sampl
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Comment · 5 years ago
I made an email-only todo list called Dobby [1]
You send your tasks to [email protected], and it'll send you a todo list every morning. You can reply to complete, postpone etc.
The point is to not have a separate place for seeing and managing a giant database of todos. You only ever see what's relevant now, and in the place you already look for everything else (email).
Comment · 5 years ago
For anyone interested in this, I highly recommend the book The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, a psychiatrist who studies PTSD.
He writes about this clearly and elegantly—must read for those dealing with anxiety, and certainly with any traumatic stress.
Comment · 5 years ago
OP here. I’ve been building my startup and recording the whole process on video.
Playlist link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFP8wPiIB7kz7pbYCnjIc...
Comment · 5 years ago
Hi all, solo founder of Shuffleboard here.
Basically my philosophy on synchronous meetings is
1) they should happen as little as possible, especially in remote teams
2) when they do need to happen, they should be structured and timed, and everyone should be able to contribute without having to unmute.
Shuffleboard was built live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFP8wPiIB7kz7pbYCnjIc...
Comment · 6 years ago
It's a studio apartment in an old building :)
Comment · 6 years ago
I do--it slows down the work because of the effort of finding big blocks of time to record, but when I'm recording I know I'm on the clock to hit my goal.
Basically I know I need to have a worthwhile video title, so I can't fiddle for more than a minute or two!
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm making all these remote meetings suck less with a real-time collaborative idea board.
The idea is that you can set up a meeting agenda, get everyone to add ideas, then discuss, vote and get consensus quickly:
https://getshuffleboard.com/?betaApproved=1
Also I film all my work on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFP8wPiIB7kz7pbYCnjIc...
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks! Yeah it's almost an insane amount of video, but I've made it fairly easy to skip to the interesting parts if you want to see them. We'll see how it goes :)
Comment · 7 years ago
Yeah, it's normally a pretty basic task--in this case I was working with Firestore, which required a special nested structure to be able to write the security rules I needed. A week is a bit of an exaggeration anyway--it's a couple hours a day for a few days.
Comment · 7 years ago
Hey HN,
Having been part of a fast-growing YC startup, I wanted to show what the early days of making a product are actually like—so I'm building a startup product myself and video recording the entire process.
Literally every minute I spend working on Shuffleboard is recorded and uploaded to YouTube. Each video is a couple hours long, and shows both my face and my screen as I work. There are about 30 sessions and about 70 hours of work so far.
All videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFP8wPiIB7kz7pbYCnjIc...
See the live product: https://getshuffleboard.com/
What I've been doing:
- Talking about who my customers are and what value I'm trying to create for them
- Designing the basic UX
- Interviewing potential users
- Running usability tests
- Designing a brand
- Maintaining a product backlog
- Reading documentation
- Writing code
- Fixing bugs
- Learning how to write unit tests
- Spending days trying to figure out Firestore security rules
- Prepping for a mini-launch (including writing this HN post)
- Getting stuck/bored/tired
- Making lots of mistakes
- Sales
- More usability tests/interviews
- More features
- Improving the visual design
- Subscriptions with Stripe
- React + Create React App (with styled components)
- Firebase for the db (Firestore), plus Firebase auth and hosting
Would love to hear what you think :)
Sam
https://directedworks.com/
twitter.com/sampleite
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