tmartty

Have you read it? Did you like it? What did you learn?

I wrote a really short review on my blog: https://www.tomasmartty.com/hooked-by-nir-eyal-with-ryan-hoo...

Hey thanks for checking it out. It's a web app.

Yes, Feedly and Pocket was what I used before Monocle too, they're awesome. You can use Monocle on mobile too but it's not optimized for it, since I believe you shouldn't be reading the news or your online content on the phone but rather more confortably on a computer. Yet, the possibility exists if you want to.

Also, since you mentioned Pocket, I made a companion browser extension for Monocle which allows you to save articles to read later. So basically merging Feedly and Pocket into one app.

Nice! Congrats!

Pricing is pretty cheap imo, why don't you try doubling prices? You might double income just like that..

Thanks man, appreciate it!

That's a nice system you got in place for you there. Those worksheets of yours may be useful to someone out there. I'd consider bundling them together and selling them at a low price. Or just offer some for free to see if there's some interest, just like I shared this one.

Of course I imagine yours to be quite more elaborate and thought out probably; this one was put together in just a few minutes for a very specific and narrow purpose.

PS: ONE Thing is a great book.

Looks awesome!

Here's the repo btw: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits/

That would be interesting to see... it's a good point you make for the effort of entering the data BUT if you look at it from another perspective, actually entering the data is a way of showing and telling yourself 'look, you did it, you're doing great'. Otherwise it ends up being a dull dashboard you sometimes look at and maybe analyze. Which method is better it depends on the person I believe.

I wanted to allow edditing the actual habits and the days for people to draw and stuff but I didn't notice you can't give specific permissions to tab creation so yeah... now it's read only.

I'm getting my feet wet on ProductHunt too if you'd like to show some love over there https://www.producthunt.com/posts/youtube-open-tabs-total-ti...

I find myself usually having many youtube tabs open and counting the total time I'd need to watch all the videos. No more! Here's a handy little add-on that sums the videos total times for you.

Open source @ https://github.com/tmartty/YouTube-Open-Tabs-Total-Time

And it's usually a hard investment to do since what it most requires is time. And time is extremely valuable when you're first pursuing an idea and starting a project.

That's not a quote from the author of the book, that's something I wrote, just to be clear.

You mean the 'Validate your idea, build a prototype, show it to people, gather feedback, improve it and keep going' part? That's far from UX, and also far from marketing.. those are steps I'd take if starting a new project. BUT all those steps should be intersected with marketing from day one.

I don't understand.. noone's trying to get hired here, Rob is a well known guy in the ecosystem and I'm just a developer with my own agency.

What's your perspective?

I don't think people are that wary about giving their email addresses. If you're solving a problem for them, they'll probably subscribe.

But yeah, of course, having people actually use and pay for your product is the ultimate validation.

Thanks for the links!

Although it's a growing field, no, it's not saturated at all.

Start with whatever you feel most confortable with. Frontend is usually more rewarding at first because you end up with something visual you can show to others.

You're right. I have posponed writing the privacy policy for a while but I guess the time has come.

I use Firebase Realtime Database as a backend and that's it, there's no other stuff done with the data from my side.

Edit: actually, there's Google and email auth, both handled with Firebase Auth.

Hey, I'm building an RSS Reader / Feed Aggregator and currently looking for feedback and ideas on what features would users want.

I want to build a better alternative to Feedly and other readers.

My value proposition points are the following:

1) Modern design

2) Simpler use and minimalistic interface

3) Cheaper paid subscriptions

4) Wide feature availability in the free tier

5) Pocket-like browser extensions for saving urls to a Read Later section

6) Aim at the regular internet user so it's really seamless to get up and running (not like aaronpk's Monocle for which you need to setup your own Microsub server and stuff)

7) Highly customizable: shortcuts, colors, layouts and other options

8) Add a tool to make a feed out of any website (like an integrated http://fetchrss.com/)

9) Save articles as PDF for offline reading or sharing

10) Probably offering an in-app reader but I also want to emphasis the importance of reading content on the actual website to show support and 'live the real experience' just how the creator intended to (and not just my parsed content, stealing traffic from his site)

Should I give it a try or should I quit already?

Thanks for the heads up, hadn't heard of that project before. I just took a look into it and well, I guess there's no problem with the name since mine is actually Monocle Reader (Monocle for short) and I've got the monoclereader.com domain. Might consider a rename down the line if this results in any conflict of course.

About your question, what do I offer that other established players don't have? It's a couple of things actually that I believe will make my reader unique:

1) Modern design

2) Simpler use and minimalistic interface

3) Cheaper paid subscriptions

4) Wide feature availability in the free tier

5) Pocket-like browser extensions for saving urls to a Read Later section

6) Aim at the regular internet user so it's really seamless to get up and running (not like aaronpk's Monocle for which you need to setup your own Microsub server and stuff)

7) Highly customizable: shortcuts, colors, layouts and other options

8) Add a tool to make a feed out of any website (like an integrated http://fetchrss.com/)

9) Save articles as PDF for offline reading or sharing

10) Probably offering an in-app reader but I also want to emphasis the importance of reading content on the actual website to show support and 'live the real experience' just how the creator intended to (and not just my parsed content, stealing traffic from his site)

It's possible that maybe Innoreader already has all this features? But still, I could still make a difference on how I present content, the general feeling you get when using the app and so on.

I'm really looking forward to your response since I'm trying to gather feedback and improve my reader as much as possible. Thanks!

PD: It's also my intention to lately approach and market this reader without making too much emphasis on the RSS thing, since people who don't know what that is instantly turn away, and just focus on the productivity and saving time benefits of using a reader like this (independent of how the tool technically gets the information)

What would you like better?

Of course not, totally understandable. Will add email and password login for next release, thanks for the heads up :D

What sign-in methods would you like to use? Old school Email & Password? Or maybe Github, Facebook, Twitter?

Wait what? How so? Let me know so I can fix this

Weird it just shows you a blank page. I've just setup the basic Google Analytics... And with UBlock Origin in Firefox I can still see the site

cool idea