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The Product / Feature Line(capiche.com)
2 points by maguay 6y ago|0 comments
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by maguay 6y ago
Author here—this is the best part of HN. I perhaps took the idea too far. Any iOS push notification can be up to 4kb, and Yo’s API shows that each Yo includes a created time, sender name, avatar, User ID, message status, and more. That’s fo
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by maguay 6y ago
Author here, agreed, and using something like that to stay lightly in touch with people ideally would have potential. Strangely I think it could have possibly worked in Facebook better if they hadn't named their "notify someone wi
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by maguay 6y ago
That would be a great feature—random video calls are absolutely worse than random phone calls since the former requires you look presentable.
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by maguay 6y ago
It’s still around, saved by crowdfunding, though its apps haven’t been optimized for newer phone screen sizes. I haven’t used it regularly for years now though, but the idea’s always stuck with me.
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by maguay 6y ago
Author here—yup, it’s based on the Italian word.
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The accidental genius of Yo(capiche.com)
82 points by maguay 6y ago|91 comments
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No-Code and the IKEA Effect: Software lock-in evolved to make us never churn(capiche.com)
120 points by maguay 6y ago|76 comments
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by maguay 6y ago
Oh man, a standardized plain-text email formatting! I can't believe I hadn't come across that before. I just added a brief mention of that to the article with a credit to your comment; that's absolutely something worth includ
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by maguay 6y ago
Fair enough—definitely something we need to reconsider. Appreciate the feedback!
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by maguay 6y ago
Author here: Goal here was to focus more on what led to Markdown itself, with a bit of details around how other takes (MultiMarkdown, CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown) took it further, in the same way that Markdown in some ways took ide
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by maguay 6y ago
Author here: Org-mode would have been another good one to cover, thanks for mentioning that. It was started right in the middle—Textile came in 2002, Org-mode in 2003, Markdown in 2004. Makes me think of Todo.txt also, which came a couple y
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by maguay 6y ago
Author here: Ohhh that's one I wish I hadn't missed, thanks for mentioning it. Ward's contributions with c2 keep showing up in different places, as you mention here with plain text formatting, and in other ways with for examp
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by maguay 6y ago
Author here: Agreed on it being better to do advanced stuff in other apps. I found it interesting that the original Markdown launch posts basically say that. Textile was trying to cover the vast majority of HTML; Gruber with Markdown basica
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by maguay 6y ago
Author here: Absolutely. Or how apps like Notion "eat" Markdown, turning it into Rich text when you paste it in but then if you copy the text you pasted, you don't get the Markdown copy but instead get their rich text convers
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by maguay 6y ago
Author here, appreciate the feedback! I got caught up a bit in the story of the inspiration behind Markdown (email for Markdown, typewriters for Textile), what I'd assumed was competition between Textile and Markdown (when it turned ou
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by maguay 6y ago
Author here. I think, for one, Markdown's focus is on writing for the web, and there rich text wasn't good in 2004 (where copying/pasting from say Word into WordPress was always hit and miss, and rich web editors were far les
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by maguay 6y ago
Yikes you're right—got it right once, then later on accidentally put Aaron's last name instead. Thanks for the heads-up!
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Software got 2.2% more expensive on average in 2020(capiche.com)
1 points by maguay 6y ago|0 comments
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Productivity software won’t make you more productive(capiche.com)
3 points by maguay 6y ago|0 comments
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by maguay 6y ago
Discord may be the closest, with its voice chat rooms. It's not designed for work chat per se, but can work ok as a Slack replacement.
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by maguay 6y ago
Followup here: I double-checked with some others who publish with Substack, and [you can export your Substack subscribers]( https://capiche.com/q/what-did-you-use-to-start-a-paid-newsl... ). At least that keeps the lockd
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Positional Software: How today’s best business software goes viral(capiche.com)
3 points by maguay 6y ago|0 comments
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by maguay 6y ago
Substack’s docs show an option to export email addresses—I would presume that would mean you could move your subscriber list to another email platform if you wanted to?
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by maguay 6y ago
Yup, that's the same! Apparently the name has _farang_ in it since the tree isn't originally native to Thailand; Wikipedia says it's a transplant from Mexico, interestingly enough.
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Email apps are where new software features get invented(capiche.com)
1 points by maguay 6y ago|0 comments
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by maguay 6y ago
Another fun Thai fruit: ตะขบ (`da kop`), which are these tiny custard-like berries that literally spoil within hours after picking them. They make great shade trees, so you can often find them growing over a road in residential areas, and j
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by maguay 6y ago
Interesting, this may have changed. Just remembered that Safari now only lets you install extensions from the App Store, so that would actually make sense if a paid developer account is now required. There’s yet another reason why Safari ha
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by maguay 6y ago
Author here—I guess, to a degree, that’s how Apple sees it too, it’s just they think they deserve a larger percent than developers want to give. There are apps—business software including Adobe and Microsoft’s subscriptions, media subscript
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by maguay 6y ago
True enough—and yet, the App Store by not offering software upgrades, has in many ways pushed developers to the subscription model.

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