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Sure! Email your users too - since I'm one of them I'll get the email. :)

Cool. One option is just to integrate with make/n8n/zapier so I could a) trigger on doc changes and then b) upload (and overwrite) the doc in your app

Cool! I was excited when I saw this and signed up.

One key thing I was hoping for was a consistent resync with source material particularly google docs. Looks like I'll have to download then upload to your app whenever they change.

Is that right? Auto syncing in the plan?

Will replicache be deprecated? Or continue to be developed/supported? E.g. Partial downloads aren't really necessary in our case so Zero isn't really necessary (although it is cool!).

15 years ago, I write a sing about this called "IE is being mean to me": https://youtu.be/vTTzwJsHpU8?si=JYWTMBjJKunrhitR

Hey Philippe! Very nice to see this from you. Looks great.

Yeah, that all seems very useful.

Cool! It would be nice to use this to quickly iterate on the prompts I plan to use within https://app.habitstack.com. Basically, supply the user input in the query string and get back the result. Then in Pancaik see the log of combined prompts, the results, and be able to fine tune the prompts over time. Any plans to go that direction?

See my song from 2009, "IE is Being Mean to Me Again": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTTzwJsHpU8

HabitStack founder here. Your points are well taken! For some context, for the last few years, we've been a service company with a software product. You're seeing us at an awkward transition point to a product first company. So, sorry for the rough edges in the app! We're excited smooth them out.

What jumped out at you as needing immediate attention?

This is an important observation. Most productivity apps don't end up "working" because they vastly underestimate the complexity of the problem they are trying to solve.

We need to do a far better job of addressing the psychology of self-improvement, one of the most important aspects being how to deal with the inevitable "falling off the wagon".

As you describe well, a naive approach to productivity tends to work at first, but then, as soon as you disengage for a time, they actively work _against_ re-engagement.

I think there is a lot to be figured out in this area.

One other related point is that although an app can't "solve the problem of self-discipline" it _can_ reduce the amount of energy required to "do the right thing" (e.g. by providing a easy to follow system). Since willpower requires energy which is a limited resource, this leaves more of it to apply towards continuing to work towards a goal instead of figuring out how to configure a goal achievement system.

I think you've nailed it. There are very few tools that help you connect the long term with the current week and day, at least in a meaningful way.

https://www.habitstack.com/ is geared towards this. You enter your goals for the year and chunk them down to the quarter, month, and week. Then the software prompts you to stay engaged with the system.

As Scott Adams wrote, "Losers have goals, winners have systems." :)

I'm the founder. Happy to dialogue about the future of productivity and goal setting any time!

Love it!

I wrote a song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTTzwJsHpU8

Most editors drive me crazy. Especially when the bullets get all messed up. SnapEditor looks great.

Why limit the licenses by developer though? By domain makes more sense to me.

We need the username in order to say who edited what.

What would you like to see as far as the API?

I suppose we'll need to include a captcha if we start to see a lot of crap sites being created.

Yeah, the sites are all free from text and human driven.

Actually, the editor strips out Javascript for safety reasons which unfortunately, makes it so users can't add GA. We're working out whether we should make exceptions when we do the strip or provide in-house stats.

No, right now, it can only be on the right.

The idea is that since creating an Orb is so quick, it makes sense to create sites for all kinds of different things. We're trying to lower the threshold.

Instead of storing stuff locally, in Google Docs, in email, etc., Orbs becomes a handy place to store almost any kind of textual information.

Yep. That's on the list.

Probably not. Our focus is on simplicity and on the 20% of features that deliver 80% of the value.

Is that a deal breaker for you?

Click "Settings" at the top then "Users". Maybe we need to make that more obvious.