jason_zig

This is really cool! I could see something like this being really useful for formal education too. I took a couple courses that had "test case based" projects in college and I feel something like this could be a good tool for that niche.

Absolutely - thanks for using it!

Thanks for asking! I'm working on an on-site polling tool called Zigpoll (https://www.zigpoll.com). It's an easy way to collect user feedback about your product or platform and can be triggered at any point during the user journey.

I also built and maintain JQBX (https://www.jqbx.fm) which is a turntable.fm-like website except it hooks into Spotify.

I built http://hopscotch.global back in like 2014 as a side hustle with high hopes. The idea was to get people to put together lists of activities and then share/review them. I still think it's a decent idea but I was young and expecting a "if you build it they will come" sort of scenario. So once it was "finished" I didn't know what to do next so I moved on to the next thing.

That's absolutely their fault from a product perspective.

Did anyone else hold down shift + command and find the achievements part of the site? Fun idea...

If you have Spotify check out JQBX (https://www.jqbx.fm) it's a great way to discover new music.

The banks are doing everything they can to make it a challenge to file for this program. You can't really blame them since it doesn't make sense for them to be lending given that 4/5 of the amount is likely to be forgiven. This should be done through spa.gov or some other government service.

For BOA you're required to have a lending product in addition to a checking account. While Chase first delayed their roll out and now are only offering a call back (with no details as to when or what they will require). I hear similar things about the disaster loans offered by the Government (not hearing back within 3 days) but at least in that case you can actually file an application. What are you supposed to do if you don't have an account with BOA or Chase? You're at the mercy of whether or not the bank wants your loan on their books. I can't see the upside in doing this through the banks other than to make it a logistical nightmare for small businesses - if anyone has thoughts otherwise I would really like to understand.

Anecdotal but the social music app I built, JQBX(https://www.jqbx.fm), has had an average 8X increase in daily active users over the last two weeks. So I think a lot of it has to do with the social/feeling connected component.

Check out my side project JQBX: https://www.jqbx.fm

It's like a modern day turntable.fm that works w/ Spotify. It's not video, but it's definitely a more fun hangout than Zoom or something.

Working on a couple of things that are relevant to the new normal of #QuarantineLife:

https://www.roseandrex.com/pages/resources - Index of Covid-19 related online resources for families

https://www.jqbx.fm - Listen to Spotify with friends online

https://www.zigpoll.com - Embeddable polling widget for websites.

With the bump in traffic on all the web properties due to the quarantine it's a been pretty hectic week! I wonder if y'all feel the same. Stay safe!

Check out JQBX (https://www.jqbx.fm)

If you have to go outside please keep your distance and wear a shirt like this one (https://socialdistanceshirt.com/products/social-distance-shi...) or a sign or something, there's zero need to spread this thing (accidentally or not) any more than absolutely necessary.

Hey HN. I've been working on this project for a while and have actually posted about it in the past. I've made some updates recently and, more importantly, I feel like it might be more helpful for some of you with all the work from home going on.

Happy to answer any questions anyone may have also and I hope everyone's stays safe!

Yeah I did this in my own way - it’s not an exact clone but it’s heavily inspired by ttfm. I built https://www.jqbx.fm check it out - would love your feedback :)

Thanks for the feedback! That's a good point about sending data directly into an endpoint that you specify. We're going to add in an API in the coming months so you can push data directly into an endpoint using webhooks (along with a bunch of other things).

Founder here- happy to field any questions anyone might have about the app if you have them.

At this point I'm starting to realize that it may have a lot of different use cases (post-purchase surveys, giveaways, email capture campaigns, simple forms, etc..) So if you end up giving it a try I would love to know what you ended up using it for so I can build some new features around that use case.

So what should the ideal redundancy plan be here? If you can't log into the CDN provider and they are down do you you just have a second one ready (and paid for) and then log into your registrar and be ready to switch to that secondary CDN provider in this scenario? Or is there some sort of load balancing / routing solution between CDN's that I don't know about / understand?

Security Event Information Management system

In concept it works, but there are a lot of snake oil salesmen in the business that will sell you things that either don't work or will end up causing your site to be down-ranked. Really anything thats a 'get rich quick' type of deal will probably end up being a waste of money.

The best and only accredited solution imo is to grind and get real backlinks from reputable sites. There are a number of ways to do that, but all of them require work and time by either creating interesting content or creating relationships / good PR.

Also when it comes to your website having a good structure (schema tags, internal linking, a site map) it's helpful, but once it's done you still need to do the link building.

Yeah SEC stops him from tweeting but where theres a will theres a way...

Wow, had no idea DoorDash was valued higher than GrubHub. Great investment!

Thanks for sharing this, I literally just set this up last week and was thinking: 1. why are there so many steps and 2. why isn't there a one liner to do this. Will be using this next time :)

In my experience the best ideas come from scratching your own itch. Is there something that you want but can't find a suitable solution for? Build it for yourself. Once it solves your problem, you will probably be happy to find that other people also had that problem.

Nice landing page, it made it extremely clear what your product was and how I might use it.

I'm usually skeptical about programming language abstractions but from the demo it looks like this is more of a "helpful addition" then something you need to fully commit to which is interesting. I don't do a lot of Swift but will keep this in mind if I do. Best of luck!

Having my name attached to anything that gets put in front of people who I know makes me want to put up my best work. It's motivating because I don't want to not embarrass myself to friends and acquaintances and on the flip side I want to blow them away w/ the quality my work.

During the end of the project (almost always a slog) I'll set deadlines for myself each week with a set list of features I need to accomplish for that week. Hopefully it's obvious what's left to be done and you can make lists at this point. But when I've accomplished those goals for the week I'll take a break and do something fun.

I don't know how you work but usually the first couple months are a frenzy of work non stop but if I pace out the end a little better it becomes a lot more palatable. Also it's not the end of the world to take a couple days off if you come back with a clear mind ready to work, in fact it's usually more effective.

One more thing that really helps with overcoming the blues at the "almost finish line" is to get it in front of a few people and let them pick it apart. It gets me motivated before showing it to him/her/them to polish up any loose ends, and then after I have a new list of stuff that I feel motivated to resolve. Hope that helps! Goodluck w/ the project!

Very cool, I'll download it and give it a run this evening. Two quick questions:

1. Is there a live demo anywhere of the dashboard (or even screenshots)? I feel like that would remove a lot of the friction to installing.

2. Is there any meaning behind the name? Sorry if it's silly but I'm wondering if I'm missing something.

I would argue you're managing a team of offshore developers to achieve business goals at a fraction of the cost. Which is a valuable skill that usually pays more than a junior / mid level programmer's salary.

But I've done work like this and understand it's not exactly most rewarding or fun (language barriers, early morning/late night calls etc...). So you should probably think about what you want to be doing down the road professionally. Do you want to be in more of a managerial role or do you want to be a senior developer?

It's more or less a javascript hack. Here's one article on it (I think it's webkit specific though) https://medium.freecodecamp.org/disabling-browser-incognito-...

If that doesn't work on Edge / Firefox there's likely other "hacky" alternatives (probably something around localstorage or cookies not being writable).