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Neat. Now where can I get a real physical flip board, lol?

I am using a combination of Tomboy (desktop), Tomdroid and Markor (mobile) to record info i need later. Simple and effective.

True that! That does not absolve Youtube / Google from anything, however.

Beautiful. On a Sunday afternoon when I was looking forward to change my desktop look :)

Hopefully back soon.

Seems to be the case with xfce-look.org as well.

I've replaced it with purelymail.com (not affiliated) - and I'm happy with that. Been with the service for about 4 months now. Yes, there is occasional spam, but fine with that.

They offer calendar as well, works fine but I am not using it. Running my own self-hosted instance of NextCloud and using that for cal and contacts.

I do not use any online/web office suite.

"Google does not care about their users". Well.. I am not sure about that, but there is always the option of not using Google products, or using as few as possible Google products.

- I've closed my G Suite legacy free edition (as opposed to transitioning to paid)

- I've moved away and stopped using Gmail, Drive, Photos and Keep

I am still using maps & youtube - these are a bit tricky to replace.

No hard-feelings, Google is no longer the company/innovator it used to be (remember back on 2005 got an invitation for gmail, and I was over the moon).

Not for me, but.. A honest question - now, when G suite legacy free edition is closing down, here's a chance to offer a service that's not "piggy-backing" on gmail (or any other provider).

You could "re-create Inbox" by providing email hosting with same/similar features - already lined up on your page.

Not an electronics engineer, but have enjoyed the read. If you can pull this off, more power to you.

With soldered storage and RAM onto the boards becoming nowadays fairly common, the author can probably open up a business and do this as a side-job or full time!

Add Chromebooks into the mix, and you'll probably have customers.

"Meetings are the mind-killer"

Could not agree more. They're big-corp specific and if you can avoid them - that would be a big plus for you. I can't. They lack value while being a complete waste of time. You may think it's no biggie - "but I'm getting paid for the meetig time".

True, however - they can wear you down in time, if three-four times a day... and you are still expected to deliver, regardless the time spent in meetings.

That's only my oppinion, I know some folks are fine with long meetings. My view on this is - I am not an entertainer (aka meetings "super-star"), I would like to keep it short & to the point.

Regarding the article, there is some good stuff in there, that may or may not apply to everyone (especially if you have kids).

If I may, one suggestion regarding the plastic frame - maybe work a bit on the quality and feel of the frame (unless pictures are of a prototype). I know it may not sound like a big deal, but I think that a good product presentation goes a long way.

Looks very promising, congrats on launching.

noterbox.com

Personal cloud / data capture and management with user's choice of storage.

Stage: proof of concept, with a working demo.

I am a solo technical founder, looking for a co-founder also with technical background. I am based in the UK.

Yeah, that or this: "I take pride in having the most accurate prices on the web".

That zoom-able image is amazing. Sometimes we forget how big the universe is. And that's just an image of the Milky Way.

One day I’ll have to go out to write something myself.

I resonate with that. I need to be able to add attachments to my notes - ideally with OCR capabilities. Evernote does that, but I've had a hard time finding something else for the Linux desktop.

It's 2019 (almost 2020) and a cross-platform note taking application that does notes + attachments + OCR it's still not available (I am not referring to "workarounds" or "tweaks", attachments as links, etc). If anyone knows one I would love to hear about it.

I am currently using a web app that I have built myself, it does notes and attachments but I am still working on implementing OCR via Tesseract (form images and PDF attachments).

@surfsvammel, if you decide to go that way and start building something, give me a shout - email in my profile.

Yup, absolutely, second that.

I have SaaS fatigue!

I've smiled at this one. Taking a moment to think about it, it's true.

If you've looked at the presentation, one the things I'm looking at - is to market this as a personal device, for exactly that reason. Thanks for input.

Same here - I only sign-up for services that are a "need" not a "want". If I implement a "Sign up with Google" feature - would you try the app? Thanks for checking!

Thanks - got it.

That's actually a valid question - never thought of it this way. It's probably what an investor would ask.

Thank you ezekg.

Thank you!

May I ask where did you see the deck (you can use the email associated with my account)?

Thanks, thecupisblue. This is a "cold shower" - I appreciate you being straight-forward.

I agree that the UI is not the best, that's not what's worrying me :) Initially I've started working on this because I needed an app that does this, this and that - and I could not find one.

As it is now, I am actually using it on regular basis. Right now I am trying to figure out if there are any others looking for the same features - and validate that. Thanks for the input.

I have not attempted to convince anyone to use the app so far :) Initially, I've built the app for personal use (and I am using it).

And yes, it will cost a considerable amount of money to have the app live - for testing purposes.

"If not you have to get good at convincing people to work with you".

That is actually very good advice. Without money and proper market validation, this is not a bad idea at all.

Thank you.

The funding would be for driving the development of the application further, and not to "keep me eating". Right now "it screams" single developer all over. I agree that the app needs validation.

About a month ago I've put Mailchimp signup forms on my website - to see if there is any interest in the app. This is not ideal however, without a demo of the app (sign up for what?)

Proof that people actually want/need the service - yes, this is a good point, I am still trying to figure out how to validate this without having a finished product... Thanks!

Thanks rdegges. I am aware that Amazon S3 is the "de-facto" in storage right now (and it has been for a while). The problem is that I am not able to come up with an estimated monthly cost, using their calculator (data at rest, in transit, downloads, uploads are charged differently). I would love to use Amazon S3, but do not want to find out months later that bills are higher than what I charge my customers.

However, I believe that your answer still helps - it's what I have suspected. Looks like I will have to bite the bullet and try S3, do a "best effort" estimate and learn as I go...

I agree, plus if you take the time to get this working, the only limit is your server (assigned) space for file storage.

I hope there will be a follow-up with step-by step info, I am interested.

I am not usually using IE, but the site looks bad under IE8, I can confirm that.

But you know what..? I would not bother fixing it if I were you. Seriously, I don't think it's worth the trouble.

Great design, love the concept!

Indeed, disappointing...