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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by xixixao »

xyzelement wrote: post #196

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

I agree that this is not a solved problem. I even reviewed all the GTD apps some time ago. None fit perfectly my understanding of GTD. This individual aspect might be a challenge for a product solution, but still worth trying imho.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lennont »

I’m working on a market validation web app to help founders and small business owners identify emerging trends and common DIY solutions/business ideas using Reddit data - and once the ideas are put into play, to identify, save and act on mentions and feedback to help iterate around their customers faster.

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Post by smk_ »

xyzelement wrote: post #196

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

I think this is much needed, I've spent half a decade switching between solutions, and I agree with the problems you listed. I have recently found two apps with new solutions, Slash and Serene. I have not had the chance to try them out thoroughly yet, but they show some promise. What I would prefer is an app that draws inspiration from Franklin's way of journaling.

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Post by rtkaratekid »

xyzelement wrote: post #196

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

Are you planning to publish or open source this? I might be interested in contributing or giving feedback!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by areoform »

highconfusing wrote: post #234

I'm building a quadruped robot a-la Boston Dynamics/MIT Cheetah. I'm not really happy with the state of legged robots in terms of affordability and performance. I've found there are two classes of robots; robots in the first sacrifice mobility for the sake of driving cost down, either limiting the legs to move in a single plane, or using lower cost, but extremely slow servo motors [1][2][3][4]. Robots in the second c…

Hola! I've got some work on this that I'd like to collaborate with you on, how can I reach out to you? Can you please attach an email or something here?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by burkaman »

xyzelement wrote: post #196

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

Have you tried https://www.beeminder.com/? It is more flexible than it appears at first, and you can easily use it on top of a traditional todo app (https://www.beeminder.com/todoist) or just a plaintext document (https://blog.beeminder.com/nebulous/).
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