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Re: Software for One

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Post by [deleted] »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #54
jedbrooke wrote: post #50

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> A personal music player for Apple Music with an embedded agent loop, so I can say things like "I'm going to work in the wood shop, play woodworking-appropriate music and keep the playlist full and non-repeating indefinitely". how is AI (or a human for that matter) supposed to know what “woodworking-appropriate music is”? I had the same thoughts when spotify released their “let AI make a playlist for you”. Like, we…

Woodworking recommendations shall include: “If I Had a Hammer” “Sledgehammer”—Peter Gabriel Anything by The Carpenters Any works by Woody Guthrie Hymns about Jesus and St. Joseph Lumber Capital Log Yard Anything by Nine Inch Nails Anything by the Sandpipers “Turn, Turn, Turn” “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas Anything by Dusty Springfield Anything by MC Hammer Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, “Saw” horror franchise Any…

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Re: Software for One

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Post by rambleraptor »

Personal software has been my passion project for the past few months.

Part of my journey has been building out a platform for my apps to live on. Most web frameworks don’t have enough opinionated machinery built into them. You need user authentication, permissioning, MCP endpoints, database access, easy deployment. All of your apps could use this infrastructure and it’s what lets you focus on the actual fun stuff.

I’ve been working on [Homestead](myhomestead.dev) as my OSS solution to all of that.

Re: Software for One

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Post by mft_ »

mercutio2 wrote: post #40
fny wrote: post #2

This is such a romantic idea, but unfortunately Apple and Google are hostile to this model. Of the two, iOS is /worst/ for running vibe coded apps. You need to pay $99 a year to be an Apple developer if you want your app to live on your phone for more than a a week. Distribution is a also pain in the ass even for personal use alone (you can't just toss around an IPA). Finally, so many useful APIs are totally locked u…

You don't need to pay Apple $99. You can make perfectly good apps that run great with a free account. They expire in a week instead of 3 months (for TestFlight builds). That's it. You can redeploy with minimal effort. You have to reauth with Apple every ~30 days. The reauth is the only part of that you can't have a cron job run (you need to authenticate the keychain). For normie folks, the hoops here are mildly annoy…

> You can redeploy with minimal effort.

Can I ask what your workflow is for this "minimal effort"? Maybe I'm missing something, as I thought it would require manual faffing with laptop, Xcode, etc. every week?

(PS I've tried the two prominent sideloading approaches, but couldn't get either of them to work on my iPhone.)

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Post by Atreiden »

dhotson wrote: post #129
swiftcoder wrote: post #81

> sleep consultant I'm not sure I believe this is a real job. Do we really need to pay consultants to tell us that babies need naps?

Unrelated, but I highly recommend this short sci-fi-ish story by Robin Sloan :) https://www.robinsloan.com/stories/sleep-consultant/

Thanks for sharing, this was lovely

Re: Software for One

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Post by trane_project »

This is the only app I've built for myself: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-mirror-timer/id6760243207

It's basically an adaptive timer for remaining oneself to be mindful and aware throughout the day, which is a prerequisite for my main practice. When it rings, it asks you if you were mindful since the last timer and adapts the next interval based on your answer.

I've wanted to do this for a while, but a physical device is beyond my skills and I never wanted to bother to learn mobile development. So having the computer take care of all the nonsense was ideal. Very different experience using LLMs when you don't know the technology, but all the nonsense behind creating and publishing mobile apps did not inspire me to learn it.

Re: Software for One

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Post by tsylba »

yen223 wrote: post #131

I joked a while back that it was faster to vibe-code a white noise generator than to download a white-noise app. I've since tested that theory on the Google Play Store (iOS has one built in), and it was depressingly true. The slow part was trying to find an app that didn't waste your time with ads.

Tangential but I've recently discovered that an app I've written and published on F-Droid has been forked and put on Google Play with ads on by some Chinese forefront along side a lot of other open source apps without any mention of their GPL of course (and Google making it ridiculously difficult to take down thoses for normal folks, having to use a legally binding DMCA form).

Thoses marketplaces are filled with cheap softwares made to make a quick buck by any means without a thought for the whole user experience, with no way to flags grifters for a better community driven experience.

The economy must thrive I guess.

Re: Software for One

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Post by LtWorf »

camgunz wrote: post #169
LtWorf wrote: post #135

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Perhaps just say "here in northern jutland" next time?

No one knows where that is. I've also heard this is very common in the northern Scandinavian countries, there are even little "houses" you can buy.

> No one knows where that is.

Why not just say "europe" directly then? Everybody knows about that, and you don't seem concerned with correctness anyway.

Re: Software for One

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Post by LtWorf »

ymolodtsov wrote: post #82
LtWorf wrote: post #79

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wait for the hackers to find it

Find out what? These apps are as protected as they could be. Always could be a zero-day or a package vulnerability but that's the same for everyone.

Every single person with no experience thinks that.

Re: Software for One

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Post by spot5010 »

tptacek wrote: post #152
spot5010 wrote: post #134

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As a new father, just using so many apps sounds exhausting, let alone building and maintaining them. I would have been very excited about these maybe 10-15 years ago. Now I just want the ability to do things with my phone when my hands are tied up holding the baby.

That's an odd response, because fundamentally all I'm doing is making my computer work the way I want it to. It's the opposite of exhausting to me.

Nothing against what you are doing. That’s awesome and exactly the kind of thing I would nerd out about. I was just commenting on my current state of not having the mental bandwidth to do these things.

Re: Software for One

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Post by spot5010 »

mynegation wrote: post #146
spot5010 wrote: post #134

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As a new father, just using so many apps sounds exhausting, let alone building and maintaining them. I would have been very excited about these maybe 10-15 years ago. Now I just want the ability to do things with my phone when my hands are tied up holding the baby.

Tell me about it. Holding a 4mo old right now, nap trapped :-) Speaking of which - Claude Code wrote me a web proxy for HN that rewrites CSS for the dark mode - precisely for this situation. Written and deployed with Claude Code remote control too, also while nap trapped.

Wow okay I need to try this out.
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