Nobody’s going to like to hear this but … Nextdoor. Especially if it’s a B2C app, ND is your best source for early testers and users. Source: got my first paid users for my first ever iOS app this way thanks to 200 waitlisted neighbors. It works.
My little nights/weekend project: 13 days from hyperlocal social validation on Nextdoor to live on App Store, this is my first-ever iOS app. And I absurdly, embarrassingly underestimated how complex/non-trivial this problem is.
Forget the bathroom doors; can we at least bring back proper shower stall design that uses full-length doors instead of the 1/3-length piece of glass? More glaringly, those of you who know the Hilton MUC for instance, it's utterly mind blowing what they've done: the shower stall floor is on the same plane as the rest of the bathroom floor -- i.e., it's not sunken at all -- and it's not sloped or otherwise angled, either, to prevent water from seeping under the door and flood the whole floor. And this isn't like one-off bug in one room: we've stayed their countless times, in different rooms, and every single one suffers this problem.
RIP Jane Goodall. Not to make a flippant pun but, thank you indeed for all the good you brought to all of us. By discovering humanity in our chimpanzee cousins, you helped us see the humanity in each other.
But I think this animosity is very much expected, no? Even I felt a momentary hint of "jealousy" -- if you can even call it that -- when I realized that we humans are, in a sense, not really so special anymore.
But of course this was the age-old debate with our favorite golden-eyed android; and unsurprisingly, he too received the same sort of animosity:
Bones was deeply skeptical when he first met Data: "I don't see no points on your ears, boy, but you sound like a Vulcan." And we all know how much he loved those green-blooded fools.
Likewise, Dr. Pulanski has since been criticized for her rude and dismissive attitudes towards Data that had flavors of what might even be considered "racism," or so goes the Trekverse discussion on the topic.
And let's of course not forget when he was on trial essentially for "humanity," or whether hew as indeed just the property of Starfleet, and nothing more.
More recent incarnations of Star Trek: Picard illustrated the outright ban on "synthetics" and indeed their effective banishment; non-synthetic life -- from human to Roman -- simply weren't ok with them.
Yes this is all science fiction silliness -- or adoration depending on your point of view -- but I think it very much reflects the myriad directions our real life world is going to scatter (shatter?) in the coming years ahead.
I've loved reading Dan Ni's fantastic daily tech newsletter TLDR over the past year or so; I'm sure many (most?) of you subscribe to it too, and if you don't, you totally should @ tldr.tech.
A few weeks ago I was inspired to create a similar newsletter tightly modeled after Dan's winning formula, but focused on my three deepest passions: climate change, clean energy, and autonomous/electric vehicles (obviously, for those of you who know me).
Today I'd like to share it with you and hope that you will find it at least interesting, and optimally some non-zero value of useful.
My podcast is the only weekly podcast on autonomous cars in the world. Launched in Feb 2018, I've organically grown it to the #1 spot on Google (for searches like "autonomous cars podcasts") with nearly 10K listens per month. I published Episode 74 today -- the Season 2 finale -- and felt it was finally time to share with the HN community. Happy holidays and all the best for 2019!
This was my first -- and only -- Chrome extension that I ever wrote (I'm not a developer). And yes, I realize it's essentially just a simple iframe popup lol ... still, I'm pretty excited that after ~ 2 years, a blogger (Neil Patel) discovered it (#2 in his list @ https://neilpatel.com/blog/google-chrome-extensions-marketin...) and it's suddenly seeing a spike in installs! Woohoo! :)
Thanks! That's a great call. As one who happens to love (subtle) CSS shadows, I'm surprised I didn't think to do that already :) Not sure about the plax though... maybe.... really appreciate the feedback though!! (Curious: What do you think about the value prop? Is that something that makes sense to you?)
Just a simple test to see whether there's any general interest in such a service. Realized we rarely print photo books due to the high cost per book (typically $50-$100 for a high quality, hardback book)...