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Marc Köhlbrugge
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This is an experiment. This post was generated by AI by providing it my recently completed todos.
Receiving SMS texts is free I think. Double check with your provider. So if your phone supports dual sim cards (all recent iPhones do), then you can keep your home SIM active. Just make sure you disable roaming (so it won't try to connect to the internet) and don't pick up any calls (as it will probably cost you money).
Does it work even if the country is not listed in the provider's roaming supported countries list? I tried in the past, and they told me no, we don't work in that country (Indonesia). Maybe I just need to change of provider 😂
Although now that I think about it, we could do it slightly differently and it might have wider appeal. Or maybe this is what you meant. Here's what I have in mind now:
A column chart similar to iPhone's sleep schedule. The x axis represent the days (each day is a column). The y axis represents the hour of the day. The column goes from first todo created (e.g. 8am) to last todo created (e.g. 9pm).
The length of the columns will show the work session times (longer columns is longer work sessions). Where they start and stop shows when you start and stopped working. We can also show dots within the column for each completed todo.
Times would be adjusted for the time zone you were in at that moment.
I agree it would be an interesting visualization.
One challenge would be figure out what to do with work sessions that end AFTER midnight. Which I think is quite common.
I guess a simpler solution would be not to show columns, but just dots for each completed todo.
I was imagining a little square widget on the user's profile in the right sidebar. The X axis is days, the Y axis is the amount of time it took the person to start working (self-reported).
The idea would be you could have several different types of productivity-measures that people could track. For example, MyFitnessPal lets you track steps per day, but I don't use that functionality.
I think your proposed version would definitely result in a smaller codebase since you wouldn't be collecting and storing additional types of information, my only reservation is that I don't think it would be particularly useful to me without knowing 1) when I woke up that day (maybe have that as a special TODO type that gets ignored on the homepage / profile so it doesn't clutter the UI?), 2) how difficult the TODO was, since some of my tasks take many hours to complete (I suppose it would incentivize having small tasks to jumpstart the day, which is a productivity tip I've already been wanting to use).
Fun idea! I think it's too specialized for WIP (I try to keep the codebase minimal), but you should be able to build this fairly easily with the API ( wip.co/api ) by fetching recent todos and looking at the created_at timestamps along with the time_zone values. (the time_zone value for each todo represents the time_zone your account was set to at the time the todo was created)
Although now that I think about it, we could do it slightly differently and it might have wider appeal. Or maybe this is what you meant. Here's what I have in mind now:
A column chart similar to iPhone's sleep schedule. The x axis represent the days (each day is a column). The y axis represents the hour of the day. The column goes from first todo created (e.g. 8am) to last todo created (e.g. 9pm).
The length of the columns will show the work session times (longer columns is longer work sessions). Where they start and stop shows when you start and stopped working. We can also show dots within the column for each completed todo.
Times would be adjusted for the time zone you were in at that moment.
I agree it would be an interesting visualization.
One challenge would be figure out what to do with work sessions that end AFTER midnight. Which I think is quite common.
I guess a simpler solution would be not to show columns, but just dots for each completed todo.
I was imagining a little square widget on the user's profile in the right sidebar. The X axis is days, the Y axis is the amount of time it took the person to start working (self-reported).
The idea would be you could have several different types of productivity-measures that people could track. For example, MyFitnessPal lets you track steps per day, but I don't use that functionality.
I think your proposed version would definitely result in a smaller codebase since you wouldn't be collecting and storing additional types of information, my only reservation is that I don't think it would be particularly useful to me without knowing 1) when I woke up that day (maybe have that as a special TODO type that gets ignored on the homepage / profile so it doesn't clutter the UI?), 2) how difficult the TODO was, since some of my tasks take many hours to complete (I suppose it would incentivize having small tasks to jumpstart the day, which is a productivity tip I've already been wanting to use).
One suggestion is to use their mobile app exclusively as it's easier to use than their website.
That said, you shouldn't be using the app that frequently either IMO. Investment is more of a long term thing. Not something where you use the app everyday.
Related: gherget.com/investing-guide
Your logo/branding isn't going to make or break your startup. I'd just pick something simple and move on.
For handle.horse I just use the 🐴 emoji. For WIP, I used 🚧 for a long time. In your case you could do something like this: 🚂🛍️
If you prefer not to use an emoji, you can just use a nice typeface with maybe a basic shape and color. That's what I did for Room AI: roomai.com
If you really want a logo, I'd just find a suitable icon on one of the many free icons site and add your name next to it. For example this one: thenounproject.com/icon/rails…
Make sure to check the license before using such an icon.
Yeah, definitely logos won't make or break anything (at this point, anyway).
I interpreted as understanding the core audience, positioning, and messaging, which absolutely would make or break a startup.
I've seen a LOT of people use emojis as logos lately, mostly in the indie hacker community. I love to see it!
Yeah, this is what I did initially with the current version. Definitely not a must have, so maybe this is more just procrastination? Probably better to just focus on monetization and other improvements first. The design overall was bugging me (just felt so cheap/clunky) and if I was going to redo the overall site design anyways, figured I'd start with doing proper branding.
Congrats! 🙌