anilshanbhag
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Comment · 9 days ago
Shameless plug: SuperFocus hides the distracting elements of YouTube (and other sites like Reddit). Recently enhanced with some suggestions from Opus, I have personally found it to be quite effective.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-summary-wit...
Comment · 1 year ago
Grammarly is one of the tools I pay for, and I am worried about the security risks of using it.
Really wish there was an alternative that:
1) Does local processing (local LLM?) instead of sending all my data to their server.
2) Had a lightweight Chrome extension that didn't inject many MBs of scripts on
each page.
Comment · 1 year ago
Looking at StarRocks site (https://www.starrocks.io/), they compare against Clickhouse, Druid and Trino. Don't even compare against Spark/Databricks! Guess Spark is just not competitive.
Comment · 2 years ago
Merchant of record can be really big - the biggest issue today is price. 5% + 50c doesn't make sense if you are selling $5 per month subscriptions.
Reduce the price to Stripe pricing + 1%, and this will be the default for everyone!
Comment · 2 years ago
Planning to add this as an option into my extension SuperFocus
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/superfocus-ultimate...
It currently lets you hide all the distracting elements in YouTube - one of the methods the author references. YouTube is my #1 time suck. From personal experience, this alone makes a lot of difference.
Comment · 2 years ago
https://www.photopea.com/ is a good free alternative to Photoshop. It is a 90100 product - 90% of the features 100% free.
Comment · 3 years ago
You can enable HTTP/3 with one click in Cloudflare.
Just enabled it after reading this for Dictanote.
Comment · 3 years ago
I am the developer of Voice In (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/voice-in-speech-to...), a Chrome extension with 300k+ users.
Every month, I have 2-3 folks reach out asking for one of two things:
1) Something something Bing. Here is one from two days ago - https://imgur.com/a/KOwLRIC
2) They want anonymized web browsing data.
Google just yesterday sent out an email cracking down on this. From the email:
To better protect users' browsing experience, the Quality Guideline changes clarify that an extension's purpose is to provide complimentary functionality for the browsing experience and should not seek to hijack a user's browsing or search experience. This update aims to ensure that users have full control over their browsing sessions, without any unwarranted interruptions or manipulations. By enforcing this policy, we strive to foster a safer and more enjoyable environment for all Chrome users, where their trust and satisfaction remain our top priorities. Together, we can create a web ecosystem that respects users' autonomy and offers seamless browsing experiences that truly enhance their lives.
Comment · 3 years ago
The team at Neeva was A+. It is quite commendable that they managed to build a real search engine (unlike DuckDuckGo which is a shim on Bing) that was comparable to Google with such a small team.
Neeva aimed to solve the problem of ads clogging the entire search results page with an ad-free search experience. My opinion of Neeva was that it solved a problem that doesn't exist. Anyone who is annoyed with ads can install uBlock (or one of the other extensions) and hide them all.
Comment · 3 years ago
I can relate to this.
I created SuperFocus (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/superfocus-stop-sc...) with a similar idea. Dopamine loop is a big problem. I have tried site blockers / SuperFocus which is a feed blocker but there was something missing and have been looking for the magic solution. Just signed up for Clearspace and immediately felt this is it.
Planning to rewrite SuperFocus later this week to do the same on desktop as most of my time spent is on the desktop browser.