maxsavin

The key word in AI is "artificial"

To me, the question is, can you build a better software team than your current product provider has? If you are planning to hire developers as if they are just construction workers, you're in for a bad surprise. Plus, attracting talent to such an industry would be very hard unless you are willing to pay high amounts, often with equity.

If you're going to hire one guy to start, check their portfolio to see that have build apps from scratch, and evaluate the quality. Many can't ship.

Hey folks - this is a new product I had a lot of fun hacking together.

The color schemes are generated by GPT4, which does a surprisingly good job at putting together good looking combinations.

The schemes are then sent out to our X account, which has about 150k people interact with the schemes.

These schemes are then ranked by engagement. A lot of people ask if feeding in the top schemes into GPT4 improves the output, but surprisingly, it does not. At some point, I will probably look to build in some kind ML scheme generator to optimize for hits.

The best one raked in 2m views: https://twitter.com/colorschemer/status/1697855177016160431

https://www.hackernewsdaily.com is built on Meteor - haven't touched it for years and its working great

really easy to update apps too

I usually charge per day or per week. If it's a few hours, I just tell them it's not worth my time.

The locality of the customer matters a lot. Usually, I will factor what it would cost for them to hire a full-time engineer (not just salary, but also overhead). A $120k salary will cost the company $200k, or $90 per hour. Then I'll add a % on top since I'm not getting days off, paid vacation, long-term security, etc.

That kind of reasoning helps with stingy customers. Otherwise, I just give a flat rate to solve their problem.

For customers that need me long term, I also ask for a monthly retainer to keep availability for them, for meetings, emergency bug fixes, etc. Otherwise, you're giving them the perks of an employee without them properly compensating you.

Color management is done on the OS level. If you're not happy with the quality of app.. would love to know what's not working for you - and am happy to provide a refund.

Minimum viable product :P

Thanks. Paletter's feature set goes quite beyond what the mainstream tools offer, but maybe that needs to be more clear.

Cloud palettes are probably coming. As for Linux, would be a tough call since most designers are on Mac and Windows.

thanks for adding Paletter :)

What kind of features would you want for ten dollars?

Completely arbitrary

It supports RGB, LRGB, HSL, HCL and LAB (for now :)

Thanks... good things happen when the end user is on the App Page :P

I am going to outline it on the next website.. for now, it's present in the Upgrade tab on Paletter Lite

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/CJvf0fh

There's a difference, part of it is a matter of a taste, like picking a color for your band, part of is it logical, like accessibility, color psychology, etc.

I'd say most people struggle with the taste part, and that's what Paletter helps with. The logical side of things can be learned quickly.

Not likely :| maybe a web product down the line - can suggest to sign up for company updates

All you need is to pick a base color for your brand. Paletter will then generate different schemes and palettes for you based on that color. And you can play with it and explore :) I'm the same as you haha

At least for Mac, people have completely different UI/UX expectations for a website and an app. Designers tend to be pretty picky about their tools.

Very good point, can't believe I missed that.

I have it inside Paletter Lite app.. have a screenshot for you here: https://imgur.com/a/CJvf0fh

What device are you using?

Honestly, half of the point was to have a native app. It changes the perception of the product, gives it a proper presence on your app dock, works offline, and has the system related features you would expect :)

It also helps piggyback on the App Store for discovery.

Hey folks! Loving the comments on trying to use the screenshot. I thought it would be really nice to have a full size demo of the product rather than a scaled down graphic - but it turns out there could be a downside!

Happy to answer any and all of your questions!

“This is a slow burn theme, but we are of the view that we’re eventually headed into a ‘multiple reserve currency’ framework over time,” Bipan Rai, a strategist at CIBC, said via email.

Haha... that's quite the spin.

Dude, where are the code samples? You lost me by not having them. I want something nice like Svelte.

Electron was simply caught doing something it was not supposed to be doing.

As someone who has spent a lot of time on web and Apple.. this article reads a bit like a conspiracy theory. Apple has allowed a lot of web features on to their platforms and App Store's, like hot code push, PWA, etc.

My argument is simple: I want it for myself.

I'm happy to share the reasons:

- with Meteor, I have all my services (front end, back-end, etc) in one place, running on one dyno, with automatic deploy via GitHub

- my Meteor set up has stylus, minification, etc, configured

- I have libraries for routing, state management, and etc handily available

Ultimately, it's a choice based on personal productivity and convenience. The whole project took me a couple of days, whereas with the JS ecosystem, I'd probably have to spend that time configuring tools.

For those wondering, it's built with Meteor, Mongo and my jobs queue package: https://github.com/msavin/SteveJobs

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Time isn't real

For 2019, my focus is on making my life more efficient, and a big part of that involves reforming my computing habits. Among my worse habits is constantly checking Hacker News, since after all, this is the pulse of the industry.

Like most of you, I don't want to miss a single top story, and I don't want to check to Hacker News constantly. My solution was to build a jobs queue and program it to check Hacker News for me. Then, every morning and night, it would email me a list of the top stories.

The emails are designed to feel very familiar to the Hacker News experience. With the added the metadata page descriptions, it feels a lot like a newsfeed. I'm considering replacing these descriptions with ML summaries, and adding adding a preview image to it. What do you think?

Anyways, I've been really enjoying it and I hope you might too. Try it out and let me know what you think!