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Thanks, I try to make it look nice! I started building it this Christmas and this HN thread brought the first users apart from my girlfriend and brother. All on free trial, we're 17 now!

Thanks for reporting. I'm on Firefox android and can't reproduce. No sentry error so I assume the front is not sending the request.

The email is an 'email' field and apparently firefox mobile will block sending if the email is invalid (missing @, ...) without showing any warning, is the email standard?

(Other obvious steps: is it still happening after a refresh, the stack is vueJS (+ laravel/inertia) so I assume you have JS enabled already? ublock shouldn't be an issue.)

Keep Close Friends: https://keepclosefriends.com

One day I noticed I was slowly losing touch with old friends - I moved, we all have busy lives and don't hang out just by chance any more. Those people used to be loved ones and now I wasn't sure. It felt like grief.

So I built a simple website where I can list relationships and ideal meeting frequency (say, 2-3 times a year), then get a few relationship stats and a reminder when it's time to reach out again.

I see it as a reminder that my life is short, and I like that. No other users yet but it feels right to try to help share that perspective around, for those who might want it.

There is a blog linked in their HN bio (http://alexpotato.com/blog), but it's about paintball coaching. I'd be interested in checking out their other blog as well.

The emails sent by their status page are sent by status.io and are not impacted.

Looks neat. One suggestion: add a simple newsletter signup form to notify people when other platforms are supported (and whatever else you want).

I'd love to follow the project and try it on linux when that comes.

Their open analytics page shows the live HN traffic to their website, driven by this article - quite a peak from regular: https://plausible.io/plausible.io

Regarding lesson 4 (Distribution), the author links to a tweet by Justin Kan saying "First time founders are obsessed with products. Second time founders are obsessed with distribution".

Justin Kan posted[0] today a video of himself criticizing that very tweet, saying that it didn't age well and he now believes product is 99% of the work, and the reason that many unicorns are founded by first-time founders is they don't get distracted by thoughts about anything other than product, like distribution.

[0] https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1418003365695418373

In "Oxygen: the molecule that made the world"[1], Nick Lane also mentions the theory that these cyanobacteria are the reason we have liquid water on earth, while mars (for example) doesn't.

It goes like this: early earth was subjected to solar radiations which hit our liquid water, splitting H2O into separate oxygen and hydrogen elements. The very light hydrogen atoms (as ions, or maybe H2?) were escaping into space while the oxygen was trapped by oxydizing rocks.

With the rise of cyanobacteria produced O2, the rocks became fully oxydized and O2 started to build up in the air: the split hydrogen would be more likely to recombine with atmospheric O2, keeping them on earth, and the ozone (O3) layer started to shield the water from these radiations in the first place, thus stopping the process and safeguarding our oceans.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0198607830 (very cool read mixing early earth history, the rise of life, geology, biochemistry and phylogenetics + Dr Lane is an excellent writer. Published in 2002, he has many more good updated articles about it.)

Other POV: I only check FB a few minutes everyday or so and that algo, maybe ironically, is what allows me to do so.

You have 1000 friends each interacting once per day with FB in a news feed worthy way (posting, joining an event, commenting etc). Are you supposed to look at 500 daily news feed posts to get a 50% chance of knowing what that friend you really like is up to? (pushing the trait but you get the idea)

Instead having to seep through endless activities I don't care about I can scan 10-15 posts per day and they are the relevant ones from the groups and friends I want to interact with.

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I'm fully with you on the point you make about business/content creator you volontarily subscribed to having to pay extra for you to see their stuff.

1. I would agree: I discovered it a few weeks ago and it changed my understanding of both how my mind works and the practice of meditation (after 5+ years of on/off practice, retreats and many many books). I found the explanations so clear that I'm going for a 6 weeks retreat to his center in a few days.

2. In the same vibe I was recommended Shinzen Young "the science of enlightenment"[1], which has very enthusiastic reviews from many masters, including Culadasa. I haven't read it yet.

[1] printed in 2016, https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1591794609/

The ads are not in the app itself - headspace seems to spend a lot in marketing and you can get hammered by repetitive ads promoting it in youtube, etc.

End result is associating the app with annoying ads.

The book they mention, Altered Traits, is a great read for those interested in what hard facts the numerous studies on the subject have yielded so far (+ some nice stories about "olympic level meditators").

The authors make a point of painstakingly explaining why these kind of studies are hard to conduct, what a good one looks like and why they had to discard ~99% of them to write the book because of statistical insufficiency, lack of proper methodology etc. At a time when many meditation apps claim to be "science based" I found this quite relevant.

They both are proficient in meditation and have been associated with the western scene very early on. It's mostly about mindfulness/vipasana meditation since that's the subject of the majority of the medical studies.

I didn't find that one when I looked for this kind of tool so I rolled out my own, I would have definitely given it a go !

Thank you for the reports, @thread.

Firefox was escaping the downloaded data (loaded in a href attribute) differently than chrome, that problem should be solved now. Do let me know if you still experience issues.

Thanks for the heads up - I'm reproducing it on firefox, I'll investigate asap.

The password "123" is working for me, if you find steps to reproduce do let me know !

Oops thanks, that should be fixed - the generating page now gets its libraries from CDNs.

I'll probably look into adding Subressource Integrity checks for the other two as well.

I like the idea of the page relying as little as possible on my code (you have a better chance to trust a well known public CDN on HTTPS than some minified code inlined from an unknow github repo).

But I understand your point, plus it would be nice to have a page working completely offline. Will add the option to embed the needed library in the single file.

It definitely does not need jQuery :) The page was a POC, since it seems it might be useful to some I'll clean it up. Thanks for the feedback !