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dharness··on [dead]
It would be great to get something from the product before signing up. How about a list of available people I can bid on? Or a shortlist of noteworthy ones?
dharness··on What This Country Needs Is an 18¢ Piece [pdf]
*Also we have loonies and toonies
dharness··on Open Source Datasets
I came to the comments to say exactly that... What is up with that weird floating hamburger search bar?
dharness··on Show HN: Top HN articles in human-read podcast format
Seems like everyone here, even me, has had this idea -- but to my knowledge you are the only one to do it, so props for that!

The person doing the reading has kind of a funny way of reading it no? Bit of an accent, odd emphasis, lack of emotion, robotic style.

My opinion is that I won't use it with this narrator, but with a better, more practiced english orator I would.

dharness··on Show HN: I made my first product demo video
Congrats! I know how much work this whole process is when you have never done it before. I'd recommend looking into doing your animations manually rather than a screen recording to get rid of the magnifying glass "finger" thing
dharness··on Show HN: Android Texts on Mac
I can see the bottom of the second logo for the "on-scroll" nav bar sticking out:

https://puu.sh/wciZp/9888df7a55.png

dharness··on Show HN: StockNerd – A community for index fund investors
There's basically no chance I'm going to download an iOS app for this, and I'm not super sure why it isn't just a web page..

But the landing is nice! (except I really wish this was an svg https://www.stocknerd.com/assets/img/logo.png)

dharness··on Show HN: Ora.pm – New task management service
Nice art work

I find that swooping sound in the kanban board kind of weird. And when i drag a card it kind of, disappears for a second then appears in the new column?

dharness··on Ask HN: Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?
I think that this is a great exercise - especially if you are in it to dabble.

Making a SaaS app requires a lot of creative effort in design, scope, pricing, etc. By copying something that exists you can greatly reduce the cost of design by copying layouts and UX decisions, and focus on learning and coding.

In terms of making money, possibly, a little, but I wouldn't count on it for any substantial income and if you made zero dollars I would not be shocked. It is very difficult to say without knowing the product specifically. I am certain some markets are just begging for a rock bottom pricing clone.

dharness··on Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
Beautifully clean, and simple! I've had my eye out for something like this, and I really do feel the other solutions are too big and clunky.

That said, I think the font is clutery.

The intro user flow is atypical and disruptive. I think it should start on this https://puu.sh/vy4pd/776dde20a8.png screen instead of inside a project. Then once inside maybe a little walkthrough or some guides?

Lastly I think the weird labels (Arps, counterpoint, melodic) on the left hand side are unintuitive for a novice. Also the addition of alt+drag to duplicate would be really nice ;)

But all in all, would use!

dharness··on Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
I drink beer and watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
dharness··on Show HN: Bookbinder – Create beautiful eBooks within minutes
I'm on Windows 10, Chrome if that helps :)
dharness··on Show HN: The 8 hour diet web app
I know a lot of people who do a 6 hour diet. How about:

theNhour.diet/?N=8 theNhour.diet/?N=6

dharness··on Show HN: Bookbinder – Create beautiful eBooks within minutes
I wish that the screenshots had the ability to click one, while open, and go to the next. Or, possibly little left right arrows. I only looked at 1 and then scrammed.
dharness··on Textbook manifesto (2016)
While I agree with the content of this in general, I find books to be burdensome and would not like a course centered around them. I think a series of well crafted video lectures are a better medium for some people, myself included.

I also find that I can learn everything I need to in my Software Engineering program via a series of pointed google searches much quicker than reading a text. Most courses have 1 or more $100 books which are "required" but I haven't bought them in years.

What I /would/ like, is sample problems with solutions ;)

dharness··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Looks really nice but, Youch - the pricing seems kind of steep.

I'm not sure what a participant is, since it only appears in the pricing and nowhere else on the page - but if it is a new user (new signup) then 200 seems a bit large for a hobbyist.

I'd consider a tiny $10 - 20/mo one, sans "Assisted onboarding"

dharness··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
This is beautifully thorough. I can't say I'd purchase items based on their appearance in TV shows. But, the idea of a catalogue of the items and the time it must take to create this is beautiful in an artistic way to me.
dharness··on Show HN: Tenence – Making Renting Easier
I also have left basically not knowing what your company does because of that scroll-diddling
dharness··on Ask HN: Why does GitHub have a black bar?
The designers at github must be going through some pretty dour times...
dharness··on Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015)
Basically the only I read this is because it was funny... I happened to accidentally learn a thing or 2 but that wasn't my intention. Please, humor it up!
dharness··on Koto.js – A D3 charting framework written in ES6
I'm super surprised there isn't a big chart front and centre on that site! or.. really anywhere on that site.

Nice site though, don't get me wrong

dharness··on Grateful Dead Fan Timothy Tyler Has Been Granted Clemency
I'm not sure where this title came from - this article seems to indicate there has been no clemency?
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