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I discovered Orion a few years back and it has been my go-to standalone browser but never strong enough to be my primary browser.
So many daily drivers of mine refuse(d) to work from time to time (1P, Netflix, Youtube, Slack, Gmaps, Hey & the list goes on). I eventually started relying on Orion RC instead of Orion to band-aid fix these problems.
I truly hope they succeed but a few hours of driving the 1.0, it doesn't feel like a 1.0 yet.
CoffeeScript: Felt in love with CS as I wanted to rapid protypes with (now defunct) Framer Classic.
Smalltalk/Squeak/Vala are something I have wanted to dabble with for a while but haven't gotten around to.
For iDevices relying on Orion Browser paired with Ublock Origin and NextDNS set up. As good as Safari but without the annoyances of Plugins. Their compatablity mode seems to work on sites where Safari seems to have issues.
Ungoggled Chromium for sites that seem to break on both Firefox and Orion, unfortunately there are loads out there. It's a shame that Firefox isn't as effecient with Battery Consumption as Orion is.
Brave/Edge just never cut it for me.
And I am in the process of moving my Custom Domains to Fastmail, the only thing that irks me is their mobile app refusing to open without an active internet connection.
Happy birthday HN :)
At first try the website did not load, a few refreshes later I can now see the home screen but nothing happens when I click anywhere on the page.
If you are hell bent on taking this deal, ask them to pay for the Product on top of giving you distribution (reselling or licensing) this to other businesses in that Country. Get minimum guarantees and make it a timed deal with the option of walking out at any time. If you want to sell the Startup tomorrow this can be one of your biggest headache.
Disclaimer: INAL
Would love to see someone give a facelift to my personal blog.
P.S: Not affiliated with Fantastical in any way, just a happy and paying user for a few years now.
When the entire debacle started I was suddenly an optimist on:
- Mobile vs Web debate forcing gate keepers on giving equally competent choices for users & makers alike.
- Apple relooking and rethinking their 70-30% strategy
- Small & Indie Developers openly talking about the problems being at the mercy of Apple and Google's stores.
I think there is a fine line between "picture yourself in X,Y,Z" vs "close your eyes and visualize a simple thing that you know well". Don't know if there is a standard test to find out if you indeed(medically) have it or not.
*Link to the note: https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...
- Constantly thinking and outsourcing the time i spend on stuff that doesn't matter (especially the bottom 10-20%). Good hack for doing this is calendering all the things i do in a typical day and then reviewing it over the weekends to subtract the automatable and (probably boring) non impactful pieces.
- Having two different phones, one for work and the other for everything else. The work phone/number gets shut down as soon as i am done for the day (no exceptions. Android has the concepts of users which can emulate similar experience without the need to invest on another phone.
- Not syncing emails constantly, instead i have 3 hour blocks for syncing/replying to emails. Can't check emails all the time and neither at the end and beginning of the day so three hour blocks work well for me.
I end up using both accordingly to the use case at hand.
Do you have no money to spend on Promotions? Get Creative with how you promote stuff. Reach out to Instagram/Twitter pages that post related to your niche and aren’t that big that they would like to charge you for it.
Get your friends, family to actively talk about you.
Reach out to anyone who buys from you your site and get as much info as possible. When you understand who your customers are, where are they coming from and why did they buy from you you will have the right amount of insights to get a gut feeling about what, where and how to get your next set of users.
Also reach out to people and ask for help, sometimes it’s all that it takes(as long as you value their time and be respectful) :)