robby1066

Yeah, U.S. citizenship for existing Green Card holders, specifically.

Leaving the U.S. is a whole different thing that I wouldn't even be sure where to start with, unfortunately!

I'm several months into https://www.clearboxlegal.com, a service for affordable legal help with citizenship applications.

Right now we're trying to figure out our funnels. We've had some pretty good success doing things that don't scale particularly well, like going to immigration events. Now I'm working on getting better visibility across the country (SEO, Google Ads, etc...).

I'm learning a lot, but it's slow going.

First I've ever heard of hgroup.

Subheadings are one of those little things I've wondered about the proper semantics for a million times and always end up doing something slightly different on the fly.

Oh wow, that looks great!

After a LONG time out of the tech world (burnout destroyed me right before the pandemic) I'm building something new and it feels great.

It's an online service that helps immigrants prepare their citizenship application and get affordable feedback from an attorney.

https://www.clearboxlegal.com

(Met my co-founder on the YC founder matching platform, Thanks YC!)

Down for me. Googling "is google down?" hilariously just returns "No."

You might want to check out RescueTime's slack integration. It can sort of do what you're asking for. You can configure it to update your Slack status with whatever category of app you're spending time in.

Unless they've changed something in the last year since I used it.

https://www.rescuetime.com/integrations/slack

I went through a bit of a roller-coaster reading this thread.

First I want to say, good for this guy! He noticed himself getting into a bad place and made a change. A change that he seems psyched about. That's legitimately great.

But as I was reading it, I couldn't help thinking "That's not burnout. WTF is this guy talking about???". Taking a few deep breaths, the rational take is more like "Wow, burnout hits everyone differently. This guy's experience seems WAY different than mine."

When I hit my breaking point, I couldn't do anything. I couldn't THINK about doing anything. I was so burned out that even the thought of starting something new sent me into panic attacks. There was no optimistic story I could tell myself (or anyone else) about the future.

To me, burnout felt like there was a gear in my head that's supposed to turn at 100 rpms and it had gotten sped up to a million rmps, and it was stuck that way. And it was throwing off sparks and teetering and threatening to fly loose at any moment. When I finally left my job, it took a solid 6 months of doing nothing for that gear to START feeling like it was slowing down to normal speed. It was the worst.

Thanks so much for sharing that story, and for the condolences. It really does mean a lot. ️

Thanks for sharing that. That means a lot to us here at RescueTime, and would have meant the world to Joe.

I had a similar conversation with a manager a few years back, and it went much better than I expected. It's tough, because on one hand you're literally saying to the boss, "I'm currently unhappy and unable to work at the level I expect of myself.", but hopefully they are able to empathize enough to want to work through it. It could easily go the other way, though. My advice is to be prepared for it to be a conversation that leads to you not working there anymore, but at the same time be open to being pleasantly proved wrong.

Also, burnout feels terrible. Really sorry to hear that. Good luck!

Were you thinking of usabilityhub.com? They have a couple of different products for 'micro-usability' tests ('look at this page for 5 seconds and list things you remember' and similar). And I remember them using that model. You could pay, or be a tester to earn credit for your own tests.

usertesting.com has this in it's main product (which Peek seems to be just a scaled back, lead-generation version of), but I think supplying your own testers is one of their enterprise features, which is more expensive than the normal service.

I have this poster hanging on my wall. It's a great reminder of two things: 1. you CAN pack a lot of information in a single piece. 2. you rarely, if ever SHOULD pack this much information into a single piece. "A beautiful attempt" is a really good way to characterize it.