andymitchell

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by andymitchell 3y ago
That is useful to know, thank you. Alas I envisage this being across many machines. (I'll edit the previous post for brevity)
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by andymitchell 3y ago
Replacing Kong with Deno is a great step (and by simplifying the stack, in line with the elegance I love Supabase for). - My request with Supabase Logs is that they're easy to format in ways auditors expect (i.e. similar to major tools
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by andymitchell 3y ago
I'm not the OP, but I do have a request here too. Disclaimer: I haven't built this yet (primarily because it's too hard today). I want to build self-hostable servers, to give our customers the option of privacy and easier com
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by andymitchell 3y ago
Thanks Paul, Oso looks great. Re: RLS: Pros - The simplicity+security is hard to beat - Supabase is built around it. I really want the purity of just one platform. Cons (in order) - Our enterprise customers need regular oversight of policy
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by andymitchell 3y ago
I can't advocate Supabase enough. Their combo of openness and elegance in their platform leaves me (a developer/entrepreneur) feeling secure. This is perhaps a future topic, but to me it extends out of SSO: Paul (@kiwicopple), do
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by andymitchell 5y ago
My Gmail plugin is coming from the same pain (I subscribed to a ton of great newsletters, but they clutter everything human): https://www.getbreef.com . It's just my side project, and it's in beta - let me know if you&
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by andymitchell 6y ago
Turning Gmail into an infinite scroll like Twitter/Instagram. And grouping newsletters into topics to feel more like a RSS reader - https://www.getbreef.com I start 99% of my emails with 'sorry' - I live in fear o
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by andymitchell 11y ago
We make an downloadable product [1] that over its lifetime has been sold as donationware, freemium and trial-based -- three of the main variants that shareware evolved into. Short answer: downloadable trial software is still viable... we&#x
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by andymitchell 11y ago
If house prices cross a threshold where first time buyers can't afford to get onto the property ladder, they're forced to rent - driving up competition for stock & thus rental prices. (This appears to be affecting more & m
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by andymitchell 13y ago
As I understand, from one of the early Gmail product managers, element class names are the most stable of all the 'fingerprints'. The Javascript data structures are quite stable, and the element IDs change pretty much every sessio
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by andymitchell 14y ago
I got the impression from a single conversation I had with Google back in January (please take this as the single data point it is), that they really did re-route the entire organization to focus on Google+, and were prepared to scale back
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by andymitchell 14y ago
This space of "handle tasks in email" is starting to explode since pg called it as a giant opportunity. Indeed, I believe Mail Pilot are launching their public beta soon - the timing makes me think these guys were (savvily, tbf) trying to j
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by andymitchell 15y ago
Hi pdx, That's a very sensible question, let me take a stab at answering it. So, for 99% of things, it's all stored on Google's servers. ActiveInbox is a lot of UI enhancements to create a new way of controlling your email, but it does it a
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by andymitchell 16y ago
I believe the fun-factor - or lack thereof :) - might have something to do with the fact that Monopoly's origins are supposedly as a warning of the perils of capitalism. While the story is disappearing into time, and is perhaps an over-egge
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by andymitchell 16y ago
I'm not convinced most bloggers start blogging with the assumption they'll do it for nothing :) They think fame and riches! Or at least having the intellectual satisfaction of bestowing upon the world their opinion... but without revenue th
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by andymitchell 16y ago
It's notable that they expect to "lose 90%" of those subscribers when they end the current "£1 for a month" introductory offer, which is being pushed by a huge celebrity-endorsed advertising campaign on the London underground. So the actual
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by andymitchell 16y ago
That said, one huge area of interest would be to (re)specialize in "user experience measuring" to drive product iterations (similar to the hugely successful Sean Ellis). All startups are concerned with understanding their customers - and mo
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by andymitchell 16y ago
To answer the title directly, found a company :) With a background in CS you have the functional hacker skills needed to create a first version of something, but you say your energy lies in marketing skills, so you know what 'something' to
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by andymitchell 16y ago
(Caveat: As a hacker with an interest/need to learn marketing) 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing - just the best overview for how to get out there (in the words of Steve Jobs, "it's a noisy world, the best you can ever hope or ask for is that
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by andymitchell 16y ago
Exactly, so today's email client broadly serves two functions: 1) to manage emails (which is to say, manage the flow of tasks that emails represent), 2) be a knowledge base. Reference labels are essentially meta data - so you might create a
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by andymitchell 16y ago
A good spot, thank you - will get it fixed up tomorrow.
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by andymitchell 16y ago
The extra inbox processing buttons are part of Plus (it's a forerunner to the 'create your own shortcut buttons' that we're working on). If you're wondering, the background to that is that free gives you good email control and a full implem
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by andymitchell 16y ago
A very very good idea. I've been holding off slightly because - well, partly stage nerves ;) - but because it's hard to get it professional. You are right though, I will put _something_ together... it will be the easiest way to showcase wha
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by andymitchell 16y ago
GTD is Getting Things Done, a really popular productivity method ("the art of stress free productivity"). It's our niche to start out with, while we are still small (I'm the only full time person involved, although revenue is getting to a p
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by andymitchell 16y ago
I've long since admired Mailplane and it would be great to do something with Ruben - I didn't realize that he was open to collaboration. Will get in touch. And if you have any thoughts about what you like, don't like, or would love to see a
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by andymitchell 16y ago
I will add them as options!
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by andymitchell 16y ago
I should mention that while it's GTD at the core, it includes productivity features never before seen in Gmail... 1) instantly see emails when you reply to catch up on recent discussions 2) label-emails-as-you-send-them, so you can add trac
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by andymitchell 16y ago
Thanks you! Is it just the colour or the font as well? And what browser are you using? We use a slightly different font on Chrome/Mac than we do on other setups...
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Ask HN: Review my startup, ActiveInbox (GTD Gmail plugin w/ $20k donations)
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by andymitchell 18y ago
I hoped this was a clever title for the fine line between resending an email that was ignored and getting resented for spamming. But... no :)

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