chrismatheson

> I am afraid that the 13 mini is the last of its kind.

Yeah, I thought mine was great but just wasn't up to the job of running the latest & greatest. Ive switch to an iPhone Air. It was a reluctant switch and I would go back in a heartbeat if Apple released a smaller form factor with the latest internals.

Or the owner was nervous of the stranger for some reason and the dog picks up on that and moves into protective mode.

Very cool :D

Im trying to finish an idea ive had for years. Meal Planning but using the computer & constraints to help people/families truly reduce decision fatigue and "mental load".

In an ideal world it would be good enough to put meal planning on autopilot.

Getting pretty close to public beta if anyone is interested.

LOVE THIS!

90's Consoles are available on eBay or most video games shops :)

Turns out what was fun for you at age 5 will be fun for your kids at age 5. Just the same as The Cat In The Hat is still a beloved book.

I personally have found this to be the absolute winner of a solution.

Just wait till someone explains TOR to the MP's. That will be funny

One 8 y/o one 3y/o This year:

- Transformer robots

- Origami book & papers

- Some ski gear

- Metal detector

- Climbing harness & slings etc (small climbing frame in the grander they like to attach to and just kinda swing about)

- Kids Cookbook

Past Years Winners:

- Magnatiles - both have loved these, one of the most used toys and reasonably open-ended

- Diablo - the circus toy thing

- Modu - https://modutoy.com

- Potions kit - just a bunch of small pots etc with random glitter and what not in them. pretty good one for an upcycling project

- Playdough - classic for a reason, also DIY'able Little printer roll instant print camera

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Frank Sinatra. I'll take that!

Awesome project :) congratulations on shipping, JacobSingh

I think the point is, that they DO know who they are. They are being specifically approached for some sort of expertise, and being asked to spare their time for the benefit of the person proposing the meeting.

If you ask someone to do you a favour (even if its just to listen to your pitch) then I would say its common decency to not put that person out more than you absolutely have to.

<insert link to HN comment on dropbox>

FWIW I have a few app ideas that are about lifestyle / personal system. and i've thought about pricing strategies etc, specifically to balance "the Ick" with what I know are proven industry standards that Do maximise conversions & profit, and what I think is more personally palatable. (no real word experience though)

I would be much more likely to convert if the "trail" as months maybe years instead of days or weeks (this is a lifestyle thing after all, if customers find it genuinely useful and buy into the system for months then $30 a year is nothing)

OR

free-trial followed by locked out. No "automatically start billing"

I actually got stuck with a bug in the flow. "What drives you" I couldn't seem to move on from this step, no button visible (maybe my old device for factor (iPhone mini 12)

But I also would have bounced on the "free trial, auto payment after" I understand the thinking around them, but for me it's just not a pattern im ever going to opt into. It feel predatory, you will probably forget and then ill get some amount of "months" off you. Like gym memberships.

I half felt Ted Lasso was the adult equivalent of the obvious and excruciating moral stories of kids 90's era TV.

Yet somehow I still really enjoy the whole show. I guess thats a comment on the quality of the production itself.

I see a trend in AppleTV+ productions that seem to embrace "niceness" instead of the usual gritty storylines of today. 'Trying', 'Platonic', 'Shrinking' are another example of this, and also even 'The morning show', to an extent. And I am actually really enjoying it, it makes me want to wait for more APTV+ content over watching yet another same-same rubbish thing out of Netflix.

[edit] expanded my thoughts a little

Not sure I agree with the premise.

New cars are being made. Sure this might kinda suck. But most of the enthusiast are driving and loving cars from the 1970's that have been out of production for decades right?

Saying EV's kill muscle cars is like saying Cars killed of horse riding.

Sure, there are less breeders for day-to-day travelling requirement style stuff, but the hobbyists keep everything going, and in some ways I would imagine it will bring round a golden era where these things aren't required to be useful as day-to-day options and can just be for fun

I don't think so (not a Londoner)

It was my impression that the whole thing was just about simplification in order to provide a better service.

I am literally in the middle of building this same thing! (well almost the same, im trying to keep it 100% local device)

I'd love to connect and share ideas if your up for that?

chris at Matheson dot it

I had similar 1st thoughts on the allergy front.

I can concur that plan based cheese sucks. Id rather eat the real stuff and suffer the consequences than eat the plant/coconut based stuff lol

I wonder how allergens will be handled.

I have a dairy allergy, and so vegan cheese to me means safe to eat. When there is vegan cheese but its got "engineered" animal protean which sets of my allergies just as well as the naturally occurring stuff, its going to get even more complex to figure out what I can and cant eat.

thanks for the clarification, I didn't notice that obviously ;)

There are a lot of comments and thinking along the demo and gloom lines.

On the "silver lining" side, could be a eye-opener for the population of the UK, that things they take for granted cant get summarily yanked away if they don't actually do something.

And with any luck it will pull up the technical competency of every person using these services (pretty much every adult).

With any luck parents might even be forced to gain the skill their kids already live and breathe and don't think twice about.

:)

is TOR an answer to this ?

Sorry you had that experience surprisetalk. Glad for you that it was all ok.

Theres a saying that comes to my mind, I think it used to be a lot more common.

"it only takes 6 inches of water to drown"

Fall funny, get nocked out and land in a puddle or whatever, or cant lift your head out of it for whatever reason etc etc.

I am VERY conscious of water & my kids, being a scuba diver myself I have a fair respect for the sea as well, and still we have had experiences that left us a little shook.

This was a welcome find today on HN. Gave my day a bit of joy.

I tried Wallabag and ended on Instapaper (again, I think I moved from IP -> Pocket originally). Just didn't get on with the UI / general experience of Wallabag, IP is more attuned to my polished style preferences I guess

>The reason I chose to make Danish Names a paid app from the beginning was simply that I think it's a lot more honest and upfront to charge a small one-time fee before the download, as opposed to claiming your app is free and then charging a high fee or even a subscription inside the app. There's an honesty and straight-forwardness to paid apps that I like: You pay once, and then you don't get bothered with requests for paid upgrades when you're using the app.

The resonated with me. I'm trying to get my own app from 80% to 95% so I can release and ill be going the upfront cost route for these say reasons.

+1 for Prologue. I use it every day and I think its amazingly stable and well designed

Personally I cant ever remember a time where I thought that far ahead.

Maybe I was one of the last "lucky ones" that did my teens and twenties when 'dating' was less official and its was closer to just, I like spending time with you.

`man cat` don't think i've ever been upset at its functionality (or ever read the manual to be fair)

Im not sure this is new for LLM's. I know plenty of devs who would be lost without Jetbrains Inellij, Microsoft Visual Studio, ReSharper etc etc etc

IMHO Freemium models and paid subscriptions to tools make me much more likely to purchase as the possibility for ad-supported, data selling and en-shitification are reduced drastically with a simple, pay for what you value