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apartment design / DIY - http://apartmenttherapy.com
working on my car - http://altimas.net
all around randomness - http://lifehacker.com
Underlying to all of this is the idea to put more demands on the sender (there are things to pick from a drop-down and people can create multiple-choice emails, which allows the receiver to answer with one click). However, what we found is that it can also make it easier for people to write Dan because it actually removes some demands from them: they know that he doesn't expect any formalities and the structure helps them too. And, above all, senders are more likely to get a response (and quicker).
Please have a look:
http://shortwhale.com
As an example, here's Dan's Shortwhale page (he links to it from his website and in his email signature):
http://shortwhale.com/danariely
HN, we'd love to hear what you think.
Many thanks,
Dan Ariely and Dominik Grolimund
PS: If you're interested, Lifehacker published an interview with Dan where he talks about "how he works": lifehacker.com/im-dan-ariely-author-and-professor-and-this-is-how-i-1615748781
But sometimes it's just not possible to stop working and look at the wall for 20 seconds. How do you take care of your vision?
We've just launched our beta! And we just landed on the front page of LifeHacker.com (woohoo).
Anyway, we'd love to get some more feedback, comments, suggestions. Thanks!
"If I needed this, surely others did too" kept looping in my head. Could I get this built? Could I build it myself? Nah...too lazy to learn how, but before I did anything, I had to promise myself one thing: No more ideas! If ideas were sit-ups, I would have a six pack instead of this tire. It was a constant mental exercise. Ideas would peep in, I would spend 5 seconds and if it wasn’t related to THE TOOL, I had to throw it out. That's it. Focus achieved. I've been idea sober for 1670 straight days.
I was now ready to find the right people that are the exact opposite of me. Translated: People that actually do stuff. I went through tons of people, but I finally got the team together: 1 backend, 1 front end, 1 designer and hired an n number of freelancers whenever we needed it. I paid for this with my consulting day job.
We “launched" 18 months ago, got some decent press and yc feedback
http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/07/tutorials-made-easy-with-iorad.php
http://lifehacker.com/5584834/iorad-creates-your-step+by+step-computer-instructions-for-others
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1437395
Thousands of people signed up, but the tool just sucked and it didn't really work the way it should. This was most definitely my fault. While I've been non-related idea sober for 1670 days, if it was related I had to try it, which means adding half-baked features on top of half-baked features. Anyway, the only good thing that came out of the whole experience: it validated that lots of people had the same problem and needed this solution.
We regrouped and simplified, simplified and then simplified some mo. The result: www.iorad.com - “instant application instructions”.
What the...? Translation: There's no easy way to show somebody how to do something in an app and share your knowledge. Screencasting sucks and is hard to follow along. Copy/pasting/emailing screenshots is painful. Desktop share is hard to schedule.
Our goal is to let you create easy to follow instructions (both interactive and print) for your application in minutes so your users know what they’re doing and you can get back to doing things that matter. Give it a try and let me know what you think, what sucks and if you think it can save you some time.
PS if there are other "useless idea guys" mixed in with the YC Hacker community (that actually does shit), and you are semi-interested in some of my story, maybe I can start blogging it.
I'm seeing more of them around the office and local hackathons, but my primary thoughts lean towards thinking they're an unproven fad.
It got reviewed in KillerStartups.com, MakeUseOf.com and LifeHacker.com and is getting some positive buzz on Twitter.
The communication is flowing with the users, they are giving constant feedback and are asking tons of new features.
I haven't fully commited my efforts to WeekPlan.net yet because I haven't found a way to turn WeekPlan.net into a lifestyle business (via a subscription based model). How would you do it?
I don't want to be rich, I simply want to live comfortably helping people achieve their goals.
What process should I follow to understand what features would the users pay for?
I guess some of the HN crowd use todo apps. What features do YOU think could make WeekPlan.net worth paying?
Thank you for your insights.
(one of the WeekPlan.net users actually suggested I sent this message to Hacker News, thank you!)
Using the chrome.* APIs, when enabled, the extension forces you to use one tab and window (except incognito windows - but I probably shouldn't have told you that) and kills any new tabs/windows that get created instead replacing the current tab with the new URL.
You can check it out at www.tabzolo.co. It's completely open-sourced on GitHub too if anyone wants to extend its functionality.
What do you think of it?
For more on TabZolo:
GitHub - https://github.com/dasmall/TabZolo
My blog post - http://dazm.co/weekend-project-tabzolo-co/
My co-creator's post - http://leonardocorrea.com/posts/2013-07-14-tabzolo-to-the-rescue/
LifeHacker Mention - http://lifehacker.com/tabzolo-keeps-you-focused-on-one-tab-at-a-time-845544805
So I released my app (http://www.ikeepm.com) about 3 months ago. I worked on it here and there when I had time. Yesterday, my phone kept vibrating to indicate new emails. To my amazement, I had 200+ signups in less than half an hour. At first I thought it was a spambot but Apache's log files showed otherwise. I'm now over 1000 users in less than 24 hours and it feels great.
Granted, the app is still free but at least people know about it. If I can convert 20% of those people to paying clients, I would be VERY happy. Anyways, for those who found "success" overnight via a blog article, how did you capitalize on it? I'm working my butt off to implement some of the new features people are asking for. Being a one man show means I'm limited to time at the moment.
Examples of things I want to try to do every day:
- Practice Guitar (at least 30m)
- Learn a new joke or 'bar trick'
- Exercise (at least 30m)
- Clean one area of my apartment
- Write a letter/email to one person I care about
And so on. The tricky thing is that I ran out of a good way to track my daily checkmarks. The best system I have tried so far is to use stickers on a calender, but the cognitive overhead of "ok, a blue star == learn a joke" is annoying.
Does anyone know of a web app that can handle this for me?
Fill in the blank, "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Now go out there and do it, then return to the tool and click "I did it today!" You'll be congratulated and given the opportunity to write about your experience and post a picture.
At that point, the picture becomes a link in your productivity chain. After you've formed a few links in the chain, I bet you won't want to stop. But if you do stop and miss a day, the entire chain breaks and everything is deleted.
Now, if you just want to use the tool for just that, all by your lonesome, that's just fine. But we've included a social aspect to it as well. Whenever another person is doing the same thing as you, each one of your chain links will be submitted to a centralized place where you'll be able to explore and upvote others' chain links and post comments to everyone.
On the front page, you'll see the top 20 popular chains and the fastest growing chains for today, as well as the top comments and featured users. Next to each chain is a plus sign that, when clicked, will enable you to do that same thing each day, too. You can also explore and find interesting chains and users.
The time interval is adjustable. You can do something every day, weekday, weekend or week.
The project was inspired by this post: http://lifehacker.com/software/motivation/jerry-seinfelds-pr...
We're launching on Friday at 10PM CST. Everyone who registers in the first hour will start with 50 karma points, so bring a friend! If you have any feature requests, just let us know and they'll be waiting for you at launch.
Common wisdom is that it's dangerous to let you all in on our secret before we're out there, but we wanted to give you the opportunity to make this tool better in your eyes.
Thanks for your critique guys!
Update: First feature request will be implemented for you: A vacation switch that you can toggle on and off. If it's on, your chains are frozen and won't be deleted.
They have my payment info on file and there is no way to delete it. You can only change it to a different credit card.
[1]https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/22/taskrabbit-resets-passwords-suspicious-activity-network/
[2]https://lifehacker.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-taskrabbit-hack-1825319011
Resource lists for Hackers. This would fit nicely next to "submit" above.
Over the last few days, I've looked for music/white noise that people listen to while coding, and this kind of discussion pops up now and again. It pisses off people who've commented on the older discussion, and possibly disenfranchises newer readers who see all the negativity on the repeat thread.
Net result: it's difficult to get a nice, complete list.
What's needed is a list of books/music/white noise sources/software tools/hardware/useful websites divided by topic/[insert stereotypical geeky obsession here] that people can upvote and comment their favourite.
I use Lifehacker.com as a way of discovering new, useful software, it would also be nice to get those kind of suggestions easily on HN.
My suggestion would be to scrape the past discussions on these topics and let the readers sort out the jumbled data, as a start. Crowdsourcing one of the brainiest audiences on the web, bound to work out.
Bonus for Paul Graham's wallet: more book sales.
My company, CallRed, allows users to quickly message top-tier support at a number of businesses including Comcast, AT&T, USPS and Time Warner. We were featured in lifehacker last week and they’re doing a follow-up article tomorrow (shhh).
http://lifehacker.com/callred-gets-you-help-from-companies-terrible-at-custom-1561087994
Please check out http://pushbrowserapp.com
The Next Web has posted a review of Push Browser here http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/02/27/push-browser-brings-googles-chrome-to-phone-to-ios/
The second time I got some time so I added admob, analytics and emailed the author of the life hacker article. Nothing came of the email but the analytics was interesting. As of today I've had 140 unique vistors. The best thing I did was listed it on the iphone subreddit. I also posted it on a bunch of forums (basicly no hits from that) and submitted to apple (still haven't heard anything from that).
Looking back on it, I made several mistakes. I picked a bad idea, there aren't many people who want speed dial and those that do don't use it that often but it was a fun project for the train.
I've read quite a few articles detailing various people's strategies, but I'd be really interested to hear how fellow HN readers do it. Here's a few prompt questions:
- How do you achieve a balance between separation and integration when it comes to personal/work documents, reference material, code & repos, sideprojects, client work?
- Do you prefer wide or deep folder structures?
- Does your approach differ between your home directory, external drives, network shares, or Dropbox?
- Have you come across (or created) any neat hacks (i.e. with external services or third-party software like GitHub, Dropbox, Evernote and so forth)?
For the last year or so I've been working with a system (very) loosely based on this lifehacker article: http://lifehacker.com/156196/geek-to-live--organizing-my-documents. It's worked pretty well thus far, but I'm sure there's room for improvement.
A couple of days later I received an email from a marketing manager of a company. She expressed interest in buying a "fork" version of my app. Needless to say, I'm speechless and things are happening so fast. What turned out as a side project that I had hope to monetize one day, is now in consideration to be bought by a real company.
Has anyone experience this? She's asking for a price and I'm stumped. It's definitely a good problem to have, but I need to be careful.
Something that will run reaver-wps, wash, etc efficiently enough.
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-build-a-portable-hacking-station-with-a-raspberr-1739297918
Are there good alternatives to Raspberry here?
I don't have android application programming experience as I usually program in C/C++ and lisp. So this will be my first app. What do my fellow hacker news readers think of this idea? Would you use it? Would you consider paying 1-2 dollars for it if it's good enough? What kind of features would you want in it? Do you think it's worth pursuing for the experience and maybe some earnings?
[1] http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/05/quickly-prioritize-your-tasks-by-urgency-and-importance/
and i built this tool:
http://www.ui-nui-uni-nuni.com/
Feedbacks please!
Also, in the spirit of the article:
I found this at lifehacker.com. Besides the regular sites, such as proggit, hn, & /., I also semi-regularly check boingboing.net, makezine.com/blog, hackaday.com, aldaily.com, tcsdaily.com, and my old undergrad tutors' site: scriptoriumdaily.org.
boingboing, makezine, and hackaday all go together. They focus on hacks, makezine and hackaday on the tech side and boingboing more on the cultural side.
aldaily and tcsdaily also go together, aldaily represents the humanities side of academia and tcsdaily represents the business/tech side of academia; though both are written informally.
The last one is written from a Christian perspective, but I usually find the articles to be pretty insightful, and if you are an atheist and don't get all these religious wingnuts you might get a better idea of what makes the more reasonable ones tick.
we've launched a new packing list app:
As Featured On Lifehacker.com http://bit.ly/1gCpz4O and Fast Company's Co.DESIGN http://bit.ly/1lHqoLT
"A Travel App That Practically Packs Your Bags For You"
Never Forget Your ______ Again!
PackPoint is an intelligent packing list builder for serious travel pros. PackPoint will help you organize what you need to pack based on length of travel, weather at your destination, and any activities planned during your trip.
Once your packing list is built and organized, PackPoint will save it for you, and then you can choose to share it with your friends and family in case they need help packing too.
Punch in the city you're going to travel to, the departure date, and the number of nights you'll be staying there.
PackPoint will build a packing list for you that takes into account:
- Business or Leisure travel
- Activities you plan on doing
- What you need for an international trip
- Warm weather clothes
- Cold weather clothes
- An umbrella if the forecast calls for rain
- If you're willing to repeat wearing basics like shirts and pants
- If you will have access to laundry facilities
Some expert packing checklist user tips:
- Tap gender icon to change between male and female travelers
- Tap and hold, or swipe, to remove packing list items
Have a feature request or feedback?
Visit http://ideas.packpnt.com or e-mail info@packpnt.com
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Hello HN!
I want to help you with any and all of the following: product/customer development, conversion optimization, product processes, and data/analytics. In return, I'd like your help with Python- and Javascript-related questions I can't seem to solve/find an answer to on Stack Overflow.
My Background:
- Built a company (Vuru), went through an accelerator (FounderFuel) and sold Vuru to Wave (Wave's investors include S+C, CRV and OMERS)
- Led product side of Wave's personal finance product (https://www.waveapps.com/personal/) and company-wide engagement efforts
- Laid data-driven foundation for Wave and led team that increased key company-wide metrics by over 50%
Progress Learning to Code:
- Completed up to lesson 43 of Learn Python the Hard Way
- Worked through Google's Python class and exercises (highly recommended)
- Currently going through the Django Tutorial (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/)
To provide a strong foundation, I'm following this article's advice: http://lifehacker.com/how-i-taught-myself-to-code-in-eight-weeks-511615189
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You:
You're a full stack developer, experienced with Python and JS, and are looking to improve your business/product chops.
If you fit that description and think this could be fun, email me: yoseph [dot] west [at] gmail
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Hello HN!
I want to help you with any and all of the following: product/customer development, conversion optimization, product processes, and data/analytics. In return, I'd like your help with Python- and Javascript-related coding questions I can't seem to solve/find an answer to on Stack Overflow.
My Background:
- Built a company (Vuru), went through an accelerator (FounderFuel) and sold Vuru to Wave (Wave's investors include S+C, CRV and OMERS)
- Led product side of Wave's personal finance product (https://www.waveapps.com/personal/) and company-wide engagement efforts
- Laid data-driven foundation for Wave and led team that increased key company-wide metrics by over 50%
Progress Learning to Code:
- Completed up to lesson 43 of Learn Python the Hard Way
- Worked through Google's Python class and exercises (highly recommended)
- Currently going through the Django Tutorial (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/)
To provide a strong foundation, I'm following this article's advice: http://lifehacker.com/how-i-taught-myself-to-code-in-eight-weeks-511615189
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You:
You're a full stack developer, experienced with Python and JS, and are looking to improve your business/product chops.
If you fit that description and think this could be fun, email me: yoseph [dot] west [at] gmail
This was my first web project ever, and while I was proud about what I have achieved (launching a product), I was also disappointed with the lack of response.
Now, on Christmas Eve, I started getting a lot of new subscriptions after a period of relative inactivity. Through Google Analytics I saw the traffic came from Lifehacker. You can see the piece here: http://lifehacker.com/5870288/top-10-under+hyped-web-apps-2011-edition
My app is number 9 - Aherk!, and you can access it @ http://aherk.com. It's pretty simple and unpretentious.
Now, although I'm enjoying my 15 minutes of fame, glory & unspeakable success, I'm wondering what steps I should take to keep things moving. How can I not waste this precious opportunity?
Any input is more than welcome! Thanks a lot.