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by johns 8mo ago
I liked that idea but found it a little busy so I started working on the weather layout I always wish I had. Heavily inspired by Weather Line, Dark Sky, NOAA line view but attempting to make it single screen: https://www.threads.
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Show HN: A better macOS mailto: handler(apps.apple.com)
1 points by johns 9mo ago|0 comments
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by johns 1y ago
Shout out to the OG Hurl HTTP tool https://web.archive.org/web/20100112040154/http://hurl.it/
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by johns 1y ago
I also hated that Runscope changes weren't version controlled :) We had started work on that but then things went sideways.
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by johns 2y ago
Reserved mine 2/29, received yesterday.
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by johns 3y ago
<3
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by johns 4y ago
Apple’s WeatherKit is actually pretty good at this. 500,000 requests free/month. Minimal attribution requirements.
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by johns 4y ago
Try Mastoot
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by johns 4y ago
While you wait for it to make it to the App Store, check out Mastoot (I’m unaffiliated, just a fan).
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by johns 4y ago
The link should be updated to this.
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by johns 4y ago
I had a base-hit acquisition and probably could have turned around and done another VC- or self-funded startup. The burnout was too much. After a hiatus I opened a bike shop this year. I can't imagine going back to writing software for
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by johns 4y ago
Hurl.it is not the same. All the posts from before Oct. 2021 are a different thing.
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by johns 4y ago
This is not how it works
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Retool Mobile Private Beta(retool.com)
5 points by johns 4y ago|0 comments
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by johns 4y ago
As the purveyor of this shirt, it warms my heart to read this comment. We pretty much copied New Relic's model for this, and it worked really well. For awhile it felt like we were more a t-shirt company than a software company.
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by johns 4y ago
This deserves a top-level comment. John Britton's NY Tech Meetup demo of Twilio[0] in 2010 is legendary. The CEO had been doing it in small groups for a little while, but the whole dynamic of it changed in such a large venue. Epitome o
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by johns 4y ago
This is the Twilio demo you should watch https://avc.com/2010/08/how-to-pitch-a-product/
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by johns 4y ago
Will Norris who works on OSS at Twitter posted this[0]: "watch this space https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm " [0]: https://twitter.com/willnorris/status/1518694675909013504
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twitter/the-algorithm(github.com)
374 points by johns 4y ago|380 comments
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by johns 5y ago
Did you try a tire bead jack? The Kool Stop one has worked wonders for me getting GPs on.
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by johns 5y ago
I would recommend doing the opposite: interact more with the things you do like. “Like” generously, watch videos all the way through a few times, hit share, comment etc. I think those are the biggest signals that inform the algorithm.
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by johns 5y ago
Drumbeat was incredible. VB for the web.
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by johns 5y ago
JSON
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by johns 5y ago
Yeah we were the original and trademarked the slogan and had to regularly send takedown notices over it.
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by johns 5y ago
I can give some context on that. Go back to 2011, visual HTTP clients weren't that popular. Postman, Insomnia, etc. weren't around yet. Working at Twilio, we regularly needed to show people how the API worked. Hurl.it was perfect
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by johns 5y ago
Now do yourapihere.com ;)
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by johns 6y ago
Insomnia.rest
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by johns 6y ago
Rapid API bought Kong's marketplace and Kong now focuses on their API management product. They are separate companies.
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by johns 6y ago
This is configurable from the main app menu though. It’s nice not to lose all your tabs if you slip and hit Cmd-Q instead of Cmd-W
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by johns 6y ago
In the Windows 3.1 era I compiled different icons I could find into packs that I sold as shareware, taking $10 orders via checks in the mail and sending out 3.5" floppies in return. This is much better.

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