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zaplinon Show HN: I indexed 1.3m+ email newsletters

two comments.

Can I edit my newsletter entry? Secondly, it's SUPER expensive.

What you've built is very helpful because, as I'm sure you can see in your data, most newsletters have low digits subscribers and looking for inexpensive ways to grow. AKA cross-promotions.

So your product is an expensive gateway to try inexpensive techniques for growth.

zaplinon Pico8 Music Synthesizer

Not everything has to be simpler/better/faster/easier.

Music makers/artists need constrains/influences and some times to mix things up by taking a harder/weird approach.

zaplinon Back to the Future: On misunderstanding modular synthesizers (2016)

I laughed so hard hahah

zaplinon Back to the Future: On misunderstanding modular synthesizers (2016)

if you're interested for this kind of stuff I interview[1] people that make music with modular synthesizers and other gear

[1] [G.A.S. Newsletter](https://gasnewsletter.beehiiv.com/)

zaplinon Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

do you have someplace we can check your stuff?

zaplinon Resources for microtonal music

came here to mention Perala

zaplinon Euclidean rhythms

I've been wanting to create a modular system just to generate sequences. I should research more about Buchla.

I run a newsletter about synths and after 30 interviews and studio views, I still haven't stumbled upon Buchla systems.

the newsletter > [G.A.S. Newsletter](https://gasnewsletter.beehiiv.com/)

zaplinon How to Be a Synth Freak

Good one, yes. Clean and minimal studio.

Also, first time I got jealous about cables hah

zaplinon How to Be a Synth Freak

Haha true. So much money in those photos.

In the interview, most artists state that they have day-jobs, unrelated to music making. But little by little they've managed to accumulate all these synths.

zaplinon "The Social Network" synth sounds

To respond I'm gonna quote an artist* I recently interviewed on my synths & artists newsletter >

"The fact that synthesizer music is a machine-human interaction allows you to think less about elements that you'd generally focus 100% on when you perform a "traditional" instrument.

For instance, with synthesizers you have the luxury of focusing solely on expression without worrying about note execution."

*Elan Dare on the [G.A.S. Newsletter](https://gasnewsletter.beehiiv.com/)

zaplinon Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough

This book helped me A LOT.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287818.Refuse_to_Choose_

zaplinon A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout

this

zaplinon A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout

true. The reasoning was pomodoro technique to keep the mind/eyes fresh (20-30mins) + a time-frame that is enough for the body to restore all the necessary "ingredients ". (> 15-20mins)

zaplinon A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout

Everyone is different and has different routines. If I'm in the middle of important work or experiencing flow I will not break it. But we all do have repetitive tasks or housekeeping work to do. This is the time I do it.

As always, experiment and adjust

zaplinon A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout

Incidentally I've been doing this the past three months.

I have an athletic background and I tend to go full-on workouts etc. But I decided to take it easy this summer, stopped training in general but I would set an alarm every 30 minutes and take short brakes (2-5mins) from work.

In that time I do a few pushups and a couple exercises with the kettlebell. Nothing fancy or tiring, I stop just before I feel any type of resistance or "burn".

This happens 5-8 times a day. On weekends I do none of that.

Of course It's anecdotal but my body has FOR SURE changed. It's like when I did two times a day workouts.

Of course I'll go back doing full workouts because I enjoy them. But anybody who dislikes devoting big chunks of time just for workouts should definitely experiment with micro workouts.

zaplinon You can be both dull and innovative

Can't argue with that. My point is that THE WAY things are done is about routine. More in a micro level than a macro one.

You're absolutely right about cycles and all that. That's how I experience it as well.

zaplinon You can be both dull and innovative

I'll check it. Thanks for the recommendation.

zaplinon You can be both dull and innovative

Not only it's not optional, it's a requirement. Anyone who does creative work knows ROUTINE is the beginning of all.

Of course the exception to this are old-school rock-stars (and the new-school rock-stars: DJ's & Producers). Not jealous of their life expectancy though.

zaplinon How I finally get daily journaling done with a workflow on my iPhone

An interesting twist about the gratitude practice:

It turns out that it does not work they way we think it works. At least that's what the scientists say. To get the desired results the practice needs to be inverted.

"The key elements of highly effective gratitude practices are [...] the essential need for story (narrative), receiving or perceiving gratitude rather than giving it, and the role that theory of mind plays in this context" []

[] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVjfFN89qvQ

zaplinon Ask HN: What's the fastest way to get good at full stack app development?

I’ve found https://fullstackopen.com/ to be the most understandable and practical guide.

To learn the very basics I also recommend https://funprogramming.org/

Of course at any point deviate and build your own apps. Then continue with the guides

zaplinon Mihály Csíkszentmihályi has died

can you tell us the titles of the books you've read?

zaplinon Chip Player JavaScript: MIDI songs catalogue

I like it :D

zaplinon Why product research is broken and how we can fix it

Checking a product on your site I expected to find some kind of a point system.

I guess you filter for -good products only- but still if I'm shopping in a category, I want to compare.

Maybe some kind of proprietary way to compare?

zaplinon How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

zettelkasten ?

edit: you proposed zettelkasten-like solution just when I posted

zaplinon Show HN: Hackable No-Code Tool for MVPs

First of all I have no coding background.

I like creating projects so I find the no-code movement very valuable.

Abstra seems like a low-code to me. Maybe that is what you mean "hackable no-code"? (edit: you mention low-code in your landing page) If that's the case, and since the lingo in the no/low-code movement is already established, maybe it's better to use it so people have a better understanding of what they can do with your platform, faster.

Trying to create a project fast, I can quickly understand there is a learning curve required. At least steeper than other platforms. It would be very valuable if the first thing that happens when I log in for the first time is a walkthrough. Also, give some pre-made templates so people can modify those to their need. And by doing that they will learn the platform.

First impression is that I don't quickly understand if what I can create with abstra is websites, Saas, mobile apps, etc.

-All the best!

zaplinon Ask HN: What skills will be useful during an upcoming recession/depression?

Know why people all they want is to be understood. Everybody wants to be heard. These books tell you how and why. Quote from Never Split the Difference, "Interesting people are interested"

- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Christopher Voss

zaplinon Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

Which translation (if so) of "The master and Margarita" have you read? It's on my to read list for some time but when it's time to pick it up, i'm always turned off from finding the right one.