He writes that there is no login system and "It already knows exactly who’s using it."
Is there a way to get back a user ID from TestFlight?
An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
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Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#92This is why I feel really uneasy about LLM/AI stuff. It feels like cooking now requires commercial quality equipment only available to the Michelin star restaurants. It used to be possible like showHN posts go on to become smashing success. But Dropbox like posts seem like an impossibility now. I've been having serious mental crisis from this realization.
For me it's the opposite. Taking on a personal project like this one would be incredibly frustrating, because some relatively small steps would be huge time sinks. Now with LLM's, I am much faster, I just focus on the aspects I want or that I am good at.
Same for me. I just launched my first full stack side project (I'm a mobile dev by day.) I was always technically capable of it...but using LLM's I basically was able to skip the "how do I do X in node" steps and significantly speed up the backend side of things, while I still learned a ton in the process.
Now it feels like I have these incredible capabilities to apply LLMs in novel ways. I've had a personal project (an expense tracking app) where now I can see a path to easily do things like scanning receipts accurately, automatically categorizing CSV imports, etc. They were always within the realm of possibility - but would have taken so much more time to build as a one man shop. And we are just at the tip of the iceberg right now.
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#93My biggest sadness is wishing that it was easier and more accessible to build stuff like this on iOS. Making things and distributing to the App Store is an absolute nightmare. Of course that’s also what makes it so much better than almost every other App Store. But they still let trash in.
I’m not sure what the right balance is, and maybe this is the right balance.
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#94On a much smaller scale:
This was my exact sentiment some time ago after remapping a bunch of keys, along with "why didn’t I think of this sooner".
It still feels magical to this day and removes 90% of annoyances when typing.
Using standard keyboard layouts is like riding a toy sized tricycle now.
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#95Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tell us more about your project! Did you start it from scratch? Or did you use another opensource app as starting point and developed it further for yourself? What language is your app written in? Where do you run it? In CLI? or desktop GUI? The more you can share about it the merrier. I am sure others want to learn more about this too.
It's basically like the Google suite of apps or Next Cloud, I have the main app where you can manage your account, backups, etc, and it links to a bunch of other apps, each one living in a subdomain. The apps that already exists are: - Password manager - Finances - Contacts - Account (Backup, Restore, private keys, etc) - Authenticator (OTP, TOTP) - Email - Photos - Movies (2 parts, one is an IMDB like manager and th…
“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”
- Zawinski’s Law
:)
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
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Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#98This post significantly influenced me back when it was first on HN, and helped me articulate what I was already doing subconsciously. I started a homelab years ago like a lot of folks here, and slowly that’s changed to being a hobby of building and selfhosting applications for my “users” of 5-15 of my family and closest friends. I’ve written so many little apps for them (e.g movie night scheduler) and integrations in…
Ironically, this is a great way to build actual products (if you’re open to letting them grow).
Three years ago I created a simple app for my family and friends to share recipes together. I kept adding features they requested, and after about two years, the app was apparently good enough that people started sharing it by word of mouth.
By October, the app had grown big enough that I had to start charging new users to cover server costs. I’m now contemplating a future where I work on it full-time.
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It feels like cooking now requires commercial quality equipment only available to the Michelin star restaurants. Why does AI make you feel this way? It feels the opposite to me — like meals that formerly required a master chef to make, but soon anyone can make for themselves at an acceptable level of quality with meal prep kits
My feeling is that only big tech can now create any good apps since they all require massive compute now. Yes writing a todo list app is now faster with copilot and stuff but thats now what i meant.
Please don't be discouraged by whatever "Big Tech" is doing.
Products that we build today represent many millions of decisions and trade-offs.
If you believe something should exist, please build it and don't worry about what anyone else is doing or saying.
I was working on an application in the early 2000's and learned that Gigantic Inc. launched something to solve the same problem. I immediately bowed out, and they immediately let that first-launched beta languish for more than 10 years with less staff than we had.
In the intervening years, another startup built a similar competitor and sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.
As another example, I eventually worked at Gigantic Inc, and the org that I was part of had been failing to deliver a useful product to the public for about 7 years, and continued to fail for many more. This was an organization with hundreds of people and many hundreds of millions of dollars of budget, and they were being absolutely clobbered by a combination of their own unbelievable incompetence and the brutality of the market around them.
One of the biggest lessons I've learned in my career, is to never assume that just because Big Tech has some budget, that they also have attention or competence.
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#100I always wondered if there would be a market for smaller scale apps. I'm thinking something sold through an app "farmer's market". This could be a Patreon/Etsy style platform where maybe app devs would do streamed live coding or Q/A sessions every Saturday morning, ideally wearing denim overalls.