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Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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I have been working with a couple of friends on something like this for the last couple of weeks as a fun/side open source project. It sucks when you see that there is no point on working on anything because it is or will already be made by someone else. I guess we will carry on just for the sake of doing it, learning and having fun. Any advice on how to deal with this constant struggle with my motivation? By the way…

A pre-cursor was launched almost 8 months ago [1] but perhaps you missed it. I can imagine looking at such a refined design and feeling like you can't measure up. But if you are really passionate about whatever your are developing, you'll find a niche. Moreover there's always room for more than 1 player and competition is good to shape up the landscape for everybody. If you share your open source project, you might g…

Yes I missed it, thanks for the link. In any case we are very far from being able to compete ha! We all have our day jobs and it is hard to find time to build our thing. However, I hope one day we can post here a link to a working version no matter how simple it is ;)

Regarding the opensource aspect, we are already working on Github but it is too early and hacky to be shown to other people.

Thanks for your answer!

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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post #17

502 bad gateway :( That said, I would pay money for a license to run a personal instance of this. The data aggregation you need to make it work would be much less scary that way.

Yes, I don't know why all this data has to be stored in the "cloud" and can't be stored locally. That way if you really want "the cloud" you could just use Dropbox or Google Drive or any of the other billion cloud storage services out there.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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post #57

It's crazy to see how far @aprilzero has come with this. Actually bringing his idea to life, and turning it into a profitable business. There's a lesson to be learnt here in regards to working passionately and finishing your side-projects. Designers who can engineer are a step ahead of everyone else IMO.

Is it profitable?

Apparently. They have paying customers.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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I really hate it when websites override Safari's scrollbar and substitute a 5px one that may fit the theme of the site, but is virtually impossible to grab because its hotspot is only a tiny bit larger than the edge of the window.

Can you actually grab it at all? I'm under the impression these kinds of designs are built for the Macbook monoculture and assume you scroll using a touchpad gesture.

Barely. I have to try a few times.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it profitable?

Apparently. They have paying customers.

They have 133 customers paying $7/mo. I don't think that's quite enough to be profitable after paying for taxes, web services, and the team's salary; I'd be surprised if it could cover everything. It's a nice start, though!
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