Show HN: Slapshot — never forget anything

slapshotapp.com

9 points·thetylerhayes··5 comments

Hi I'm Tyler. I work at a startup, I'm not an engineer, but I like to make things.

Like many of you, I have lots of ideas. I also enjoy going out with friends for a drink. I like people telling me about cool things to check out later. But I never remember later what my ideas or those friends' recommendations were, because the brain isn't meant to be that kind of memory device. So I taught myself Objective-C and Xcode and made an iPhone app called Slapshot to solve this.

Here's how it works:

Just type and close the app.

That’s it. Slapshot will email you exactly what you wrote 12 hours later.

I'd love your feedback. If you're interested in helping promote Slapshot please send me an email hn@slapshotapp.com, I've got a free promo code with your name on it.

Neat idea, but how is this better than just having a note-taking/text-editing app that you look back at later?

Good question. I made myself constantly answer this when building Slapshot.

What I discovered: most people never remember to look back later. And even if you do it's just more work.

Slapshot isn't a world-changing app but it does help optimize for a small pain point in the easiest possible way. I'm all about off-loading work to automated things so I can use my brain to focus on other stuff.

Good answer. I'd consider adding it to the website.

Thanks. Done and done.

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