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Thank you. I used to use WhatsApp at first, then I started using Notion. But anything I tried always required me to do more than a few clicks.

Whenever I'm browsing something that I want to send to my mobile, I send it via WhatsApp web or some hard way.

I wanted a way to quickly send links to my mobile. Since we can scan QR code to open URLs, I create a page that takes a URL input and generates a QR code. And then I created a JavaScript snippet that I could add to bookmarks, so I can click that when I'm on a web page and let the bookmarklet create a QR code.

This is a super simple app and can be built with a couple of lines of code.

But I thought this might be useful for people who do not have the time to build it for themselves.

Congrats on launching the app! You have mentioned the earnings from a tip-jar system. I also noticed that Typefully links to Mailbrew. It will be interesting to see the traffic numbers to Mailbrew and how many of them ended up signing up/paying for Mailbrew.

I agree with this mostly but to play devil's advocate: If you are good enough to build a product that people are willing to pay for, would it be really that hard to get a new job if you lose your current job?

“The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life” - This is a book on stoicism. It’s a quick read but has so much value. I re-read this book once a year.

“Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United” - I’m a huge Manchester United fan. Sir Alex Ferguson managed the (biggest) club for 27 years, winning so many trophies, managing big personalities, rebuilding the team multiple times over the course of his career. He has so much valuable advice in this book.

A quick feedback: There are so many newletters these days that lot of people need a strong reason to give their email ID. Substack has a good feature where people can read previous issues before subscribing. Since there is no landing page or preview content, I would suggest to write a few issues before putting it out for the world to see.

That being said, good luck with this project. I will come back and subscribe once I get a feel for the content I can expect.

"I am writing this to let you all know that everyone's experience during this pandemic is not the same. I do not have all this extra time that folks keep talking about."

Thank you for writing this. At times, not intentionally, we surround ourselves and follow people on social media who have very similar lives to us that we don't hear different views.

It is a good reminder to listen and empathize (always, but more so now) because not everyone has lot of time now that they are working from home. Not everyone can be as productive as before at work, let alone say, read books or build a side project.

I'm planning to add this as a setting in the next increment.

Ah, thanks. That helps. Checking David's profile, it is the newer style retweet, which shouldn't have showed up.

Yes, this is a problem, especially if the app becomes huge. They also have some strict rate limits. For ex: The endpoint to get mentions is restricted to 100,000 requests per day, which is very less for a popular app. There are ways to get mentions using their search endpoint which has a more lenient rate limit but it is an inconvenience and a bit hacky.

Thank you for the feedback. I wanted to test the waters with a quick web app before building a mobile app.

This would be interesting to add. I don't use any JavaScript, so I would have to get the user to set their time zone and the time after which they want to switch.

I did not want to request permission to post on behalf of users. With that out of the way, the most minimal way to reply and create new tweets (and even like/retweet) without write permissions is using Twitter's intent feature which opens a (surprisingly) minimal UI for those actions.

Retweets are always off and cannot be changed, so it should not show retweets in home timeline. It could be a bug I missed. I will take a look. Thank you for the heads up.

I'm not aware of one. As @eyelidlessness pointed out in the comment above, it seems to change back randomly, so I think it would be hard to detect when it changes.

The frustrating part is that even when you change your settings in Twitter to show most recent tweets, it goes back to top tweets in a day or two.

Thank you. Not sure how I didn't hit that scenario the last two days when I built it (maybe long weekend and not many people tweeting?). That can be really annoying, especially in mobile. I will fix it soon.

There are many blogs today but when (many) people say they miss the old days of blogging, it is mostly not about the number of blogs.

Back then, there was a huge community around blogs. That community has moved to Twitter and other places. Previously, people would comment on blogs and if you are a frequent reader of a blog, you would recognize a lot of people who comment there and you may even become friends with them. Constructive comments have moved away from the blogs and are now on Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit etc.

There used to be services specifically around the blogging space, like Technorati (and even StumbleUpon to an extent).

I also feel, and this might just be me, people have started associating purpose with mediums. If you want to post silly or just casual stuff, you post it on Twitter. If you have something really valuable and on brand, you post it on your blog. People used to post everything to their blogs because that's where they could previously share their thoughts.

Count me in.

Interesting read about an equally interesting product (plugin). I can definitely see how it can help so many people.

Quick suggestion: If at any point you are looking to offer varying price points based on features, one possibility is to have three versions - Business (for people who know and work mostly on Excel every day), Developer (C#, LINQ etc.) , Complete (All features).

Because having worked with many people who work with Excel for whole day, at least 90% of the users will not understand or use this: "Additionally, imagine how much easier it would be to build prototypes and small applications if instead of VBA you could use C# (and LINQ) in Excel. You could write business logic in C#, load data from all sorts of APIs."

Not to say this will not be useful. This will be extremely useful for me (a developer). Just a thought.

Good luck with QueryStorm.

Like the minimal look and the first set of links. You should add a newsletter where you send these links to the list subscribers. Not sure how many users would bookmark and keep returning every week to check, with the amount of curation sites available these days.

Apart from the use case that you have mentioned, there is another little way this can be helpful to users.

If any startup/side project is putting effort in Twitter, it is safe to assume that they will tweet at least 200 times a month (the number of recent tweets that this app searches). With that, users can check every month how their avg. likes and RTs are increasing (engagement level).

It would be useful to show Total likes and RTs for each source device, possibly in the line next to average numbers because most people are likely to average between 0 and 2 when they are starting and this is not encouraging.

It's interesting where he talks about having an imaginary meter on your forehead and moving the needle to (P)ositive or (N)egative. He explains this with a nice example:

> When I write, “Bob was an asshole,” and then, feeling this perhaps somewhat lacking in specificity, revise it to read, “Bob snapped impatiently at the barista,” then ask myself, seeking yet more specificity, why Bob might have done that, and revise to, “Bob snapped impatiently at the young barista, who reminded him of his dead wife,” and then pause and add, “who he missed so much, especially now, at Christmas,” – I didn’t make that series of changes because I wanted the story to be more compassionate. I did it because I wanted it to be less lame.

Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) suggests a similar exercise for writers [1].

> From this point forward – at least for the next half year – you may not use “thought” verbs.

> You can’t write: Kenny wondered if Monica didn’t like him going out at night…”

> Instead, you’ll have to Un-pack that to something like: “The mornings after Kenny had stayed out, beyond the last bus, until he’d had to bum a ride or pay for a cab and got home to find Monica faking sleep, faking because she never slept that quiet, those mornings, she’d only put her own cup of coffee in the microwave. Never his.”

Writing "Bob was an asshole" or "Kenny wondered if Monica didn’t like him going out at night." is lazy writing and stops us from exploring the characters and getting to know them.

In the same post, Chuck says: "Thinking is abstract. Knowing and believing are intangible. Your story will always be stronger if you just show the physical actions and details of your characters and allow your reader to do the thinking and knowing. And loving and hating."

[1] https://litreactor.com/essays/chuck-palahniuk/nuts-and-bolts...

Worked well for me. 1. Dates can be calendar input. 2. Could possibly add 2 tabs: 1. Tweets and 2. Tweets & Replies. Similar to how Twitter shows. It should be easy to get that view. 3. I could see likes and RTs count for each tweet. Could add replies too.

Use case: I can see the engagement level of my tweets over a period of time. (Another reason to have replies count).

It could be because the author took time to give a detailed explanation of how he implemented it. It shows to a beginner programmer that (s)he could automate simple tasks like this easily and a way to approach it.

Glad you like it. Some prompts are from Reddit (There will be a link to source for these prompts next to it). I created the rest.

I like this because there are less books. Too often I get bogged down due to too many books suggested by Amazon or any other site. Less books = good.

Also, for the existing books, you could probably list the top people who recommend it as a line. That adds more credibility.

You can use something like = favobooks.com for that.

Thank you Sushobhan. The idea behind not storing is to make users feel that they can write whatever they want. Probably I'll look into having an option to save locally or sending as mail, in case user feels the writing is too good to leave.

Thank you Leon. Was there any difficulty in using/understanding the app?

Free writing is a process where you set a specific time and just write without worrying about the content.

I found that it is a really useful technique to break writer's block. So I build this app last weekend. Definitely lot of improvements can be done. Open to feedback.