adamwiggins

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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Heya Justin :-) Thanks for the walk down memory lane (I had totally forgotten about axeman!) and the kind words. A bit of nuance on the "terrible experience of trying to run Ruby apps" bit. I'd argue that the setup process fo
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by adamwiggins 5y ago
Muse | Local-first engineer | Remote Muse is an iPad (and soon, Mac) app for deep thinking. This job is to help build the local-first syncing infrastructure using Go, CRDTs, websockets, and Postgres. Knowledge of Swift/iOS development
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
You can search: https://museapp.com/handbook#to-search -- but you're right this isn't our main focus, the way it is for something like https://mymind.com/ . What we've seen from the year of b
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Miro is a solid choice for group whiteboarding, and being native to the web has lots of advantages. Their iPad app is pretty good too. We wanted to start with getting the single-user experience completely right, but Miro-like collaboration
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
That's fair, and we're considering ways to make it possible to try the app without an email. However I'm curious: do you apply this same criteria when trying software like Notion, Figma, or Google Docs? I assume you have diff
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
That's a really good question—I would love such a resource. There are some design discussions on the emacs mailing list about the tradeoff between accessibility and power tool that might be relevant: https://lwn.net/Art
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
A map card type would be incredibly useful—I use screenshots of Google Maps right now. Noted for the roadmap! Web pages (including subsets) also a critical card type on our roadmap. You're right that portrait mode is clumsy right now.
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Thanks and appreciate your stepping forward to try something new (with a big hardware investment, at that). I view note-taking (apps, or just on paper) as being about capture and later retrieval. But in a pretty static way--you take notes f
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Portrait-orientation boards are coming soon!
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
You nailed it.
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Yes! Check out our research on this topic: https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming.html -- although a simple API and Shortcuts hooks would be a good starting place.
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Good feedback! We used to include the trial terms (unlimited time, up to 100 cards) in the signup email but now that it's direct download from the App Store we need to find another place. And good point about monthly vs yearly percepti
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Thanks, and yes collaboration is on the roadmap. Because thinking is first and foremost a private activity, we wanted to get the single-user experience right as a foundation. Heavy dogfooding, yes! I use Muse for absolutely everything in de
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
This is amazing, thank you ️<3
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. - You can use the trial for unlimited time, and many folks do. - We've tried onboarding that includes sample boards, but this tends to be confusing because it's someone else's thoughts rather than you
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Maybe you didn't see my initial comment for the Show HN: there is a free tier.
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Hum, sorry, think I miscommunicated. Here on our team we use our iPads with keyboard and mouse or trackpad all the time. It's not an afterthought at all.
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Agreed, one of the secrets of the iPad is that the "optional accessories" like stylus and keyboard are actually required to make it a powerful tool. Muse works great with pinch, scroll, etc gestures. We still need to work on point
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Guess it depends what you value! Personally I value deep thinking, making good decisions, and doing research higher than entertainment. Now whether the product is helpful enough with those things to be worth the price, well for that the mar
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
You're able to judge the fairness of the price without having tried the product? We have quite a few paying customers, and I think they'd say it's worth it because it helps them think and be creative in a way that no other to
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Hope we'll become an established/trusted brand over time! I actually see the price as being the other way around from what you're describing: perhaps compare to the Tesla Roadster. Start with a premium product to fund your fl
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
We're not a startup.
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
A year, wow--that's the very earliest beta we made available. It was pretty rough back then, so thanks for sticking with it!
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
That's a reasonable objection. Muse does have a free tier also. Notability is a great app, but it's a sketchbook so not really a comparison.
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
We believe privacy is important for creativity, so all content is stored 100% on-device. No cloud, although we plan to add some sharing/collaboration features later on. As much as possible we'll use local-first principles on that,
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Muse does work with pointer support, either the trackpad on the Magic Keyboard ( https://www.apple.com/ipad-keyboards/ ) which you're probably referencing, or just hooking up any Bluetooth mouse. But you're cor
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Thanks! Tinderbox ( https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ ) is a great comparison—they have a different design aesthetic, cost a bit more ($249 one-time), but similar use case of deep knowledge work and thinking. Endless P
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Concepts ( https://concepts.app/ ) is great! But it's a drawing app, not really related.
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what's your take on the price of Dropbox ($120/year), Evernote ($96/year), or Roam ($165/year)?
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by adamwiggins 6y ago
Hey all, Muse cofounder here. I’ve been on Hacker News 13 years but this is my first Show HN. You might know me from YC08 and as Heroku cofounder and author of 12factor.net. Today my team and I are launching Muse, a thinking tool. Engineers

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