I'm no developer but I love the terminal. I would love to have something like this for other use cases, such as medical. I would imagine the app to have entities such as medical procedures, tests, diagnosis, doc visits, along with all the associated medical artifacts such as prescriptions, and test reports.
Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
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Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kindly -- I think this is a symptom of the larger issue, right? You shouldn't need a document to help persuade the consumer (or the more technically inclined ones anyway). That magic should just be self evident. We don't need a document to understand why the iPhone was a hit, right? Doesn't matter if you have the greatest app in the world. If it overwhelms the user on first use, it's simply not going to be used. I ag…
> You shouldn't need a document to help persuade the consumer For the most part we don't. They get it, they have the frustration with duplication, and they see the value of our pricing being the same or cheaper than one or two of the apps their paying for. The harder part as I said in the original comment is no one is searching for a household data solution. It's not a thing that exists to people, and we don't advert…
Interesting -- that makes sense. Appreciate the response.
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#213This is quite cool. Makes me philosophical: isn't it odd, that this is like an Excel template? Like a "domain model" template? In this case, presented nicely in a TUI that makes basic CRUD workflows work. Most SaaS companies are just that: 1) Curated domain model (stored in their cloud db) 2) Some way for users do to almost raw CRUD on the tables 3) Curated high-level domain specific workflows that do n CRUD calls un…
Yes, this is a spreadsheet-like model with crud. Most software is.
Users don't care whether a product is "just crud" or not. The value comes from what the spreadsheet-like model looks like, and how it and its associated crud operators map onto the real world, helping a real human being to get things done. It's never about "the technology".
Many developers dislike this fact about the world because they are more interested in technology than solving people's problems.
Developing that well-working model and ux takes time and effort. Without an associated business model you cannot spend thousands of man hours to do that. Hence software tend to be for-profit saas, and not open source TUI apps.
Many developers dislike this fact about the world because they wish they could work on technology and not have to care about economic reality.
Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
I helped a legacy Lotus Notes application reincarnate once, and it was impressive how reasonably solid it's ability was to be offline-first, and mobile first, and how fewer sychronization/replication errors there were than I expected.
Lotus Notes was doing decentralized apps built with NoSQL databases before either of those things were cool. Mostly because "going online" was potentially quite an undertaking at the time.
Agreed - Lotus Notes def is an example of a working NoSQL database that scales in relating data as well where other noSQL databases only dream of.
Being offline-first has it's advantages too.
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#215The constantly changing "Frequently asked/entertained/daydreamed questions" bit constantly changing keeps moving everything below it up and down and it's really annoying. I am viewing it on a particularly small phone, however.
Yeah, I spent a bit of time trying it out on a mobile device, but nothing particularly small, so this isn't surprising. Suggestions for how to address it? Would love a GIF or screenshot in a GitHub issue if you're up for it!
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#216this is great to give upper middle class folks a sense of accomplishment.
I suppose that's true!
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#217My first thought with apps like this is always: couldn’t you do this in org mode?
Probably, but who has time for org mode? :)
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#218I didn't see it on the feature list, but it might be nice to allow it to run as a cron job and send email for reminders. These days, most mobile phones have an associated email like your-phone-number@vztext.com (depending on carrier), so you can send yourself text messages about chores and whatnot. Or, perhaps just as good, have a way for it to dump out data as json, and could be consumed by some other send-the-email…
There's definitely some scope and appetite for some notifications/reminders here. I haven't thought about the UX here, but the ingest pipeline + automatic reminders seems like a killer combo!
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#219This is probably the most beautiful homepage + docs combo I’ve ever seen. The copy is awesome too. It feels human. Great work.
Much appreciated. Definitely A LOT of back and forth on the copy, design was actually very few iterations. Docs of course have their own rule in AGENTS.md, since Claude seems only slightly less likely than your average software engineer to forget about documentation. :)
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#220Great work!