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Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by NBJack »

caseyohara wrote: post #155
asdfman123 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The website states he's a "big fan of native apps." You shouldn't build software based on what you're a fan of. You should built it based on its usefulness to users. Very silly to limit the customer base so much to perfect something very tangential to the experience.

> You shouldn't build software based on what you're a fan of. Why not? For a solo/passion/hobby product like this, I'd argue you 100% absolutely should build it based on what you're a fan of. My experience is people like Dave who approach things with opinionated laser focus and solve a personal/niche need tend to build things with much higher quality and better experience because they essentially build it for themsel…

It's being sold, presumably for a profit, on a platform with a ~14% market share. Less if we count compatible devices based on OS version.

That is entirely the author's choice, but it isn't without consequence. For example, I have never heard of Panic despite owning a Mac myself.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by wasteduniverse »

azinman2 wrote: post #246

This looks exceptionally cool. Thank you for writing an excellent Mac app - forget the rest of the hate here. Do you think this would be appropriate for turning into a long form video? I’m imagining seeing videos of my boys growing and playing where I just periodically dump the camera and eventually sitch it as frames into a movie. Anyway to know when it’s about to write over itself in storage?

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Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by devwastaken »

Cool hardware. It's DOA because the software is Mac only. You're selling a product, so if you don't put the features of that product in the hands of consumers, they will not consume.

"Native apps" are proprietary junk. Make an electron app, flutter, or react app in a week for all platforms and your users will thank you for it.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by wilg »

azinman2 wrote: post #241
kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #230

I don't really understand why this has to be heavily marketed as Mac-only. As an open-source product, restricting the application to the most restricted of consumer operating systems (namely that any consumer hardware can run Linux or Windows, either bare metal or through a VM, whereas only Macs can easily run macOS) seems a bit sad. I had to read through the comments here to realize that as someone who doesn't own a…

What a weird bone to pick. You could say “would support for other platforms be on the horizon?” but instead you take it almost maliciously. This take is very compatible with what I’ve read about why people stop writing Linux commercial software: 95% of the support, 2% of the sales. If it’s open and you want to create Linux / windows support, just do that versus complain that the creator of a $200 small scale device h…

This is just a toxic attitude from Linux people you see on everything. They're always finding a way to be slighted by software not being made for their niche platform, as though it's trivial to support multiple platforms properly.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by conductr »

nusl wrote: post #226

“USB C, just like god intended” I like USB C more than A. Also quite like that this thing isn’t making itself available via wireless methods. Getting quite tired of every random thing having WiFi.

NGL, my favorite part of USB C is that the plug works both ways.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by hombre_fatal »

Zambyte wrote: post #249
azinman2 wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a weird bone to pick. You could say “would support for other platforms be on the horizon?” but instead you take it almost maliciously. This take is very compatible with what I’ve read about why people stop writing Linux commercial software: 95% of the support, 2% of the sales. If it’s open and you want to create Linux / windows support, just do that versus complain that the creator of a $200 small scale device h…

There is a pretty big gap between the narrative in the post here: "only supports macOS currently", and what the website says: "Exclusively for Mac" in a Just Girly Things cursive font. The latter makes it sound like they'd reject support if someone handed to them on a silver MR shaped platter.

It just sounds like they’re turning the single plat aspect into the selling point that it was built for the audience’s platform as opposed to some crappy multi-plat app.

I’d say that’s a good call for a $200 app. The HNers showing up here to announce that they closed the browser tab couldn’t run the app anyways lol.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by bufferoverflow »

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #7

so cool! For your next trick, how about a super long battery life MP3 player? A friend asked if I knew of an MP3 player that would be good for a two-week hike with no access to electricity, and it really seems like there's nothing out there beyond carrying around a bunch of batteries.

Just bring a power bank.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by LorenDB »

nottorp wrote: post #262
LorenDB wrote: post #30

Why not just use something like Qt to build a native cross platform app? As others have mentioned, advertising a device as open source and yet Mac only is going to turn away a lot of people.

Can he afford Qt? He'd need a lawyer on retainer.

If the app is opensource, Qt is 100% free under GPLv3.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by detaro »

LorenDB wrote: post #278
nottorp wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can he afford Qt? He'd need a lawyer on retainer.

If the app is opensource, Qt is 100% free under GPLv3.

Most of it is LGPL, so the app doesn't even need to be open-source and on desktop compliance is quite easy.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by nottorp »

detaro wrote: post #279
LorenDB wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the app is opensource, Qt is 100% free under GPLv3.

Most of it is LGPL, so the app doesn't even need to be open-source and on desktop compliance is quite easy.

Technically, you're correct.

I just don't like being threatened on their download page.

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