toddh

Agreed. That's why this is different and so powerful. People will solve their own problems that they are experts in. The downside is that they don't know what they don't know. Real expertise helps. But I think that's solvable.

Presumably, it would be useful and interesting to them? I'm not really talking about producing apps for an app store. In that case, I think you are right. More for individual or organizational needs.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm talking about the practioner side rather than the consumer side where the capabilities and costs are high.

Or Any source software eats the world.

The sword has two edges for sure. And if you're not a programmer, only one edge matters. But if you are...

That's so sad to hear. I only met him once about acquiring my High Scalability blog. That didn't happen, but it was obvious he was one of those wise people who was both kind and very smart. Not a combination we see often in this world. A real loss...

I have the same pair of glasses. My first paid programming work was dBASE II and later FoxPro. I don't look back on MySQL + Perl with the same affection. You could really get stuff done in those environments.

The thing is, it's real. Or it was for the golden era of cheap tokens. When tokens get expensive, we'll see how that changes things. With AI, you can think in terms of features rather than implementation; that's a totally different way of working.

I first programmed in C on a PDP 11 many years ago. I'm curious what you mean by "public vs. dev mode"?

I've always sucked at marketing. For HN, I decided to be honest because that's the kind of people who read HN.

And it really does do a lot. That's not hype. It's full-featured as I could make it without turning into something it's not, like a calendar or "productivity system."

At the heart of it is the mechanic of a rotation list, not forgetting what's next, but that's just the beginning.

According to app store optimization theory, that means you were never a potential customer anyway. If that's true or not, who knows?

None of my other apps have ever had a hard paywall, and success was not a result. So I tried something different this time.

In the end, I just couldn't go with a hard paywall; it's against my nature. So, on the paywall at the bottom, there's a "not now" button that lets you use all the features of the app without paying for 7 days.