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I feel the same, as someone who has a Gaggia Classic collecting dust and has long considered splurging on a near-$1000 option because I want all these features...

This is so vaguely written as to seem far more daunting than it probably should, it's unclear how much money or time it would cost me, I don't even know where to start with it. Cool idea, but totally unapproachable to someone without extensive related background.

You're missing the point - sure a long questionnaire is annoying but the real complaint here is the fact your site's primary CTA is to go straight into a survey that does not mention it will require payment afterwards.

You're effectively holding users (and especially their data) hostage by exploiting sunk cost fallacy, rather than letting the value of your product stand on its own weight.

Here is a recent thread on this exact topic with much more discussion about how user-hostile this is, and how it makes many assume that your primary goal is to collect data to sell rather than to help any individual with any benevolent task.

Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962502

Hopefully, the fact that the system would create its own loop, and would rely on the accuracy and usefulness of that loop. If it served inaccurate info to users, they might be tricked into opening something they wouldn't have, at which point they would lose trust in the tool upon seeing the thing it's meant to protect them from.

Just another example of enshittification, or whatever you want to call it - capitalism placing growth and greed above the health and privacy of the individual.

It works because it's manipulative and most people don't have the context to understand. Some may think they now have to sign up or they'll lose something.

"Preying on the uninformed and less tech literate" works, sure, the same way basically every other scam works, by pressuring people to do things they normally wouldn't.

Why say lot word when few do trick?

The Artifact news reader app on iOS uses this premise to provide one of the truly useful implementations of LLMs I've seen in the wild so far. You can mark a title as clickbait, and the app will use AI to generate a new title, usually one that is more usefully descriptive.

It's not perfect, sometimes the generated title is still totally clickbait and I've seen a couple instances of it being completely wrong or hallucinating a detail. But generally it's pretty neat.

The app also uses the same tech to summarize articles into a few bullets which I don't use as often but is also neat.

I have several friends who were homeschooled for either most or all of their education leading up to college. All are completely fine.

I also know of people who went to public school their whole life and are weird, socially inept, and occasionally inappropriate.

N=1, moved into my current home a few years ago and it has a long and steep hill for a driveway (house is downhill from the street). I bought an early-00's pickup truck thinking I'd use it a lot more than I have. It's languishing in the driveway and will probably go up for sale soon.

If I could reasonably get and register a Kei truck in my state it would be the perfect replacement, literally all I need is some hauling space for big trash cans, and the occasional Home Depot run.

If they made them electric I'd already be getting one!

It's one of multiple quotes from the same CEO, who is also posting in this comment section saying "I'm quoted in the post" as though having a blog post on your own company's website where someone you pay does what you told them gives you more credibility

This conversation raises two questions:

1. How much room in the headset is there for glasses? I can wear glasses relatively comfortably in existing gaming headsets like the Vive, Index, and Quest.

2. What are the stats on likelihood of requiring corrective lenses across a group of people, and what subset of those exclusively wear glasses?

If I had a friend with one of these and they didn't accommodate glasses on the wearer, I'd just wear contacts to do a demo. If I were spending $3500 on a setup at home, I probably wouldn't scoff at an accessory cost alongside it to get lenses for a family member.

Yeah or in my case the apple store becomes a part of a trip, there's not one near my home but there is one near the beach house I rented this year, so when I wanted a better fitting waterproof watch band I just baked a trip to that store into my trip itinerary.

If I were in the target market for the vision pro I would totally schedule an appointment and drive a couple of hours to get a curated experience and feel confident I'd come home with the right combination of lenses and everything.

I'm right there with you (drawer full of loved-but-neglected pebbles, along with a few Garmin watches).

I ended up going the other direction, I got an apple watch and just sucked it up and accepted that I'll toss it on the charger every morning. It has a lot of really good features (I can approve okta logins and get authy codes from my wrist, I can check weather and scroll around to browse the forecast, things like that).

I think there are two branches at this point post-pebble. You either get something that augments your phone with a couple benefits over a traditional watch, or you get something like Apple Watch that does many of the things your phone can do, saving you from spending time on the big screen.

For me there's strong value to the latter that makes up for the battery downsides: the powerful-but-focused app functionality means I can accomplish a task without getting pulled into other things. On a phone I find it all too easy to check the weather then start checking notifications and get sucked into news or something.

It's probably safe to say that 99% of people using this sort of password manager don't know what emacs and vim are, and additionally use their cell phone for most of their online computing.

If you look at it from the opposite perspective the value is clear - this isn't a tool for people who can generate and store their own passwords, it's a tool for people who got their Facebook hacked because they used the same password for everything for years and hey, this app can help avoid that mom, let me show you how.

I'll start with two recent standouts:

Flighty: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flighty-live-flight-tracker/id...

As someone who travels every couple of months for work, this app has quickly jumped to the top of my list when I'm thinking of apps that solve a problem without compromise. Great UX, timely and truly helpful notification content, and a satisfying design that takes advantage of all the cool features iOS has to offer.

Artifact: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/artifact-intelligent-news/id15...

Google News has a good recommendation algorithm, but an uninspired design and very limited feature set. Apple News has a great design, but finding interesting content is a challenge even after months of trying to actively curate its algorithm. Artifact doesn't have the best recommendation engine, but it's pretty good and much more transparent/configurable than its competition, and its clever usage of GPT to dynamically combat clickbait headlines and summarize articles works surprisingly well.

I use this extension to automatically redirect to subscriptions, on top of a host of other tweaks that clean up the site and make it more consistent.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enhancer-for-youtu...

Yes but not for the wearer to take measurements of their body temperature for example to see if they might have a fever. It only takes readings at night while the wearer is asleep, and only provides data in the form of trends against your individual baseline.

So it can be useful to see if you were generally hotter last night than normal, which could be useful when sick, but you can't open a thermometer app and check your actual temperature which would have more utility.

Yeah those books are definitely great and the building blocks Nosrat provides are crucial for any home chef that wants to take a scientific approach to decision making in the kitchen. But most of the time, I just want to pick a recipe as a starting point

We saw this before with Alien Blue, which was previously the top iOS app. Reddit bought it, promised to turn it into their official app, killed it, and released a version with fewer features and more bugs.

If Reddit buys Apollo, there's zero chance they let it operate independently. Christian gets a nice payout and all his users leave for the next best option. If I'm reddit I don't think I see that as being worth the cost that the app's userbase might be on paper just based on API cost.

I do wish this service would list large subreddits that aren't participating as well, perhaps in red

In a way this feels similar to nebula - nebula currently has no comment functionality and points to reddit threads for communities around their videos. Wonder if that group would be interested in experimenting given the heavy overlap in business model.

I've switched to iOS (and now use carrot due to the built in app's unreliability). Today weather was my go-to for years on Android: https://todayweather.co/