GoodluckH

I’m also a software engineer running a hardware e-commerce business on the side. The hardest lesson for me was unlearning 'logic' in favor of psychology.

I recently ran an experiment where I increased prices by 50%, and sales volume actually went up. It’s wild how much copy and creative assets can alter perceived value, allowing you to justify a higher price point for the exact same physical product

yep that's the beauty of developing for the ios ecosystem. apple made it a high trust environment for users to try out different things by making it very safe and sandboxed

KNOWN ISSUES SO FAR - counts more than one every time volume button is clicked (fixed in new build, waiting for review)

- crashes if you hold one of the volume buttons for long

JUST LEARNED THIS... Apparently, Apple prohibits apps from altering hardware functions like volume buttons. So, that likely means this app won't get published on App Store.

But it's been fun to learn Swift and Objective-C from building this simple app.

If I want this to be released, I would need to remove the volume button control and only support swipe gestures.

I can also make this open-source if you are interested in learning how it works.

Lemme know what you think.

it's a testflight app i built for fun but apparently it might not be able to pass the apple review for production release (i just learned this 2 seconds ago)

oh damn i wasn't aware of this given that Apple's native camera app can use volume button to take pics

thanks for trying it out!

this is a commonly reported bug that wasn't able to spot when in development mode.

i think the issue is that i might have attached the volume-button handler multiple times, so that each time you click on the volume button, those duplicated handlers all emit events.

pushed out a small fix currently under apple's review

I built this simple tool to nudge me to blink more often because my eye-sight deteriorated fast soon after I started learning to code.

Help needed:

currently I'm only using color change to nudge users to blink more. I don't have any biology background but there should be more effective ways. Love to brainstorm together.

Repo is here: https://github.com/GoodluckH/blink-more

Ahh I see.

So currently it only supports a simple timer like "Email bob 5".

Later, we will build integration with your calendar to give you more control over your workday. At that point, the specific time will be very valuable.

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the visual timer is mostly for people with ADHD, who suffer from time-blindness. I can see your point of it being stressful.

Pomodoro is one part of it. It's more about focusing on current task at hand with something always on your screen to keep you accountable.

If you are down, feel free to join our discord channel: https://discord.gg/GavhgFrt9E

Thanks for the suggestion!

The tasks you put down are saved on our enterprise-grade database so you can have your tasks synced across devices. We don't share your tasks with 3rd party.

Seems like I need to update our privacy policy to make it more clear.

Thanks for pointing it out!

Hi! Thanks for the heads up. We're only 2-weeks old so we haven't had resources to iron out a privacy policy as we're shipping new features rapidly that might affect our privacy policy.

All of our users data are securely stored on AWS. We do not and will not share your todo items with third-party because we are operating a freemium business model (e.g., Notion), so we don't have the financial incentive the advertise our user data.

Google and Apple are for auth purposes, they only have access to what they already know about you (username, email, profile pic, etc).

I hope this clears your concerns.

HearHear records meetings and maps each speaker to recordings. It then uses OpenAI's Whisper API to transcribe the audio files into transcripts.

In the dashboard, HearHear can generate any insight based on the templates you built. Whether it's summary in haiku format, action items, vibe check, or tension analysis, sky is the limit.

I invite you to give it a try and let me know any feedback you may have.

Thank you!

For some reasons the CSS is not rendering when opening from Hacker News.

Paste this in your browser to get the full styling: https://brokeaf.streamlit.app

link is https://brokeaf.streamlit.app/