erohead

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   by erohead 4y ago

   Has anyone got this working in Electron?
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   by erohead 4y ago

   This is why we are building https://www.beeper.com
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   by erohead 4y ago

   Appears to be open source: https://github.com/charslab/TranscriberBot
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   by erohead 4y ago

   This is the way
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   by erohead 4y ago

   I touch on this on the site. 5% of iPhones sold are minis. That's 10m sold per year! That is more than enough demand to cover the NREs and costs of making a phone. * https://9to5mac.com/2022/04/21/cirp-ip
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   by erohead 4y ago

   I’m a long-time small phone Android user. But after the Pixel 5, I have not been able to find a suitable small Android replacement. The Pixel 6 is gigantic, and the Pixel 7 looks like it is also destined to be huge. It’s gotten so bad that
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   I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone(smallandroidphone.com)

   1658 points by erohead 4y ago|1053 comments
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   by erohead 4y ago

   Beeper | Senior Android Engineer | Remote | Full time | UTC -8 to +3 Beeper ( https://beeper.com ) is a universal chat app. It interoperates with 15+ chat networks including iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. The foundation of the
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   Pyka (YC S17) Raises $37m for Autonomous Electric Cargo Airplanes(techcrunch.com)

   1 points by erohead 4y ago|0 comments
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    by erohead 5y ago

    naw that's not true. The valley of death is >1k units but <10k. Not enough money to pay back your hw tooling. There are no real discounts in volume for consumer electronics. Just look at the supply chain crunch, sometimes it&#x27
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    by erohead 5y ago

    Agreed. It was impossible for us to deliver an amazing notification and call experience for iOS users because Apple did not (and still doesn't) expose APIs for sending iMessage, starting calls or talking to Siri.
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    by erohead 5y ago

    Honestly it never even crossed our minds at the time of picking a 'smaller' path. The natural path was to continue scaling. It's only obvious with hindsight that there was another path.
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    by erohead 5y ago

    Could buy one on ebay for $50! Apps still work on iPhone and Android ;)
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    by erohead 5y ago

    Thanks for the kind note! I think there are a few Pebblers working on the playdate ;)
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    by erohead 5y ago

    We're working through our waitlist, talking to customers, getting feedback and iterating: https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-update-4-out-of-beta?s=w
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    by erohead 5y ago

    Meh, I know that we did not get greedy. Greedy implies we were driven by a selfish goal of making more money for ourselves. As the founder, I can truly state that it was not our intention. We honestly thought that smartwatches were about to
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    by erohead 5y ago

    One way to do it is to start small, build something, ship it to customers, get feedback and then iterate from there. This is a bit harder with hardware, though, but not impossible. We actually built an entire smartwatch called inPulse befor
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    by erohead 5y ago

    Wireguard exit routing has resulted in pretty slow VPN-like traffic for me. Dedicated VPN seems like a better option just for secure browsing
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    Senate Committee just voted 21-1 in favour of mandating sideloading on iOS(cnbc.com)

    2 points by erohead 5y ago|0 comments
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    Bruce Schneier letter in support of Open App Markets bill(eff.org)

    2 points by erohead 5y ago|0 comments
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    Beeper (YC S21) is hiring a senior Android engineer(beeper.notion.site)

    1 points by erohead 5y ago
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    Flight Penguin – New Flight Search Extension from Hipmunk Founders(flightpenguin.com)

    1 points by erohead 6y ago|0 comments
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    by erohead 6y ago

    I chat with Arathorn pretty regularly and I'm quite sure that we're not competitors, at least not yet . Beeper is focused in hosting and maintaining bridges between Matrix and other networks. EMS is vanilla Matrix hosting.
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    by erohead 6y ago

    You could piece it together with https://github.com/nomadic-labs/safesupport-chatbox (intercom like matrix chat box) and https://github.com/maubot/supportportal (does the operator management). Pi
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    by erohead 6y ago

    Tulir is on the Beeper team, he's the one writing all the bridges! They are quite reliable now.
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    by erohead 6y ago

    Yes, Beeper is the new name for NovaChat.
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    by erohead 6y ago

    All of our bridges (except Slack and Discord, but will soon) use Matrix's e2e encryption scheme and all messages are stored encrypted on Beeper servers with a key that you control. We can't decrypt your messages.
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    by erohead 6y ago

    we use synapse right now. Hopefully moving to dendrite when appservice support is added
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    by erohead 6y ago

    So good to hear that! Have you considered buying one off ebay? Still some good deals there :)
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    by erohead 6y ago

    definitely on roadmap