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Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by mrchumbastic »

stillforest wrote: post #89
fudged71 wrote: post #11

I think/hope the whole "home manager" category is going to take off soon. On a cost basis, it no longer makes sense--practically--not to use visual/text/audio intelligence to manage such a large asset. We just don't have the user-friendly mass-market interfaces for it just yet. It's possible to scan every manual, every insurance policy, ingest every local bylaw. It's possible to take a video of your home and transfor…

I’ve built https://manor.app with the intention of it fitting the “user-friendly mass-market interface” you suggest. It’s essentially a “second brain” app for your home(s), covering inventory, documents, tasks/reminders, notes, etc. The inspiration is tools like Asana, Linear, etc I used in my career as a software engineer, tailored for the home. It’s my sole area of focus, with more document retrieval and analysis (…

This might be a personal preference, but I think you should put the demo (either a gif, video, or the button) front and center on your landing page. I was about to leave until I saw the demo option at the bottom, then almost left again until I noticed the demo persona that I could test without a login. Once I got into the demo I was hooked. Clean design and intuitive UI that shows me everything I'd be looking for in this type of app.

So many landing pages just explain things with text then jump straight to a signup or pricing page, but what I want to know at a glance is what does your app do. Again, might be a personal preference and I don't know how well this fits with the "call to action" rules people normally have for landing pages, but I typically ignore any site that can't show me what it does before it asks me to give information.

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by piskov »

cpcloud wrote: post #173
piskov wrote: post #149

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Literally almost every frame of the gif on your landing page: title, type, project, etc.

Hard to balance the terminal font size, page styling, and desire to show something. I decided that truncation was better than sacrificing font size or spending eternity noodling on page styling. All ears if you've got any ideas.

Content is king. Are TUIs bad with multiline word-wrap?

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by oriettaxx »

cpcloud wrote: post #104
oriettaxx wrote: post #102

I want MiBoat ;)

mibarco, I dig it. Don't have a boat, but I can imagine they're a pile of dreams, shattered and otherwise.

a lot of smart brains: best are the DIY: a lot of smart solutions and willing to share

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by barbs »

cpcloud wrote: post #215
barbs wrote: post #163

The 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!

I mean...you could just not have it changing constantly? It seems pretty unnecessary.

Here's a screen recording from my phone: https://imgur.com/a/snw8qbc

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by cpcloud »

aitchnyu wrote: post #206
avarun wrote: post #148

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I guarantee that's an AI-written joke.

Did I miss the innovation in AI humor? I searched for AI written jokes and they all seem like Markhov chain output.

Is human-generated humor Markov chain output?

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by cpcloud »

pjc50 wrote: post #191
gleenn wrote: post #62

Someone has a sense of humor in the reviews section: "I’ve been using the demo data for three weeks. I don’t own a house. — Aspiring Homeowner"

While we're in the joke thread, I was expecting that "mi casa es su casa" was going to turn into "sudo fix my house" somewhere in the docs.

Pretty good. Might have to find a way to incorporate that.

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by cpcloud »

Onavo wrote: post #205
cpcloud wrote: post #145

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The business is strong with Maximo: "Optimize asset investments with AI insights to cut lifecycle costs, align budgets and achieve your goals smarter and faster". Optimizing with insights to cut lifecycle costs? Where do I sign up??

They are a todolist combined with a dependency tracker and a Cron job. E.g. you own an old school Japanese car with no fancy computers. You only have a paper manual. With something like Maximo, you can turn your maintenance into a DAG and routine stuff is tied to cron. Each Todo is called a "Work order". E.g. tire rotation every 10 000 miles, oil change every 15 000 air filter swap every 2 years. Each day after you f…

This is actually a pretty interesting idea, though I'm not sure how much yak shaving houses have (they definitely have some, but I think the DAG is not that deep) that tracking recurring dependency graphs is something I want to roll into micasa.

In any case, I rescind my sarcasm.

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by order-matters »

erader wrote: post #125
order-matters wrote: post #110

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how do you handle the LLM hallucinations in analysis? I like it for data extraction but i never trust it to analyze anything

First, I've spent a ton of time becoming opinionated about a normalized data model that supports the product experience I'm trying to build. This applies both to the extraction (line items, warranty sections, vendors, etc.) and the analysis portion. The latter is imperfect, but aligns philosophically with what I'm willing to stand behind. For example - building outputs for price fairness (based on publicly available…

i work in cost and pricing, and while i see the allure of AI helping out with it and I would love to be able to hand it over and work on other things, i feel like so much of this work involves things outside the sandbox.

Take price fairness, for example. i feel like the human part is core to this work. it ultimately all comes down to a test of reasonableness. A wide brush for costs is sometimes used because it keeps things trackable by the humans involved. An AI is able to generate an amount of work thats unreasonable to verify. At the end of the day, pricing is a negotiation not a logic puzzle.

If it does work though, i think it could open a huge door for Cost Plus Fixed Fee contracts which seem like the fairest contract type but often come with too much burden of paper work compared to the more popular firm fixed price option

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by efreak »

mfkp wrote: post #159
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #133

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Wait until I tell you about your water heater's sacrificial anode. NOBODY replaces those.

I got an electric one so I never need to remember to replace mine!

I think the electric ones need to be replaced eventually too, not not nearly as often.

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by mfkp »

efreak wrote: post #229
mfkp wrote: post #159

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I got an electric one so I never need to remember to replace mine!

I think the electric ones need to be replaced eventually too, not not nearly as often.

Yeah I think it's something like a 20+ year lifespan, I doubt I'll even be living in the same house in 20 years.
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