desmondrd

Edge fucking sucks.

I've used 1Password since 2014 -- almost 10 years! And my company uses it, so I'm both personal and business user.

Product quality, especially with 1Password8 has deteriorated significantly. A big bag refactor to electron with no telemetry is probably the root cause. Not necessarily poor strategy, but certainly poor execution.

Telemetry is actually a good thing for 1Password users who see product quality decreasing bc it gives the PMs there some information to go off. The product surface area is huge now, and it's natural to lose sight of the most important stuff.

If I was in charge, what would I do?

1. Introduce telemetry and get data into hands of PMs + Designers

2. Pause all new feature development until table stakes features are working flawlessly: 1Password opens under 200ms for most users; auto fill in Chrome + Firefox actually F*king works like it used to before v8.

3. Trim down product surface area by killing features. E.g. decide is the default UX for auto-fill based on interacting with a button inside form inputs OR simply hitting the keyboard shortcut to autofill? Kill the other bc the interaction between these choices is painful.

I'll give them a year to figure this out. In the meantime, a Copilot / ChaptGPT enabled bootstrap founder will come along and build out a trimmed down version with just the basics and start eating their lunch.

Haha sorry - yeah as the kind person above says.. "go to market" -- just your question about how I take it to market.

Yep - that's correct. My hunch was that people are tired of paying for subscriptions but would drop $20 on something that makes their life slightly better.

GTM is the hardest but mostly through referrals / word of mouth. I want to do more Twitter/LI ads.

I built https://www.withphoton.com that helps people overlay multiple calendars in any timezone, and quickly format a message that contains your availability to save time and eliminate typos.

It's a simple keyboard-first electron app that hooks up with your Google / Outlook cal. Target market is folks who schedule meetings outside their org like founders, CSM, biz dev, sales, EAs, etc.

E.g. Do any of these times (CT) work for you?

April 13 (Thursday) * 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

April 14 (Friday) * 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

How much of this is showing other work someone has done? I wonder how similar / dissimilar it is to Copilot for use cases like this one.

Anyone know technically under the hood, how this particular formula is created by ChatGPT?

Compliance software B2B

Backend

- Auth: stytch

- DB: Postgres in RDS (moving to Railway)

- Api: Node on Heroku (moving to Railway)

- Images: Fire Store (ugh. Maybe move to Cloudflare images)

Front end

- SPA: React served by Heroku (moving to Railway)

This is a plaid killer.

This specifically is such a dig against plaid’s obfuscated permissions model.

“ Before linking an account, users can see: What types of data they’re sharing Who can access their data How to disconnect an account

Anyone guess what they will spend the cash on?

Couple plausible options

- they aren't profitable but have huge transaction volume - international growth - new product development

Thoughts?

Upsert is something I expect so commonly in modern databases nowadays. Happy to see it here with Postgres.

Archived version of this file on the Internet Archive.

http://web.archive.org/web/20140916215429/https://www.gsaadv...

One of the best museums I've ever been to. Highly recommend going - it's better than the website :)

HN used to be full of things that mattered. This belongs on Reddit.com.

48 Laws of Power by Robert Greeene. It's a Machiavellian approach to managing your life in order to maximize your personal power and influence. Although I don't plan on becoming the Prince himself, it's a quick, interesting read written from a unique perspective.

Great post, thanks.

This is awesome.