maderalabs

I’m on a flight back to the states after a 10 day trip to Tokyo with the fam. We probably rode 100 trains through who knows how many stations, and I kept thinking how cool it would be to visualize the pathways that people take as they navigate through the corridors. Timely and cool find!

I think there are broadly two types of problems - ones where you get partial credit, and ones where you don't. The restaurant example is one where you don't get partial credit - 98% of food being safe isn't enough, it's all or nothing. Paying your employees - all or nothing, you miss a paycheck once, it's a huge problem.

CSS on a website, however, you CAN get partial credit (to an extent). It may not be perfect, but it's at least theoretically still providing some value partially.

I think knowing what kind of problem you're facing is really important when it comes to measuring percentage of "complete".

I'm curious how much y'all used AI in the development process of the app. Definitely a lot of thought put into the architecture as shown in the post here, what was the split of human written vs. AI-written code? Especially curious given v0 is intended for building with AI.

Really great writeup, super thoughtful! Been a v0 user and fan for awhile now, excited to give this a shot!

This is awesome, and proves that code, really, is a hack. People don’t want code. It sucks, it’s hard to maintain, it has bugs, it has to be updated all the time. Gross.

What people want isn’t code - they want computers to do stuff for them. It just happens that right now, code is the best way you can do it.

The paradigm WILL change. It’s really just a matter of when. I think the point you make that these are problems of DEGREE, not problems of KIND is very important. It’s plausible, now it’s just optimization, and we know how that goes and have plenty of history to prove we consistently underestimate the degree to which computation can get faster and cheaper.

Really cool experiment!

Picshift.io: upload an image, get a URL, change what shows at that URL whenever you want. Works anywhere an image link works.

You can randomize and schedule images to show up at the link as well. Super useful for marketing, maintaining screenshots on a website or in documentation, etc.

Would love to hear if anyone wants to use it!

We created CrowdSync to help automate tedious, repetitive process with people, things like sending emails, requesting documents, scheduling time, requesting payments, and more!

This came out of my experience as a user researcher, where we'd spend hours onboarding people into studies - having them sign consent forms, be sent study information, scheduling time, sending reminders and payments.

As it turns out, this problem exists in a number of domains, especially any kind of onboarding of employees.

One question we get often is "Can't people just do this with Zapier?"

The answer to that is, not really, for a couple primary reasons:

- Zapier is fantastic for people who are somewhat technically minded, however, falls quite short with lay audiences (think about a membership coordinator working at a non-profit, or an HR assistant). While some of these audiences are adept at using tools like Zapier, a huge portion aren't. They need a single, centralized place.

- Zapier (and related) aren't particularly good at handling people through a process. They're great for shuffling data around, but not great at both showing where people are, as well as providing people-oriented interactions (automated reminders, etc).

In short, CrowdSync is for helping to put a number of people through the same process, where repetitive work can easily be systemized and tracked.

Would love any feedback, thoughts and questions!