After years of building in public, I'm scared that you're right. But the problem is, my app is now live (benji.so), and it's publicly out there for people with VC money to start copying features from it ...
author here: for me it was important because after a while the app I was using was stale and wasn't shipping updates anymore. Also, as I was learning more about productivity, I reached the limits of the app. I wanted more features and I was coming up with tons of ideas that I could implement into my app, and other devs wouldn't care about implementing these ideas. I wanted control. So I finally shipped Benji (https://benji.so)
It's named after my dog Benji haha. Yes you're right, I'm not gonna mention any competitors, especially on a viral HN article :) There's a chance I might make a /comparison page in the future though.
Sorry to hear that. As someone who actually shipped a lot of things, i'm still going through the "I believe in it" and "don't believe in it" cycle almost daily. Don't let that stop you.
hey HN! thanks to whoever posted this. An update on this is that Sizzy is still going strong!
Lately I've been super busy with building [Benji](https://benji.so) which is a Life OS and organizes your habits, todos, routines, planner, fasting, meal tracking and a billion other features. I got tired of paying subscriptions for 31855 mediocre apps so I built a single master app that combines everything.
A lot of people ask me about my philosophy of shipping so I made [Zero To Shipped](https://zerotoshipped.com) which teaches the details of my stack along with my mindset about shipping paid products. So far there's 92 videos and 10 hours of content, but the final version will be more than 200 videos.
I hope I'm not violating some HN rules when I'm talking about the things that I made...
Feel free to AMA and I'd happy to answer your questions!
Hey everyone! Creator of Sizzy here. I’d appreciate if before you reach conlcusions of the functionality of Sizzy you check out the landing page (sizzy.co) or the changelog page (sizzy.co/changelog)
We’re really trying to make the best browser for developers and we’d be so happy if you give it a chance.
Even though it doesn’t simulate multiple engines, it simulates resolution, pixel ratio, user agent string, browser UI, OS UI, device frame etc. So it gives you a much more accurate representation of what your website would look like than any other browser out there.
Also, simulating devices is one of the features, even if you don’t care about responsive design, there’s plenty of features that can speed up your development work.
Sizzy started as an extension, but the extensions API is not powerful enough for all the stuff that we’re doing. Please check out what Sizzy can do before you say “this feature”, because there’s plenty of features that differentiate Sizzy from any other browser. We’re really trying to make the most useful browser for developers.
Creator of Sizzy here. Please don’t say equivalent because we have at least 50 features that differentiate us from any other “alternative” out there. Unlike the others, Sizzy is actually a company with employees who care about their users.
The author here. If you look at the contributions, the only ones were a change to the readme, adding prettier and git hooks for linting, fixing typos, and few CSS one-liners. If the project had major contributions it would definitely be a shitty move.