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basilesamelon Show HN: Lessons Learned from Writing Every Day for a Year

Yes! You can't improve if you keep your writings to yourself :) Let the world help you.

basilesamelon I wrote and published one blog article a day for 365 days. AMA

sorry for the late reply :) I write here: https://200wordsaday.com/writers/BasileSamel

basilesamelon Show HN: Takeaways from Nonfiction Books

Co-maker here, ask us anything :)

basilesamelon Toward an Art of Software Development (essay)

If I ever manage to finish it :P So many volumes

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

Search feature coming up this week hopefully!

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

Thank you for taking the time to write this! I need more time to consider your points. One thing I am sure of though, is that this is a writing community, not a list of publications like the ones you can find on Medium. Empowering the writers matters more to me. The content is important obviously, but what I really want is for them to just write. Anything. And be seen/heard.

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

Thank you! Don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have any suggestion or improvement point to share. I would love to hear them!

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

Yes the private posts will be a thing very soon: https://trello.com/c/s0Hho8LS/30-later-an-user-should-be-abl...

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

This is not a problem at all! Your writings belong to you. Always.

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

This is nice Gunjan. Post your words in our community, we love to read those! Originally 200wordsaday is still about writing short articles daily. Writing a book is a personal goal of mine. The members have many different goals: just get better at writing, releasing their ideas for the world to read etc.

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

200 is still so hard for many people. I talked to users who tried the website and couldn't do more than a 1-day streak, they all say the same: I can't get into the habit / too much work / didn't plan it blablabla And I think this is the case for 80% people on earth. And I'm talking about english native speakers, non-native are even less likely to reach 200 words per day.

Anywasy, thanks for sharing your experience! I appreciate it.

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

Yes you are right. But isn't it nice as well to digress a bit sometimes :)? Still, a goal feature would be nice.

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

This is becoming my life work :D I work full-time on it!

I'm using Symfony 4 (PHP) and some basic JQuery. Nothing fancy but it allows me to ship faster as I'm starting to know it well. Here is an article I wrote detailing my stack: https://medium.com/@basilesamel/how-i-am-building-my-minimum...

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

This description fascinates me because of the iterative development analogy. Way up in my reading list, thanks again!

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

Some people PMed me about it. I think we are going to tag our posts with #publicbook and those will be drafts that will probably be integrated into our books.

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

This is intriguing. It reminds me of 750words.com as well. I think what I really want to show with the 200 words objective is that it is reachable by anyone. 1600 words per day is way too much for a regular worker who just started writing.

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

You are 100% right. The website is 3 weeks old and the "book editing" feature is not released yet.

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

Thank you! I'm trying to improve it daily so if you have any suggestion I would love to hear it.

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

This is awesome! Love those advices. I will consider them carefully while I'm doing this. Thank you so much!

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

I already have my home made app and it's called https://200wordsaday.com :P

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

3 weeks today lol MVP in two days, MLP in one week

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

Thank you! Exactly what I'm describing in the article: 200 words give you momentum. I end up with double this word count in average.

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

I'm 24 and this would be my first book. Let me learn my lessons. Thanks for the warning though!

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

Yeah. Do they publish comment books though?

basilesamelon Writing a book in public

Thanks for the insight!

basilesamelon We won the Product Hunt Makers Festival 2018: 2-week overview and thank-you note

Thanks! :D

basilesamelon Show HN: Ymappr – a todo app using mapped lists instead of regular lists

got it, sorry about that :) I wanted to release something to get feedback and didn't have time to make it responsive. Thanks for the remark

basilesamelon Show HN: Ymappr – a todo app using mapped lists instead of regular lists

got it, thanks :)

basilesamelon Show HN: Ymappr – a todo app using mapped lists instead of regular lists

thanks :) I'm going to rework the engine with SVG and a front-end framework to optimize that !

alright I'm pushing your request to the public roadmap : https://trello.com/c/vBnBcTPj/42-sync-feature

basilesamelon Show HN: Ymappr – a todo app using mapped lists instead of regular lists

- "an interactive, non permanent example on the front page, maybe you can even structure all your talking points within that"

This is good, I like this idea

- "why do lists branch off other lists and not items ?"

because I want to keep the UI minimal and this adds design complexity

- "Can I at least convert an item to a branched list ?"

not now, but yes is on my public todo list (ironically on trello for now : https://trello.com/b/mNeJCxNK/ymappr)

- "I have to admit to prefer nested lists instead of mind-maps"

it works for two or three levels of nesting :P after that, hard to visualize in a meaningful way in my opinion

- "My nested lists fail when a child has two parents, with mind maps this is not a problem"

again, I think it adds too much complexity to have a k-tree structure instead of a pure graph. Ideally I'd like something as minimal and simple as a Trello board, but without the boards :P

Anyways, thanks for the feedback, you gave me a lot to think about and I will think about how to integrate that in a clean way :)