navanit

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by navanit 11y ago
I noticed several other developers chiming on the "Being a Deaf Developer" post [0], and thought I'd share our tool. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924605
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Show HN: Our iPad app for helping teams communicate with Deaf employees(itunes.apple.com)
3 points by navanit 11y ago|3 comments
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by navanit 11y ago
You could consider investing in some training for the employee. You could have another senior designer offer the critiques and feedback you feel are eating into your time.
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by navanit 11y ago
You most certainly should charge for maintenance. Depending on the size of the project, you can also charge a monthly retainer to be available for maintenance should the need occur.
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by navanit 11y ago
Or your end users. Everything becomes easier when you really care about the demographic you're serving.
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by navanit 11y ago
Constant fear of Apple breaking backward compatibility by shipping new versions of their operating system every year. Apple is now running a beta versions of iOS 8.x and iOS 9. This puts a massive brake on the impulse towards creating n
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by navanit 11y ago
I don't think finding a unique SaaS idea is the way to go. You're better off studying the competition and trying to see how you can sufficiently differentiate your offering from them and creating an overall better service. If yo
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by navanit 11y ago
Alright, so here's how you go about it. I'll first give you the general approach, then an example. 1. Find a demographic that you care about. Someone you want to help from the heart (not just intellectually). This will keep you go
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by navanit 11y ago
For B2C products, once word-of-mouth and customer referrals become a significant (~10%) chunk of your customer acquisition, it's safe to say you have good product/market fit.
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by navanit 11y ago
First, think of what you will do if your client refuses to increase your rate. What is your BATNA? Are you prepared to walk away? If, after rejection, you plan to continue with the client at the same rate, you will need to make sure the neg
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by navanit 11y ago
"Winning through Intimidation" by Robert Ringer is an amazing work that has helped me tremendously.
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by navanit 11y ago
Like Patrick mentions in his reply, you should try to hack your psychology to get more comfortable with directly but politely asking for things you want. One trick that works for me is to tell myself "Let's try it and see what hap
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by navanit 11y ago
Indeed. I work in accessibility/assistive-tech and the dots between words is a disaster.
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by navanit 11y ago
How to politely and firmly ask for what you want.
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by navanit 11y ago
The vector for the water/boat/plane is "medium".
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by navanit 12y ago
Awesome.
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by navanit 12y ago
*.txt will be the only format that mitigates the risk I'm talking about. Evernote. Sigh.
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by navanit 12y ago
> - not really they are archived objects This is a deal-breaker for me. I don't want to risk putting years of effort into this and then have the app break when Apple decides to deprecate APIs in their next OS release. Having said th
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by navanit 12y ago
Good point. While the family Corvidae (Corvids, which includes Jays) is found in South America, the genus Corvus ("Crows") is absent there. So for PBS to be correct you have to read "Crows" as "the Crow family"
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by navanit 12y ago
Feynman had an offer from IAS which he declined for the reasons discussed above.
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Read Better app: Improve readability by increasing letter spacing(itunes.apple.com)
1 points by navanit 13y ago|0 comments
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The best assistive app for writing and spelling, on iPad [iTunes Preview](itunes.apple.com)
1 points by navanit 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: My assistive iPad app for spelling and writing difficulties(spellbetterapp.com)
2 points by navanit 14y ago|0 comments
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Trouble spelling? Get this note-taking app on the iPad(navanitarakeri.com)
1 points by navanit 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: My new iPad app for people with Dyslexia(itunes.apple.com)
2 points by navanit 14y ago|2 comments
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Context-sensitive spell correction for the first time on iOS(youtube.com)
1 points by navanit 14y ago|0 comments
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Shown HN: My context-sensitive spell correction app (for Dyslexia/Dysgraphia)(navanitarakeri.com)
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Magazines for iPad - aggregates interesting longform magazine articles(itunes.apple.com)
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by navanit 14y ago
Thank you!
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Show HN, my first iOS app: Zen Log - A new and intuitive take on self-tracking(itunes.apple.com)
1 points by navanit 14y ago|2 comments

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