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It sounds like the purpose of muzzle is to enable Do Not Disturb automatically so you don't have to remember.
by qntty 9y ago
It sounds like the purpose of muzzle is to enable Do Not Disturb automatically so you don't have to remember.
- drewmate 9y agoI have a few qualms with this app: [1] 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by writing a shell script, compiling your own custom X server, and then monitoring the screen state for full-screen apps. For Windows or Mac, you just remote desktop to your Linux box with built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually reroute the notifications. Most people I know want to be able to perform presentations without the visual clutter of notifications, but they still carry a phone to check their Instagram while presenting. This does not solve their notification issue. 3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 --- In reality, this is a great landing page and a cool idea for an app. Also, I have nothing but respect for people who share their honest, thoughtful assessments on HN. The future is tough to predict.
- aroman 9y agoif you think compiling a custom X server is "trivial", we must have very different ideas about what that word means
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- ddispaltro 9y agoI think you missed the joke.
- sah2ed 9y agoIt's a running joke about DropBox. The giveaway is in the link in the parent's post.
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- saagarjha 9y ago> It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this? Does everything have to be a moneymaker? Like you said, this would be trivial to setup yourself. It's a nice piece of software that provides some advertising for his other products.