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olekon Ask HN: What are your small comforts?

Too bad I don't have a dog. :-D Anyway, a good walk in the park works miracles!

olekon Ask HN: What are your small comforts?

True, true. The farther the phone, the better. I should have a dedicated drawer where I can put it and not get disturbed. Especially in my comfort moments.

olekon Ask HN: What are your small comforts?

Coffee! That's definitely something that should have landed on my list. Especially when the whole ceremony is considered, like smelling and then grinding the beans, brewing, waiting, and sipping.

olekon What are some greenwashing examples in your everyday life?

> The carbon footprint was invented by fossil fuel companies to shift blame to the consumer. I highly agree. I'm sick of hearing how this all is my fault, and my little, tiny change changes everything, whereas the companies do nothing.

olekon What are some greenwashing examples in your everyday life?

Your links are really nuggets! Thanks for sharing them! Will dig deeper into them.

olekon What are some greenwashing examples in your everyday life?

Can you be more specific? Maybe some articles, detailed examples, screenshots, photos, etc.?

olekon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://getdifree.com

Hey Everyone,

We started Difree (a distraction-free writer, working as a browser's extension) in mid-2021. It's been our side-project. All the time I have this impression, it's half-baked. I believe in it so much, that I haven't changed the version of my app to mature 1.0.0 :-) It's still in 0.9.x :-D

Initially, our goal was to create a fast, reliable, privacy-friendly and no-distraction writing app for us. We were the first users. It needed to satisfy us.

Meanwhile, we started collecting feedback from our users. We wanted to know what worked. People using Difree submitted many interesting ideas for our product. Here are some ideas: 1. monospaced fonts 2. dark theme 3. different font sizes 4. minimalistic view (WIP) 5. word counter (WIP)

We've been still working on Difree and it still gives us fun :-) Tell me what you think! We want to hear and learn more :-)

Happy writing, Olek

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Thanks for the suggestion, will test it!

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That's cool! Thanks, I'll test it.

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Hey, thanks for the suggestion.

Based on the commit activity, it looks like the project is no longer being developed -> https://github.com/umami-software/umami/graphs/commit-activi...

Don't you think? Or maybe I'm wrong.

olekon Free Alternative to Google Analytics

Hey, thanks! I don't see there a free plan. It has a free trial option.

olekon Show HN: I made a minimalist writing tool

Hi, just logged in. Can I ask you couple of questions? 1. Privacy How the notes are stored, and who has access to it? 2. Git-like versioning Great idea! It looks like a good start to iterate on that. 3. A bug? The text is white, and the background is white. So, I didn't see what I wrote. I had to turn off ad blocker, and then it was okay. 4. Limitations What are the limitations? I mean, how much data can I store? How many versions of versioning is stored?

PS I am making myself a minimalist writing tool, it's called Difree. Good luck :-)

olekon Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

Hi Guys,

Since June 2021 I have been co-developing my side project - Difree https://www.getdifree.com/ - a rich text editor to write on many things in a distraction free way.

When I asked myself a question, is my side project, the project:

  where I don't care if it makes money or gets a lot of attention, but I am working on it regardless.

I answered 'partially' :-)

I mean,

1. I don't care about if it makes money or it gets a lot of attention.

2. But I would love people to find Difree and find it useful, as I do. That's it.

Does it mean, I want 'a lot of attention'? I don't know.

Right now with Difree I have been basically scratching my itch. We have been developing it, because I found I had a problem and there was no suitable solution for that.

In the past, I missed a tool, where I can write something longer and/or more meaningful, like a reply to an e-mail or a post on Reddit, in a simple manner without distractions.

Built-in editors in websites like Gmail, Reddit, or Slack leave much to be desired, eg.

1. Gmail's text editor is poorly designed. By default, I have to write an e-mail in a small window, in the bottom right corner of the website.

2. Slack's text editor is full of distractions. While writing I am usually being bombarded with incoming messages.

3. Reddit's text editor is... well, both :-)

My workaround was, I wrote the text aside in an external tool and then copy-paste it.

But I couldn't have found the right external tool, e.g.

1. Notepad sucked at formatting.

2. Evernote was slow to start and difficult to write.

3. MS Word is not free and cluttered.

4. Google Docs is overcomplicated for this purpose.

5. Google Keep is for taking short notes, not meaningful writing.

The only tool that partially worked for me was iA Writer. It looks neat, simple, and elegant. Writing is distraction-free. I used it quite often, but I missed two things. The ideal text editor for me should be handy and fast.

1. By handy, I mean I could work on many things.

2. By fast, I mean open in a second.

This was when the idea of a simple, fast, and distraction-free editor came to my mind. Using the proven framework for text editors like Quill and making it easily accessible as a browser's extension, seemed to be the fast lane.

The keynote for Difree is to build the text editor that is

1. distraction-free,

2. fast,

3. and handy

I guess, if it works for me, that's fine. I am sure, there will be people having the same problem as I had and find Difree useful.

olekon Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

Good to know there are decent and kind people out there :-)

olekon Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

Can you share the link? Would love to find out more :-)