theseanstewart

> Second only to a Nvidia Shield Pro downgraded to 8.2.3 firmware.

What's special about 8.2.3 vs the latest firmware? I've only owned my Shield for a few months so I'm curious what I may be missing.

Have him check out Dino Dana, Dino Trek, Dino Dan on Amazon Prime. My four year old is a big fan and will randomly drop some amazing Dinosaur facts he's picked up from those shows.

We've got a 23-19!

Having experience implementing and working with people that have used both, I'd love to hear why you think PayPal handles subscriptions better than Stripe.

Hopefully next year. I'm very happy with my 8+ and don't plan on upgrading until Apple gets rid of the notch and has a 128 GB base model. I could live with the 64 GB base model if they figure out how to bring back Touch ID.

I would reconsider the "Unlimited Emails" offering for the "Ultimate" $100/mo plan. Assuming you're using SES, a customer sending 1,065,000 emails would cost ~$100. All it takes is one person to abuse it before it's costing you big money.

On the surface, "Unlimited" sounds great, but your target market is developers that know the cost of sending emails. This may result in the opposite effect as it signals your model may not be scalable if there's not enough low usage accounts to subsidize the additional costs of sending emails.

I'm guessing it has something to do with how quickly the user returned back to the search results. For example, you're searching for something specific and click on the #1 result. If you visit site #1, go back to the results, click on #2 then visits to #1 could be seen as a "bounce". Of course this could theoretically be gamed, but that's for another discussion.

Yes, I am a gamer, and my wife plays occasionally too. We set limits on our kids gaming and use it as a tool for rewarding good behavior. We created a “real life battlepass” for our older kid where he gets 4 weekly challenges (chores, non-gaming learning objectives, etc.) that have to be completed by certain times in order to earn gaming time. We let him come up with one additional challenge that is non-gaming related and then another gaming related challenge (e.g. 5 eliminations in a game of Fortnite). This is all in addition to the normal expectations of keeping your room clean, school work, etc.

Managing their exposure to this type of media is important. They’re going to be exposed to it, and they enjoy it, so instead of fighting it we found a middle ground where we all win.

As a parent, I've never understood this sentiment. Gaming is just another "activity" and to say it's "mind numbing" and not productive is disingenuous. Sure, it can be depending on the game, but so can acting and painting and any other activities that kids do.

> For parents sick of hearing “Almost done. One last game”: What’s worked for us: (1) Don’t freak, they’re not addicted (the pathologizing of gaming may do more harm than the games themselves) (2) set a timer & provide consistent consequences (without anger) when they go over..13/N

On a semi-related note. When I was a kid my parents used to make us quit our gaming session with little to no warning. This wasn't a big issue with single player games because they can be saved/paused, but that's obviously not possible with online multiplayer games. Unfortunately, that didn't matter to them, and it resulted in many interrupted gaming sessions and unnecessary consequences and behavioral issues from me and my siblings.

Now that I'm a parent, I've made a promise to my kids that I will always let them finish their current game before kicking them off. If they start a new game after they've been given the last game warning, then there's consequences. They know this, and we rarely have any issues related to behavior and gaming.

Fortnite has actually helped my son understand the concept of saving money (V-Bucks, the in-app currency). He has started asking himself, "Do I really want this? Or should I save my V-Bucks for something I know I'll love."

Thanks for the response. Loving Station so far. Keep up the great work.

Any plans to support custom icons/colors for apps? I just set up multiple gmail accounts in Station, but it's really hard to distinguish between the different accounts. I can see the account's avatar at the bottom right of the Gmail icon, but it's really small. Another idea would be to provide an option for adding a separator on the menu bar.

Also, another nitpick. The "on" toggle button is really ugly and doesn't fit with the rest of the UI design (which is really nice looking overall).

> the concept of domain authority doesn't exist.

Is that really the case now? It's been 3-4 years since I was involved in SEO, and it was very much a thing back then.

There is a missing link in the demo after logging in. 2nd paragraph says...

> Click here to see what info was shared with this website after you authenticated.

The point the parent comment is trying to make is that meetings are a waste of people's time. Most software engineers will agree that the majority of meetings are unproductive.

AFAIK there is no other work-around for one-time charges that have variable pricing. The $.01 quantity add-on is what's recommended by their support.

> Would you say ChargeBee is also a good solution for small one-time-payments?

My startup uses ChargeBee and deals with one-time-payments as well as subscriptions. It's definitely geared towards the subscription model, but you can make the one-off payments work by using the API and utilizing add-on products.

First, the customer would need to be signed up for a subscription plan that has a trial set to expire X years out (I think the maximum is 10). ChargeBee's pricing model is based on the total number of invoices per month (or at least that's how our plan works), so signing them up for a trial does not result in an invoice being generated.

Then you would set up an add-on product in ChargeBee that is of the "Quantity" type and has a price of $.01. When the customer makes a one-off purchase, you would call use the ChargeBee API to purchase a quantity of X of the add-on. So if the total charge is $10, you would use a quantity of 1,000 (1,000 x .01 = 10).

If you have products that have a set price, you can just add each one as an add-on and reference that product ID when calling the API.

It sounds kind of hack-ey, but I'm very happy with our decision to go with ChargeBee. Their customer support is awesome as well.

During the video he says, "Furlexa, tell me about furbies". My echo dot heard this and proceeded to tell me about Herpes.

Does anyone know why it's not possible to change the calendar for a given event in the Google Calendar iOS app? You can change the color of an event, but not the actual calendar the event is associated with. It drives me crazy. You have to delete the event and re-create it under the correct calendar.

If it also included every episode of all of their Disney Jr. shows, then it would be a no brainer.

Google should require that 2FA is enabled to use this feature.

I don't understand why they would announce To-Do without a sharing feature. It's something that all basic todo apps can handle.

Same here. I couldn't be happier. Well, sometimes their support can take 24+ hours to respond to an issue, but other than that Mailgun is amazing.

I guess...

Nah it was just a fun project to introduce myself to the platform. I'm surprised they did that to you though. I wonder if that policy will change in the future considering there's tons of apps that target kids in their app store.

Ha! I didn't even think about that. But it's not ideal for vertically scaling the family :)

This is also a big gripe of mine. I created an app that can be used as a fun "neutral" third-party when instructing my toddler to do something.

What I want it to say:

> Alexa, tell %NAME% it's time (for a nap|to go to bed|to eat dinner)

What I have to say:

> Alexa, tell Toddler Boss to tell %NAME% it's time to go to bed.

It's not natural sounding at all.

This is very good. It means Net Neutrality is here to stay (for now).

Just something to consider. I wouldn't mention when you're planning on increasing the price. Just that the price is going to go up "soon". Now I know I have a whole month to put off buying it and may forget about it in that time period.

That being said, I'll be buying it. It's a great app and well worth the price.