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Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management

#21
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This project name is so overused. Helm - The package manager for Kurbenetes https://helm.sh/ Helm - A functionally reactive game engine https://github.com/z0w0/helm Helm - Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/ Helm - A free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation https://github.com/mtytel/helm

Who's heard of those? Should a project have a monopoly on such a generic word from the dictionary?

Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management

#22

How do you like flutter? What are your impressions of the platform.

Personally, I wasn't a big fan of having to disable the telemetry in the SDK itself - thankfully there was a single, small footnote about it in the docs. Not sure what I expected from the Goog honestly, but it was enough to put a bad taste in my mouth. But hey, M$ does it too with the dotnet core SDK, so maybe that's "par for the course" these days. YMMV.

Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management

#23
post #5

This project name is so overused. Helm - The package manager for Kurbenetes https://helm.sh/ Helm - A functionally reactive game engine https://github.com/z0w0/helm Helm - Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/ Helm - A free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation https://github.com/mtytel/helm

Who's heard of those? Should a project have a monopoly on such a generic word from the dictionary?

Helm for Kubernetes is pretty huge ~17k stars on GitHub and nearing an industry standard.

Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management

#24
post #5

This project name is so overused. Helm - The package manager for Kurbenetes https://helm.sh/ Helm - A functionally reactive game engine https://github.com/z0w0/helm Helm - Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/ Helm - A free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation https://github.com/mtytel/helm

Who's heard of those? Should a project have a monopoly on such a generic word from the dictionary?

That's not what they're saying at all. Imagine if there was a line of blenders called Raspberry Pi, and a furniture line called Raspberry Pi, shoes branded as Raspberry Pi, a laptop model called Raspberry Pi (unrelated to Raspberry Pi or Raspberry Pi), etc. It's just confusing.

Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management

#25
post #20
post #9

No. The correct answer is “shit on its name” and not to encourage people to share cool projects. You fool! Ed. note: I also upvoted for the same reason

I think the (currently top) comment about it's name is actually important ... I also wondered why it was named "Helm" once I read the title as it didn't seem to fit what the application does. But you're right in the sense a more constructive activity would be to recommend other names. Wouldn't a name like "Relax" or "Exhale" be better in line with "what's in the package"? (note that these were the first two names tha…

I personally would prefer something like Burrito or Ossobuco

/s

Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management

#27

This comment turns out to be a tangent. But has anyone looked at whether gamification increases stress/anxiety/depression among social app users?

for:

https://www.amazon.com/SuperBetter-Living-Gamefully-Jane-McG...

https://tim.blog/2015/07/28/jane-mcgonigal/

against:

https://mental.jmir.org/2019/6/e13717/

Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management

#28
Oof, I thought Flutter was supposed to make programmatic UI more readable/easy?

    body: Stack(
          children: [
            LayoutBuilder(
              builder: (ctx, constraints) => Container(
                width: double.infinity,
                height: constraints.maxHeight - 67.0,
                padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(20.0, 20.0, 20.0, 0.0),
                child: Column(
                  mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
                  crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
                  children: [
                    Column(
                      mainAxisSize: MainAxis
                     ....

Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management

#29

Oof, I thought Flutter was supposed to make programmatic UI more readable/easy? body: Stack( children: [ LayoutBuilder( builder: (ctx, constraints) => Container( width: double.infinity, height: constraints.maxHeight - 67.0, padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(20.0, 20.0, 20.0, 0.0), child: Column( mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min, crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start, children: [ Column( mainAxisSize: MainAxis .…

I built a few apps with it. It starts to feel more streamlined once you work in it for a couple days, but whenever I go to make an edit it takes me about an hour of saying "what in the..." before it starts to click.

What I always wish I had was a better way to create functions that build smaller units so I didn't have be so many tabs deep. It can be done, but it's not fun or straightforward.

Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management

#30
post #15
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not technically open source, but 'source provided' until there is an OSS license provided.

True it may not technically be open source, but certain rights are granted because the author published on GitHub, according to the ToS: > If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functiona…

That doesn't grant any meaningful rights at all.

Notably, it doesn't given any right to download or use the code.

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