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I did the exact same thing when I saw DreamBooth for the first time! I showed it to a bunch of friends and they convinced me to turn it into an iOS app. https://apps.apple.com/app/ai-avatar-for-dogs-floof-ai/id165...

People have been sending me the cute pics the AI generates of their pups. I think this is arguably the best thing so far in this latest wave of AI releases!

I regularly chat with folks running competitors to my business. It's a fairly niche space so there's not many people who understand what we're dealing with day to day.

I remove them from my user forums when I see them join, mostly because I like to post my product roadmap there. They could join pseudonymously, but time spent worrying about competitors is time better spent thinking about other stuff.

End of the day, a competitor can only beat you by building a better product or doing better marketing. Neither of those is possible by copying.

You might be afraid of someone stealing your idea. Don’t be. Remember, ideas are an abundant commodity–it’s time that is scarce

I wish more people understood this! 2/3 of the time someone asks me to hear their idea they want me to sign an NDA first.

As though I have time to build a dating app that matches people based on their favorite color!

But seriously, I think people would be surprised how much two ideas can diverge based on execution and in most circumstances sharing your idea is very low risk.

linkdrop.co -- Pays for the occasional (happy hour) beer, but I have a huge backlog of user feedback and TODOs that I never have time for which is why I consider it half baked.

Hey I built https://www.linkdrop.co/ about 6 months ago to solve exactly that problem.

Linkdrop doesn't have any unread article lists. When you "save" an article, it queues it up to send it to you in an email the next day.

Since I've been using it I find that my actual bookmarks are things I want to save instead of just random articles. Makes things a lot cleaner :)

It's got a good number of users atm and things are running smoothly, it's also free. If you do use it, feel free to send me any feedback you have. I've been trying to find more time to hack on it and would love some more direction.

I posted about an extension I built to help me manage my bookmarks yesterday. It sends you an email of all the bookmarks you make for that day at the end of a day (similar to a news letter). You can find it at linkdrop.co

It sounds like you are more concerned with management than rediscovery, though, so it might not solve your usecase. In that case, I would definitely recommend getpocket.com for saving bookmarks across browsers/machines.

Cool - I'll check out how portable the code from chrome extension to firefox/safari extension is. This could be a quick work around if needed. Thanks!

Hey thanks! I've never seen mailist before. I probably wouldn't have built this if I had haha.

Hey thanks so much for your comment! I'm glad you find this tool helpful. If you have a minute, I'd love to hear your thoughts on how I could improve it further. My email is in my profile. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Ugh thank you for catching that. Will fix in the next push.

Interesting, the default behavior is for it to carry over but I thought that was weird so I clear the inputs when you switch between the two. I can see how that is annoying since they look so similar.

Hmm that's interesting. I'm not very familiar with bookmarklets. Could I sync and persist a uid so that I can store the bookmarks per user?

If I had known the response this would get I wouldn't have launched without it! I'll look into it over the next couple weeks. :)

Yeah I probably need to redo the landing page. There are a few more example screenshots on the chrome extension page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-drop/bdfpcani...

Thanks for the feedback!

Someone pointed me to this thread today based on a tool that I just built that emails you all the bookmarks you set at the end of the day. You can find it at linkdrop.co.

I wanted to add that but I didn't have time this weekend. That's actually my biggest feature request from myself :P. I'm super busy over the next couple weeks, but I'll see what I can do to add this, maybe even just a hard coded "Send this only on Friday."

Thanks for checking it out!

Whoa I missed this. Will check it out thanks!

Oh no it actually just sends whatever hte link is that you bookmarked. Sorry for the confusion! What you described is actually a _really_ cool idea though haha.

My initial plan was to integrate with Pocket (which I love). I have some ideas for how that would be done.

Building this was more about learning how to build a chrome extension, but I think this might work even better as a tool on top of pocket. Given the interest this is getting + the other conversation about bookmarks I might take on the Pocket+ thing next.

Thanks for checking it out!

Either you’re remote-only or you don’t do remote at all. Lots of companies brag about giving their staff the freedom to work remotely.

I've worked on three different "remote" teams now and I think the author's point is spot on.

The first time we did it everyone was remote, scattered across different states in America. It was a great experience. Everyone had a ton of freedom and flexibility and there was a lot of trust across the team.

The next two teams I worked in had each "division" headquartered in different regions. Design was based in one area, Engineering in another, product in another. It was so much worse. The people I worked were wonderful but we just couldn't develop the trust needed to build at the pace the market demanded.

How I describe the issue now is that we thought we were a "remote team" but we were actually just a handful of employees working remote from HQ. The HQ was wherever the core work was being done at the moment (usually with engineering) and the rest of us were just remote employees.

Hi HN - I built this to satisfy a personal itch and learn more about chrome extensions. I always felt like I would set and forget bookmarks so I wanted a way to be reminded of them daily.

That, combined me with my love of newsletters, led me to create linkdrop. Thanks for checking it out!

Hey this looks really cool. I could see this potentially being useful for communities that have guests do public office hours but might have issues getting the word out to interested people who don't regularly visit the forums for updates (thinking of IndieHackers).

Good work :)

I sometimes throw a quieter stream on in the background. It makes me feel like I'm in an office space when I'm coding by myself which sometimes helps me focus.

I never usually have a stream on for more than 10-15 minutes at a time, but other than the nice sound of keyboard typing I also enjoy trying to be helpful or just poking in and seeing what other people are working on.

A lot of people are worried that they'll bring up passwords or open up personal websites like facebook for everyone to see.

For me, streaming myself code on Twitch encourages me not to open those time sink websites. Also, the "Programming" community on Twitch is much smaller and more focused than the wider "Gaming" community, so you don't get too many toxic people. Mostly it's just people who are interested in learning.

Is there a way to limit the tabs that it opens on? I think this would be nice to have when I'm trying to waste time but if I'm trying to open tabs for work I could see this getting really annoying. Looks cool though :)

Reddit caters to a broader range of people, so it is less focused. If you go to specific subreddits you can find great content and intelligent conversation. I've learned a lot from /r/swift and /r/learnpython.

HN would fit in as a subreddit on Reddit. In fact, I'd wager that if there was a subreddit /r/hackernews it would look almost exactly the same as this website.

Python noob here. What does the _ mean in "...for _ in range(100))"?