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txu··on Show HN: AssistantHunter, a GPT that searches through 9K+ GPTs for your task
that's a good approach. haha
txu··on Show HN: AssistantHunter, a GPT that searches through 9K+ GPTs for your task
google is the main source. also there are some github repositions and reddit links.
txu··on Show HN: AssistantHunter, a GPT that searches through 9K+ GPTs for your task
Hey jruohonen, great point. it depends on what does "survive" mean.

Monetize-able GPTs? Not many for sure. What will happen IMO is established companies will build official GPTs to better serve existing customers.

GPTs for personal use? Many GPTs will be abandoned and not be used by anyone. That's okay for one-off use cases.

There will be a loooooong tail of GPTs that people would use from time to time. There will be a lot of diversity but the top GPTs will eventually be like the top apps in the app store IMO.

txu··on From an Airtable to $9.2k in Side Income
If you're a front-end dev, you'd probably worked with PMs on building features that helps the product grow. This guide covers many of those features.

If you're a backend dev, you'd probably been asked to create database tables to save marketing or business data. AirTable allows many business people to create tables and gather info , and selling info without involving backend dev.

It will be interesting to see how the self-serve business tools (nocode) will affect the type of work devs will be asked to do in the future.

txu··on Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
Super impressive work since I first saw it on IndieHackers. Congrats!
txu··on Five steps to make Product-Market Fit less mysterious
One of the things that bothered me for years was the lack of clarity around Product-Market Fit. So far all the explanations are a posteriori - you can only observe or measure them. E.g. "You've found PMF when you sell it faster than you can make it", or "You can measure PMF by asking your users if they'd be sad if the product is taken away from them".

Can't we systematically get to it step by step instead of observing a big black box?

Last week, one model crystallized in my mind: Product Market Fit consists of 5 "fits" under the surface, each of which can be measured separately, which I summarized in the Twitter thread.

Would like to hear your opinion on if this makes sense to you.

txu··on Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG
Reading an article this in-depth and pure on blogger brings me back to 2004, the good ol' days
txu··on Show HN: TapTapClap – Remote Clapping for Remote Meetings
how does it work? :-D
txu··on Show HN: After many 14-hour coding days, my dream to-do app “Priorities” is done
Thanks a bunch!
txu··on Show HN: After many 14-hour coding days, my dream to-do app “Priorities” is done
Priorities took 2 weeks. I decided it's time to build it on March 7th, and it's approved yesterday.

Goals took me 2 months to launch, started from an empty repo, then polished over the next 6 months.

Thank you for asking!

txu··on Show HN: After many 14-hour coding days, my dream to-do app “Priorities” is done
thanks man
txu··on Ask HN: What tool is best at creating a mockup for a mobile app?
Sketch or figma
txu··on Show HN: Conversion Checklist
I really like how this tool is positioned. Simple and useful.
txu··on The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change
"The lifetime cost of a photovoltaic solar-power plant will drop by almost half over the next 25 years".

Can someone explain how big of an impact this is?

txu··on Periscope by Twitter
Not all sunsets and sunrises are equal...plus you can't easily witness sunsets at every corner of the world on your feet, yet you can on the internet. That's really powerful.

When can we get unlimited data plans btw?

txu··on Introducing Messenger Platform and Businesses on Messenger
I got pretty excited about it, but I really can't trust Facebook as much as before. They practically took "graph" off of "open graph" by disabling third party's ability to list users' friends and invite them.

I won't be surprised if later in the year some apps get banned from Facebook APIs because they touched Facebook's pie, which now covers pretty much everything. It's no accident half of the apps in the showcase are for sticker, GIF, and video replies as they pose no threat to core Facebook features.

So what's in it for us?

txu··on iOS Code Samples
Opened a sample and it works really well. Why not upload to Github so people can contribute?
txu··on Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab
Gogs looks quite polished and it might attract people who needs to setup a new server. But once you setup your workflow you don't want to worry about it for a while because you want to focus on the actual work. Switching the tool is of the least concern unless the old one broke.

I've been using Gitlab to manage all my personal projects and I am grateful of how many features and constant improvements I get for free. Lots of free software have terrible UIs, eg. ReviewBoard, Jenkins, Graphite etc (these are great projects btw, just the UIs still look like from 2000). But Gitlab's UI is modern, elegant, and shows me all the activities on my projects. So I check my projects regularly and feel encouraged to work on them. Granted I can't tell if it scales for big teams but it is not an issue because I only share the instance with a few friends.

It has ran worry-free for me for almost two years besides occasional updates because I wanted the latest UIs and it helped me focus on coding. Thanks for the great work!

txu··on Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve
Also came up this idea two nights ago before falling asleep, and two days later someone did it! Looking forward to see how it evolves.
txu··on Raytracing a Black Hole
Very beautiful rendering
txu··on A dashboard for my apartment
I think it's a great concept. The aging tablets are perfect for "smart home" displays.

I've fantasied a dashboard of tasks and chores I need to do when I get home from work.

txu··on Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app
Congratulations! May I ask how did you reach out to developers and how long did the project take. I assume you designed it? Thanks! :-)
txu··on Computers are Brain Amplifiers
First thing came to my mind as well, hasn't Steve Jobs already said the same thing in 1990? It's too obvious in today's world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8
txu··on Side projects
My experience is I am more focused while on public transit because I feel a sense of urgency. "I am gonna be interrupted in N mins and I need to finish X". It works sort of like pomodoro technique I guess. Utilizing those time slots is key to achieving side goals (or our real goals?) in a busy life. :-D
txu··on Side projects
Assembly(.com) is the place for working on or participating in open source projects. I met their evangelist at an event and heard about the model. Your contribution will turn into 'points' which are basically equities.

I am still not convinced all ideas fit in that model e.g a mobile app shouldn't be open sourced because other people can release your product as well, yet a library/framework probably doesn't have a direct business model.

txu··on On the Pricing of Apple Watch
Also the first thing came to my mind. Keeping the bands intact makes sense. Given the size of the watch there won't be much gold used in the watch head anyway.

And this is purely fantasizing, maybe you can upgrade golden models by paying a comparatively small upgrade fee...return the old watch head and get a new one with upgraded electronic parts... :-D

txu··on Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol
The only concern raised about the new Flipboard in the post is "accessibility" being "eschewed", but afik text in canvas tag aren't encoded proprietarily. If screen readers don't work well with canvas tag then the fix should be making more screen reader friendly than criticizing its adoption.
txu··on Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol
USB ∉ Internet
txu··on Scala.js no longer experimental
"Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything" http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/googles-product-stra...

Not a bad thing to let two or more projects compete to encourage innovation, than granting each team exclusive privilege to represent the whole company in the area.

txu··on Microsoft Acquires Calendar App Sunrise for North of $100M
thanks for pointing out. i don't remember the name Kiko but the logo looked familiar somehow. 2005, wow.
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