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by alin23 4y ago
> old-school but super-helpful Love this, thank you for the kind message!
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by alin23 4y ago
I have a few writings here: https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/ And here: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/ The most desktop app technical + marketing related article would be: https://alinpanaitiu
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by alin23 4y ago
It’s still awaiting approval from App Store reviewers, I just launched it today. You can still use the trial build from the website until then.
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by alin23 4y ago
My most ambitious web project was https://noiseblend.com which is a web app for discovering music on Spotify. It’s a next.js + React slow and memory hungry mess [1] which could have been static HTML with some JS for the dynamic
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by alin23 4y ago
Heh glad it’s helpful ^_^ I have it constantly running with the menubar icon hidden, so even I forgot it existed. It just does its job when I go into a Zoom meeting.
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by alin23 4y ago
For simple one-page presentation websites, try https://carrd.co In my experience, knowing CSS is 90% of making a pretty and informative page. HTML is mostly just h1 for title, h2 for subtitle, div for groups and p for copy text.
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by alin23 4y ago
That’s actually really useful! I avoid some keywords in f5bot because they tend to be verbose and I don’t want to receive 100 emails per day on them. A chat makes it perfect for this use case, I’ll use it right away, thanks for making and s
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by alin23 4y ago
Sharing the link on the appropriate platforms is my best working version of marketing. Word of mouth takes over after this. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33621814 I tried paid ads on all major pl
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by alin23 4y ago
My secret is f5bot.com ^_^ I’m notified when keywords related to “human wants thing, my app can do thing” appear on HN, Reddit and Lobsters. If I can then contribute with information to that discussion, I’ll also leave a link to my app. Don
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by alin23 4y ago
I also made tens of dollars a month with https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd for the first few months ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The good thing is that usually you just keep growing from this. Now it’s making $1k per month, mostly because of
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by alin23 4y ago
Thanks for the kind words! I’d say I had a year of full time work (on and off in 3 years of time) until I had Lunar 3 which was the most stable until Apple Silicon arrived: https://github.com/alin23/lunar/tree&#x2F
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by alin23 4y ago
Lunar, my best selling app, is outside the App Store. But I had to do 2 to 4 months more work to replicate what App Store is doing. See my more detailed comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33621601
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by alin23 4y ago
Thank you! :) About XDR, I have an FAQ about its safety here: https://lunar.fyi/faq#xdr-safe
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by alin23 4y ago
I love the App Store product and what it offers, what I don’t like is the bureaucracy that grew around it. Because Lunar uses lots of private and reverse engineered APIs, it isn’t allowed on the App Store, so I had to replicate a lot of the
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by alin23 4y ago
Building and selling macOS apps is a pretty good niche to be in right now. I escaped my stressful corporate job 1 year ago and I’ve been living comfortably since then from app revenue only. I’m making between $3.5k and $9k per month with h
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by alin23 4y ago
I'm using Syncthing with NotePlan and Caddy in a similar way, it should be doable as long as Joplin can sure individual files. Here's how I do it: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/How%20I%20write%20this%20blog... If
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by alin23 4y ago
Also please write about your process of writing. I just did here: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/How%20I%20write%20this%20blog... And while I’m not sure it would be of any use to someone, I know I wished I could read how ot
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I write this blog on my iPhone, from a train(notes.alinpanaitiu.com)
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AirPods Max Active Noise Cancelation Less Effective After Firmware Update(macrumors.com)
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by alin23 4y ago
Exactly, me too! And I've looked everywhere but nothing fills this niche anymore. I had the first generation of Mi Band, the one with only 3 RGB LEDs, no display. And I loved it, I could easily see I have a new Gmail notification when
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by alin23 4y ago
That sounds like an article I'd click on without thinking too much! Please write about it! I also wanted to do this automation for my office espresso machine when I was employed, but there was very little literature on this at the time
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Ask HN: What smart-home hardware felt magical to you?
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by alin23 4y ago
Looks great, I'm always amazed how easy it is to do complicated graphics using CSS. It reminds me how outdated my OpenGL CompSci college course felt, drawing triangles by defining each point coordinates.. I'm thankful I don't
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by alin23 4y ago
Lunar's Blackout feature can do that: https://lunar.fyi/#blackout There's no built-in way to do it.
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by alin23 4y ago
For sure you can. I had this workflow with manually added keybindings through many methods over the years: skhd, Hammerspoon, BetterTouchTool etc. I just found that the functionality is useful enough to warrant an app that can dynamically a
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by alin23 4y ago
Yes, you're right. I did try Meilisearch for this but I wanted close-to-instant Smith-Waterman fuzzy searching which is why I settled on FZF. In the end I might have to reimplement that in Swift with an always cached index and native S
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Added some more
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Added some more
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Everything uses NTFS journaling as far as I know. I actually solved that by using the native macOS fsevents API which can watch the whole filesystem for changes, and I can instantly update the SQLite db I use for the index through that. The
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by alin23 4y ago
I still wish for something like Everything on Windows ( https://www.voidtools.com/ ) I wrote my own solution using fd + sqlite + fzf but it's nowhere as fast as Everything, and it also requires me to focus the Terminal t

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