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I assume you want feedback - onboarding for this was very long (the quiz) and it wasn't clear why I was answering these questions.

Yes, to build a radar graph. But why not be a beginner, working professional, and a parent? How do I pick only one thing that I do after 9 pm?

Your onboarding is complicated when your app's premise is just do simple things, but halfway through onboarding, I've lost confidence in the path you are charting.

I'd love to see more - I've been thinking about this a lot as a way to go from from vibe to viable - look at NFRs, etc.

Do introductions of key concepts and explain what real scalability ladders look like and how to guide an AI to build it.

I'd be interested to be a beta user when you get ready to share.

Cute idea! It doesn't snow here, so I don't know how the business of snow clearing works, but I would be curious if this could be used by an HOA for residential clearing too.

But why? (not meant to be rude). why would I want to use this gpu library versus what is out there already? I don't understand the value of it.

I'm on paternity leave and I've been returning to a host of LLM driven projects;

They are all for me, with a small interest in commercializing some of them as a hustle.

Project: a local version of Claude Co-work for document organization, one of my original projects that I wanted from back in 2024, so it could help me find everything on my hard drive and turn it into a knowledge graph/mind map without sending everything over the cloud. Bonus for removing duplicates/disk cleanup.

Project: Memoria - an SMS based daily journal - my first platform! security, interoperability, yay! This started out as something for my wife to make notes on the kids milestones with an SMS reminder, but then I have ADHD type memory issues and wanted a voice based journaling system so that I could just narrate about my day and have an AI clean it up. At the end of the week it makes a little email with photos, etc for a week in review. Next step is a big lift if I want to format everything to be put into "baby books" because of the print publishing workflows.

Project: Curio - based on the platform above - helping to declutter based on capturing the sentiment of an object. My ADHD means that my memory is trigger based, and if you toss the thing, I lose the memory. I'm trying to find a way to get rid of things without losing my memory that comes from holding it in my hand.

Project: Deep Signal - an AI driven daily podcast that gathers AI papers and news based on my interests, then transforms that into a 15 minutes daily news segment. Started out on Google's platform, now just using Kotoro and Gemma 4.

Project: Book Explorer - like Sparknotes for non-fiction. Pushes everything into an ontology for non-fiction so that it can summarize it and make it very easy for me to "skim" books that I otherwise don't have time to read. Also helps me to deep dive into particular areas. This is probably one of my most frequently used tools.

Project: Meeting Notes - Before Granola existed, this was a local granola clone that used whisper. Only later did I find that the real gap in making this work seamlessly without the janky MIDI Audio Capture was that if it was a "signed" app it got access to much better resources.

Project: Hunch - a new type of trivia app that is based on bias and a "sense" of what is true. Made so we could play trivia across multiple education levels and generations with everyone still having fun. Still in development.

Project: Drucker MCP - using an MCP to inject prompts from a custom "library" so that I could steer a big model towards as multiple opinionated experts. Meant for business / entrepreneurs - I want to think like Peter Drucker, Alex Osteralder, Rogers, Scott Anthony. This one is the one that I hope can "make a dent in the universe" because I could make it freely available as an MCP and it can help micro-entrepreneurs in the Global South.

Project: personal finance app. keeping it local.

I suppose to get the triple crown, I need to make a work out app so I have "journaling", "fitness", and "personal finance." Or could be a to-do app. lol

Heck, most of these are still in development - but the Audio Capture was abandoned for freeware.

Imagine the reverse. A butcher buys a Linux computer and tries to become a programmer in a week. Struggles with getting nested loops to work, so quits.

Not saying you should be a butcher, but a week and no training is a difficult approach.

That was a lot of fun actually. I used one block to wreck all the others. Thanks for sharing.

have you figured out a good tool flow for going from music to transcription?

I've used ai.splitter to generate stems, but need to go and identify tones and notes before plotting on to a sheet of music. I'm looking at doing this as a beginning cello student.

From their GitHub:

“ What does n8n mean?

Short answer: It means "nodemation" and is pronounced as n-eight-n.

Long answer: "I get that question quite often (more often than I expected) so I decided it is probably best to answer it here. While looking for a good name for the project with a free domain I realized very quickly that all the good ones I could think of were already taken. So, in the end, I chose nodemation. 'node-' in the sense that it uses a Node-View and that it uses Node.js and '-mation' for 'automation' which is what the project is supposed to help with. However, I did not like how long the name was and I could not imagine writing something that long every time in the CLI. That is when I then ended up on 'n8n'." - Jan Oberhauser, Founder and CEO, n8n.io”

As long as you remember to pay yourselves too!

I don't think this has to do with Covid or WFH. It is more likely that Apple is focused on showing huge profit margins, at the expense of hiring qualified staff, due to a quarter by quarter focus, in a mature market. When one person leaves, they don't get backfilled. You can hide a lot of sins with the aggressive push from marketing and focusing on hardware performance. How do you measure software experience? How do you brag about it?