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Jekyll and S3. Simple to do and cheap.

Awesome, I’m also lisping these days. Followed on Twitter. Thanks!

I couldn’t love this more. Thank you for sharing all these!

Thanks for giving it a gander!

Right on the money. I think that's the most approachable revenue model; "free unless you don't do your chores" or some such. Perhaps a paid tier with additional features or gated by household size ... I dream of making housing coops (10+ people to a house) much more scalable.

I have high churn ATM though so most of my concern is there.

I built https://choremate.co because we needed it ourselves and I couldn't, initially, find something similar. When I applied to YC I did more extensive research and found lots of past and current attempts.

My approach has novel insight but part of why I couldn't find competitors is because the market for coliving tools is weak.

I suspect (from this obviously limited anecdote) the problem with most ideas where competitors aren't apparent is that the market is weak. In such cases, the real competitive advantage is likely in finding a solution to the market weakness. Market might be weak because existing solutions aren't very good but in my case it's more complicated.

Past/current attempts/failures can give you a lot of valuable information about what doesn't work so learning about them gives you a smaller space to search for what will work.

It's mostly skill development. I don't want at the end of my career to be a great big company programmer.

Might not get another visit in before we move this fall. It only occurred to me late in our city shopping that I should be also poking at the startup networks.

Thanks!

Then we’ll do our best to remain broke too ;)

We'll be doing our best to not move the bad parts of California with us.

Try different goals until you find a goal you don't want to stop working on.

Goal setting/discovery is a skill. You need to work on it like everything else.

The reasoning will sound tautological but it's true: If your problem is finding a goal you'll stick to, your goal should be to look for a goal you'll stick to.

I mostly work in my backyard these days. My #1 tip: Get a big sun hat!

If you don't tan well you might want additional protective sun gear. Devices get a bit dustier/dirtier so be prepared for that.

It'd be nice to not have to recharge inside but even with my late 2013 Macbook, I still get a few hours of work done before needing a recharge.

I'd mess around with it if I didn't have to give you my email first. Maybe provide a demo?

If you don't have a product yet, you should say so and ask for feedback on your idea/landing page.

I haven't used a visual programming language, but it's likely a lot harder to build a good visual programming language than a nonvisual one at a given level of expressiveness.

I suspect visual programming is more common than we realize though. I had an acquaintance at Workday who claimed a lot of work was done there in a visual programming language.

Also, arguably website/app builders are a visual programming "language" and they are extremely common.

> The “9x effect”: Consumers value what they have as three times better than what they stand to gain, while designers overvalue their new creation by the same factor. “The result is a mismatch of nine to one, or 9x, between what innovators think consumers desire and what consumers really want.”

Lol so true

It's really fun to call out Chekhov Guns while watching movies with a group. You appear clairvoyant.

I'm building https://choremate.co with a working tagline of 'The Best Chore Chart in the World.' Living with other people tends to suck and I know it can be better.

I'm also working on Crisp https://github.com/huumn/crisp which is a cryptocurrency written is Lisp. It's currently a toy meant for exploring, but what I want to do is have the transaction language be designed around spawning subchains. A blockchain for creating blockchains.

You should be walking with your hips primarily. Your core is important though.

If you want to learn more about how to walk and move better I can't more highly recommend the content by biomechanist Katy Bowman https://www.nutritiousmovement.com/blog/ ... She has a blog, a podcast, online classes, books, and a whole gamut of content around restoring basic movement - and talks a ton about walking. So important for all us desk jockeys.

I'm building https://choremate.co with a working tagline of 'The Best Chore Chart in the World.' Living with other people tends to suck and I know it can be better.

I'm also working on Crisp https://github.com/huumn/crisp which is a cryptocurrency written is Lisp. It's currently a toy meant for exploring, but what I want to do is have the transaction language be designed around spawning subchains. A blockchain for creating blockchains.

For Choremate, I definitely need help around marketing and UX flow. For Crisp, it'd be nice to just have someone to talk about it with, find other maintainers, etc.

Link to that very first block https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/0

The subsidy then was 50 BTC

Look at the coinbase data for the block

It's a good thing only if it indicates the UX is getting better.

Coinbase transaction message in last mined block with 12.5 BTC subsidy: "NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed's Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue"

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/629999

Coinbase transaction message in last mined block with 12.5 BTC subsidy: "NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed's Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue"

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/629999

I see, thanks!

Developing a successful product requires learning from your [potential] customers, which can include yourself if you're a customer, what is needed most. It definitely should be an interplay, a loop of development and feedback if your goal is a product. If you're just starting, sometimes you have to develop a toy before you can get meaningful feedback or before you learn anything useful about a problem, but often you can get feedback on ideas without developing anything but the idea.

For me, there's a strong tendency to develop and avoid feedback, because I love developing things and feedback is relatively hard to find and painful to receive. Definitely avoid this trap and seek feedback as early and often as possible.

I've kind of mapped learning to customer feedback here. IMO When you're developing a product, this is the type of learning that matters most because without feedback you'll tend to learn things that might not be useful to your customers.

Cool, joined the discord. Thanks!

I've thought about monetization a bit. I think the move is "you only pay when you don't do your chores." Choremate's big differentiator is small and gradual punishments. The site would collect the financial punishments. As you say, charging money in a form like a subscription might be a nonstarter for the demographic.

I haven't explored SEO in choremate much but I know its a fantastic acquisition channel based on one of my other projects.

The tagline used to be "The Chore Chart for Adults" but I think it read as a practical joke for some people. The big differentiator of choremate is small and gradual punishments for not doing chores, but putting this forefront when talking to users turned them off. They don't want a picture of the sausage being made on the package.

Social proof would be great and I'll definitely leverage it when I have some. My household is the only household using it right now though lol.

Solid suggestions all around, thanks!

P.S. Checked out http://jack.works and http://jack.ventures. Very cool!