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jollyjerryon Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email

Email is one of the services I would like to self host for small projects, ran into issues immediately for spam. I like the idea of using public keys tied to a domain, but feel the email service providers have little incentive to adopt this because the complexity adds value to their service.

jollyjerryon Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency

I wish I could find my Palm V. That device felt like quality in your hand. Metal back with satin finish, leather cover, the stylus was a snug fit.

jollyjerryon Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?

I’m manually importing stock portfolio holdings for users in https://jch.app so they can export from their brokerage without conforming to a specific format.

jollyjerryon Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

It comes back for me. Super annoying

jollyjerryon Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

Would you be interested in selling this project? I love the concept, and it sounds like you have customers interested in it, but aren't interested in taking on the burden of support and figuring out a business for it.

I'm about a year in building an asset tracker (https://jch.app), but it's nowhere close in functionality or ux.

Incredible work, amazing dive into the journey, and excited to see what comes next in rewind.ai too ;)

jollyjerryon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://jch.app

started as a mint / personal capital / spreadsheet replacement. Thought it would be neat to have a grafana-like way to build visualizations on aggregated accounts. I started with investments b/c it's easy to input/import without linking to bank accounts. I have Plaid development access and think a flexible playground will be more interesting for expenses.

jollyjerryon Chromebook Plus

I also love Apple's OS and first-party apps' seamless integration. However, Google has a better story with cloud apps in gsuite. My Mac is overkill hardware for running a browser, but I like the build quality.

jollyjerryon Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software

I like Arta's pitch as a "digital family office" that handles more than just investments. Managing investments is still table stakes, but they also throw in estate planning and other offerings that a traditional financial advisor would offer.

I tried Titan a while back and found that less compelling as a "hedge fund / active management roboadvisor". It didn't seem to differentiate sufficiently from the passive roboadvisors or what traditional wealth management could offer.

jollyjerryon Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software

Ya the people I talked to that enjoyed tinkering were FIRE enthusiasts or bogleheads. But that felt more like entertainment and community rather than looking for a solution to a specific problem.

I talked with small financial advisory firms (1-3 advisors) to see if there were some backend tools to help them with client work. There's some initial data gathering and entry, but the value is the coaching and psychology rather than the hard numbers.

jollyjerryon Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software

I expanded my spreadsheet into a webapp https://jch.app. My original thinking was to avoid broken bank syncing, but one problem I still have is how to include assets that aren't publicly listed. For example, have funds in a retirement account that's specific to that institution and can't fetch updated prices. Currently getting around that by using a similar target date fund as a proxy for the price.

jollyjerryon Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software

Curious to hear what you're looking for from a wealth management product.

With banking / brokerage platforms like Alpaca, it's possible to create an open source roboadvisor, but I'm not sure who the market would be. Someone who is interested in algorithmic trading would go directly access the API's, and someone who wants a hands off experience could choose from existing products, or get bundled services from a big bank.

I'm squarely in the frankenstein of spreadsheets, but also made a mobile frontend in https://jch.app The people I've talked to who use spreadsheets do it because it's fun.

jollyjerryon Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software

I like focusing on DIY-ers and having the web UI for visualizations. Makes sense that someone who would take the time to set things up would want increased flexibility over a spreadsheet.

jollyjerryon Building Streaming REST APIs with Ruby

faye-websocket-ruby's a great project. rack-stream actually uses it to detect websocket and eventsource requests, and stream back on those protocols.

jollyjerryon Building Streaming REST APIs with Ruby

Could you link to a fuller gist? Is self referring to an ActionDispatch::Response object? I plan on improving rails integration with rack-stream so that you can call `#chunk` from controllers and that will defer sending a chunk of content.

jollyjerryon How to Soundproof an Apartment to Muffle Your Wife's Drumming

Anyone have experience with green glue in automotive applications? It's been a long time dream for me to sound proof my 2006 xB

jollyjerryon HTML5: With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity

I was playing around with a redesign of my car blog over the weekend with responsive design with a vertical rhythm (http://rockyroadblog.herokuapp.com/) I like the post's approach to navigation and didn't know about the 'aside' element previously. If anyone's interested, I can post the source files for my redesign on github.

jollyjerryon Would you use this? A keyboard-friendly, social checklist app

I think ads would be reasonable. Especially if they integrate with the design and aren't all flashy and distracting. Another monetization strategy might be to make the web version free, but charge for mobile apps. There could be free ad-supported mobile versions as well.

Stripe is fantastic payment gateway to integrate with. I despise paypal, but it wouldn't hurt to throw a paypal donate button up in the meantime either.

jollyjerryon Would you use this? A keyboard-friendly, social checklist app

this would be really trick UX-wise, but it'd be cool if one could "follow" updates of a list.

jollyjerryon Would you use this? A keyboard-friendly, social checklist app

I really like the idea of a keyboard friendly task app. Here's some feedback. Hope it helps:

* signup didn't work for me. When I submitted the form, it just took me to the signup form again. EDIT: I think it's because the username I wanted was already taken, but there was no error message telling me this.

* login link didn't take me anywhere

* It'd be nice if '?' brought up a list of keyboard shortcuts - similar to what google apps does

* It'd be nice if shortcuts could be customized

* A call to action in the anonymous list to signup to save the list makes sense

* jumping between the list, settings, and sharing tab with keyboard - maybe control-shift-1, 2, 3

* the UI is slick and simple. I love it.

* how do I delete a list?

* can there be labels / colors?

* will there be an API to access my lists?

* make links in tasks clickable

jollyjerryon Gun.io Debuts Free Group Funding for Open Source Projects

Hope you enjoy the bay, if you haven't already, I highly recommend grabbing a slice at cheeseboard.

In my experience, even mentoring works better in person.

jollyjerryon My weekend project - alternative to Pinboard / Delicious

interesting idea, but haven't formed an opinion yet. Tagging's always such a personal preference. I like hierarchical tags (e.g. code:ruby), but that's just me

jollyjerryon Ask HN:Best Development Laptop?

What type of development do you do primarily? For web dev, a mac is still the best choice in my opinion b/c you can VM to test all browsers.

I think hardware-wise, most laptops have more than enough power for local development needs. What's more important to me is screen size/quality and keyboard quality. In general, I plug in when I'm at home, so even these qualities aren't a deal breaker.

jollyjerryon My weekend project - alternative to Pinboard / Delicious

Some notes as I go through the app:

The bookmarklet popup is spot on. Everything I need, nothing I don't.

The home tab shows signup info even when I'm logged in, should hide after I'm logged in.

For passwords, I think it'd be best to hide them because it's the convention, and add a js link to "show password" for users who want to see it.

jollyjerryon Ask HN: What is a good conversion rate for a landing page?

Our landing page conversion is hovering around 14%, which sounds like the higher side from what I've heard. My guess for why it's higher is because we've been targeting very specific people within our community. We chose launchrock for it's simplicity, but having done more research, I'd like to try unbounce the next time around (better integration with other services, more options).

Quora has some interesting posts on the topic (http://www.quora.com/Landing-Pages). For reference, our landing page is http://beta.opperator.com

jollyjerryon Ask HN: Are we lacking simplicity cause everyone wants to do it all?

I agree with the philosophy of "do one thing, do it well", but my problem with a lot of app ideas is that they focus on adding one feature to an existing app. I dislike this because then I have to switch accounts just for one extra feature. Instead, I think there should be a focus on providing one value in a product. It should solve one problem, and solve it really well. That means defining and scoping the problem in real life terms. The difference is you might need to write several features in order to have the perfect workflow.

jollyjerryon My weekend project - alternative to Pinboard / Delicious

I was a long time delicious user, and I like having my data up in the cloud. I think what I prioritize the most is having a good UX and my links being available everywhere.

minor thing: your signup password fields should be of type password so they don't show up in plain text.

jollyjerryon Ask HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com

Just a stream of notes as I go through the first time around.

The fixed bottom footer could use a bit more contrast. When the white text from the main body slides over it, it gets garbled and messy looking. Also, there feels like too much space between each section when I scroll down.

I like that I can see results without having to sign in with Facebook. It lets me try out the service before I commit.

The color scheme is cheerful, but a bit too harsh. The nav elements within the results also lack contrast.

The animation on the place name on hover is neat the first time, but annoying every time after. The tiles are just jumping around all over when I move my mouse.

Filtering by category could be faster, but I like that it does it via ajax and stays on the same page.

Overall, good job! Best of luck

jollyjerryon Gun.io Debuts Free Group Funding for Open Source Projects

Always happy to see projects coming out of my hometown. I like the idea, but I hope that there's good moderation for submitted bounties so it doesn't become another Rent-a-Coder like cess pool. It's also be neat if the bounties could be free form, so people could barter goods and services. Personally, being offered $50 is worse than not being offered money at all for something that I'd want to work on. On the other hand, for some tasks I wouldn't mind if someone were willing to trade me design work, or treat me to a lunch or a beer.

jollyjerryon Hacking Scrabble (part 1)

This reminds me of the documentary "Wordplay" about competitive crossword puzzle players. Without a formal proof, my guess is that scrabble is faster to solve that a hard crossword puzzle for a computer. It's amazing that the human mind can stitch together patterns like these and internalize that in a meaningful way. A cool extension of this project would be to write a scrabble tool that generates arbitrary strategies that would be useful for a human player. So instead of generating the best play for a move, the program would recognize that "when the board is like X, then try and use strategy Y"

Awesome project @zephod!