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I remember Nothing tech did something similar-ish not too long ago, but I can't find their announcement of it. But then I stumbled upon a video talking about privacy concerns[0]. What's the difference between what they did and what Beeper is doing? Sounds cool though, impressive work! (also, "hacker"-news needs to be more embracing of their name lol)
You don't have to login to Git if your dotfiles are public. Or if you throw them up on a "private only by lack of awareness" repo.
haha yoink! Sorry fellow Spencer, looks like I'm king now.
lol yeah, like most digital things have a lifespan, that doesn't make them worthless just like a car isn't worthless even though it's not indestructible.
I factored in the usefulness, uniqueness, and possible untimely-deathness and found the lifetime license worth it. It's nice to support stuff like this.
lol a OneTab newbie, eh?
I've used OneTab (and then switched to BetterOneTab). Been using it for about 5 years or so. I have dozens of exported "backup" files, because after a certain amount of saved tabs, the extension stops working. You can't save any new ones. I've lost maybe 100 tabs so far by adding them to OneTab only to discover I was at my limit and nothing got saved. It then stops allowing deletions (they come back after refreshing the extension page). So I have to export my hundreds or even thousands of tabs, uninstall the extension, and then reinstall it. And then I keep hoarding.
I have a real bad case of digital tsundoku. Even as I type this, I have roughly 80 links from HN opened, two dozen or so Twitter tabs, probably 30 YouTube tabs, and then a healthy heap of other miscellaneous sites. I know I will never get through this infinite backlog. Even if I were to squirrel myself away and do nothing but open each tab, digest its contents, and move on to the next, it would probably take me years. And I would be so burnt out I wouldn't be digesting well enough. Plus, most of that information is probably, at least slightly, outdated.
...Oh well, time to open up another dozen 3-hour long YouTube "mini" docs about niche subjects I have no engagement in.
Felt like making an account here just to say how much I've been enjoying this service.
I got a lifetime license awhile back and love how it just keeps giving. The shortened email is cool enough, but all the extra goodies are just really tasty icing on the cake. The simple status social media site is fun because it's so low friction, you don't worry about anything other than just creating a stream of little updates.
I'd love to see this entire concept become the new way we web. Like instead of giant conglomerate companies trying to do everything, we have a bunch of smaller little services that interact with each other (a la fediverse or something similar) and they occasionally add a new little set of tools. Feels very "old-web" like. Like a modern BBS.
Great work so far Adam! Keep it up :) Much love from spencer.omg.lol