scottkrager

Nothing like encouraging parents to snitch on teachers, kids and other parents

pets.com is owned and redirected to PetSmart, sort of proves your point but sort of not.

It takes all of 2-3 workouts to get used to a mask. It is not a major inconvenience. It is minor.

I take screenshots often as reminders, to annotate, etc. I setup a double-tap as an action to take a screenshot. So much faster then the older methods. You get some false positives, but really handy productivity hack.

The joke one is so much more concise and just better. I know what the product is about instantly.

I ordered a Pebble Time 2 on Kickstarter and a Core hoping to find the perfect smartwatch and run tracking combo. When the Apple Watch 2 came out, I figured I'd hedge my bets and get one of those, then keep whichever one I ended up liking more. Well, the Pebble + Core is never arriving (thanks for the quick refund!) - and I've really become found of the Apple Watch.

Built in GPS for run tracking is awesome, and with wireless airpods, I'll be able to run and listen to music/podcast with minimal extra weight.

A few other minor things I've liked about the Apple Watch 2:

- Setting a timer with Siri (use multiple times a day now) - Weather on the watchface - Check banking balances from watch - PagerDuty notifications on watch vs. phone (my wife very much appreciates this!) - phone now stays out of the bedroom

I'm sad there isn't a good open source watch OS out there (with any decent looking hardware) - but until then, the Apple Watch 2 has been a pleasant surprise. I did have pretty low expectations going in, so that could be part of it.

Totally agree. I look at how I used to think and communicate, and "tool" is spot on. Software is so incredibly hard, it took me years, and many mistakes along the way, to learn this. And I'm still learning.

Author here. I wanted to share some of the early mistakes I made as a solo non-technical founder building a software company. I started learning to code after these early mistakes and it's been incredibly helpful. I can't thank HN enough for encouraging me to learn.