What a great idea. I'd suggest enlarging your appeal though by branding it as a sort of log. People could track projects, write what they've learned about a particular skill etc. rather than focusing on journals only.
Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
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Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#32To piggyback off of the idea to journal in 2017:
I built http://write.surge.sh a few weeks ago and have been using it to keep my own journal and have been successful (unlike the last few times I tried).
It's mainly worked because:
- it's duration-bound (every journalling session I do is 15 minutes only, you can set a different duration)
- inactivity within that duration erases your work so I have to keep writing for the whole session.
I was going to post it on Show HN but I'd love people in this thread's feedback on it as well. Source code is also on GitHub: https://github.com/krrishd/write
EDIT: also worth noting based on some criticisms of existing stuff in this thread, everything is locally stored and exportable/importable as JSON, the app is completely client-side.
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#33Love this idea, just signed up for this, but I'm getting a relay error on sending emails to jerk@journaljerk.com or reply@journaljerk.com... So effectively I can't write anything
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#34Reminds me of the rich jerk in terms of selling style
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#35Can this be automated as a script such that if I forget a day, the computer will automatically write something like "walked the dog, was nice"?
With the success of things like recurrent neural networks for text generation, an entirely computer-generated journal would be interesting in itself.
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#36You don't display any details at all about the final product. Always refer to it as a "beautiful journal" but fail to picture anywhere. If anyone was even interested in the premise in the end they want the deliverable... So show it.
Hi CaveTech, Great point with a simple answer. I don't have any print samples yet. Turns out the Printing On Demand companies I was working with enjoy taking of several weeks on either side of Christmas. I'm pretty miffed about this myself, frankly. To further put your mind at ease, I have extensive experience working with printing-on-demand and dropshipping services. I've built out complete pipeline integrations wit…
This is a very creative approach for to charge monies first and give discount on application usages..
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#37You don't display any details at all about the final product. Always refer to it as a "beautiful journal" but fail to picture anywhere. If anyone was even interested in the premise in the end they want the deliverable... So show it.
Hi CaveTech, Great point with a simple answer. I don't have any print samples yet. Turns out the Printing On Demand companies I was working with enjoy taking of several weeks on either side of Christmas. I'm pretty miffed about this myself, frankly. To further put your mind at ease, I have extensive experience working with printing-on-demand and dropshipping services. I've built out complete pipeline integrations wit…
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Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#38I probably won't use this because a) privacy (not your end, but mine! I use gmail for this sort of thing and they don't need to know my secrets) b) I don't struggle to journal
HOWEVER I really like the idea of the halving fees, and replying by email makes life so easy. Best of luck with it.