Show HN: Weekend project to help me remember to update my boss every day

whatwedid.today

13 points·coreymaass··8 comments

A lightweight alternate to this would be a script that emails you via mutt or another command-line email program in cron every day with the reply-to set to your bosses address:

mutt -s 'Daily status.' -e 'my_hdr Reply-To: bosses-address' your-address

Though some problems with this approach are: 1. Your emails would be prefixed with 'Re:' 2. Configuring mutt or other command-line email programs require some setup. 3. Your computer needs to be running when the cron job is set to execute.

Wow, great walk through. The lightweight alternative I started with was a recurring calendar event with a mailto link :-) But I wanted something a little more formal, and it was a fun app to build!

A bit nit picky but you got a double "so" in:

"We store your responses so so it's clear what you've been working on."

Thank you! Fixed.

So. Like Idonethis? https://idonethis.com/

Funny you brought this up. It's a little different from iDoneThis in that it's about updating your boss, not about storing your "dones". I actually built a team version of this, but that is identical to weDoneThis, and being friends with Walter from iDoneThis, I don't want to just copy their hard work. So offering this for free for now. :-)

Hi, looks great! When you say "weekend project", did you really build it in two days?

Right now I've got about 27 hours into it. So not technically at this point :-) But the initial feature set took about 8 hours. I've just been fiddling with it a lot since I built it - logo, design, slightly improved onboarding, making it responsive, etc.

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