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Re: Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You guys never stay after hours and print crazy LEDs just for personal projects? C'mon now.

We would, had we not needed 10-ish other machines to complete the process. Our machine only does the 'difficult' part (lithography), not all the nasty chemistry parts. Admittedly, this means that my description of what the machine does was cutting some corners. Ridiculously many, actually, but ok :)

You build a Z axis with angstrom steps?

...I cannot begin to imagine what's involved in vibration control.

Re: Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

#114

I've built a site that's like Goodreads but for video games ( http://www.grouvee.com ). It lets users catalog, rate, and share their video game collections. I'm on it every day almost because I play a lot of video games, and I love looking through people's reviews and collections.

Great idea, but I wish it had retro games as well. Retro gamers are the most likely group to really want to catalog everything.

Re: Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

#115

I work on a platform aimed at large non-profits that integrates online donations, advocacy, and various social features with Salesforce. I'm not running an enterprise level non-profit so not real sure what I'd use it for personally.

Any way to contact you? I work with clients in this space and I'm always looking for better software to help our NGO clients.

Re: Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

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Yea, I use my latest side project which is an OS X menu bar app that blocks distracting websites (like HN): http://www.heyfocus.com/ I don't think it's a "need" but I do enjoy using it and built it because it's something I wanted. If you're interested I just did a write-up on it http://bradjasper.com/focus.html and open-sourced it http://github.com/bradjasper/focus My goal lately is to try and find stuff that I like…

I guess it's not working then :)

By the way - it looks really nice. I'd use it if I weren't on Arch Linux.

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