Why does this need to be IOS app?
I think it could've just as well be webpage and do the same.
Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]
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Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]
#22Why does this need to be IOS app? I think it could've just as well be webpage and do the same.
I would actually love for it to be available everywhere, even offline for people who don’t have access to internet/computers. We want to make it available to everyone, just takes a bit of time (we’re only 2 devs right now in the team). I’m hiring though! So if you’re interested or know someone who might be, get in touch (charles@bunch.ai). I’m looking for backend/fullstack/android people.
Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]
#23"Become a world-class leader in just 2 minutes a day". Do you honestly believe that?
I've taken many personality tests, have a lot of experience building tools in the psychology space, and can say without a doubt, their ~10 question personality test is incredible. (I'm hoping it's adaptive, because I'd hate to think it was just that appropriate for me by chance.)
To expand a bit why that's meaningful: Baselines are the most important part of beginning a training regimen, and if you have junk baselines, your goals and exercises will most likely follow. This baseline is unlike any other, and I believe quite thoughtful. So, I'd venture to say the tips from 2mins a day will be just as potent.
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#24"Become a world-class leader in just 2 minutes a day". Do you honestly believe that?
Start small, stay constant and make it a habit to improve: chances are you’ll end up a better leader than if you try to “sprint rush” your learning on this topic.
It’s also crazy times to live in, people spend a lot of time on their screen. We couldn’t resign to designing a learning app that would make users spend even more time away from their team. Learn a bit, and spend more time applying what you learn with real humans
Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]
#25"Become a world-class leader in just 2 minutes a day". Do you honestly believe that?
It’s not really 2 minutes, they basically give you each day a small scenario based on what you signed up to combined with additional reading/viewing materials such as articles and lectures.
The scenarios are actually quite good.
Nothing here is super innovative but they give you a good structure/instructions on how to deal with certain events which at least to me has been valuable.
Another value of the app is that if you are dealing with a situation you might be included to go back to it and look for similar scenarios and tips that if nothing else forces you to think about the situation more carefully rather than respond immediately.
As far as all the pseudo science and life coaching junk goes this doesn’t seem to try to trick anyone the scenarios also don’t necessarily have good or bad answers just different ways of dealing with common issues.
Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]
#26OK, got far enough through the first tip -- seems useful, although a bit abstract of course.
Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]
#27OK, got far enough through the first tip -- seems useful, although a bit abstract of course.
Sorry it felt abstract! let me know which one it was, and I’ll improve it with the team
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What was the biggest benefit of using Swift?
The learning curve was quite easy (when we started building it, no one in the dev team had experience with iOS before). Architecture wise, it fits _really well_ with functional reactive programming (RxSwift or Combine + MVVM). And a lot of things like animations are very straightforward to do. The downside is whenever you want to do something quite standard in UIKit that doesn't exist yet in SiwftUI. The "carousel" t…
Any reason you decided on two separate code-bases (iOS & Android) with a small team versus building one in React Native or another hybrid framework. I'd think that the latter would be a better choice but wanted to see what went in to your decision making.
Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
The learning curve was quite easy (when we started building it, no one in the dev team had experience with iOS before). Architecture wise, it fits _really well_ with functional reactive programming (RxSwift or Combine + MVVM). And a lot of things like animations are very straightforward to do. The downside is whenever you want to do something quite standard in UIKit that doesn't exist yet in SiwftUI. The "carousel" t…
Any reason you decided on two separate code-bases (iOS & Android) with a small team versus building one in React Native or another hybrid framework. I'd think that the latter would be a better choice but wanted to see what went in to your decision making.
yeah good question, we actually debated quite a bit on this. In the end, we want to build the best UX possible (we realized it's one of the value prop of our product), and we felt that going native would be better mid & long term because at some point, you hit a threshold with those react native/hybrid and it makes more time to polish things out.
Also right when we started (in Feb), we had to implement Apple Sign-in, and the UX around it for React native or Hybrid framework was absolutely terrible.
In the end, I still think it was a good choice: while we compromise and make people wait a bit more for Android, it gave our (small) team a lot more focus. We learn and make mistakes on one platform, iterate faster on it, and once we feel comfortable with what we've done on iOS, we'll roll it out to Android (which we plan to do in Jan/Feb next year).
Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any reason you decided on two separate code-bases (iOS & Android) with a small team versus building one in React Native or another hybrid framework. I'd think that the latter would be a better choice but wanted to see what went in to your decision making.
yeah good question, we actually debated quite a bit on this. In the end, we want to build the best UX possible (we realized it's one of the value prop of our product), and we felt that going native would be better mid & long term because at some point, you hit a threshold with those react native/hybrid and it makes more time to polish things out. Also right when we started (in Feb), we had to implement Apple Sign-in,…
Cool, thanks for the detailed response. As a dev I'm always curious about the decision making for startups that are choosing between hybrid and native. Seems like the best decision for that is unique to each project.