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> "Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."
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The idea is you use the digital artboard to visualize your tools on the wall and then buy the holders to mount it on your workshop wall.
There seems to be a growing overlap between programming and woodworking for whatever reason. I could go on about the similarities, but after hours of staring at the screen, we sometimes want to make things with our hands and woodworking helps me do that. If you're looking to get started, I can't recommend visiting a local makerspace enough.
PS also on Etsy if that's your thing: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ToolWall
Solidworks isn't open source, but they provide support and training. So it's possible of open source business to do the same.
Happy to chat more if you're interested in it.
A part of me wants to reimplement the tool holders for ToolWall[1] in OpenSCAD[2] and be done with it with Autodesk forever.
[1] - https://toolwallhq.com
[2] - https://openscad.org
I was hoping there would be a dataset that would follows real world patterns vs whatever I generate from my understanding of the api.
It really depends what your goals are. Do you really want to remember every single thing you learn? Then be like SuperMemo founder and capture everything and do spaced repetition.
* Design seems mobile centric and doesn't suit desktop.
* Threaded comments are very hard to read. HN's UI does a great job.
* No visual notification when clicking on links and moving between pages. I had the same problem with toolwallhq.com and used https://www.npmjs.com/package/nextjs-progressbar to solve it.
If you want hands on experience, pick an open source app in the language you know and deploy it somewhere and load test till it breaks and see which part breaks first. It could be your load balancer can’t handle that many connections or you app server rubs out of memory or the db comes to a crawl. The more real world you can make load test queries the better.
At the very least you’ll get hands on experience.
If you're interested in this sort of thing and don't want to build your own, I'm working on https://toolwallhq.com that exactly solves this.
And when I clicked 'Saved', it took long enough for me to think was it broken? There were no spinners or any visual feedback. So it was bit of UI and UX issues.
I don't know what the limitations of SurveyMonkey were, but it was generous enough I didn't have to pay for it. I send occasional survey for my business: https://toolwallhq.com, but not nearly enough I couldn't use SurveyMonkey. I think my last survey got <100 responses.
I see you are already using tailwind, recommend upgrading to tailwindui and improving from there.
Six months ago, I quit my corporate job to work on ToolWall. I was tired of the bureaucracy and frankly, a bit burnt out. I was doing woodworking in my free time, so it was a natural progression to build something related to woodworking and tech.
When I first setup my garage workshop, I spent a lot of time organizing it instead of working on fun projects. The other woodworkers, leatherworkers, mechanics, and makers that I talked to had the same problem. They all want an easy, cheap and sturdy solution for organization. I believe https://toolwallhq.com is that solution.
The biggest advantage that ToolWall has over existing solutions in the market is the online visual artboard where you can organize your tools and their holders before purchasing the latter. It uses Canvas and SVGs to represent the tools. (I eventually want to build a AR app which detects the tools you own from uploaded pictures and auto suggests how to organize them).
Couple days ago, I launched the beta and have been looking to get feedback on the site and the product. I would love to hear what you think.
Thank you for your time.
PS: If you have a CNC and are willing to test out some of my beta designs, I'll send you the Fusion files for free. You can reach me at me@toolwallhq.com.
1. What separates you from Spree which recently started offering a headless platform as well?
2. Do you support Tax/Shipping calculations?
3. Where can I see a list of all supported integrations?
4. Do you offer deployment options?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4448361 has some good tips and tricks.