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You can, you just need 501 karma first. Seems like someone wanted to prove you wrong since you've been downvoted.

I'd say if you have existing customers, you're already past most companies with a "built it and they will come" mentality. Most of those fail to ever acquire real users.

Dash on macOS also lets you download StackOverflow for offline use. It was my goto for working on airplanes, way back when traveling on airplanes was a thing.

1 year into my startup and I'm super happy to have kept everything a well-organized monolith. Every once in a while a thing pops up where some voice in my brain (remnants from previous jobs) says "just break it into its own service" but I've thus far resisted. Our deployments are trivial. Our local dev setup is trivial. Maybe some day we'll have a few small services broken off, but today is not that day.

In my previous job I battled this a lot. While I really like slack in general, no one likes it when things fall through the cracks or important people miss out.

It actually bothered me enough that I quit my job and made Kitemaker (YC W21) which automatically watches slack conversations for mentions of work items and links them together. This linkage lets people working on something that there are discussions going on about it in Slack. You have your persistent place for writing things down (in Kitemaker) and can still use Slack. We have lots of plans for making it even more frictionless. Also works with Discord.

https://kitemaker.co

Indeed! Not intending to be sneaky, just brief.

The article mentions Linear as the "sublime text of issue trackers". Just in case anyone is interested in this space, Kitemaker (YC W21) is considerably more keyboard friendly. Much like Superhuman, you can do literally everything without the mouse.

We used Ship on producthunt for promoting when we were pre-launch. Then we had a decent number of subscribers built up so when we did a real producthunt launch we already had people to tell about the launch.

LinkedIn also worked surprisingly ok if you have a decent sized network.

Finally, if your product fits a topic that's being discussed here on HN, we've seen that can easily drive 50+ your products landing page.

Not insulted at all! Very useful feedback.

Hi! That’s just a video playing on a loop taking you through the various screens. The “image gallery” is just showing our work item screen and then it jumps to some other screens. Thanks for the feedback though! It may be that this isn’t clear enough

If you want to try something in this space that's really snappy and responsive, checkout out Kitemaker (YC W21) [0]. I'm a founder and happy to chat with anyone that has any feedback/feature requests: hi@kitemaker.co

0: https://kitemaker.co

Whereby.com (formerly Appear.in) has been WebRTC-based since day 1.

Feel like every time one of these articles appears on HN - whether it's batteries, autopilot, whatever - it's one camp yelling "see! told you Musk didn't know what he was doing/cut corners/etc." and another camp yelling "that's nothing compared to what happens with conventional cars!".

Just to toss another hat in the ring - people who are interested in a tool that has a lot of same performance/hotkey characteristics as Linear but takes a different approach to what a product management tool/issue tracker should be should take a look at Kitemaker (YC W21) [0]. We've also got great integrations to Github, Slack, Figma, etc. We've got a pretty generous free tier so you can try it out for quite a while with your team before you need to pay.

0: https://kitemaker.co

> could be seen as self-serving

Almost spit out my coffee there.

I really liked obviously awesome, but one thing she cautions against is applying her methodology too early. She says you need to know who your "best customers" are. So if you're too early and don't feel you know who those are (i.e. you don't yet have any customers or you got them just because they're your friends, etc.) then her methods won't necessarily lead you to the right place.

This is why we can't have nice things

I make a product management tool/issue tracker that integrates to both tools, and I will say from the perspective of a developer integrating to them, Slack is easier to work with (though Discord is ok too). Little things like the "only visible to you" messages in slack make it much easier to make a nice integration.

Any gotchas? When I read about Snowpack, I always get a too-good-to-be-true feeling. Maybe I'm just jaded by years of grunt, webpack, parcel, etc.

BetaList is great! Along with ProductHunt it's how we got our initial user base at Kitemaker. So thanks!

I fully agree that no-code tools can help you run your build-measure-learn cycle quicker. For example, with my startup [0] we have our product guy tweaking the landing page, changing the email templates, etc. without needing to bother me (tech guy). It's awesome.

> If I were to build another product, I probably wouldn’t code.

This is the part I heavily disagree with. Not all products can be reduced to a project in AirTable or equivalent. If you say you're not going to write any code at all, I feel like you're limiting the options of what you can build in a very extreme way.

Just want to build an "information product" where you're doing some courses or something? Then fine, I buy it. Otherwise, I think this is over hyped.

0: https://kitemaker.co, the super fast, hotkey-driven product management tool/issue tracker that has deep integrations to GitHub, Figma, Slack, etc.

The team behind Preact also recently released WMR [0] which attempts to simplify the process of actually building a web app. We're thinking of trying it out to replace the current mess we have with create-react-app, webpack, etc.

0: http://github.com/preactjs/wmr

I used to use Dash [0] all of the time when I was traveling a lot because I loved having all of the relevant docs and stack overflow questions available offline. How does your offering compare to theirs?

0: https://kapeli.com/dash

Was just about to link to your tweet on this subject from the other day. You saved me the search!

The post was from Findx not Mojeek

Yeah, "track" in your URL seems to be the culprit. Bad luck.

uBlock Origin blocks your player at the bottom of the screen. Not sure why.

I think that's not really an issue though is it? If you say "never charge me more than $100" they can a) ensure they never charge you more than $100 and b) work to optimize their own systems so that they cut you off as close to $100 as humanly possible. In the beginning they might eat some costs since it takes them a day to catch it, but they could work over time to bring that down. And it's not like it's costing GCP/AWS/Azure "sticker price" to provide their services.

I'd say a year would also be a reasonable estimate here once the person is out of their 6 month probation period. It varies by country how much easier life is during the probation (easier in Sweden, not super much easier in Norway, not sure about Denmark). However, I've heard cases where HR people simply refuse to go through with the actual process because they don't believe the case is strong enough.

Interesting you've experienced it taking a year in the US. I would've assumed with employment at will that it was easier, but I guess they want to cover themselves from lawsuits.

Disarming is an excellent way to describe it. When the people who you feel that you're on par with point out that you're not pulling your weight, there's no place left for self delusion.