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by allenu 2y ago
I can see how "we're in your neighborhood so we thought you might want to use our services while we're here" could work. When I first moved into my house a few years ago, I wasn't familiar with tactics used by door
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by allenu 2y ago
I suspect the latter question works better because it's softer and doesn't give as much of an out as the former. We're all busy. It's much easier to answer in the affirmative and if anything, highlighting the busy nature
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by allenu 2y ago
Generally, with this type of work (where I'm trying to go fast), I have to be flexible, so I will often just let nested tasks "die off" after I've found alternative ways of solving the problem or I've changed the id
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by allenu 2y ago
This is how I work on my projects as an indie dev. When I start working on something significant (a new feature, for instance), I'll create a markdown file that has a summary of what I'm trying to achieve and then a TODOs section
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by allenu 2y ago
I follow the author of those apps on Mastodon and he posted recently that he's been flooded by fake 5-star reviews and has reported them to Apple, so it doesn't sound like he paid for them.
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by allenu 2y ago
This is really cool stuff, OP. Congrats on the launch! I like that you've taken an actual problem or use case you have and turned it into an app. I love seeing how other people solve similar problems. I've seen this other project
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by allenu 2y ago
This is one of those things that's easier to respond to with more experience. When I was a more green developer just starting to work in a team, I'd probably have answered, "Yes, I could've tried making the code more ope
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by allenu 3y ago
I've always wanted to build an infinite canvas idea to try it out, but whenever I've used implementations of it (such as in the Muse app), it just feels wrong. It feels like a beautiful way to interact with essentially fractal inf
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by allenu 3y ago
I recently noticed the narrative power of montages and just how "movie magic" they are, as opposed to being based in reality, when I watched the BlackBerry movie. There's a really great montage near the beginning of the film
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by allenu 3y ago
Well done and good job using what looks like a cheap controller and aluminum foil to keep costs down. :)
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by allenu 3y ago
Controllers are surprisingly super easy to work with and a good gateway to some basic electronics hacking. I've actually gone the opposite direction from this post. I have a Neo Geo arcade board (JAMMA) and it has plugs for Neo Geo con
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by allenu 3y ago
ChatGPT has been a godsend for helping me figure out how to use quite a few Mac and iOS APIs in the last year. There are APIs that would’ve taken me an hour or more to work out how to use by searching online, experimenting, digging up old W
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by allenu 3y ago
As an indie dev, I feel like the greater risk is that you aren't able to release an MVP and find PMF at all, so I'd always err on getting something working on fewer platforms first so you can move quickly. Having the option to go
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by allenu 3y ago
If you’re an indie dev, that can be a good thing. I find it much simpler to ship for iOS and Mac as a solo dev.
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by allenu 3y ago
It’s fascinating that a fake podcast conversation is a potentially better way to communicate a sales pitch than someone talking directly at the audience. I’ll admit I was also wondering “Who is this guy talking to? Was this a clip from a po
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by allenu 3y ago
I remember TradeWars 2002. I was never into strategy games all that much, but did play a bit of Global War and later Falcon's Eye. I was surprised to find that several BBS door games are still available for sale, such as Barren Realms
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by allenu 3y ago
I was into BBSes in the early to mid-90s as a teen, but was still pretty cheap, so only purchased a small handful of shareware: 1) Telemate - Probably the best software to call BBSes and download files. 2) Blue Wave (mail reader) - I got ho
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by allenu 3y ago
I suspect it's Apple Silicon only because there are simple APIs that Apple has provided to take screenshots of the desktop and OCR text from images. I don't think OP necessarily built any low-level code from scratch here (not that
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by allenu 3y ago
I think some of it is just the poor aesthetic combination of fedora with a t-shirt and jeans. The fedora feels like an attempt to be stylish without going the full effort to coordinate the look. It’s a lack of self-awareness that probably c
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by allenu 3y ago
I agree. I would say that there’s a class of lessons you only gain by, for instance, shipping things, by completing projects —- and many of them. If you only ever start things and maybe slog at it for a while and give up, there’s a whole ho
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by allenu 3y ago
I wonder if more people are realizing this and tuning out of those shows, too. I noticed I was watching a bunch of true crime stuff and after a while realized I was really just wasting my time since I didn't really learn anything new a
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by allenu 3y ago
One of the first things I learned to write for myself when I was a teenager was a diary program, written for DOS. I think I wrote it in QuickBASIC. Then later, I wrote another one using Modula-2. I believe I wrote another one after that usi
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by allenu 3y ago
> Classic bookmarks failed for the same reason manually curated directories lost to search engines - because the mnemonic organization doesn't work well at the required scale. That's exactly it for me. Once I get a few bookmark
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by allenu 3y ago
I don’t know about the link’s strategy but I’ve implemented something CRDT-like and for object deletion, I’ve had to use tombstones. (In my case I timestamp the tombstone state in case I want to bring the object back).
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by allenu 3y ago
Yup, when I read the blog post, my immediate thought was, "Hey, this sounds just like Microsoft when I was there." There it was blue badge vs. non-blue badge. All the other stuff, too –– wanting to innovate but finding everything
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by allenu 3y ago
I encountered this recently. I tried what was suggested in the link and it didn’t work when I pasted into my browser (pasting into Protonmail). The core ”issue” is the copy action puts the formatted version into the pasteboard (as well as t
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by allenu 3y ago
I remember excitedly asking for it for Christmas, getting it, and being underwhelmed when I actually played it. I was hoping the puzzles would be integrated into the story like a murder mystery, but instead it felt like puzzles were just ta
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by allenu 3y ago
I had to tackle this problem for my index card app, Card Buddy. [1] It was definitely a fun challenge and I still found a better way to do it later. What I ended up doing is when you pick up a card, I compute the layout as if the card was d
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by allenu 3y ago
That's fair. My initial reaction on just seeing the headline was "Oh, I wonder what indie dev-focused tool this guy made." It's definitely a cliche now to see someone going into the solo SaaS business and then pivoting t
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by allenu 3y ago
As a fellow indie hacker (I quit my job 18 months ago to build and sell my own apps), I am super jealous. I don't have the success of this guy (only getting close to $1k/mo these days), but I can understand the success. This guy k

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