> 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?
Software for One
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#82Same thoughts here. About four years ago I started building an RSS reader that was supposed to use an algorithm. The problem is, I didn't code in years and wasn't familiar with the modern web stack. I had to drop it, although was still able to sell the domain I got for $500 (nice). And then, with Codex and Claude, I finally built it this year and enjoy it every day, along with 30 other strangers, since I made it publ…
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.
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#83Agree with the general spirit of the piece, but the examples that he gave create more problem than solving problems. > A fitness app that sizes my smoothie to that morning's run I don't feel I need more than the phone's calculator app for this particular problem. Other examples could be solved by the Notes app, I feel. I deliberately avoid creating new "apps", and make do with existing apps and solutions and create w…
To me it just sounds like we need an even higher level language for these sort of 'software for one' apps. There is still tons of boilerplate. Declarative is king.
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#84This 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 every week
No thank you
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#85> 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?
No, it’s a plague on anxious, over-optimised middle class parents.
The idea that someone can send over a schedule in advance is pure voodoo. Much like huckleberry, the ml app that makes new parents insane over wake windows.
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#86> 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?
To me it sounded like they're paying someone to plan not only their kids' naps but also their own AND spend their spare time writing an app to help keep up with the recommended nap schedule. Just take a fucking nap, maybe after going outside for a walk in the park.
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#87honestly happy for him, but i wish he would have written the article before posting it
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Every so often, you get a glimpse into a whole world you never knew existed. I had no idea that people did this. This sounds expensive. Just like other people have no idea that we (Scandinavia) let babies sleep outside in a baby carriage wrapped in a tiny sleeping bag. Fresh air is awesome. Cold air is even better. This works for some babies and is not universal in any way.
I've been living in scandinavia for several years and I've never seen this happen in person. Just on reddit and now here. I kinda doubt it's something widespread.
Around here (Northern Jutland, Danmark) this is the norm.
But do doubt away. :)
Please see the official guidelines: https://www.sst.dk/vidensbase/graviditet-og-smaaboern/barnet...
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
This person seems insane. You don’t need to pay a “sleep consultant” to make a plan for your child’s nap times. It’s really not that complicated.
If you want to optimise and have the money to spare, I think it's fine. There are going to be people in the world that are better than you at most given tasks, and if working on those tasks is not fun for you and delegation is not a net negative, why not? It's why personal trainers exist (though I don't like them for separate reasons)
Its clearly a net negative, though, because missing a nap is now causing tremendous anxiety to the point where they'd rather spend a week chatting with Claude to build an app which handles the consequences of missed naps than just spending some time with their infant, maybe reading to them so they fall asleep.
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#90Genuine question: how will this "software for one" outlive its creator? I realize that if it were truly intended for just one user, it wouldn't matter, but in this specific case, the software is used by family members, so...
The "one" in "for one" likely is the creator, so it really doesn't need to.