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productceo··on Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
Interesting decision to have zero images of the new design on the landing page. Could you share why you decided this way?
productceo··on Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking
What is the technology stack for your app?
productceo··on Ask HN: How to raise a seed round in a down market?
How did you determine that you really need to raise a seed round?
productceo··on Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
Is this a substitute for Flutter? (After mobile support ships)
productceo··on Write documentation first, then build
Always the right approach and only the right approach
productceo··on Flarum – Simple forum software for building great communities
Why do entrepreneurs NOT use ready-made forum softwares like this to start startups? Clever use of general tools like this (maybe not specifically Flarum) can help them launch communities or marketplaces in less than a day. Is it as optimal as a in-house built forum? No. Should they be saving time on reinventing the undifferentiated code part so that they can test the core business concept and build out their differentiated networks of users? Yes.
productceo··on New Human Interface Guidelines
No. From Monterey to Ventura, they changed checkboxes to switches, which they explicitly recommend against in their Human Interface Guidelines.

Having said, I don't think 100% consistency is a useful goal anyway. The Ventura design is usable, and the guideline is useful. Gap between the two can be operational "debt" (like technical debt) which is not theoretically ideal, but practically useful to keep making/shipping progress.

productceo··on Sunsetting Atom
Wow! End of an era!
productceo··on Find a good available .com domain
Programmatic land grabs like this is why people today must suffer from lack of remaining .com domain names.

Nothing wrong with the writer of this post. I think this is a rational behavior that should be considered "expected". Whoever designed domain name registration/ownership model is to blame for failing to create a system which can efficiently give right domain names to people who actually need them and can use them for good (aka actually hosting businesses or contents instead of scalping).

productceo··on I've locked myself out of my digital life
This.

I never understood MFAs. In terms of ability to "log back in", it creates more "weakest links", where failure of one can lock me out of all.

Most consumers don't, but I use 3+ phones at a time, picking up whichever one has battery and is near me, and replace phones multiple times a year. MFAs and similar "future-looking" security solutions seem to target majority cases, whereas I think such security solutions need to support edge cases.

Currently, my best guess is magic links where I can set aliases like "this particular email" to be the source of truth, such that I can lose a device or two and still access the email, and still replace entire email if email is compromised (or regularly, just for best practice). But definitely does not feel satisfying...

Big respect for experts who are thinking about this problem day and night to solve it for the humankind. Seems hard and is definitely critically important!

productceo··on News from WWDC22: WebKit Features in Safari 16 Beta
Still no abolition of policy suppressing PWAs to 50MB?
productceo··on iOS 16 to support Web push notifications in 2023
When will they abolish the arbitrary 50MB limit on PWAs?
productceo··on Show HN: Seal – Verifiable timestamp for your private ideas
Seems like an interesting problem, but I have zero background knowledge. Could you share who would use this and why?
productceo··on Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
A professional medical doctor will make more medical mistakes than I will.

Let us try our best to treat them charitably, forgive the mistakes we see, and provide input to help them do their work even better!

I had success working with Design/UX or any other specialists acknowledging that they spent more time thinking about it than I have, and that, of course, they will be the final decision makers on whether to accept or reject any inputs I give, before providing any feedback or ideas I have. Also, taking the attitude, not of "Let me teach you X", but of "Teach me whether you considered X and, if you have, why you haven't tried X yet".

productceo··on Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
I once shipped a new product, and was surprised to receive no negative feedback from users regarding content quality.

Happens out, UX team placed the "Send Feedback" button below the infinite scroll content feed.

productceo··on Confess your love with zero-knowledge
Finally, a way to secretly confess my love for justice and world peace.
productceo··on Semantle: guess words based on Word2vec similarity scores
For humans, probably better done via word cooccurence on Wikipedia, or, to make it much easier, give two Wikipedia articles and pick which has more of the word.
productceo··on Semantle: guess words based on Word2vec similarity scores
Clever game lol
productceo··on CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”
Lost opportunity to ironically call this news "breaking"
productceo··on Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities
When the writer says friendships, I believe the writer means communities, such as community of place.
productceo··on Why Infer Types?
Just put getFoo inside doSomethingWithFoo.
productceo··on YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos
Imagine a free cloud storage, but you need to watch an ad every time you download a file.
productceo··on Designing for non-rectangular browser windows
Haha. Nice exercise!
productceo··on HTTP Cats
Thank you. I am finally empowered to build the API I've been planning to build for years!
productceo··on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
A prudent business will respond to what people do rather than what people say.
productceo··on Ask HN: Cities Outside of Bay Area
Sacramento seems like a great city! Thank you for the recommendation. I will visit the city soon to check out the apartments there. :)
productceo··on DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
Impressive
productceo··on I made an app to find great food trucks near you
Interesting! Haven't heard of Baserow, but will check it out.

Yeah, can't imagine how you'd bootstrap data like this. Definitely sounds like it'll be the core competency that will set you defensible against late followers. Good luck!

productceo··on I made an app to find great food trucks near you
Congrats on launching! What was your tech stack? From app development to getting food truck data, what did you find difficult?
productceo··on Heroku Security Notification
What are some good Heroku alternatives these days?
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