brianpk

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by brianpk 3y ago
No, not at the moment. How does your current app know the schema of feeds, in general, for the purpose of setting those alerts? i.e. how do you set an alert on price, when other feeds might have nothing to do with currency? I'm not say
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by brianpk 3y ago
Thank you! I haven't considered that, but I'm curious to hear more. Are you thinking a user's Apricot feed could have its own RSS feed so people could follow it, or generating RSS feeds for Apricot users' original conten
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by brianpk 3y ago
Actually, a question - for the tags idea, what kind of tags are you thinking? I can imagine a lot of different directions, do you have any specific examples in mind?
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by brianpk 3y ago
I love these ideas -- keep 'em coming! The algorithmic sort is there, it's just a little hidden (and rudimentary, for the current MVP). Go to settings and check the box for "Algorithmically sort items".
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by brianpk 3y ago
Good idea, just added a paragraph and link to the landing page.
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by brianpk 3y ago
I did start with username & password, but it was pretty annoying to have to type the password on the phone. I thought the email magic link would be easier until I hit the problem with iOS progressive web apps. Now that you mention it, I
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by brianpk 3y ago
Oh, you totally can add a YouTube channel (or any other feed) manually - just paste the link into Apricot! For Tattooed Traveler, for example, paste in https://www.youtube.com/@TattooedTraveler . As you can probably tell, I&
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by brianpk 3y ago
Thanks! Lurk looks cool too -- similar, but more in a complementary way I think in that users have to click out of Apricot to read/watch/listen to the content vs. how Lurk brings the content into an embedded browser. Looking forwa
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by brianpk 3y ago
Good to know - there's supposed to be a message to check your email, but it sounds like it got dropped. I'll blame the AWS us-east outage for now...
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by brianpk 3y ago
Yeah, I'm sorry about that. I'm starting to look into a native iOS app, but it's going to be a little while. In the meantime, I think Apple did mention something about progressive web apps last week at WWDC -- I'll have
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by brianpk 3y ago
Yeah, I realize that now, but sadly, I can't edit the link in this post.
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by brianpk 3y ago
Ah, good point.
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by brianpk 3y ago
Thanks! I see what you mean - would you expect more explicit feedback when submit the email, or is it more a question of more content on the login page to explain what's going on?
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by brianpk 3y ago
Good point. The landing page probably makes the most sense, but that's a Show HN no-no, I think. It's probably time to merge the landing page and app, I'll put that on the to-do list.
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Show HN: Apricot – because RSS won't come back unless we move it forward(app.theapricot.io)
67 points by brianpk 3y ago|34 comments
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ChatGPT vs. Bard: A Realistic Comparison(blog.theapricot.io)
90 points by brianpk 3y ago|65 comments
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by brianpk 3y ago
ok, the title should probably be more like "One person's anecdotal, totally unscientific but realistic comparison. Still, amidst all the breathless hype, I thought a little actual data might help people evaluate the two tools side
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by brianpk 3y ago
Looks that way to me. For email, I'd rather be the customer than the product...
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by brianpk 3y ago
I use fastmail with a custom domain and I'm happy with it. At least, in the sense that it just works and I never have to think about it.
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by brianpk 3y ago
FWIW, Apricot's OPML import is done. Go to https://app.theapricot.io/ , then the settings page.
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by brianpk 3y ago
Totally, working on it.
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by brianpk 3y ago
Seems like a reasonable place to plug my new project: https://theapricot.io Follow Substack newsletters, YouTube channels, Spotify podcasts, and subreddits in a Twitter-style feed without all the Twitter junk.