tobinharris

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Show HN: Input your app idea and get a visual spec and business strategy
2 points by tobinharris 2y ago|0 comments
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Create visual app specifications, with words(appflows.ai)
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by tobinharris 2y ago
AppFlows is a privacy-first online tool that helps you scope, estimate and visualise app ideas as fast as you can type. I made AppFlows to help our clients here at Pocketworks. Most app ideas start with boring spreadsheets, and I craved a v
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by tobinharris 2y ago
An online tool for product managers that helps them turn written app specifications into something more interesting and visual. https://appflows.ai It doesn't save anything to the cloud. It supports markdown. It currently d
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by tobinharris 3y ago
I've curated a list of tools below which I update regularly. I've spoken to a CTO who are using no-code tools, so here are some views: 1. Cost - Will depend on compute power needed, but for internal tools that will be low. 2. You
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WHO started a Flutter Covid-19 app 13 days before lockdown
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by tobinharris 4y ago
I run a mobile app agency like you and we do pretty well selling GaSaaS. I'm a developer but have studied sales quite a lot over the last 10 years. The most important thing I learned is to find clients that fit you really well when it
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by tobinharris 4y ago
Interestingly, I've found that tools become less important the more you nail your purpose, culture, communications and processes. For that, the Traction book would get you off to a very good start in implementing your company "Ope
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by tobinharris 4y ago
You're right about the downturn, it's impossible to run a team for long without a full order book. That said, I think you'd have this problem for an offshore team too, perhaps with a much longer "sat on hands" cash
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by tobinharris 4y ago
Not at all, we just finished our financial year and it was 14% operating profit. The previous year was 29%, but last year was lower as I made some expensive decisions during the COVID period. Basically, I grabbed all the revenue opportuniti
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by tobinharris 4y ago
I run a small-ish dev shop ($1.5m revenue) and there are a lot of things I wish I knew back in 2012 when I started. 1. Finding clients is hard. Think hard about what an awesome customer looks like and then figure out how to reach them. This
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by tobinharris 4y ago
I roughly follow Getting Things Done (GTD) and built a Flutter desktop app for managing the various lists in GTD (I hate flicking between note files). You can see it on this page. Note that I haven't decided if I'll launch the app
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by tobinharris 5y ago
I've been curating a list of open source no-code tools. I'm sure I've missed a few but here they are. It includes the ones mentioned here - AppSmith, ToolJet, BudiBase and SaltCorn. I'll add NodeRed even though it's
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by tobinharris 5y ago
We do this. We're only a small 12-person software agency, we have two Elixir developers right now. When we hired the 2nd, we looked for someone who had good knowledge of Node, Rails, Laravel or whatever and were excited to learn Elixir
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by tobinharris 6y ago
I've got a few things going: 1. A company playbook writing tool that helps you document team and company processes. It gives you a nice online browseable playbook, along with .epub and .mobi download. 2. Adding more advanced features t
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by tobinharris 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, we sometimes create flowcharts ourselves so would be a nice addition.
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by tobinharris 8y ago
What diagrams do you see used in dev teams these days? In our team (non enterprise), there's a lot of visual flow models for UX, and still some class/interaction/activity diagrams for explaining how stuff hangs together.
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by tobinharris 8y ago
yUML creator here. Think I know what you're saying. That said, there are many people using a command line wrapper to generate yUML diagrams as part of an automated workflow. The paid features are more for people who want better managem
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by tobinharris 8y ago
Sounds like you're on the right path in that you have a genuine desire to create great looking products. This means you have a respect for design, which is hugely important. I used to be a back-end guy (I once co-authored a book on an
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by tobinharris 9y ago
Really cool stuff. Would look great in http://yuml.me which also has a sketchy look. I need to rewrite yUML using newer tech, business collaborations welcome :)
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by tobinharris 10y ago
http://yuml.me diagrams as an API. This was scratching and itch, yet get used by 1000s of people every day.
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Ask HN: How does your team get books?
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by tobinharris 10y ago
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by tobinharris 10y ago
Whatever you decide will probably be wrong. So I'd try and set your sales guy up for success, get him off to a positive start, and be generous with commission. Agree targets that should be achievable. If he's amazing, you'll
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by tobinharris 10y ago
Spam wouldn't be spam if it was relevant. Could the forms constrain the types of enquiry to only stuff you're interested in?
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by tobinharris 10y ago
http://yuml.me
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by tobinharris 10y ago
In 2002 I accidentally executed DROP TABLE HOTELS; whilst working on the Virgin Holidays website. We managed to get it from backup but it made me shart.
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by tobinharris 11y ago
Had Apple Watch since summer. Miss it when I forget to put it on. Phone stays in my pocket most of the day. Looking at it during meetings is rude and literally a deal breaker. Only use it for: - notifications - remote controlled camera for
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by tobinharris 11y ago
Nice, you could also do something to embed http://yuml.me diagrams for converting text into diagrams?
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by tobinharris 11y ago
Uber isn't just taking bookings away from taxis, it's taking drivers. It would be interesting to see a study of how cab company fleet sizes change after Uber arrives in town. Uber raised the bar in terms of user experience, so the

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