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blackbear.app 14d ago

BlackBear: Private Life Operating System

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www.codepuns.com 6mo ago

I'd tell you a UDP joke…

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github.com 6mo ago

AudioQ: Multi-channel audio queue management for browsers

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Reality.exe [video]

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www.codepuns.com 1y ago

My love for coding is like a recursive function

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www.codepuns.com 1y ago

What's a TypeScript developer's favorite reserved keyword?

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www.codepuns.com 1y ago

How do you comfort a JavaScript bug?

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www.codepuns.com 1y ago

Why did the for loop stop running?

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www.codepuns.com 1y ago

Why did the nullary function get along with everyone?

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www.codepuns.com 1y ago

Why can't you trust a JavaScript programmer's word?

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www.codepuns.com 1y ago

A python programmer walks into a bar and opens a tab...

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www.piccles.com 1y ago

Piccles: Collective Creative Experiences

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www.codepuns.com 1y ago

Codepuns

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blog.hubspot.com 2y ago

How to Use the Return Keyword in Java

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connectedproof.com 5y ago

IoT monitoring and automation for breweries and distilleries

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Dataset for US police departments that allow neck restraints (2013)

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www.tellmewhatimworth.com 6y ago

Find out what you could be earning from companies that want to hire you

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www.infinitelooper.com 6y ago

90's guided meditation

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www.easywebhooks.com 6y ago

How to Secure a Webhooks API

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www.banksurfing.co 7y ago

Get alerts when interest rates change and you should switch banks

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What do you like about Facebook?

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minerva-medical.com 8y ago

Full Code – Emergency Room Simulator

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medium.com 9y ago

How to unleash your passion when you least expect it

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info.mavrck.co 9y ago

Average Facebook posts per user decreased by 29.49% in 2016 [pdf]

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www.bonjoro.com 9y ago

Send personalized videos to your customers

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www.codepuns.com 9y ago

So a programming language walks into a bar and says, “Hello World”

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www.selfdrivingcarjobs.co 9y ago

Jobs Building Self Driving Cars

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www.mavrck.co 10y ago

How the Cost of Influencer Marketing Compares to Digital Ads

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medium.com 10y ago

A Modern Manifesto for Marketers

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www.mavrck.co 10y ago

How did TomsOfMaine turn their customers from browsers to buyers?

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Venkatesh Rao had this idea about matching the type of work you choose at a given time to the mood state you are currently in (or finding cues to shift yourself into the mood state that best matches the kind of work you need to be doing).

Pick a few personas to develop that match different aspects of your personality and map to different mood states you might be in. Not so much defining roles, but different work styles that you work in. Write prompts for each of them.

Keep a task list your agent has access to. Feed it your personas as well.

Have an agent pick one task and to frame the work through the lens of each of your personas and to ask it to ask you to choose which one you would like to pick.

Schedule it to run each morning and trust your gut with whichever one you pick.

You have now put yourself on the opposite end of the prompt response loop and the agent is prompting you for a response.

You'll be in a flow state in no time.

It seems like the most popular of these clones is https://jigglypaint.com which looks to openly acknowledge it was inspired by WigglyPaint.

I’m curious if this article is directed towards them or the clones that are impersonating the WigglyPaint brand.

Where are these insurance companies' profit margins coming from?

Vertical integration.

UnitedHealthcare's (Larger insurance company in the US) profits are effectively limited by the Medical Loss Ratio rules from the Affordable Care Act.

But they are owned by UnitedHealth Group, which also owns OptumHealth (the largest network of physicians in the US), OptumRx (pharmacies), and OptumInsight (technology consulting, which goes into the COGS for UnitedHealthcare). This is where they make their profits.

UHG controls which physicians + pharmacies are in their network and what their negotiated rates for many services are (the exception being medicare + medicaid).

Here's a write up on their strategy: https://www.unionhealthcareinsight.com/post/unitedhealth-gro...

And an infographic that breaks it down: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/be1b8b_b0d4ebb04ce04b44a3...

This circumvents the whole thoughtfulness of gifting thing.

I predict a resurgence in homemade gifts will the eventual backlash to this flavor of soulless consumerism.

Time to go ask ChatGPT what thoughtful homemade gifts I can make for my loved ones.

I think you may be missing the mark on your conclusions for why your products had difficulty acquiring paid users.

People still pay for software, but for high stakes problems like finding a new job, managing your mental health, or caretaking an aging parent, etc. taking the leap on a not quite fully baked product offering seems unrealistic.

Also with Skritter you used a completely different customer acquisition strategy. Longform blog content + SEO is a way different beast than SEM.

Getting sent songs with a “really good banjo part you have to hear” with a guitar player flat picking on a banjo are my personal favorite

You might consider using the free email to SMS addresses that major cell providers support:

AT&T number@txt.att.net

Boost Mobile number@sms.myboostmobile.com

Cricket Wireless number@sms.cricketwireless.net

Google Fi number@msg.fi.google.com

MetroPCS number@mymetropcs.com

Sprint number@messaging.sprintpcs.com

T-Mobile number@tmomail.net

US Cellular number@email.uscc.net

Verizon number@vtext.com

Virgin Mobile number@vmobl.com