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https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh4wm0q
In the meantime, I've grown to 20k downloads and 200 daily users.
I regularly receive e-mails and reviews from people telling they love the app and use it everyday, including someone's grandma, which is very encouraging. :)
Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer hatred?
Oh man, that describes all of them. http://ipfessay.stavros.io/ - Publish uncensorable essays on IPFS https://www.eternum.io/ - Pin IPFS files with a nice interface https://www.pastery.net/ - The best pastebin https://spa.mnesty.com/ - Fuck with spammers https://www.timetaco.com/ - Easily make nice-looking countdowns And this is just the last two months or so? Also, lots of hardware stuff: https://www.stavros.io/proj…
I built this 3d visualization of the upcoming Perseids meteor shower! https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/Perseids
wow, very impressive! do you use a public api for the data?
It just runs locally right now, and I'm not sure I'll ever publish it, since I'm forbidden by Marvel from making any money on it, even for server costs, even by linking to their books on Amazon.
It'll be on github as soon as I get around from un-hardcoding my keys.
I just saw this thread, and honestly it is probably too late to get noticed by many, but I'm attempting to 'unsuck the web' with my project[0] by pinning "sticky" website elements where they belong - i.e. the website header shouldn't steal your screen real estate and scroll down the page with you. My project/uBO filter list removes the "annoying" elements noted above as well as other "features" of websites (e.g. soci…
Quite often the stickied elements disappear entirely, possibly hidden below other elements or outside of the window--I've never felt the need to check where they go.
Which kind of illustrates my point; I hope your filter list is a whitelist, because in 99.9% of cases, absolutely nothing is lost from these sticky elements. I could've set them to `display:none` or removed them entirely and I think it will still cover my use case perfectly.
I don't think it would be so terrible if `fixed` and `sticky` would go the way of the blink-tag. Except that people would probably reimplement it with JS at expense of performance, because they like nagging people at cost of UX.
[0] it used to be just `fixed`, but `sticky` is used for the same webdisease
I just saw this thread, and honestly it is probably too late to get noticed by many, but I'm attempting to 'unsuck the web' with my project[0] by pinning "sticky" website elements where they belong - i.e. the website header shouldn't steal your screen real estate and scroll down the page with you. My project/uBO filter list removes the "annoying" elements noted above as well as other "features" of websites (e.g. soci…
This is great. I wonder though, how much could you achieve just by creating 1 blanket rule: change every instance on a page of "position: fixed" to "position: absolute" - layout and nav should be more or less the same, across the board, but nothing will follow you down the page! Kryptonite would be sticky footers , but if you're on a site that uses those you should just close the tab anyway. :)
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Most of them are just weekend projects, and took two or three days to create. Then I spend the odd few hours here and there. I also go to bed very late, which gives me ample time to work on stuff during the time when everyone else is asleep.
Do you also sleep late in the morning or do you just operate on very little sleep?
This is my current project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14785209 . It's too long to describe in a sentence, but, it's essentially what I call it the mother of all software (internally). I created it out of pure annoyance towards many of the popular services such as Wordpress, MailChimp, Hubspot, Shopify, Unbounce who had screwed up some aspect of their tools. So, in essence this is a combination of all those…
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It is of course possible I'm massively mis-estimating the potential userbase. That is largely irrelevant. Do you have a marketing plan? Because "build it and they will come" tends to work poorly. If you have no marketing plan, your concerns about a sudden influx of 1M users is likely seriously exaggerated.
Does one need a marketing plan if it's not done for money? While I'd never heard of xi-editor before now, I'm definitely among those who yearn for a "better" editor for (first off) MacOS... and I think there are many others, based on my totally unscientific assessment of the currently popular editors. I'm still on TextMate for a reason. :-) So my point is, for certain things "build it and they will come" might work f…
A million users are unlikely to just magically know your free editor exists. Things do sometimes go viral, but that isn't the norm for how you get to a million users.
Maybe marketing isn't the best term. But, if the OP does not have some idea of how those million users will be attracted, this is probably not a thing they need to be fretting about.