jonathanberger

> we can’t add Tonya’s iCloud account to the “home”

I've got the same problem with me and my partner. If any Apple engineer happens to read this this would be on my top 3 list of bugs to fix in the Apple ecosystem. The only workaround I'm aware of is creating entirely new Apple IDs.

Thanks so much.

Thank you.

Interesting question. I tried to introspect a bit about the reason and I'm still not really sure. Maybe an American cultural influence of things like salaries being taboo.

It means I didn't want to get too specific about the amount involved. But I can see there's lots of interest in this question.

I wonder actually if something like https://www.levels.fyi could be built or exists but for ad-supported websites (side project idea?). It'd be really useful for people to understand more broadly "if you create site of type x and it gets y amount of traffic you can expect this level of ad revenue".

One reason the amount involved in my case would only be so useful is that sites can wildly vary (by as much as 100x I'm told) in how much $ per visit is generated (the industry term is "RPM").

Try the following:

1. Have at least 3 ideally 5 text-heavy pages on your site. 500 words minimum each. Tell your backstory, explain the advantages of your product, create an FAQ, ...

2. Make sure the site has a navigation bar somewhere with links to the basics that most sites have: an About page, maybe a short privacy policy, a contact page.

3. The site can't look broken or have "coming soon" anywhere. It helps if the site has been given a "fresh coat of paint" from a designer.

I don't know for sure, but the feeling I get is some human at Google has a scorecard and they go and check your site. Google won't reveal the actual scorecard because it'd become too easy to game, but the things above are what I've learned through the process.

Thanks, fixed.

I had trouble getting AdSense "interested" also. Depending on what Adsense is telling you I'd have varying suggestions if ads were still the way you wanted to go.

The best ways I know to monetize something for consumers: ads, app stores, donation buttons.

I tried an iPhone app to monetize the time zone converter but in my case the ad performed better. I tried a donation button for a few weeks and it brought in more than I expected.

I'm hesitant to share publicly but if you send me a message I always love to discuss side projects. :)

My original domain was www.thetimezoneconverter.com. I can't remember what my original search was 10 years ago but I tried out a number of queries on Google Trends to see which variation of "time zone", "time zone calculator", "timezone converter", etc. (different spaces and such) were most popular. Then I named the site that and got that domain.

Many years later (and just a few months ago) I switched over to a new domain "Dateful" as I had accumulated a number of different features for the site that went beyond just timezone conversion. "Dateful" isn't based at all off Google Trends, I just like the name.

Thanks! My dream actually is to do it full-time but there's only so much I can reduce my personal burn rate by. I also sent you a direct message.

I appreciate the comment and "world a better place" is exactly how I like to think about it.

I made this post but credit to kw_dev who inspired this with his https://kwcodes.com/how-i-failed-5-side-projects-in-6-years-... HN post from a few days ago.

Git is one of those bizarre products that has remained a leader in its category for almost a decade while being extremely difficult to use, even for experts. Another one of these products is Apache.

Why is this?

At least from my naive point of view I would expect these extremely user-hostile products to have been overtaken but more user-friendly alternatives. I know the best products don't always win, but when they don't there's often at least some theory about what is going on (network effects, business partnership, government regulation, etc.) that I don't have with these two products.

I tried a couple of searches and skimmed through your homepage and blog, but I couldn't find any information about the premium options. Could you share a link?

I hope he is able to profit from his story with book and/or movie rights. It's a fascinating story and I bet would make a great movie a la Captain Phillips or 127 Hours.

Unfortunately the statement is not true. One good reason to use short timezone codes like EST, CST, PST is that most people prefer them.

One of the first surprising things you learn after launching a timezone conversion website https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1133613 is that one of the top feature requests is to display short timezone codes.

The key test to me is - can the thing actually be purchased at the listed price or not. In the case of hotels, for example, the resort fee often isn't optional.

Why doesn't the US have universal laws that cover price transparency in general?

There are so many industries that get into shady territory: rental cars ("facility use fees"), hotels ("resort fees"), internet access ("mandatory equipment rental fees"), even SF restaurants ("SF mandate").

I'm saying Apple is wrong, and so are many other companies, and shouldn't we have fixed this with a law by this point?

Incase it benefits others, I did a brief survey of static site generators and while Pelican looked great it had more functionality than I needed.

I ended up using staticjinja instead. And after sticking with it for over a year now, I'd still recommend it if Pelican features like RSS feeds and code syntax highlighting seem like overkill for your project.

Congrats on an amazing launch! You might though consider a new name before going to the App Store?

Telling someone who doesn't read HN about your app would be very difficult because "mime" and "stream" aren't words people would expect next to each other. "Mime" is also a pretty uncommon word. Getting the early adopter crowd now who understand the name is important but this app has exciting potential I think for an audience beyond that.

At this point in the essay, Andreessen is wondering aloud why more building hasn't happened in the United States to solve problems in fields like education, manufacturing, and transportation.

He asks what the reasons could be, and lists several rejecting each of them. One reason that he rejects for why more building hasn't happened is capitalism.

Andreessen thinks capitalism can't be the reason for us not building because the fields he mentions are places where it's profitable ("highly lucrative") for businesses to operate. Replacing capitalism with another system (say communism) wouldn't solve our inability to build, in Andreessen's view.

I wonder if a new product that would be similar to UserVoice or Fixya could help for this problem.

Imagine a site that has elements from the above mentioned and also StackExchange or even the Apple Discussion boards. The input would be people reporting bugs they encounter: is it reproducible? known workarounds? maybe severity ratings. A "page views" count.

The output would then be either selling or giving away aggregate reports to vendors, like Apple. "Hey Apple, here are the most important bugs people are reporting. We suggest you fix these first."

If anyone has interest discussing this further, get in touch.

Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, Palo Alto

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Full stack, web, mobile, B2B, Founder, Product Manager / Product Management

Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bergerj

Email: bergerjon@gmail.com

His book The Outlaw Sea is also a great read if you enjoyed this article and might find nautical incidents equally interesting.

Unix. Email. TCP/IP. Just taking an initial stab.

It's not hard to reach a living person who works at Apple. The next step should have been reproducing it for that person. It's not clear that the finders in this story did that - it seems they might have been trying to find out about bounty payments first.

If any tech support or Apple Genius were to have seen this bug reproduced, it should have immediately been easy to flag to the right person.

I still don't get why reporters or publications seem to refuse to link to the most obvious and central key piece of material to an article.

Article on a new law being passed... no link to the raw text of the law. Article about a new scientific study that has come out... ofcourse, no link to the study. Famous person issues a statement or makes a speech... sure, we'll give you a few quotes but no link to the full text.

It's like, come on!

There are more important priorities for the SF Supervisors’ time and the law could cause more harm than good (unintended consequences).

More important priorities would be the ones mentioned in the article: the conditions of the street.

Possible unintended consequences: tech company cafeteria workers suffer, people bring food from home, tech companies choose to locate elsewhere, among many others.

It's common in San Francisco. Chubby Noodle is an example I booked today for a party of 8.