avinoth

I'm on the same boat, burnt by Evernote and trying to find the good alternative. Sticking with Obsidian for now with some apple notes in-between. But the former has too many features I don't need and later has this vendor lock-in.

If I ever built a note taking app, I'll be using your tag line as a subtitle and a guiding principle :)

"...just a list of notes with some formatting and sync capabilities"

It is hard.

First you need a purpose, a motivation. Not the kind you get on a sudden morning, but a visualization of how the end result is going to be. Because, the sudden motivations will go at the same speed it came to you. But many of these things needs a lifestyle change and lifestyle change needs consistency and for consistency you need to have something to hold on it.

Unless you have those "vision" to see yourself of, it is very hard to motivate yourself when you don't have results or if you're not motivated. Then again, many of these things I have heard in my early years but took the later half to figure out and settle on. So give it time, it will come.

In reality it's much easier. I've sold couple of my projects before via different mediums (one is through microacquire - the one OP mentioned, and one was through a connect), and the best way i found to go about it is to be ready to walk away from the deal.

I know this is negotiations 101, but it's tough to put it in practice most of the time if one person wants a little bit more to see the transaction through. Surprisingly, communications skill doesn't play that big of a role, unless you really want to "sell it" most of the conversations goes the same way OP mentioned.

Some memories with those time. We used missed calls for varying reasons depending on the people we interact with.

* When going to meet someone, first missed calls says you've started, then the second missed calls says you've reached. This will be informed before hand while scheduling the meet.

* You're supposed to reject when you're expecting a mutually agreed missed call, and if the call comes the 2nd time immediately, then you should pick up.

* During meets, there usually is one organizer who everyone gives missed call to update their status and they'll follow-up with another missed call to those who didn't update. I know it sounds complicated, but it surprisingly isn't.

* Before mobile, landline was pretty common and caller IDs were almost non-existent, missed calls with a pattern are the way to denote that its you that's calling to make sure her parents does not pick up the phone :). One ring, then two rings, and she should be near the phone for the next call to pick (you hope and pray its not her dad, again.) and pretend to talk with a friend.

It was via microacquire.com, the MRR was mostly around ~$90 for a year or so and was on the same when sold. Expenses were around ~$5/mo. so just kept it on maintenance mode.

I decided to sell primarily because there were lots of enterprise companies' interests with people reaching out for bulk pricing and stuff, but I've really lost motivation on this project at that point so put it up for sale if anyone's interested to take it in that direction.

Congratulations is due! The journey sounds very similar to what I'm going through, though in my case acquisition was the end result, couldn't see it through to the 3 digit $$.

Built an app 3 years ago, just kept at it and it was on a constant cycle of losing interest and suddenly bursting out features then losing interest again over and over.

Nevertheless, I get the grind and I respect it. It isn't easy keeping at something for these many years on the side especially without any rewards. There will be this inevitable impulse to just kill it and move on to the new one when after the excitement wanes off (it definitely makes sense for certain projects). Kudos for keeping it up!

Keep on going.

One other excellent way to throw off the maintenance developer is to define & use LOTS of dynamic methods in obfuscated locations.

Step up your game by defining those methods from a DB entry.

(I wish I was making this sinister plan up for satirical purposes)

Apple took the "Fire your bad customer" way too seriously...

Its Rails+Postgres on the backend & Vuejs (TS) on the frontend. Hosting is done through dokku on a Hetzner VPS cloud.

Under the hood the frequency is also handled as numbers (0/1), there is a way for users to change the type if desired from Boolean to X Times, but complications stem when they want to do the other way around.

Some of the main pain points it might introduced are into visualizing the historical data. When you've been saying yes & No, and suddenly you want to track count, you'd see bit of inconsistency on how the data is presented. This proves hinderance to further work on finding the patterns. Hence why..

The way it is structured now, tracker is a one immutable component of type & frequency and when one of it changes, its a whole new tracker. This would simplify the experience for the user down the line. Rest assured, if this seems to be bothering users much, I'm willing to see if it could be done the other way as well.

> Any plans for native mobile apps, or web only?

Definitely! I put off building this for sometime mainly because I wanted to do it as App first. But since web version had a faster iteration, i got this one out to start with. I've already did some work on the app front and hopefully will get it out by this year end.

I've attached some screenshots on the parent's reply, here it is - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3h6xg78lfc402k5/AAAwAYw3Yohsvp84c...

As for the pricing, I really haven't decided on one and when to charge. But rest assured, I've always planned to grandfather users who signed up before any payment plan is launched. Basically, anything you use for free when you signup will forever be free.

Thanks for the suggestion and the associated link.

You're right, the primary motivation was to do tracking for insights but down the line I would like if this can be agnostic even from that., like one feature I was planning to do is "Overlay charts" which lets you overlay data from multiple trackers to figure out patterns. On a different line, I've visioned if it could sort of have a "Streak" builder with triggers after certain "value" is achieved, which then allows it to have "goal" based tracking abilities.

Will do a write-up on the "manifesto" of the product, and will ensure the intent is clear from the landing page.

As for the pricing, I really haven't decided on one and when to charge. But rest assured, I've always planned to grandfather users who signed up before any payment plan is launched. Basically, anything you use for free will forever be free.

Thanks again.

Makes sense. I've composed screenshots of important pages here - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3h6xg78lfc402k5/AAAwAYw3Yohsvp84c...

I understand if you meant to have it in the landing page, which I will get on it, I'm planning to have a demo account setup by end of this week.

Bit of a backstory for how Trackiem came to be.

I've always been obsessed about tracking individual pieces of information in my life and finding patterns for certain activities. Like, activities that lead up to a headache., correlations between number of coffees I drink and number of hours I sleep and so on..

I have tried using specific tracker tools before but they always inevitably becomes not useful as they are targeted towards specific niche or goal (like habit building, budget planning, etc)., whereas I wanted something generic that offers just the right tools and lets me build my trackers to the way I want. Hence, I built Trackiem.

I've built it to be as much un-opinionated as possible, by just offering the components that makes up a tracker and let users customize it the way they want.

This is only the initial version which lets you create trackers with basic "types" and "frequencies" with reminders. I've planned exciting things down the line for though, such as customized dashboard & reminders, more nuanced tracker types - this will allow you to build your own finance tracker, time tracker and so on.

Excited for the launch and any feedback is much appreciated!

All my products mostly start with these list of essential services, but can do away with the free plans until the product grows.

* Github for repositories (Free) * Namecheap for DNS * Zoho for emails (free for 5 email accounts) * Mailgun for emails (1250 emails per month free) * Trello for project management (free) * Airbrake for error monitoring (7.5 errors per month free) * Tawk.to for customer support contact form (free) * Netlify for frontend hosting (free) * Cloudflare for CDN (free) * Hetzner for servers. (this is the only paid service :), but its only $2.70 per month for a 1Vcpu 2GB ram vps) * Paddle for payments (they take 5% cut which is very reasonable for the services they offer)

This stack pretty much allows me to just invest "time" into a project and get it out, before scaling it.

Thanks for the feedback. I submitted the direct app for Show HN few days ago and didn't make it well. I thought a write-up would help clarify the intent, and wrote this one up.

I'm planning to have a "demo" version up an running by this week end so as users can try before signing up.

For me I've had most fun with Erlang. There are lots of new paradigms i discovered that I wasn't exposed to before, like, pattern matching, OTP system., Programming Erlang by Joe Armstrong is a really book and lots of credit goes to the book for making it enjoyable.

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It's really cool. I have a suggestion/request, it would be very helpful if the videos are tagged with their length and be categorized to <30 mins, <1 hr and so on.

This will really help to quickly watch a vid with the time in hand.

Looks nice. I made a similar app few days back and made it as a self hosting one.

You can check it out here. https://github.com/avinoth/apistore

Wow, the title of profile page is now

* Marked for removal from database - in PHP programming language *

Curious what they're doing right now..

Thanks. An example use case would be, say given a movie name you want a movie's ratings in IMDB, TMDB, RT and other online reviewing site. I would create a container and add the tmdb search endpoint with the movie name which will give the list of results sorted by relevance, from that response I'll pick the movie name and TMDB rating to the final response and pipe the IMDB_ID from the response to a parameter of IMDB which will then give it's results from which I'll send the rating to the final response and so on..

The final response would be the Movie name, TMDB Rating, IMDB Rating, etc.. You can customize the key names in the final response too.

The APIs would be called sequential so a response from one API can be passed in as a parameter to the next.

As for the other parameters to be passed to these URLs, you can either send it as a parameter while calling the root URL or can be stored static in the app while configuring the container.

Via front and back entrance at the same time

Loved the app, and the links it provided.. One problem though, after voting for a link where the success image is posted, give me a link to go to the next battle.. It took me a while to see the alphabets on top and click through it.

Also it would be nice, if the total score is displayed after voting for a content. Anyway, nice work +1

I wouldn't term your state as lost, you are just 23 and graduated from a top university. You said you always wanted to start a startup, is it only to be a tech startup? you have experience in chemistry why not try something you're good at? If at the core you really wanted to make a difference at large scale it not necessarily be your own startup but you can also help folks who are trying to achieve it.

I think at the core of your approach for starting a startup is to make money. Apologize if that's not the case but from one of your comments,

> It seemed like local startups are getting funded with half baked ideas or clones and I thought that I could do just as well as them so I was pretty hesitant to find a job

This. maybe the reason, and anyway, I wish you the best.

pardon me if it's obvious, but what's the difference between this and stackshare.io ?

What's happening actually? I wanted to learn image processing but always get hung up. Can you just give an quick note about what's happening here? or direct me to any links?

thanks

Ofcourse it doesn't mean they are looking into it continuously. but it's way better than not looking at all.

All I'm saying is atleast a pair of eyes are looking into the app before it's reaching their users.

Umm, There is no CAPTCHA verification afaik, tried few seconds before.