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why not a json store service or redis

i've been looking for/considering building something like this. signup with github is kind of odd though, considering.

that sounds like a really cool story

but you do gain something of value here, privacy.

how is value defined in this context?

sad state of affairs that this level of surgical precision and orchestration is required just to not be stalked and creeped on to incredible levels. and this doesn’t even cover the situation with respective to showing up on relatives’ profiles.

if you have the time, you should make a complimentary “solution” read me page for this post.

deletion really does seem to be an unwinnable proposition, so flooding with false data is a great approach. can this be automated?

this is pretty genius and creative!

couple thoughts:

1. is this dynamic? your first time setting up the api takes a while as it's processing everything, but what about additional emails? or is every api call that slow? i suppose if it's _not_ slow, that suggests you are caching something on your side, and I wouldn't want you to store my data like that.

2. how will you convince people to give you access to _all_ their emails? maybe it makes sense for this to be a tool people can run locally (helping with the performance issue of [1] as well) and you can charge for that somehow.

3. the api schema generation tool seems like it would be flaky.

it seems pretty obvious that removing oneself can't be done well.

> but you can flood them with false information and they will record it and keep it forever.

how would you do this?

be careful you guys. these are awful people collecting this data, and i'm pretty suspicious that they will use the additional data they gather form you when you opt out ("for proof its you") and use it against you in their other databases. for instance, i confirmed my phone and email info in order to opt out of one but another clone site now says my information is "Verified".

I went through the process to delete it, including giving them my email address. They showed me all my relatives, their home address, and said that I needed to confirm my email. Never received my email. This is going to keep me up at night.

what is "<g>"

> you can think of it as a drop-in replacement for those tools

Unless I misunderstood the app while playing around with it and reading every word on your product page, it is not a _ drop-in replacement_ for those tools. Albeit, I didn't try creating my own url/launchers but if anything its functionalities seem like a subset of Alfred's abilities as opposed to a replacement.

..which was one of my primary hesitations considering this tool for adoption while playing with it. I already have Alfred, this doesn't replace Alfred, and I don't want yet another launcher to keep in mind. I could just sync all apps locally (Dropbox/Google Drive) and get the majority of the value proposition of Slapdash with Alfred.

so did you end up paying?

would be cool to be able to click on the results and go there

what framework did you use to create your site? it's pretty.

> I miss feeling like a part of something larger than myself

hoping your job is fill that hole for you is begging to be abused. this is how tesla and other major "be a part of something bigger!" marketing allows for them to pay little

yeah i built one over a month and it was a dud

> This page is blank lolz

> There are a bunch of existing extensions for Gmail UI tweaks, but most are just too heavy to me.

I went down the heavy customization path, and eventually came upon the profound realization that I was going the wrong way. I ditched all the extensions and went with the simple gmail[0]. No breaking changes to extensions over time. Less CPU load. Cuts out all distractions. Simple. Fast. I'm in and I'm out.

[0] https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/

would be cool to run against a git branch

i thought about this but ultimately decided against it because of at least these several reasons

• squashed commits

• arbitrary thresholds of session durations

congrats, that's awesome.

are they all 100% owned by you or did you drink out of the poisoned foundation (vc)?

also how do you toss up many sass so quickly? do you just have an auth and payment module you're comfortable that you reuse for every project?

for sure, and I'm glad this new option exists!

I tested it out for about 7 mins before uninstalling, because i use alfred extensively so I will give any competitor a try.

This feels like alfred without namespaces and a more cluttered UI. I don't like that there are "plugins"; alfred's workflows are way more customizable and accessible. some plugins are "pro" (paid). it feels way more "closed garden"y than alfred.

maybe because of my engineering mindedness, but I personally prefer namespaces like alfred supports. this "natural language" take was a bit confusing, specially since anything could be interpreted in multiple ways (no namespace identifiers) and multiple plugins could handle it. this requires far more mental effort to use and filter the responses than alfred, and also feels significantly laggier probably due to it doing so much simultaneously (loading icon flashes often and I'm on a mbp).

I think it could work for people that don't know that alfred exists yet want a similar tool. It certainly is pretty, and besides the laggy UX, the UI seems pretty well polished.

1. how many side projects have you had? was this the only successful exit?

2. how do you come up with the startup/tool ideas?

source?

there does seem to be mounting pressure for the current model to change. i doubt it will be like the scenario you offered, but i wonder what the options are.

i suppose more transparency on them getting a cut, and/or decreasing the size of the cut are plausible.

> At the end of the day it's a phone that you call people on.

this is certainly no longer the case

what's the use case for this? on desktop/mac, you have adblock/dns block lists, and on ios, you can create a local proxy which can blacklist ips locally

does this remove the liability of torrenting downloads from the user, or is the torrenting still happening clientside?

it takes for them to stop profiting off it