I like the streak how it is currently. It's brutal but fair. There's no gray area or rules. You do something each day or you lose it. It's that simple.
Diverging from that makes it less 'hardcore' and a less valuable metric.
If you want to change the metric from consistency to total amount of 'work' than the new proposal looks good.
Curious to know what other people think about it
I think the more you automate the WIP todo's like GitHub integration, the worse the community quality gets.
Right now, you have to manually enter your to-do's and reflect for a second on what you did. There's some friction and I think that's a good thing. This attracts active community members who come back to the website.
Hi Pete,
I've messed around with several but none of them stuck around. Usually you run into it's limitations or the platform is so quirky and hides abstractions that it's easier to code yourself.
Every year I think there will be a good and popular no-code app, but from what I've seen they all fizzle out after a while.
No-code is way faster to get started, so for prototyping or sketching an idea out it could work (But maybe Figma or Framer is better for this). With code you have to configure all kinds of boilerplate code before doing something, so it takes a while to get going which is a downside.
Where no code really shines I think is for marketing websites. Like a product page or a simple "home, about us, portfolio" website. I've seen agencies charge 50k for those and designing / coding them from scratch while a 50$ template would do the same using Webflow, Framer Sites, Wordpress, Squarespace etc...
Thanks Pieter,
That's been my impression looking in at these tools from the outside.
Just kind of wondering if there have been any leaps or improvements in functionality.
My instinct is that if I can build something quick with code, do that instead... But since I code for a living I may be biased against no-code stuff and I always want to check my biases lol
Hahaa can imagine. Lost a 100 day streak after getting drunk and checking my phone at 00:06... nasty hangover...
I felt invested in your streak, it was very impressive and fun to follow along. I felt a bit bummed out once you lost it even though I've never met you. I think that's the power of the 'hardcore' streak. It says something about a person. If there are all these exceptions and soft streaks it loses it's meaning.
Something like Tweakers karma could be a good addition if the community grows more. But there's about 100 (?) active members, so you already get a vibe of the activity of people.