An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
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An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
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Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#2Your writeup, the idea of the app, and how you executed it is a breath of fresh air. The idea of building for a TAM (total addressable market) that is in single digits is a nice contrast to pretty much everything that's out there. Such an app is one step higher than a learning project, with oodles of utility, albeit for one or a few people. But those are the most important people in your life, so its much more fulfilling!
Comparing it to cooking a meal at home for your family is a perfect analogy.
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#3Is this iPhone? How did you distribute said app?
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#4Is this iPhone? How did you distribute said app?
In the text it says: "I distributed the app to my family using TestFlight, and in TestFlight it shall remain forever: a cozy, eternal beta."
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#5Is this iPhone? How did you distribute said app?
TestFlight is mention in the article so I guess yes, iPhone.
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#6This 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 into our group chat for whatever someone can think of. It’s really blossomed into something that has made us all talk and hang out so much more.
Even distant friend groups that don’t know each other have now met in person (without me!) and gone to baby showers, weddings, etc.
If anyone has a group of friends like that, consider making something for them!
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#7> When you liberate programming from the requirement to be professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen.
What if you have never cooked at home but all the time in a commercial kitchen? That's the reality for most of us here so it is a bit difficult to relate to this article.
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#8I’ve been wanting to make something along this spirit.
A personal social network. No influencers. No ads.
It rides on existing messaging rails (email, SMS, IM…) for distribution.
You just post stuff to your feed, and your contacts get a notification when appropriate.
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#9> When you liberate programming from the requirement to be professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen. What if you have never cooked at home but all the time in a commercial kitchen? That's the reality for most of us here so it is a bit difficult to relate to this article.
I think you are incorrectly extrapolating to the entire community based on your personal experience. You are assuming that most of the readers at this site are working in a similar professional context that you do. You are also assuming, but all of those people who work in a professional context, do not also “cook at home.”
It’s OK if you did not relate to the article. But I certainly did!
Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#10This is an amazingly refreshing view of programming. I am envious of anyone who can apply first hand their programming skills to the world around them. I can program, but real life and programming just seem to occupy entirely different realms of my brain, unable to cross over.