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“We’re shutting down Gmail, here’s an export of your inbox. We promise to forward your email for 5 years.”

Emails saying things to the tune of "account still posed to great of a risk" and "starting refunding my clients if I did not provide further review for my business" doesn't sound very Stripey.

List of official Stripe domains: https://support.stripe.com/questions/verified-stripe-domains....

For a fair comparison of “advancement” in open source you have to discuss free open source applications where a commercial version of a similar app exists.

Photoshop vs Gimp, Illustrator vs Inkscape, Microsoft office vs libre etc etc. objectively speaking the commercial version is going to be better across the board.

Open source variants are getting closer these days like Blender and Godot but you’re on a different scale of waiting for those advances to catch up vs the commercial for profit versions.

I'm rebuilding my website over at https://dev.hazumi.news which will soon let you search and filter by categories assigned by AI, e.g. posts by tech news, programming, business, economics, etc.

The iOS version today already has keyword based push notifications (with pro subscription), so you can toggle on notifications for specific keywords like Ruby, Rust, Apple, Google, etc from a predefined list, that I can add to if you request it.

Here's the app if you're interested: https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/hazumi-news/id1670237209

I'm got a weird vibe from the title. "finds" startup ideas sounds like it scrapes existing ideas from Reddit, when it actually "generates" ideas from pain points.

- Free to download (did try €1 but didn't work well) My goal is to get as many users into the funnel, show them a good app for free, offer subscriptions for more features.

- I have a €1 per month subscription for backend functionality (push notifications and bookmarking with iCloud syncing)

- My subscription strategy is release shiny new thing to subscribers only, after 3-6 months, move it to free tier and add shiny new thing to subscription tier. Rinse and repeat.

- My app doesn't make much money either way. Subscriptions currently don't cover server costs + apple developer account + apps I use to build Hazumi but I enjoy what I do and will continue bootstrapping using my salary from my full time job.

You might be interested in RevenueCat's State of Subscription Apps post, under heading "Revenue, one year after launch, by category"

https://www.revenuecat.com/state-of-subscription-apps-2024/

I think the TLDR; of that article is, if you want to make money from an app, expect to play the long game. Apps in the "Productivity" category, one year after launch median earnings are < $50 per month.

Won't this just exacerbate the "I often encounter links to Reddit that are now deleted" problem?

I build a UI layer on top of the HN API to attract a more general audience. But it's only a "reader", you can't sign in and start posting. I'd be happy to keep it that way.

My suspicion is that the current interface design and feature set of HN only attracts a certain kind of audience. The moment that changes, I think then we'll start to see a decrease in quality, which to me is the death bell of a social network. On the flip-side, if HN doesn't adapt, will it eventually observe a decrease in traffic as the visual appeal fails to land on newer generations of people?

These days, whenever I visit a Reddit post with a decent question being asked, and see the first handful of comments are joke responses with upvotes and badges, I just leave.

I made Hazumi News for web and iOS to browse HN. It's the only side project that I've stuck with for years and still enjoying working on.

It's more of a modern presentation layer on top of HN with images and summaries of the linked article. The goal is to try connect a more casual audience with this amazing trove of tech news and discussion.

Funded mostly by myself and the handful of people who subscribe for €1 per month on iOS.

From my own experience, I had the most success here via Show HN from which I saw around 300 downloads that day which was just mind blowing to me.

I launched on ProductHunt also, and posted about it over on LinkedIn. Both managed to attract some users because my app was aimed at the tech community. Neither of those were anywhere near the traffic I saw after posting on HN though.

Do messages go through some caching/indexing mechanism after 15 minutes where they are no longer capable of being edited?

I do have a free trial for PRO for 1 week if you wanted to give it a try but here's a screenshot I posted to Twitter to help visualize it:

https://twitter.com/HazumiApp/status/1660636585702948865?s=2...