KarlFreeman

Joined 17 years ago

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CTO at Zapnito
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Comment · 9 years ago
It's fairly early stage but I've been actively building an alternative to Pocket called Filltray (https://filltray.com). I found myself being overwhelmed by products like Pocket/Instapaper so wanted to build something different. A place to keep things for "short" periods of time but without the baggage of having 100s of items permanently on your never-ending reading list. A "do-later" place that may or might not come around. A couple months ago I put up a public roadmap (https://medium.com/filltray/public-product-roadmap-3964c3fa4...) and I'm continuing to work hard to produce a product which meets mine — and I think others — needs for a rethink on read-later. Please feel free to follow @filltray to keep up to date with my progress :)!
Comment · 10 years ago
There's a long term roadmap for saving links into conceptual "trays" which will be programmable (via a custom lambda type system which would allow for you to have a lot of flexibility). Alongside this, I'm passionate about ensuring Filltray works to surface your links that are still relevant in your life (and forgetting links you've forgotten about). There's a huge amount of room for improvement in this space especially with simple wins like using waybackmachine for permanent archives of webpages (built) and giving users the ability to retrieve contextual information about their links. Where were you, what device were you using, what time was it. Its simple to save something for later. Getting you back to _why_ is the important bit!
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
These are great definitions of the stages of a "startup" but I'm missing the point here?

Also, at some point, does a startup not become a company?

Comment · 11 years ago
I feel like somewhere between the two would pass. Keep the validation as distinct functions but inline validatedItemNamed, reduceDepositedCoinsBy.
Comment · 11 years ago
There's a variety of things related to programming which have little, to no, obvious economic value. You might find that your achievement (very well done!) economically impacts you "in-kind". Its doubtful that an employer or prospective client will look at your Stackoverflow profile and pay you more. However, your glowing referrals from your peers to both might allow you to position yourself as more highly sought after than you _actually_ are.

TLDR; Do good things and good things will come to you. Keep being awesome :).

Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
I feel like I've unleashed a monster by posting this, personally I quite like the opinionated install for Jekyll especially the code plugin / view. Will be using it for my next blog install
Comment · 15 years ago
Been using this a lot lately, really love it thanks @dhg
Comment · 15 years ago

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