I’m also a software engineer running a hardware e-commerce business on the side. The hardest lesson for me was unlearning 'logic' in favor of psychology.
I recently ran an experiment where I increased prices by 50%, and sales volume actually went up. It’s wild how much copy and creative assets can alter perceived value, allowing you to justify a higher price point for the exact same physical product
KNOWN ISSUES SO FAR
- counts more than one every time volume button is clicked (fixed in new build, waiting for review)
- crashes if you hold one of the volume buttons for long
JUST LEARNED THIS...
Apparently, Apple prohibits apps from altering hardware functions like volume buttons. So, that likely means this app won't get published on App Store.
But it's been fun to learn Swift and Objective-C from building this simple app.
If I want this to be released, I would need to remove the volume button control and only support swipe gestures.
I can also make this open-source if you are interested in learning how it works.
it's a testflight app i built for fun but apparently it might not be able to pass the apple review for production release (i just learned this 2 seconds ago)
Fair enough, I didn't meant to imply you were nefarious, but I'm interested to see how many people will blindly download your app without considering whether they should.
yep that's the beauty of developing for the ios ecosystem. apple made it a high trust environment for users to try out different things by making it very safe and sandboxed
this is a commonly reported bug that wasn't able to spot when in development mode.
i think the issue is that i might have attached the volume-button handler multiple times, so that each time you click on the volume button, those duplicated handlers all emit events.
pushed out a small fix currently under apple's review
I built this simple tool to nudge me to blink more often because my eye-sight deteriorated fast soon after I started learning to code.
Help needed:
currently I'm only using color change to nudge users to blink more. I don't have any biology background but there should be more effective ways. Love to brainstorm together.
The tasks you put down are saved on our enterprise-grade database so you can have your tasks synced across devices. We don't share your tasks with 3rd party.
Seems like I need to update our privacy policy to make it more clear.
Some more feedback. I have been using this for about an hour, and it is really good. The things I like about it are that it puts the tasks in sequence, hiding them until the next task is ready to go. That is very useful to me, because it helps keep track of all the myriad things I need to remember during the day.
The time keeping is a little stressful, however. If there were a way to just show minutes, that would be less distracting overall. Maybe that is the purpose of what you are trying to do, but it would be helpful to have a configurable setting.
Although I do not know the technique, I feel like this is what the pomodoro is trying to do.
Again, I will keep using it and give you any more feedback. I hope it gets promoted to the main feed.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the visual timer is mostly for people with ADHD, who suffer from time-blindness. I can see your point of it being stressful.
Pomodoro is one part of it. It's more about focusing on current task at hand with something always on your screen to keep you accountable.
Also, it would be extremely cool to have an at symbol capability, where you can program in things that occur at a specific time during the day. This would prevent me from missing meetings :).
I would use it like:
Check Email 15
Review Big Document 1:30 (does it support hh:mm format?)
Status Meeting 1h @10am (does it support "h" as time?)
Break 10
Lunch 30 @12pm
So currently it only supports a simple timer like "Email bob 5".
Later, we will build integration with your calendar to give you more control over your workday. At that point, the specific time will be very valuable.
Hi! Thanks for the heads up. We're only 2-weeks old so we haven't had resources to iron out a privacy policy as we're shipping new features rapidly that might affect our privacy policy.
All of our users data are securely stored on AWS. We do not and will not share your todo items with third-party because we are operating a freemium business model (e.g., Notion), so we don't have the financial incentive the advertise our user data.
Google and Apple are for auth purposes, they only have access to what they already know about you (username, email, profile pic, etc).
HearHear records meetings and maps each speaker to recordings. It then uses OpenAI's Whisper API to transcribe the audio files into transcripts.
In the dashboard, HearHear can generate any insight based on the templates you built. Whether it's summary in haiku format, action items, vibe check, or tension analysis, sky is the limit.
I invite you to give it a try and let me know any feedback you may have.
I recently ran an experiment where I increased prices by 50%, and sales volume actually went up. It’s wild how much copy and creative assets can alter perceived value, allowing you to justify a higher price point for the exact same physical product
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