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dbecks··on Lessons from a never-ending personal project
Favorite part of working on my HiFutureSelf app is that there is no finish line. Incremental improvements over 13 years, and no end in sight. Each release feels so wonderful. Barely noticeable but the difference over time is massive.
dbecks··on An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
One of my "home-cooked" apps has been in the App Store for 12 years now!

It's never really gotten much traction, and I mostly maintain it for me and my friends.

I love to make small incremental updates to it. Really fun experience overall!

dbecks··on An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
Absolutely! I love seeing my friends use an app I made for all of us.
dbecks··on Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
Beautifully done! Really amazing tool.
dbecks··on Show HN: Send Messages to Your Future Self (Free on iOS)
Thank you! It's really fun! The HiFutureSelf app is more focused on day to day future messages (motivational quotes, reminders, etc) rather than emails far off into the future. Although it can be used for that as well.

Let me know what you think of the app!

dbecks··on TI-83 Plus One More
My first platform for programming! Simple Menus, Goto statements, images. I loved making games on this thing.

And yes, it was highway robbery at $90+

dbecks··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
HiFutureSelf (http://hifutureself.com) - Send Reminders to your future self
dbecks··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
I just finished re-writing my little app, HiFutureSelf, from ObjC to Swift. It was extremely satisfying to remove 10-year-old code.

The original codebase was written for iOS 4. Feels like a lifetime ago.

https://hifutureself.com

dbecks··on Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
Totally! I do too!

Maybe it's just me.. but somethings just don't fit into the calendar.

Like when I pull up to the gym I get a message to do my 100 squats for the day (AND NOT ACCEPT LESS). Or when I arrive to the grocery store to pickup shampoo. Or when I leave the office today to go by the pharmacy to pick up a prescription...

dbecks··on Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
Not sure if this helps, but I made a little iOS app a while ago to help with my workflow. Check it out: HiFutureSelf (http://hifutureself.com)

HiFutureSelf is a super fast way to send messages to the future as reminders. You can set a time or location to trigger the message. It's completely free and maintained for fun :)

dbecks··on Plastc Card
That feeling, that you're feeling is actually delight.
dbecks··on CSS Diner
This is really fun!
dbecks··on Nintendo games on a Mac
PSP. The best GameBoy, I've ever had.
dbecks··on Ask HN: What are your hobbies?
Tennis (obsession maybe), photography, reading fiction, New Girl TV show (don't judge me).
dbecks··on Show HN: Pinstified - Search Amazon With Pinterest Style Layout
Fantastic app! Great work.
dbecks··on Save time, and remember everything. The HiFutureSelf WebApp is now live
Thank you for checking out my app!

I just finished building a web version of the HiFutureSelf iPhone app. http://hifutureself.com/web

Same concept as the iPhone app (http://hifutureself.com). Type a message, select a time and hit send. Super fast timed reminders. The point of HFS is to get things out of your head and out of your inbox, until you need it.

This is a beta release, so I would love to have some feedback. It's all free, hope you enjoy the app!

Thank you again!