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People have been sending me the cute pics the AI generates of their pups. I think this is arguably the best thing so far in this latest wave of AI releases!
I remove them from my user forums when I see them join, mostly because I like to post my product roadmap there. They could join pseudonymously, but time spent worrying about competitors is time better spent thinking about other stuff.
End of the day, a competitor can only beat you by building a better product or doing better marketing. Neither of those is possible by copying.
I wish more people understood this! 2/3 of the time someone asks me to hear their idea they want me to sign an NDA first.
As though I have time to build a dating app that matches people based on their favorite color!
But seriously, I think people would be surprised how much two ideas can diverge based on execution and in most circumstances sharing your idea is very low risk.
Linkdrop doesn't have any unread article lists. When you "save" an article, it queues it up to send it to you in an email the next day.
Since I've been using it I find that my actual bookmarks are things I want to save instead of just random articles. Makes things a lot cleaner :)
It's got a good number of users atm and things are running smoothly, it's also free. If you do use it, feel free to send me any feedback you have. I've been trying to find more time to hack on it and would love some more direction.
It sounds like you are more concerned with management than rediscovery, though, so it might not solve your usecase. In that case, I would definitely recommend getpocket.com for saving bookmarks across browsers/machines.
Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for checking it out!
Building this was more about learning how to build a chrome extension, but I think this might work even better as a tool on top of pocket. Given the interest this is getting + the other conversation about bookmarks I might take on the Pocket+ thing next.
Thanks for checking it out!
I've worked on three different "remote" teams now and I think the author's point is spot on.
The first time we did it everyone was remote, scattered across different states in America. It was a great experience. Everyone had a ton of freedom and flexibility and there was a lot of trust across the team.
The next two teams I worked in had each "division" headquartered in different regions. Design was based in one area, Engineering in another, product in another. It was so much worse. The people I worked were wonderful but we just couldn't develop the trust needed to build at the pace the market demanded.
How I describe the issue now is that we thought we were a "remote team" but we were actually just a handful of employees working remote from HQ. The HQ was wherever the core work was being done at the moment (usually with engineering) and the rest of us were just remote employees.
That, combined me with my love of newsletters, led me to create linkdrop. Thanks for checking it out!
Good work :)
I never usually have a stream on for more than 10-15 minutes at a time, but other than the nice sound of keyboard typing I also enjoy trying to be helpful or just poking in and seeing what other people are working on.
For me, streaming myself code on Twitch encourages me not to open those time sink websites. Also, the "Programming" community on Twitch is much smaller and more focused than the wider "Gaming" community, so you don't get too many toxic people. Mostly it's just people who are interested in learning.
HN would fit in as a subreddit on Reddit. In fact, I'd wager that if there was a subreddit /r/hackernews it would look almost exactly the same as this website.