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ibstudios··on Strider will run at 1080p, 60fps on Xbox One and PS4
how about a game preview on a beverage company's website?
ibstudios··on Ask HN: Best project management software for a small team?
Trello + reportsfortrello.com :)

Both are free. Trello has clients for phones, tablets, and the web.

full disclosure: I created reportsfortrello.com

ibstudios··on How Inactivity Changes the Brain
I hate the paywall. WHo are you helping?
ibstudios··on Ask HN : How to encourage sign ups and have users use the service?
I've had very good luck with the google chrome store. I get a steady stream every day from there for my reporting app.
ibstudios··on Why does Google keep making products for nobody?
Because they aren't products, they are explorations. I don't think they are meant for the average consumer. Not everything has to be consumed.
ibstudios··on Ask HN: Value of .com vs other TLD's
I think it depends on the audience.
ibstudios··on Poll: Does your office have a pet?
If you don't have customers visiting your office and plan on discriminating against all future employees with cat allergies then, yes, it is ok.
ibstudios··on Ask HN: Where are the interesting jobs?
Sounds like you are sick of other people's ideas.
ibstudios··on Show HN: Reports for Trello
Ok, it’s back to work time, a brand new year, let’s track time w/o timers.

Hi. Move one card in Trello and you can both communicate to your team the status of a task and track your time. No timers. No plug-ins. Use Trello on your desktop, tablet, and phone and go to reportsfortrello.com to see your activity. Track time in visual ways and see totals by the boards, members, and tasks. You can see all of your projects at a time (for some reason most time tracking apps are missing this feature).

ReportsforTrello.com is a little over 4 months old and it is free. There is no registration, use your Trello account to login. All processed data is erased after 24 minutes. See up-to-the-second reports any time you want. I built it to work the way I think a free site should work.

It has been a crazy first 4+ months. I did not expect people from 100+ countries to use my software. The site was a project for me to learn ruby, Sinatra, jquery, d3, and a bunch of other things I did not expect. I have spent way too much time making things faster and faster in the backend. I think I’ve hit a point where I can focus on the fun again. Coding all guts is not glory; I can’t wait to add more reports. I just added a new feature where it can see far back into your Trello history. I can see a whole year of activity in one board. All of this in a few seconds and your privacy is respected.

Best of luck and a happy and productive new year to all!

Remember: timers and pie charts are for bakers!

Chrome web store:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reports-for-trello...

ibstudios··on Why am I doing this?
I live by the idea that no person will do things exactly the same way I do them.

Best of luck to you.

ibstudios··on NY Times Articles on HN
I don't like it either. It should be marked in the title. Example Title: "This is the best paywalled article you will ever see!(PAYWALL)"
ibstudios··on Ask HN: What are the pros and cons of releasing your app with a beta phase?
People don't care what a beta is, they care if it works or now. Be careful if you list your app in a place where people can review it. People view things for what the are, not for what the can be.
ibstudios··on Is Ruby Dying?
If there is one person working on the next version of ruby it is not dead.

jruby and rubinius close the performance gaps. (This is an arguement for only knowing one language.)

ibstudios··on Nasa robot loses darpa challenge and goes home...
Me too, that is the point.

I found the moment I think things went wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_vXi16F20#t=19453

Around 5:21.

ibstudios··on If you're using a TODO list, you're doing it wrong.
I think your argument works when comparing to a simple list, but trello has card memberships, labels, due dates, checklists, and comments to help fill the gaps. The fact that even my non-techie customers can use it is also a plus (this is why I use Trello).

Good luck!

ibstudios··on RevRise – insanely good form analytics
prices are different at the bottom of the the home and intro page?
ibstudios··on Ask HN: Which DataBase is faster if number of rows are in Millions?
Do you want to go through the effort of making it faster? If no then seek a hosted database. If yes then you can load a mysql databases into memory and whamo you have super speed. Google "mysql.conf". Do you need faster writes more than reads? Mysql might not be what you need.

Best of luck!

ibstudios··on How do you say No to users without annoying them?
You ask them to pay for the feature.
ibstudios··on Suggest HN : A black-list of apps that breach our trust?
Make a blacklist app!
ibstudios··on Show HN: Need feedback on second version of news search engine, working alone
Hi, I like your site. I found it to be very fast.

A few notes:

1) The icons are not very informative. Really just the filter and the share buttons. 2) I would move the blog, about, and terms to the bottom and move the headlines, magazine, and other items up into the top bar. Maybe even have them slide out? 3) The filter to search by topic is cool, but it is not very apparent as to how to go back to a parent topic. I am sure color or a simple label would help this. 4) The site is static. What about small screens and wide screens?

Best of luck!

ibstudios··on Ask HN: Best way to do user authentication for web application?
Maybe let someone else worry about it?

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ http://janrain.com/

ibstudios··on Ask HN: If money no object, how do I find the very best freelancers?
Pay the ones you like to do the same task. Judge by the results.
ibstudios··on Having a hard time getting over being not rich
Man's grasp is always greater than his reach. Why don't you desire what you CAN grab? Doesn't that make more sense than desiring what another person can grab.

Another way of looking at it: You are alive. Being alive means you have the ability to change the world around you. Change the world around you.

ibstudios··on Can I fire someone if I don't like them?
The hardest thing a person can do is to accept another person exactly the way they are.

I would say there is something to be gained from conflict. It is easy to find people that will nod and agree.

ibstudios··on The Reality of Marketing
I don't think the problem is the writing, it is the need to sell ads.
ibstudios··on What is the Disposable Employee Model?
It's when you aren't the boss.
ibstudios··on Scaling Instagram (AirBnB tech talks)
My love for redis has been validated.
ibstudios··on Ask HN: Which is project management software do you use? And why?
I use Trello and reportsfortrello.com (plug: I wrote it).

What did you find difficult using Trello? How did you track your time in Trello?

My recommended ways to track time using just Trello:

small team - List tracking - 1 card per person - whoever drags the card to your "doing" list is tracked. You can use the membership to track assignments.

big team - membership tracking - 1 card for many members - track the membership of a card while it is in your "doing" list. This way you can assign membership of a card in a "staging" list and then have any member drag a card to the "doing" list to track the team time. This way your Trello board becomes a real time view of who is assigned what and show if they are currently working on it.

Reportsfortrello.com will show all of the activity along the way. You can see the time spent by the: card, board, and member. You keep the simple interface in Trello and the ability to use the desktop, tab, iphone, android clients and still get detailed time tracking (for those that need to see it).

I really don't think it gets any easier than dragging a card from one list to another. Trello is great for having an awareness of the current tasks at hand (the present). This awareness is not enough to manage. I created reportsfortrello.com to give multiple views of the past.

Best of luck!

ibstudios··on Ask HN: Resources for web application architecture/design/development
If you don't mind ruby, sinatra is 2000 lines.

https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/

ibstudios··on Ask HN: How does the NSA manage to hack elite companies?
Because they are big.
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