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Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by taphangum »

600frogs wrote: post #117
taphangum wrote: post #21

https://planflow.dev - The easiest way to PLAN your website or mobile app. It tries to make planning a website or mobile app as close as possible to the pen and paper experience. It does this in a simple but (from my, and the experience of those who have tested it out) very effective and engaging way. I share a bit more about how this is done here: https://simpleprogrammer.com/information-architecture-develo... .

FYI - the landing page tells me nothing about what it is you're selling, and "Why PlanFlow" leads to "Access Denied". I don't want to give away my email if I've no idea what it is I'm signing up for. Plus some bugs you might want to be aware of - the "Coming Soon" floating labels are pretty off-centre on the links, and the hamburger menu when the browser is in portrait is nearly unusable and splits the "Sign Up - Fre…

Thanks man. Yes, we've had some issues on Safari for a while now (seems like its the new Internet Explorer :)). I'll take a look at this.

The site in general is in 'under construction' mode right now, so rest assured these issues will all be resolved by launch. We're just dedicating all of our energy towards the first version right now, so have not polished everything.

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by eivarv »

https://cleave.app

Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level.

Started because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources. Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by webmaven »

chdaniel wrote: post #60
ycm2007 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, I think there's a lot we could improve in the way we do things. You're talking about an automatic pricing tool that learns the market through time and region and automatically seeks optimal price points?... Some kind of drop in library tool a few lines of code thing would be awesome! Also if you're making me more money, I'd be willing to share a percentage with you considering I may not have had that mon…

Wow thanks that helps a lot! Not really automatic price-setting, at least not by default! I would personally like to have control over the knobs in my product. It would give you a dashboard where A) You would be able to set the prices manually (with suggestions, of course, and with taking into account things like extra Stripe fees, rounded estimations so you don't wound up with £28.837 in the UK). You'd set them manu…

So, essentially, you're building an A/B testing tool specifically for pricing?

Thea complexity you've alluded to in your various descriptions start to get really hairy once you scratch the surface, for example:

You mentioned trading off lower prices for more users. Whether the tradeoff is worth it depends not just on the difference in income, but on the marginal cost of serving another user (which itself may be variable).

You mentioned more users leading to more WOM. That is a huge assumption, you have to actually measure your viral coefficient (which might actually change with different prices) to know whether that hypothetical WOM actually leads to more users.

You may need to optimize for cash flow instead of just income. As one example, you could try a higher monthly price combined with a larger discount (two months free instead of one) for paying up front for a year. That may lower the total number of signups but a greater % pay for a year, improving your cashflow (and with fewer signups, you may have better profit margins on a similar income).

You can add an additional expensive plan to act as an 'anchor' that no-one ever picks but makes the regular plan seem like a better deal.

There are so many ways to adjust pricing, and every part of your conversion funnel (and business model) may be affected, sometimes with counterintuitive results. Figuring out what some change to your pricing plans is really doing for (or to) your business can be really hard. Instrumenting your funnel and business model so you can actually see what a pricing change would really do to the businesses finances over time would be extremely useful.

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by webmaven »

ngokevin wrote: post #44
high_byte wrote: post #36

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Cool. I've fiddled with A-Frame and I've seen supermedium before. cool stuff. Why do you focus on couples though? I love the concept of partnering together but I don't think you should limit your audience.

Awesome! I'm just starting with a clear niche and solving my own problems. Where many of my friends and myself are in bilingual relationships that have been trying to learn our partner's languages. In the US, 15% of new marriages are multi-ethnic, so that's pretty large already. I think people are surprised how common it is. And it easily pique's people's interests who are in the situation versus another generic lang…

I like the idea of learning a language with a spouse or partner, how about the usecase where neither person is a native speaker of the language being learned?

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by webmaven »

nunorbatista wrote: post #161

I'm developing a knowledge graph for Marketing case studies and examples. I work in the Digital Marketing field and every time I want to take a look at what other brands are doing is always a mess to find good examples. The idea is to have everything in one central place where you can check for brands by industry and region and then learn how they are approaching a topic i.e. e-commerce for EU companies in China, soc…

> I'm developing a knowledge graph for Marketing case studies and examples.

Can you expand on the 'knowledge graph' aspect? Are you using Semantic Web standards as your foundation?

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by webmaven »

FrenchyJiby wrote: post #157

qrxfil: file exfiltration across airgaps using QR codes. https://github.com/OverkillGuy/qrxfil Splits files across multiple QR codes for “sending” across air-gapped computer systems. Generates numbered PNG files to scan. The codes contain metadata about chunk number (e.g. “007 of 078”) to enable out-of-order scanning. It's a fun way to learn Rust, and a great trick to get terrified looks from security folks.

> qrxfil: file exfiltration across airgaps using QR codes.

I'm a little confused about the scenario here, how are you getting qrxfil onto the airgapped system, and why doesn't that method allow data egress?

For example, using ultrasonic audio as a channel allows you (once installed on the target system via a usb device) to invisibly exfil files to devices with no line of sight to the airgapped system.

Another method can steganographicly encode files into benign-seeming printed documents.

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Post by Jeremy1026 »

tjchear wrote: post #189
Jeremy1026 wrote: post #184

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That looks pretty interesting, do you have any examples of what a published page looks like/acts like better than the thumbnails?

If you click on the thumbnails it'll link you to the generated page!

Ah thanks! These are really cool. Nice work.
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