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Akcium

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I send random stuff about user interfaces here

https://user-interface.io

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Akcium··on Show HN: Pingr – Spent ~800 hours for a product with 170 competitors
Yeah, I think this is what stops everyone. You know why I put this price? Because I saw a competitor (successful competitor) who has 30$ for 15 monitors.

I think I'd increase monitors number, since it's better to have less paying customers for higher price.

Indeed

Thank you!!

Akcium··on Show HN: Pingr – Spent ~800 hours for a product with 170 competitors
I had a draft article for that, also I've posted an article about how therapy helped me to keep up.

But it didn't get much traction :(

However I'll post about it too, where and how I worked, even with photos!

Akcium··on Show HN: Pingr – Spent ~800 hours for a product with 170 competitors
thank you ! :)
Akcium··on Show HN: Pingr – Spent ~800 hours for a product with 170 competitors
Not much :( Didn't get much attention, but anyways

Thank you! :)

Akcium··on Show HN: Pingr – Spent ~800 hours for a product with 170 competitors
Thank you!
Akcium··on Show HN: Pingr – Spent ~800 hours for a product with 170 competitors
I'll be honest, more or less I have the same functions as others. Could't find something really unique.

Except, maybe, SIGNL4 integration.

In plans:

- Customize everything as much as I can. Like you'll decide which messages/texts to show in notifications and how the status pages should look

- Badges you can put on your site, like "I have 99.99% uptime". Haven't seen this

- Some folks asked for CSV reports of uptime/response time, will add it as well

- Performance monitoring & analysis

But yes, I know, it's in plans so right now not that much to shout about =\

Akcium··on Show HN: Pingr – Spent ~800 hours for a product with 170 competitors
Haha thank you, I was thinking about the title because there are so many posts on HN :)

Still plenty of things I want to improve and develop.

Really, is it me so slow, or it really takes so much time! At first I thought that "hey, make a request to a site isn't that hard, is it?" but I don't like about 800 hours developing this...

Akcium··on Therapy turned out to be my key to consistency as a solo founder
Solo founders also usually work at full-time job and gosh it's not easy to do so many things. So yeah, especially if you have family, credits etc.
Akcium··on Therapy turned out to be my key to consistency as a solo founder
Yep, check it out Wikipedia, gladly it has some information. But CBT has waaay much more information.

Though my doctor said that REBT was invented even earlier and it's still cognitive therapy as CBT. They have many things in common

Akcium··on Therapy turned out to be my key to consistency as a solo founder
Thank you :)
Akcium··on Therapy turned out to be my key to consistency as a solo founder
Yeah, well, especially if you spend much time.

Because at first you might have a lot of motivation but then it starts to diminish, especially if you don't see the results.

Or, if you launch and fail and you think like "I HAD TO SUCCEED!!". It will eventually lead to burnout or depression

Akcium··on Therapy turned out to be my key to consistency as a solo founder
REBT is kind of set of tools which you can apply during your life.

Like, if you feel like you have unhealthy emotions, depression or anxiety, you can apply them. If everything goes fine, then no need to apply them.

You'll need up to 10-20 sessions at first to understand the tools, then you can use them on your own.

I don't visit therapist but from time to time I use the techniques when I know that something's bad going on

Akcium··on Therapy turned out to be my key to consistency as a solo founder
I heard many times that psychoanalysis is very controversial and is not recommended.

Plus, in REBT it's enough to have like 10-20 sessions & few months of work, while in psychoanalysis you will have to visit your therapist for year or more.

Know nothing about gestalt.

I've only tried REBT & CBT :)

Akcium··on Why and How to Get the Most Out of Twitter
Right now trying to grow my followers number. Though it looks like people get used to retweet & like quite trivial posts like, "how to live properly: - eat well, - sleep 8 hours ..."
Akcium··on Ask HN: How to Avoid Writing in Jira?
I just leave a comment here saying that I hate JIRA :)

(Hopefully this comment will up your question and help a bit)

Akcium··on It's a good time to go back to MP3's
Somehow it reminded me of WinAmp
Akcium··on Everything in C Is a Pointer
Remembered old university days when I was learning C/C++. By that time I felt like a hacker.

Right now I'm making sites with HTML :)

Akcium··on System UIcons – icons designed for products, no attribution
I use noun project or flaticon. Though in order to get full advantage you got to pay. So yeah, I'm actually looking through tons of icons trying to find some with similar styling
Akcium··on Show HN: Slime Simulation
You should have tell in advance that there is a sound :D
Akcium··on System UIcons – icons designed for products, no attribution
Looks pretty neat

Though I'm always afraid of using icon sets (especially for a big product) because if I couldn't find an icon I need then sometimes it's not that easy to find this icon from another source with similar styling

Akcium··on Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening
Looks very realistic!
Akcium··on Show HN: Indie Hacker projects described in 50 characters or less
Even though it looks like 10words, still looks quite pretty :) I guess later on we will end up with 3 words, then 10 characters, then one picture :D
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