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idk, i’ve spent six figures on meta ads in the last few months and gotten tons of real users for my app. how is that a con?

pro tip: do not try this on a microwave you want to keep. if you are successful you will likely cause a fire in your microwave. (it is fun, though).

congrats to you and the team!

congrats garry! huge news!

As a counterpoint, this essay resonated with me very deeply, and I earn a low salary for an engineer in NYC.

We do fine as a family and have to make compromises I couldn’t have imagined making prior to having kids, but it’s totally worth it.

This type of experience isn’t universal but doesn’t require massive wealth.

This is a _really_ good point! I'm trying to find some data on this right now... might have to dig through e.g. Apple's previous phone releases to see trends over time.

Cofounder of Chartable here, happy to answer any questions.

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Hi HN, we wrote this post after the great response to Hacker Daily two weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16850689). Happy to answer any questions you might have. Thanks!

Never heard of it, but looks interesting - thanks for sharing. I probably should've been more clear that after decades of curating my MP3 collection, I've moved towards streaming and rarely dig deep into my library for the ripped tracks that aren't available to stream.

I agree that I should've framed my post better and I appreciate that feedback.

I do understand that iTunes is dealing with a long history of development, and that it has to support lots of use cases that probably explain a lot of the rough edges — I even allude to that in my post.

It's amazing that I can still use my decade-old iPod Shuffle with iTunes at all -- that must be a lot of work. But so much has changed since then, and iTunes as an Apple Music client is a genuinely frustrating experience.

I don't expect software to be perfect. But I want iTunes to be better than it is. I'm paying $10/mo for Apple Music, which actually has an incredible library and editorial playlists... they're just nearly impossible to find.

I'd love to have an amazing Apple Music experience that doesn't also need to manage podcasts, TV shows, audiobooks, and almost 2 decades of music players.

Thanks for the counterpoint, I appreciate it. FWIW I've generally stuck with it since 2003, but I've been more and more frustrated with it recently.

Fair question. I am an Apple Music subscriber, so iTunes is the only Apple Music desktop client I'm aware of.

Fair question. I am an Apple Music subscriber, so iTunes is the only Apple Music desktop client I'm aware of.

Totally fair feedback, thanks. I thought about phrasing it in a different way, but ended up letting my emotions get the better of me.

agree, the modals are insane! iOS does better, it's pretty crazy how poorly the desktop has kept up.

Thanks, this is super-helpful feedback! We'll definitely keep it in mind as we get into the groove of doing these. :)

Good suggestion. I think our podcast host lets us embed something... I'll update after we post today's episode.

Thank you! We'd love to hear your feedback as we go.

Thanks! We're still experimenting with the format but we'll throw in some commentary here and there. If folks like it, we can certainly do more. :)

Thanks, we really appreciate it!

Thanks for the detailed comment! I just ordered the ATR2100USB and will give it a shot. I'll follow up with you re: hosting... it's something we're interested in and don't know that much about. Thanks again!

Thank you! We'd love to hear your feedback as we go. :)

Thanks! We'd love to hear your feedback as we go. :)

Thanks! I tried putting links to the original articles in the extended description; some players may not show that. Or maybe I messed it up. :)

Thanks for the suggestion! I put some towels up on the walls but I haven't tried the blanket trick yet...

Thanks for the feedback— the setup we have is less than ideal. We’re both using a Blue Snowball mic, and I’m recording in the supply closet of my shared office (finding quiet space in NYC is hard, especially with kids at home!)

Going to try switching to a dynamic mic with a tighter pickup pattern, but the one I tried on Amazon from CAD was faulty (crazy buzzing around 1khz), so waiting for the next delivery...

Sorry about that! The feed is here: https://rss.simplecast.com/podcasts/5271/rss

[EDIT] Updated the site w/ the RSS feed link in the header. Thanks for pointing this out.

Hi HN, We got a great response to our initial post about Hacker Daily last week, and we're back with our first episodes.

Everything is a work-in-progress... we're calling it the "minimum viable podcast." We hope to make it better every day, with your help. We'd love to hear your feedback. Thanks!

UPDATE: To everyone worried about their privacy on AngelList: We’re sorry. Thanks for all your feedback.

We’ve made more changes:

1) We stopped using the first-person on all emails. We wrote that first-person notification literally 5 years ago when we had a few thousand users, and we never re-visited it. It was pretty stupid. Now they all clearly come from AngelList.

2) We won’t send notifications to companies when you add them to a project. We used to because the project shows up on the company profile too. But it’s not what people expect, so we stopped, and we stopped showing the projects on company profiles too.

Thanks again.

Dave

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