I'd create a Chrome OS alternative (like CloudReady which was bought by Google) for old Intel Macs and other laptops that won't get official Win 11 support, and maybe partner with some productiviy SaaS to have a working GDocs and Office 365 alternative.
Open/Libre Office and their UX are too complicated for normal users like most Linux apps that are modeled after professional desktop applications.
Considering the amount of hardware that's out there and never will work on newer operating systems having a easy to install and use OS for web productivity tasks will very likely be a big driver for overall market share.
Maybe addional hardware wouldn't even be needed. Onboard soundcards should be good enough for ASIO (they work fine on Hackintoshs and Core Audio on MacOS). The reason why it's not offered is the licensing I think, it's properietary technology from Steinberg, a German company who invested into Windows pro audio early on and kinda got a first mover advantage there.
I don't know how much licensing would cost, but Framework could possibly offer a driver for the internal card as an addon. Then the slot could be used for a small headphone amp which would be more third party friendly I think.
Is there a miniature ASIO soundcard planned for one of the slots? Not needing to carry an external audio interface around when working within a DAW is a major factor that's keeping me on MacOS (both pro audio and consumer use the same driver there).
You can compare monochromatic scales between various color space interpolations and order them by contrast (great for accessibility work). Lab is from the 70s, the newest one there is CIECAM2 from the 2000s, also looking most natural to my eyes.
They're more pleasing because artists and graphic designers used RYB pairings for decades, these pairings all over the place in analog and digital media, people are more used to them. Even Adobe still uses an RYB wheel in their software, RGB only for color grading (it still deviates slightly from a normal RGB color distribution).
RYB is more culturally relevant because artists and designers "produce" culture based on it.
Kinda sad that there is no distinction made between color selection and color production. RGB based color opponents (e.g. red - cyan, green - purple) are less pleasing to the eye and culturally relevant than RYB ones (red - green, yellow - purple).
Let's say you develop a luxury theme, the yellow - purple opponency would naturally lead you to the classic colors of royality, purple and gold.
Sorry but you're holding it wrong if you don't search intentful enough.
NL queries return poor results if the content creator didn't create it with searchers in mind. Most of these sites also often have a very poor UX.
There's of course a larger incentive to optimize for popular stuff, especially when there's commercial intent (or implied commercial intent by the absence of informational intent).
Bad search results can be opportunities, and many new bloggers focus on this right now which is why they often appear first in search results before the actual experts.
But it would only take experts to improve their content to outrank them because expertise and trust are also ranking factors right behind UX, and if you have both you win. Expertise alone just isn't enough.
I'm wondering how you guys are searching, do you type in short word combinations like 20yrs ago or full sentences and questions? Thing is Google values search intent above anything else right now, and if you don't show clear intent they have to guess, and the selection of search results will be mixed in consequence.
Here's a up to date PDF from Google explaining search intent:
>A lot of technically sound solutions in this space simply lack the addictive quality to draw in the crowds. Instagram and similarly popular networks, for all their flaws, are designed from the ground up to exploit human nature. If you sit on any form of public transport, you can see this in action. People obsessively checking whatever networks they are on.
I think the main reason why they're hard to beat is the first mover advantage of becoming the first popular networks of their kind.
This advantage creates multi-sided markets. There are strong incentives for businesses to build on top of those platforms enabled by reaching a critical mass of users, this advantage is converting networks into a self promotional flywheels pulling in more and more users.
It gets addictive because businesses usually know their audience and journey they're on and create content incentivizing them to take the next step in that journey.
Of course it's addicitve for users if you can anticipate their next step, and for businesses if they have all those micro targeting options just a click away. The easy way wins.
What makes it professional is that it's designed, with the intent to look oldschool/unprofessional. You've likely used a process and tools you were already familiar with.
Vernacular/unprofessional web design is search engine driven these days – using what's in reach. Basically searching for "create a website" and using one of the guides and tools popping up in the search results.
You're the only service apart of AWS and DO I'm aware of where I can host WordPress and static sites using the same account and dashboard. It's not the sexiest tech stack for Startups, but a WP plugin for static site generation and docker deploys (pro plan) would be killer.
There are some neat static site generator plugins out there (simplystatic, wp2static) which can be used in localwp, an easy to use and popular local dev environment from wpengine.
People could start with a static site for free/cheap, deployed from their local env to Render, and then move to docker when their sites and dynamic needs grow. This could make it a lot easier for peeps building their audience with blogs and digital products before they get into SaaS.
Very cool, but the text on the buttons still isn't optically centered, there's to much padding on the bottom likely caused by an inapropriate font for ui design!
It will click one day. I still remember how english clicked for me, from that day on I got everything without any "processing", mostly through TV shows and video games.
Before that I got fluid in Spanish by living in a non tourist location for several years.
Why not keep "wasting time" but through a filter, like a different language? Language learning by immersion is a thing, and by consuming stuff you're drawn to (just in a different anguage) you're likely learning faster doing so.