screen use. It's called LookAway -- https://lookaway.app

Nice app! Just downloaded however there's a bug where regardless of the focus time I set (when the app first launches) it always counts down from 20mins. If I edit the focus time in settings it will change. I'm on an M1 OS 14.1.1

Thanks for reporting - will fix in the next update!

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Post by alemanek »

cagmz wrote: post #353
alemanek wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, so you may not be targeting this particular market but it is adjacent and something I would pay $5-10 a month for. Have you considered expanding this eventually into a Empower (formerly Personal Capital) competitor? What I mainly use from them is: - investment performance tracking across my various accounts. - retirement planning/forecasting - cash flow, expense, and income tracking overtime. - warnings about up…

I'm a former Personal Capital and Mint (:tear:) user. Checkout Monarch Money.

That looks promising thanks for the tip

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Post by TheCapeGreek »

grardb wrote: post #376

I'm building a gamified habit tracker, similar to Habitica[1], but simplified in some ways, and with offline support. My biggest issues with Habitica are their lack of offline support (even on mobile), and their extremely downtime-prone servers. My goal is to make something more pleasant to use. I don't have a link to share since it's still fairly early in development, but I'm making good progress! [1] https://habiti…

If you do graphics like Habitica, I think another improvement over them would be to do the graphics better. Not sure if others share this opinion but Habitica's art style I really find awful, generic and boring. Less so the pixel art (I like pixel art), but the colour palettes and sprites just don't feel great for me.
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