I wrote WeekPlan.net as a weekend project for myself and it grew into something that is getting me excited.
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!)
Has anyone tried or is anyone currently using a Linux-based operating system such as Plasma Mobile or Ubuntu Touch?
Based off of articles like this https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-smartphone-operating-systems/ the best one, to me, looks like Plasma Mobile (which requires a Nexus 5).
Is anyone using a Linux-based mobile operating system? Do you have any advice?
Just got hit with a scam from a Chinese registrar company [1] telling me that my domain name in other countries (eg. domain.cn or domain.com.dn) is being taken over by a Chinese company.
After doing some research [2] this is a complete scam. Since CNNIC registry announced that the Chinese .CN domains were public, these sort of scams have increased significantly.
If you do see these kinds of scams, I would highly recommend reporting it to the FBI internet fraud team here: https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-fraud-schemes/internet-fraud
ChatRide is a free video conversation tool that lets you do a video chat from within your browser window. Once you initiate a chat, you will get a permanent URL for your chat session that you can send to your friend. Once they click on it, your video chat starts. You can also go fullscreen or do a text chat simultaneously.
With all the interest in AI, there has been a recent increase in the number folks (especially students) cold-reaching out on LinkedIn and Twitter for advice on good resources to learn Python and AI. This is just because I work in the space (I think), so I'm guessing lots of other people will be seeing this too.
I try to be helpful but I also want to give the best possible current recommendations.
For the AI part, I've been recommending Jeremy Howard's awesome fast.ai course, and the new "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero" lecture series from Andrej Karpathy which I've seen lots of people recommend [1].
For learning Python (beginner-to-intermediate), my go-to recommendation used to be DataCamp, but I'm sure there are better and more-recent resources.
It doesn't look like there has been much discussion recently on HN, so I'm wondering what everyone would recommend as the best tutorials to help those people getting started or up-skilling now.
Sites that show up a lot in discussion include: realpython.com, treyhunner.com, makeuseof.com, digitalocean.com, tutorialspoint.com, towardsdatascience.com, programiz.com, simplilearn.com, learnpythonthehardway.org
Recently somehow my Credit and Debit card information was stolen (maybe I have some malware in my Win8 machine), I'm searching for a secure and minimalist linux distro so I can create a VM to do just online transactions over secure Networks (like home). I found this document http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-distros-paranoid-secure-distros-si/ that talks about LPS, Tails and Surprise!. What do you think?
Cory Doctorow described in brilliant detail the fictional distro Paranoid Linux in his novel, _Little Brother_. "Paranoid" fully protects its users: encrypted communication and Tor by default, continual network chaff, etc.
Why isn't this in wider use?
There is no distro called Paranoid, but there are other security-oriented distros like LPS and Tails http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-distros-paranoid-secure-distros-si/
Yet none is widely known and in wide use. Not even HN chatter talks a lot about these.
Why?
Does no one really care about security? Do these distros have usability or security flaws? Is it just a lack of marketing?
"Google estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed a paltry 0.04% of it all! You could fit the whole Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray disks." I saw this on makeuseof.com but cant verify it.
I've been working on a web app for listening to and sharing podcasts called Flapcast. I built the site for myself so I can listen to my podcasts on whichever computer I'm on (and share my favorite episodes with my friends), but It would be great for it to get enough traction that the social element will take off (making it better to discuss and discover episodes with new people).
Its been online for a few months now, with almost no traffic, and then I inexplicably got picked up by Lifehacker last weekend (I think they found me on makeuseof.com, which posts stories on all sorts of web apps, so I'd definitely recommend other developers to submit to sites like this). It was incredible to get my idea validated like this, but I'd love to hear feedback from the HN community on the site (since there seem to be a lot of podcast lovers on here too).
I want to be able to send and receive emails from my custom domains but not pay 5-49$ a month in doing so.
What options do I got?
Saw these alternatives but I don't know what you guys recommend.
- https://www.cloudron.io/index.html
- https://cyberpanel.net/
- https://www.hmailserver.com/
- https://wildduck.email/
- Sendmail and dovecot on a (Rasberry PI) RPi
- https://www.makeuseof.com/make-your-own-raspberry-pi-email-server/
To clarify, I don' t mind the UI looking like it's a website from 1998. I just want to be able to read and send.