shwinnabego

interesting post; especially notes on increasing revenue.

I operate a small digital studio that focuses on branding, design and dev for direct-to-consumer brands. This was our first effort managing all of the pieces end-to-end, so thought I'd share what that process looks like.

They help with nicotine cravings. But yes you hit on an important point, smoking anything is still bad and combustion creates harmful byproducts regardless of the inputs.

The pyrethrins are actually plant based so not bad...we were concerned about that at first as well!

Good Q on the lead, I suspect that it’s far far below any concerning threshold but will double back with an answer

Part of what makes breaking the addiction so difficult is the habit of smoking + oral fixation, so this is meant to be used in conjunction with NRT

Don’t disagree with any of that. But breaking the addiction is step one, no?

Yes, adding that! They smell and burn with a similar profile as cannabis. It’s certainly a conversation starter, but hopefully something that becomes more accepted with time / education

Curious to know how / why vaping is preferable to this?

Appreciate that!

Well aware that this isn't tech focused, but I have oddly found a number of folks in tech who are looking for alternatives to cigs / vapes.

I helped launch this company - oklahoma smokes - that makes nicotine-free, tobacco-free smokes. They're made with hemp flower and are designed to be an alternative for people looking to quit smoking or replace the habit. Happy to answer any q's!

I think they're just about there with strawberries! There's a machine called the Berry 5.1 which has shown promising results so far. I recall it was mentioned as part of this story (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/the-age-of-rob...), which provides interesting details on how the nature of farm-work is changing.

I think your comment conflates purpose and efficiency. This might be because you've only used slack for a few days now, and haven't realized its full power.

While email can be used for group communication, it's not ideal for the typical, constant interactions of a small team. Let's consider one use case. In email, file sharing with an individual is a multi-step process (new message, select recipient, insert subject, add attachment, write comments, send). In slack, you click upload, select file, and it's sent. No formality or friction in creating a new thread, selecting recipients, ad infinitum. Not to mention, it's hard to discover all the files shared between you and a group of people via email. This is important in an organization. A similar argument could be made for search and group messaging.

This snap judgement is the equivalent of suggesting that you'd forgo wearing gloves in the winter because wrapping warm pieces of fabric around your hands serves the same purpose. Purpose ≠ efficiency.

p.s. the desktop app > keeping a tab constantly open :)

Good idea, we'll probably do this!

Good point! We've heard this a lot and will be modifying that.

Thanks Jesse! The concept of discussion around content is really interesting - both public and private.

Thanks! We plan on building for Firefox and safari soon! It will be free, with maybe some premium features.

Good point -- though we are building a search functionality now so that won't be the case soon enough!

If the content on the page changes, the quoted text will still show in the point chat box. Definitely useful to comment on Dropbox files/links.

We played with explaining it on mobile but found that it led to confusion. It's an unfortunate stop gap for now until we have a mobile experience, but certainly agree that copy and mobile landing page isn't the best.

Thanks! Glad you're liking it :)

As far as data and privacy, every article you share, and the comments you make are private to you and only the people you mention in the 'point'. So there's no sense of a public feed or public commentary.

Edit: that 'popular' tab you see in the dropdown is a bit fictitious for now, so nothing that you point will ever show up in there.

2nd Edit: Once you've pointed an article/site and have the comment box up, you can strip /#show-last-point from the URL to clear. We'll be adding a better way to hide or delete this soon.

Thanks AVTizzle! Glad you and your friends are liking it so far.

That image makes me think of poverty, rather than being "poor." Although, I make this distinction in my head.

Pretty sure chrome requires all extensions to state that. It's not that the application needs to, but in the event that it does, chrome wants a catch-all phrase.

neat project!

ya, life could get pretty rough if you had to enter your HN username too

I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but for a third party to "justify" anyone's break is less than necessary.

In my eyes a break need not be earned by doing great work. People need time off. They need time to think, develop their interests, and do things beyond what their job or career demands from them.

Ideally for all of us this time would come (many times, and often) before retirement. If you haven't seen this TED talk, a brilliant furniture designer talks about his 7 on, 1 off lifestyle and makes a call for us to rethink the power of time off.

http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_the_power_of_time...