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Marc Köhlbrugge

Marc Köhlbrugge
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Yeah those those are fun, but also have their downsides. Basecamp wrote a great article about it: Introducing Boosts: an all-new way to show your support in Basecamp

Their approach is quite interesting too. I prototyped it for WIP, but eventually settled on regular comments.

But it's definitely something we can explore. We could have one type of reaction (👏), multiple types (e.g. 👏 😍 😢 🎉), or allow any emoji like Slack has:

Here's the shortlist used by GitHub

Fyi, the 👍&👎 emojis are used as vote counters and their sums are directly made available from the API

Not sure what this means. Can you elaborate or do you have an example?

I'm considering switching to a rich text editor for comments. It would also make it easier to add inline images, etc. I'm not 100% sure yet.

The [title](url) you tried should work. Make sure to start the URL with http:// (or https://)

What if you could "retweet" someone else's todo?

Then if you do get mentioned, you can choose whether to have it show up on your profile by retweeting or not.

It would also let you amplify todos where you're not directly mentioned. Perhaps because it's something really interesting, but it might be from a less known maker.

If WIP were to become more of a Twitter-like social network where you can follow people (recently launched a prototype of this) then it might make sense to add such a feature.

Yep that makes sense 👍, not everyone will be happy to be forced having others entries on their timelines

Good idea! Will need to research how to do this.

Btw, if while implementing it, can you consider make something available for API developers to be notified too?

I'm not sure graphql is very cool for streaming APIs, but maybe a simple outgoing webhook would be enough

Hey @marc, I plan to automate sending a message on a discord channel with the changelog of #sgtm.

It would be nice if you provide a webhook system or maybe just an RSS for now? this way I can easily configure posting with Zapier :)

Yes, Zapier integration would be very useful for a bunch of things. Definitely want to add this at some point.

RSS would be quicker to implement. But there's a bunch of different ways to implement it. And people might have different preferences depending on the integration they want to build.

I'll give this some thought the coming days. Feel free to ping me in a week to check the status.

👍 the advantage of RSS is that you can have multiple RSS alternatives for the same page, maybe you can try with something that seems ok for you and later see if it is worth making alternatives?

👍 I haven't spend much time on SEO, because it doesn't immediately provide value for existing members. But as we want to grow WIP, it does make sense to leverage our content and showing up on more search result pages.

These are some excellent suggestions. I'll add them to my list. Thanks!

Ah yes, I want this myself as well. I've got a bunch of products I no longer work on but I don't want to delete them from my profile.

What if we call this "archiving" a product? They would be hidden under a "Show archived products…" link on your profile. And perhaps those product pages would include a prominent "Archived" label.

This would allow you to archive products that are sunset, sold, on-hold, etc.

/cc @Bjornftw @moul

Great idea!

Yep, just a suggestion, archiving them should not make them read-only, sometimes you want to share some cool milestones that other did without you

Say we added a way to distinguish between personal and work products, how should we use that?

Perhaps streaks should not take into account personal todos. Anything else?

Are you interested in seeing personal products at all?

I personally like to see the personal stuff of other people :)

Maybe just a filter to "hide non-pro stuff"?

Yeah, it's definitely a tough call if you were to do this, how should it be done?

Some rapid fire thoughts:

The majority of people on this site have two "work in progress" categories.

The first being their businesses.

The second being themselves (Gym, meditation, whatever).

So I think it'd be cool to have two streaks, one personal, one business, to encourage some balance.

I think if this is done, and done right (The hard part), it could be really cool.

I wonder if a personal streak makes much sense though?

I think at that point product-specific streaks are more useful. So you can earn a streak for going to the gym regularly. But of course, having to do so daily would probably be too much for most people.

We could make those product-specific streaks customisable as they are more personal by definition anyway. You could just set your own goal (e.g. every other day). But then it's starting to sound quite convoluted.

Anyway. Adding a way to mark products as personal and not have them count towards the streak might get us most of the way there.

Oh wow that should not be happening. Thanks for telling me.

I'll see if we can show a notification in case of any problems creating the todo. Possibly we could also add a preference setting to show a notification when todos are successfully created. That way you know for sure everything went alright without needing to check the chat.

I'll look into this for the next release.

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