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Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by jrmg »

0x3f wrote: post #17
ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

If you don't want your name, address, phone number on public display you need to either set up a company or set up some forwarding. If you set up a company, you'll need to get a DUNS number. If you haven't done it before and don't know about the secret shortcut way to do that, it is very annoying to get one. Anyway, I don't see a problem with getting it out the door. People can just choose not to install it if they d…

don't want your name, address, phone number on public display

Where are these displayed?

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by michaelmior »

vyaa wrote: post #28
0x3f wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't want your name, address, phone number on public display you need to either set up a company or set up some forwarding. If you set up a company, you'll need to get a DUNS number. If you haven't done it before and don't know about the secret shortcut way to do that, it is very annoying to get one. Anyway, I don't see a problem with getting it out the door. People can just choose not to install it if they d…

Secret shortcut?!?

This article[0] provides some details. Basically if you go through the lookup process on Apple's website and you don't have an existing D-U-N-S number, you can request one from D&B for free via Apple.

[0] https://support.pushpay.com/s/article/Acquire-your-D-U-N-S-n...

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by lukifer »

Cool! Disappointing there's so much focus on the non-sandboxing, I think it's a reasonable trade-off to release early, and follow up with signing later.

- Website looks great overall, but the fixed and overlaid header title is awkward and hurts readability for not much benefit.

- Battery Health on my M3 Max MBP reads as "1%", when System Report shows Condition: Normal, Maximum Capacity: 100%. What is this reading from?

- Handy password generator is great; any chance of an option for "correct horse" [0] style passwords? I find these are preferable for reasonably secure passwords which can still be remembered or hand-typed as needed.

Looking forward to seeing how the app evolves!

[0] https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by marci »

jrmg wrote: post #61
0x3f wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't want your name, address, phone number on public display you need to either set up a company or set up some forwarding. If you set up a company, you'll need to get a DUNS number. If you haven't done it before and don't know about the secret shortcut way to do that, it is very annoying to get one. Anyway, I don't see a problem with getting it out the door. People can just choose not to install it if they d…

don't want your name, address, phone number on public display Where are these displayed?

when you sign an app with your personal dev account.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by andersonpico »

virajk_31 wrote: post #21
nehal3m wrote: post #6

Hmm, green account, no comments or submissions, generated website for an unsigned app with power user features. That’s a no from me dawg.

That should not be a problem. I also used to just skim through posts and comments here without really interacting.

and if you published software here it would also be suspicious

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by coffeecantcode »

0x3f wrote: post #17
ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

If you don't want your name, address, phone number on public display you need to either set up a company or set up some forwarding. If you set up a company, you'll need to get a DUNS number. If you haven't done it before and don't know about the secret shortcut way to do that, it is very annoying to get one. Anyway, I don't see a problem with getting it out the door. People can just choose not to install it if they d…

Still unbelievable that they require a DUNS number and not a simple EIN, that fact alone set our app launch back weeks.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by g947o »

karimf wrote: post #54
ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

Totally agree. There are significantly more new apps being released. I've been visiting the /r/macapps subreddit and they're having trouble filtering new submissions. I generally like the direction that they're taking https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ryaeex/rmacapps_m... Even though it's more troublesome to submit apps to App Store, it's one signal that the app is not a malware.

Wow, this subreddit looks like the apocalypse of vibe coded projects/apps. Kind of similar to what happened to "show HN". Too many ideas, not enough problems to solve, and likely bad implementations. The result is that nobody uses any of the apps.

In AI conversations, people often forget that at the end of a day, an actual human needs to use your stuff.

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