I think I'm late to the party, but I'm working on something in this area — accountability groups. Right now the focus is developers, but we will eventually expand it. The way it works:
- you pay for a spot in a group (limit 6 per group)
- groups run 30 days using Telegram
- you have to post 1 update per day (i.e. "I went to the gym")
- for each day you don't post, you get charged a penalty fee
We've already run a few for things like building side projects and it's worked really well. I think it could really help with something like exercising or working out too.
A personal recommendation system which constantly trains locally on data from our day-today activities and offers the model on demand to the services seems like an straightforward way to address this need-gap.
Our smartphones are capable enough for this purpose, As they are already being used for training models but the barrier would be to access our activities on other platforms due to the closed nature of apps, smartphone OS and zero interoperability. Web may not be as constrained, So I don't see a a major constraint in developing an add-on which tracks activities on demand and stores the data locally.
But large platforms do provide some way to export our bulk data for legal compliance and perhaps this might be an easier way to fetch our data for training.
How about a service that temporarily boosts the Internet bandwidth of the participants of the Internet call by changing their plan? Say if one of the participant has only 2mbps bandwidth and the said service coordinates with their ISP to increases it to 200mbps for the duration of the call.
The service can be paid for by the organizer of the Internet call.
This can have implications beyond the television studio as well as almost all meetings are exclusively conducted over Internet nowadays and a company wouldn't mind paying for an interruption free meeting due to network bandwidth issues.
I do think this can have uses in several areas. Increasing the Internet speed during interviews can work but all Internet providers need to be in on this and the change of Internet speed should be instantaneous
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Dates are made visible again, Reverting a earlier decision as explained in /comments/801 as there are instances when the date of publishing the problem/comment can be useful for historical context. But I still urge problem solvers to not hesitate posting their solutions for old problems as it's required as long as the need-gap exists, The fact that you developed a solution for a problem now shows that the need-gap exists.
Showing dates on the list of problems, comments, in permalinks and not shown in individual problem pages. This allows date to be easily accessible to where its needed and who needs it while not showing in the areas where it might inhibit someone from posting their solution just because the problem was posted a long back.
It's hard for new users to understand that the lifetime of content on needgap is very long, Solutions are needed for a problem posted two years ago because the need-gap exists. Unfortunately, limited attention and instant gratification nature of average Internet content today makes it difficult to run home this point.
I think any solution for planning second-order, third-order consequences needs to be a community effort as not even a team from startup alone can come up possible variations in making decisions.
If there's a community, They can submit different recipes for second-order, third-order decision making based on their personal experiences.
Here's a rough idea for a sample recipe (Ideally should be generated by a UI),
.
└── Communication/
├── Direct/
│ ├── Stranger/
│ │ └── Small talk required/
│ │ ├── Yes/
│ │ │ └── ...
│ │ └── No/
│ │ └── ...
│ └── Contact /
│ └── Small talk required/
│ ├── Yes/
│ │ └── Can the information used against your objective?/
│ │ └── ...
│ └── No/
│ └── ...
└── Broadcast/
└── People who might be affected by the information/
This looks great, thanks for the effort. So people can use an app to download such recipes to help with their decision making process and also submit theirs as well?
I wish but I have already exhausted my bandwidth for new projects, This is one of those problems which is needed for everyone but only few know that they want it.
But I will be willing to brainstorm ideas here if someone else wants to take dig at building a solution to address this need-gap.
This doesn't necessarily solve the exact issue you've described but might help with your back pain whilst sitting at your computer. It's a desktop app that monitors your posture via your webcam and shows an alert when you start to slouch. Hopefully it might help you! https://sitapp.app/
iPhone and latest flagship Samsung phones have special hardware to create highly personalized memoji, AR stickers. I guess without such special hardware the results wouldn't be very personalized but still Bitmoji like avatars which the users can make themselves but without text can be done.
However, when I visit /problems/30 , I notice that these two comments appear at the same horizontal indentation, so visually it appears to me as if they were both made as responses to the original problem rather than one as a response to the other.
I have seen comment replies sometimes indented but not consistently. Could comment replies be indented consistently for easier understanding? Thanks!
I'm building an app to solve that. It's a collection of original logos for startups, all made by a world class designer, than you can get for $49-$99.
They can be tailored instantly to the vision of your startup, by taking a questionnaire about your brand personality. We then match you with the right logos / fonts / colors for it and you can purchase the files right away.
I've been using Twitter DM a lot lately and lack of features like labeling is indeed affecting the productivity.
If you are reading this because you came searching for a solution to tag/label twitter direct messages, Would you use a separate web app just for that? Let me know if you would pay for that.
I think a marketplace connecting hardware gig workers and hardware solopreneurs is a great way to solve this problem.
Here's the overview,
The solopreneur supplies the design, build, QC requirements, buyers list to the marketplace.
The marketplace finds the suitable gig worker for each country in the buyer list, Calculates the BOM plus build cost including the gig worker and marketplace fee. The marketplace sources the materials locally to the gig worker and acts as an escrow for their fee.
Gig worker builds and ship the product locally using the logistics services of the marketplace. The market place releases gig worker fee.
When I lived in Maine, USA, there was a store Called LL BEAN. They had these little Keychain that emitted a sound that when the battery was full, and it could maintain the right pitch it would keep them away, after a while the battery would start to die and it wouldn't work, just be annoying. Haven't had to deal with them since I moved to the desert, but I am sure the tech has advanced in the past couple decades.
Ultrasonic sound based mosquito repellent were all fad in early 2000s and there even computer programs for that but unfortunately they do absolutely nothing to repel mosquitos - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20669080 .
There has been no revolutionary discovery for a safe, affordable, efficient mosquito control and hence the need gap. But there has been breakthroughs w.r.t medications and vaccines for diseases caused by mosquitos as a vector as I've mentioned in another comment.
There are books available at tourist shops in almost every country which can give you the information on local laws, But yes a website which can compare laws between countries and display it in a easily consumable way is definitely needed. Mainly because a website or an app can be updated but the information on physical books are often outdated especially when the local rules and regulations are highly volatile like during pandemic.
Considering much of the eye issues due to screens are because we don't blink as much can resolved by taking timely break, But its easier said than done that's why I posted this problem - 'Remind me to take break when working from home ' - /problems/130 and the solutions are very promising.
Abishek invited us over from Product Hunt. I run growth at Courier. We take notification ethics very seriously and we are actively contributing to solving this problem. As a notification sender, their notifications often get out of control due to lack of centralized management per product team in any given company. This is because all of the different APIs and code templates that need management end up only being visible to said team. This is why we built Courier. Plug in any messaging API into our single API and run a centralized workspace that sends, designs, tracks, and logs all of a companies notifications. Included is a sophisticated preferences API and inbox that can be dropped into any app allowing for even more control over individual users. Check us out on Product Hunt.
I appreciate Courier's approach to reduce notification pollution by providing better tools for developers to limit the number of notifications. Apart from the ethics, This might also result in higher conversions for the developer as the user would be less inclined to disable the notifications of an app completely due to lesser but useful notifications.
Yes, increased engagement is likely a hypothetical outcome. We hope that we can start a movement where app to human communication is considered a primary UX layer and that these channels are no longer seen as separates but as communication. The user should not even notice these separations. It should be part of a seemless channel-less experience that is basically a new layer that floats above the app layer.
I use DocSend - https://www.docsend.com/ to track the face time my CV gets but looks like you are building a solution yourself from your other comments and I would like to hear about how it can provide me more insights than DocSend for a job search as they have now turning to startup pitch focused company.
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The need gap - 'Enabling hearing aid features on TWS earphones' is already available here - /problems/22 . You can join the discussion there by making your post as a comment.
Problems are first class citizen at needgap, So new posts are for problems alone and even if you are building a solution for the said problem it should go in the comments as detailed in - /problems/2.
Hey Zimochrome, I saw you posted a couple of times on this topic and don't want to repeat myself too much but my cofounder and I are trying to solve this problem with https://artickl.com - would love your feedback!
Hey everyone, this is something my cofounder and I are trying to solve with https://artickl.com - we want to make the application process more transparent for applicants as well as removing a lot of the admin by doing things like automating tailored CVs (actually using GPT-3 for this), giving you insider information on the application process, and helping you with compensation negotiations.
Could you eli5 me what is the worst case scenario if you only click a random link without the following problems like download and execute random software or input your credit card there
On average its the action after clicking a malicious link(URL) like @Christos said is dangerous unless you are a high value target(or work in one) and then just clicking link will exploit the vulnerability in the email/chat app, browser etc. leading to other chain of events.
But there's another consequence of clicking links which affects everyone, That's privacy; Say someone wants to know where you live and all they have to do is make you click a URL which can give them your IP address. But this happens even with almost every website you visit. This can easily be addressed by using a VPN, But then if you use the same VPN IP, Browser, OS for all your Internet activities then there are numerous other ways to track you.
Almost all the time, experts use Virtual Machine, VPN and URL scanners to open suspicious links (URLs). You can find some malware scanners I've listed at https://startuptoolchain.com .
Most office environments do have some form of anti-virus solutions which has built-in URL scanning facilities to prevent phishing attacks, But they're far from perfect and hence the general advise to not click unknown links.
But I agree with you that that it's not a solution when the work involves clicking several such links in a day. A more accessible solution to make clicking links safer is definitely needed.
Thanks for telling me about URL scanners, that seems usable as virtual machine is beyond my abilities. We do use Antivirus software, So did one of my friend but their office still got hacked after one of their employees clicked some link.
I conceived of an augmented reality display of labels on top of objects in the language pair of one's choice in a concepticon subreddit called r/SomebodyMakeThis.
That's a cool idea to get familiar with day-to-day objects in another language, Very useful when traveling foreign countries. But I'm not sure whether it can improve learning new vocabulary as it requires sentences.
We built Sivv - https://www.sivv.io/ to help people more easily access and retain the key takeaways from books, articles and research. We summarise actionable insights from the latest publications and publish these through our knowledge feed (https://www.sivv.io/feed) then curate these into thematic guides that contain the best and most actionable ideas - https://www.sivv.io/guides . Perhaps this can help?
To add to this needgap, I would love a solution if it was plastic enough to use for research articles. And if the notes/comments were searchable.
I read numerous journal articles for school and its cumbersome to keep a stack of papers the size of my head with large takeaways written across the top to remind me what notes I left inside. I have meet people who use excel/google sheets like op for research articles and its really inefficient.
They're far better than normal spreadsheets for research purposes and for retention I haven't heard anything better than spaced-repetition as I've mentioned in /comments/1137 . Perhaps a knowledge graph + spaced repetition tool is what you're looking for?
If the sender cannot be forced to follow message etiquette, Perhaps the receiver should be given an option to delay the incoming messages for non important messages. This can also help people like me know don't like real-time communication.
You can take a look at the problems here on needgap, See if any of them resonate with you and could be solved with developing a software application. Learning to code by solving problems is one sure shot way to get familiar with programming. In fact I became a better coder that way, In spite of having a degree in computer science from a premium Engineering college (Of course programming is just a subset of CS).
E.g. Check this solution /comments/97 for /problems/12 by user @Gameghostify , It's just couple of lines of JavaScript but makes huge difference to those who face that problem. Besides if there's large need gap, Then your solution can become a viable startup product.
Then of course there's solving your own problem, In this case figuring out why existing solutions which train you in programming is not working out and then building your own solution for others like you.
I have tried a multitude of tools, from LWT (learn with texts) to Readlang web reader and even Language Learning with Netflix, but nothing has beaten the good old fashioned notepad or journal.
I learn languages as a hobby and I know that vocab and memorization is the first step but natural word choice and syntax come with practice.
With my own students I offer a 3x4 grid containing columns of "past, present, future" and row of "positive, negative, question, imperative".
If you learn a recycable expression in Spanish like "que ver con" (to do with), I will create sentences across the grid.
Esto no tiene nada que ver contigo.
Esto tiene todo que ver con ella.
¿Tiene esto algo que ver con la historia que me contaste la semana pasada?
Tendrá algo que ver conmigo si no respondes a mis preguntas.
etc etc
until I am comfortable with the simple tenses, I will not move on to perfect, conditional, subjunctive.
It "is " hard work but no app will do the work for you,
Thanks for telling me about https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/ , I didn't know it existed. It has large number of users and reading from the reviews it seems like they're like me who would like to get some more value out of menial tasks like watching a movie and in this case the value is learning language.
I agree that there are tried and tested methods from professionals like you which are definitely better for those who are ready to invest time for it. I appreciate sharing your grid method, I will give it a try.
I have my own DIY solution to copy/paste the Table of Contents to Google Sheets to mark chapters read and reflected on with a column for my own notes - but it is cumbersome.
Have you tried any spaced-repetition tool like https://apps.ankiweb.net/ ? Since it's designed for retention of anything which can be put into it, It can work for storing content from non-fiction books/articles as well.
This is a real problem faced by many early stage bootstrapping startups, I recruited inexperienced individuals for my first startup and end up spending much of my time training them. On hindsight, that might not be the best recruitment decision but a bootstrapping startup with limited investment doesn't have a choice.
Once the startup grew I was able to recruit best talent available for money, Though I didn't spend time training them my time managing them only increased.
On the other hand there's another sub-problem related to this - Introvert CEO who don't want to engage with the employees.
I guess solutions for both involve improving the efficiency of hiring a people person who can do things which we don't want to do.
I'm building a solution for this by leveraging note taking and
library facilities offered by Kindle by sending Hacker News stories to
it. Besides, the e-paper goodness is a cherry on the top.
No prizes for guessing the name of the service - HN to Kindle.
As of now I send topmost HN stories and plan to develop further if people want it like I do.
I've been using HN to Kindle for past couple of days, It has indeed reduced my urge to check HN frequently due to FOMO and now I instead read in on kindle every morning and night.
Apple now has now partially implemented the feature I asked for in iOS 15, Sender can now determine whether the receiver who has 'Do not Disturb' should be notified after sending the message. It's part of their 'Focus' suite - https://youtu.be/A2T-52AuMvo?t=235 .
Facebook AI has published an interesting paper titled 'Neural Actor: Neural Free-view Synthesis of Human Actors with Pose Control' - http://gvv.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/NeuralActor/ in which they have demonstrated more efficient way to generate arbitrary poses for synthesized human actor.
You should explain more about what problem does turning an "individual" business into subscription model would solve for their customers, As @abishek mentions in /problems/237 .
Why would I subscribe to monthly payment for coconut water from the individual vendor when I'm making on-demand payment now?
That is a good point. The main reasons for a consumer still need to be researched. From my personal/family experience.
1. Paying my yoga teacher by transferring money to the bank is a cumbersome process - I wish he just gave me a link and could set up a recurring transfer for him hassle-free.
2. I keep hearing my mom tell my brother to Paytm to transfer money to a coconut water person, if this experience was simpler then I could track all my payments in one place with simple reminders/invoices.
3. I could potentially get better deals/cheaper services if I can commit to a certain period of services upfront. (This happens in Software and I can see it happening in other industries as well)
Essentially it Boils down to
1. Saving Money
2. Saving Effort/Time to transfer/Keeping track of leftover balance and making payments.
I understand that it has to with pandemic related lock-downs, But India has better facilities for digital payments transactions than most other countries with UPI and many in informal sector use them.
The reason why that yoga teacher or the coconut water vendor is not using Google Pay or other apps like many others in their line of work do when cash transactions is not an option should be explored and that's the real problem.
Besides as a consumer if I want better deals or tender coconut delivered at my house I can do that with a groceries app like BigBasket, Instacart etc.
I launched needgap ~ 2 years ago to make validating problems easier, It has helped me and several others build solutions to real problems. I thank everyone who have participated in the growth of needgap and hope you'll continue to support the platform.
As the next step in the validation process, I'm building I will pay for that publicly to solve the problem of validating Minimum Viable Products, What better way to validate MVP than to know whether people are willing to pay for that?
needgap is better poised to validate our Minimum Viable Product than a separate product. Now you get 'I WILL PAY FOR THAT' for every comment you write and those who wish to validate your startup idea or MVP can just click on that!
I can understand what SaaS model music delivery can provide to the music producer i.e. sustainable income, Which is good.
But how does SaaS model specifically solve the problem of overuse issue for the consumers? Would each subscriber get unique music each month? If so wouldn't it be nearly impossible to scale unless you generate music algorithmically?
As for copyright issue, E.g. Does YouTube strike copyright claim when consumer 2 uses same royalty free music as consumer 1 in-spite of providing proper licensing details for the music? If so how can that issue be resolved?
I meant the underlying core problem of loss in focus, Say if we schedule a task to be completed in 45 minutes on a task management app and we lose 15 mins of it due to focus drift then that task management app is not really helping much with the core problem right? I feel we need to deal with this problem without taking into task management into consideration.
Yeah, choosing an arbitrary time to start a task sounds like it might not help with getting distracted while doing it.
Is focus drift significant enough for you to be interested in writing down how focused you were and what other things you did recently and looking for correlations that can be tested as possible causes?
Here are some specific factors that could be interesting:
1. Consistent, sufficient sleep
2. Good food
3. Prioritizing harder tasks when you're more energetic, possibly the morning
4. Having a bunch of reminders about how you previously said that the task you're working on is important
5. Recording success or failure (and time spent) in a log where it will be remembered forever
6. A list of all the other things you want to get done after this task
I wonder if anyone can put a time one focus drift without deep research on themselves with all the brain gizmos while doing day-today tasks, I certainly can't!
I wonder how closely this relates to the need gap "Getting things done at individual level"*. It seems to me that both are indicating the individuals are feeling an urge to spend time on things that they later consider to have been a suboptimal use of time.
ActivityRecommender reminds the user (via suggestions, feedback, graphs, analyses, and more) about the things that the user tends to say are valuable, essentially giving the user a stronger voice in deciding what to do next.
*I don't seem to be able to link to Needgap from within Needgap at the moment but I've reported this to the meta discussion
Allow linking to needgap comment url from this page
I attempted to enter a link to https colon slash slash needgap dot com slash comments slash 1099 in the comment below, in an attempt to provide partial reproduction instructions, but I received an error saying that there was an invalid url
Unfortunately I also can't enter the full url into this comment either for the same reason, so I've written out "colon" and "slash" and "dot".
Yes this is an issue, I will enable comment linking just like how problems can be linked with [/problems/problem-number] and it should address this issue.
, "Jeff , posted comment on Getting things done at individual level" ).
When I entered the comment, I saw a warning that looked like:
"Character limit reached: 1262"
So, I made some changes to the comment (removing some words) so that the message disappeared.
However, then when I tried to make this change (in this case I was editing an existing comment, and I pushed "Save"), I encountered a new page telling me that my comment was too long and needed to be < 1250 characters.
I eventually discovered that to submit this comment required removing more words (you can see the final, submitted version in the link above).
Is it possible for the "Character limit reached" warning to appear in all of the cases where the comment is too long?
That's interesting because it should be functioning just as you asked i.e. When the characters are greater than >1250, the warning appears and you have to reduce it to be below 1250 characters and when you submit the comment will not be accepted if it is > 1250 characters (For security reasons).
There could have some delay regarding the warning depending upon the typing/deletion speed which might caused the issue, I will see what I can do about this. As always, Appreciate the feedback.
You might like ActivityRecommender, which quantitatively measures and optimizes your happiness, motivation and efficiency:
1. Record what you've accomplished; reflect later
2. See what's correlated with future motivation
3. Check the graphs of time spent. Are you getting more motivated?
4. Run an efficiency experiment: agree to several tasks to do now. One is chosen randomly for you to do. In the future you'll do another one. The ratio of the time spent is an unbiased estimate of the ratio of your efficiency at these times. Compete against yourself!
5. Write down partial ideas to revisit later. Lazily sort them whenever you want, like a tournament. Turn them into ToDos when they're ready
6. See what's made you most happy/sad recently
7. Reminisce: see a randomly chosen, high-rated comment
8. Feedback! Whenever you do something, you see a positive/negative number, some (usually) encouraging words, and a button for more details
9. Receive suggestions for what's next: even request something Fun and at least as good as the game you're considering
I think that scheduling and logging are effective ways to consciously use your time in your daily life. However, it can be suffocating and tedious to do these things every day.
MeTime2 makes it easy for you to reflect on the balance of your time usage by simply entering your appointments/spent time in the calendar, and to have a sense of control over how you spend your time. You can do these things in a fun and sustainable way, not suffocating.
I've been working on a solution to this at Qvault: https://qvault.io/
It still needs more courses but there are already 10 now!
Recognizing this problem...
I've been compiling all the resources I found to be good and worthwhile in a single database hosted on Notion. Here's the work: https://yusuf.is/creating/language-learning-resources
Hope it helps everybody else who is going through the same problem I did
I think I'm late to the party, but I'm working on something in this area — accountability groups. Right now the focus is developers, but we will eventually expand it. The way it works:
- you pay for a spot in a group (limit 6 per group)
- groups run 30 days using Telegram
- you have to post 1 update per day (i.e. "I went to the gym")
- for each day you don't post, you get charged a penalty fee
We've already run a few for things like building side projects and it's worked really well. I think it could really help with something like exercising or working out too.
You can check it out here: https://dip.chat
A browser extension which lets us test colors like how responsive design test for different screen size works in browser can help address this.
This can have implications beyond the television studio as well as almost all meetings are exclusively conducted over Internet nowadays and a company wouldn't mind paying for an interruption free meeting due to network bandwidth issues.
I do think this can have uses in several areas. Increasing the Internet speed during interviews can work but all Internet providers need to be in on this and the change of Internet speed should be instantaneous
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Dates are made visible again, Reverting a earlier decision as explained in /comments/801 as there are instances when the date of publishing the problem/comment can be useful for historical context. But I still urge problem solvers to not hesitate posting their solutions for old problems as it's required as long as the need-gap exists, The fact that you developed a solution for a problem now shows that the need-gap exists.
This looks great, thanks for the effort. So people can use an app to download such recipes to help with their decision making process and also submit theirs as well?
Are you planning to build this?
This doesn't necessarily solve the exact issue you've described but might help with your back pain whilst sitting at your computer. It's a desktop app that monitors your posture via your webcam and shows an alert when you start to slouch. Hopefully it might help you! https://sitapp.app/
iPhone and latest flagship Samsung phones have special hardware to create highly personalized memoji, AR stickers. I guess without such special hardware the results wouldn't be very personalized but still Bitmoji like avatars which the users can make themselves but without text can be done.
What if you rent out your music to single person/channel/developer on monthly basis? Solving over use
Easily recognize comment threads via consistent visual indentation
I received an email that /comments/1128 was created in response to /comments/1099
However, when I visit /problems/30 , I notice that these two comments appear at the same horizontal indentation, so visually it appears to me as if they were both made as responses to the original problem rather than one as a response to the other.
I have seen comment replies sometimes indented but not consistently. Could comment replies be indented consistently for easier understanding? Thanks!
You're are right, This is an issue isolated to mobile due to the lack of screen space. I will work on a fix soon.
The comment indentation issue with mobile has been fixed @Jeff .
I'm building an app to solve that. It's a collection of original logos for startups, all made by a world class designer, than you can get for $49-$99.
They can be tailored instantly to the vision of your startup, by taking a questionnaire about your brand personality. We then match you with the right logos / fonts / colors for it and you can purchase the files right away.
It doesn't even require signup https://www.logology.co .
When I lived in Maine, USA, there was a store Called LL BEAN. They had these little Keychain that emitted a sound that when the battery was full, and it could maintain the right pitch it would keep them away, after a while the battery would start to die and it wouldn't work, just be annoying. Haven't had to deal with them since I moved to the desert, but I am sure the tech has advanced in the past couple decades.
Ultrasonic sound based mosquito repellent were all fad in early 2000s and there even computer programs for that but unfortunately they do absolutely nothing to repel mosquitos - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20669080 .
There are books available at tourist shops in almost every country which can give you the information on local laws, But yes a website which can compare laws between countries and display it in a easily consumable way is definitely needed. Mainly because a website or an app can be updated but the information on physical books are often outdated especially when the local rules and regulations are highly volatile like during pandemic.
Considering much of the eye issues due to screens are because we don't blink as much can resolved by taking timely break, But its easier said than done that's why I posted this problem - 'Remind me to take break when working from home ' - /problems/130 and the solutions are very promising.
Abishek invited us over from Product Hunt. I run growth at Courier. We take notification ethics very seriously and we are actively contributing to solving this problem. As a notification sender, their notifications often get out of control due to lack of centralized management per product team in any given company. This is because all of the different APIs and code templates that need management end up only being visible to said team. This is why we built Courier. Plug in any messaging API into our single API and run a centralized workspace that sends, designs, tracks, and logs all of a companies notifications. Included is a sophisticated preferences API and inbox that can be dropped into any app allowing for even more control over individual users. Check us out on Product Hunt.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/courier-3
Good to see you on needgap Micah!
I appreciate Courier's approach to reduce notification pollution by providing better tools for developers to limit the number of notifications. Apart from the ethics, This might also result in higher conversions for the developer as the user would be less inclined to disable the notifications of an app completely due to lesser but useful notifications.
Yes, increased engagement is likely a hypothetical outcome. We hope that we can start a movement where app to human communication is considered a primary UX layer and that these channels are no longer seen as separates but as communication. The user should not even notice these separations. It should be part of a seemless channel-less experience that is basically a new layer that floats above the app layer.
I use DocSend - https://www.docsend.com/ to track the face time my CV gets but looks like you are building a solution yourself from your other comments and I would like to hear about how it can provide me more insights than DocSend for a job search as they have now turning to startup pitch focused company.
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Hey Zimochrome, I saw you posted a couple of times on this topic and don't want to repeat myself too much but my cofounder and I are trying to solve this problem with https://artickl.com - would love your feedback!
You need to tell how, How would artickl help me decide between two job offers?
Hey everyone, this is something my cofounder and I are trying to solve with https://artickl.com - we want to make the application process more transparent for applicants as well as removing a lot of the admin by doing things like automating tailored CVs (actually using GPT-3 for this), giving you insider information on the application process, and helping you with compensation negotiations.
Please let me know if you have any feedback!
This is great! Should the companies be supporting your platform for this to work?
Hello everybody 👋 We've built a simple minimalistic app to organize your life.
It's called Organize Your Life (OYL) 👉🏾 https://oylapp.com
The idea behind the app is to have it all in one place with a modular approach:
- Calendar
- Notes
- Todo list
- Meal planning
- Journal
- Routines & Goals
- Movie & Series List
- Book List
Those are the initial modules but we may add more in the future.
We build each module so you can share notes, tasks, meal planning, etc with other "circles" like your spouse or friends.
There is one main view where you can see all you have to do that day. The idea is to hide everything that can wait so you can focus on today.
I know there are tons of productivity apps out there, however, I couldn't find one that had all things that we needed and a minimalistic approach.
We would love to have your feedback.. and feel free to join the waiting list if you like it!
Ignasi
Hey, OYL seems like a very innovative approach to address this problem. I will be checking it out.
Can you explain a bit more on what you feel is missing in current geocaching games?
Could you eli5 me what is the worst case scenario if you only click a random link without the following problems like download and execute random software or input your credit card there
Good question, But I am not an expert to explain what are the real dangers of clicking unknown links. Perhaps @Abishek can do that.
All I know is one can get hacked by just clicking malware links, I've had my friend face it and so I am paranoid about it.
Most office environments do have some form of anti-virus solutions which has built-in URL scanning facilities to prevent phishing attacks, But they're far from perfect and hence the general advise to not click unknown links.
But I agree with you that that it's not a solution when the work involves clicking several such links in a day. A more accessible solution to make clicking links safer is definitely needed.
Thanks for telling me about URL scanners, that seems usable as virtual machine is beyond my abilities. We do use Antivirus software, So did one of my friend but their office still got hacked after one of their employees clicked some link.
I conceived of an augmented reality display of labels on top of objects in the language pair of one's choice in a concepticon subreddit called r/SomebodyMakeThis.
See the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/comments/o1uqfj/smt_a_smartphone_camera_augmented_reality_app/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
That's a cool idea to get familiar with day-to-day objects in another language, Very useful when traveling foreign countries. But I'm not sure whether it can improve learning new vocabulary as it requires sentences.
We built Sivv - https://www.sivv.io/ to help people more easily access and retain the key takeaways from books, articles and research. We summarise actionable insights from the latest publications and publish these through our knowledge feed (https://www.sivv.io/feed) then curate these into thematic guides that contain the best and most actionable ideas - https://www.sivv.io/guides . Perhaps this can help?
To add to this needgap, I would love a solution if it was plastic enough to use for research articles. And if the notes/comments were searchable.
I read numerous journal articles for school and its cumbersome to keep a stack of papers the size of my head with large takeaways written across the top to remind me what notes I left inside. I have meet people who use excel/google sheets like op for research articles and its really inefficient.
Have you tried knowledge-graph tools like https://roamresearch.com/, https://obsidian.md/ (or) their self-hosted/open-source alternatives like https://github.com/athensresearch/athens (or) https://joekroese.github.io/tiddlyroam/ ?
They're far better than normal spreadsheets for research purposes and for retention I haven't heard anything better than spaced-repetition as I've mentioned in /comments/1137 . Perhaps a knowledge graph + spaced repetition tool is what you're looking for?
If the sender cannot be forced to follow message etiquette, Perhaps the receiver should be given an option to delay the incoming messages for non important messages. This can also help people like me know don't like real-time communication.
Stripe is launching 'Stripe Identity' to verify the identity of our customers - https://stripe.com/en-in/identity .
Yes getting an HR team is usually the first step :) You can also try people engagement tools like https://www.kaapi.team/ and https://lattice.com/ etc
Disclaimer - I am a founder at Kaapi the tool I mentioned above
Comments can now be linked withe short code [/comments/[comment number]) - e.g. /comments/1125 . FYI @Jeff .
You can take a look at the problems here on needgap, See if any of them resonate with you and could be solved with developing a software application. Learning to code by solving problems is one sure shot way to get familiar with programming. In fact I became a better coder that way, In spite of having a degree in computer science from a premium Engineering college (Of course programming is just a subset of CS).
Then of course there's solving your own problem, In this case figuring out why existing solutions which train you in programming is not working out and then building your own solution for others like you.
I have tried a multitude of tools, from LWT (learn with texts) to Readlang web reader and even Language Learning with Netflix, but nothing has beaten the good old fashioned notepad or journal.
I learn languages as a hobby and I know that vocab and memorization is the first step but natural word choice and syntax come with practice.
With my own students I offer a 3x4 grid containing columns of "past, present, future" and row of "positive, negative, question, imperative".
If you learn a recycable expression in Spanish like "que ver con" (to do with), I will create sentences across the grid.
Esto no tiene nada que ver contigo.
Esto tiene todo que ver con ella.
¿Tiene esto algo que ver con la historia que me contaste la semana pasada?
Tendrá algo que ver conmigo si no respondes a mis preguntas.
etc etc
until I am comfortable with the simple tenses, I will not move on to perfect, conditional, subjunctive.
It "is " hard work but no app will do the work for you,
Thanks for telling me about https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/ , I didn't know it existed. It has large number of users and reading from the reviews it seems like they're like me who would like to get some more value out of menial tasks like watching a movie and in this case the value is learning language.
I agree that there are tried and tested methods from professionals like you which are definitely better for those who are ready to invest time for it. I appreciate sharing your grid method, I will give it a try.
I have my own DIY solution to copy/paste the Table of Contents to Google Sheets to mark chapters read and reflected on with a column for my own notes - but it is cumbersome.
Have you tried any spaced-repetition tool like https://apps.ankiweb.net/ ? Since it's designed for retention of anything which can be put into it, It can work for storing content from non-fiction books/articles as well.
This is a great idea! We will be adding this to https://notifier.so/
On the other hand there's another sub-problem related to this - Introvert CEO who don't want to engage with the employees.
I guess solutions for both involve improving the efficiency of hiring a people person who can do things which we don't want to do.
I'm building a solution for this by leveraging note taking and library facilities offered by Kindle by sending Hacker News stories to it. Besides, the e-paper goodness is a cherry on the top.
No prizes for guessing the name of the service - HN to Kindle.
As of now I send topmost HN stories and plan to develop further if people want it like I do.
I've been using HN to Kindle for past couple of days, It has indeed reduced my urge to check HN frequently due to FOMO and now I instead read in on kindle every morning and night.
Thank you!
Thanks for using HN to Kindle Shinzo! I'm glad that it has increased your productivity.
If I haven't read couple last email from a newsletter, I just unsubscribe.
To read them later I use Pocket. You can forward your email to the app.
I usually read them before bed. You need a habit if you think this is important for you.
Set specific time each day or each week to read through them.
Make calls after meetings to just chat and have fun, maybe play games together.
Find a forum or Discord server in your area of interest.
Or just have your Google Meet running all day long with your friends who work.
So I created https://reddit-saved.com . You can search all your saved items and group them by assigning tags to specific items.
I hope it is useful to others also. I welcome any suggestions to make it better and would appreciate if you could report any bugs you might encounter.
You should explain more about what problem does turning an "individual" business into subscription model would solve for their customers, As @abishek mentions in /problems/237 .
Why would I subscribe to monthly payment for coconut water from the individual vendor when I'm making on-demand payment now?
That is a good point. The main reasons for a consumer still need to be researched. From my personal/family experience.
1. Paying my yoga teacher by transferring money to the bank is a cumbersome process - I wish he just gave me a link and could set up a recurring transfer for him hassle-free.
2. I keep hearing my mom tell my brother to Paytm to transfer money to a coconut water person, if this experience was simpler then I could track all my payments in one place with simple reminders/invoices.
3. I could potentially get better deals/cheaper services if I can commit to a certain period of services upfront. (This happens in Software and I can see it happening in other industries as well)
Essentially it Boils down to
1. Saving Money
2. Saving Effort/Time to transfer/Keeping track of leftover balance and making payments.
I understand that it has to with pandemic related lock-downs, But India has better facilities for digital payments transactions than most other countries with UPI and many in informal sector use them.
The reason why that yoga teacher or the coconut water vendor is not using Google Pay or other apps like many others in their line of work do when cash transactions is not an option should be explored and that's the real problem.
Besides as a consumer if I want better deals or tender coconut delivered at my house I can do that with a groceries app like BigBasket, Instacart etc.
I launched needgap ~ 2 years ago to make validating problems easier, It has helped me and several others build solutions to real problems. I thank everyone who have participated in the growth of needgap and hope you'll continue to support the platform.
As the next step in the validation process, I'm building I will pay for that publicly to solve the problem of validating Minimum Viable Products, What better way to validate MVP than to know whether people are willing to pay for that?
Meta validation for I will pay for that has failed, I've explained the reasons in detail on my public build thread - https://twitter.com/heavyinfo/status/1409563922517037062 .
I can understand what SaaS model music delivery can provide to the music producer i.e. sustainable income, Which is good.
But how does SaaS model specifically solve the problem of overuse issue for the consumers? Would each subscriber get unique music each month? If so wouldn't it be nearly impossible to scale unless you generate music algorithmically?
As for copyright issue, E.g. Does YouTube strike copyright claim when consumer 2 uses same royalty free music as consumer 1 in-spite of providing proper licensing details for the music? If so how can that issue be resolved?
Could you elaborate a little more on "wouldn't do much if the particular tasks aren't completed within scheduled period due to loss of focus."?
Do you mean that accomplishing 80% of a task isn't substantially more valuable than accomplishing 0% of a task?
(If that's true, then it might still be possible to improve the situation by:
A) choosing an appropriate time when one has the ability to accomplish all 100% of the task at once
B) analyzing the factors that prompt focus to drift, potentially distractions could be out-competed by other focus reminders as you've noted
C) putting some more thought into ways to split a larger task into pieces that feel separate )
I meant the underlying core problem of loss in focus, Say if we schedule a task to be completed in 45 minutes on a task management app and we lose 15 mins of it due to focus drift then that task management app is not really helping much with the core problem right? I feel we need to deal with this problem without taking into task management into consideration.
Yeah, choosing an arbitrary time to start a task sounds like it might not help with getting distracted while doing it.
Is focus drift significant enough for you to be interested in writing down how focused you were and what other things you did recently and looking for correlations that can be tested as possible causes?
Here are some specific factors that could be interesting:
1. Consistent, sufficient sleep
2. Good food
3. Prioritizing harder tasks when you're more energetic, possibly the morning
4. Having a bunch of reminders about how you previously said that the task you're working on is important
5. Recording success or failure (and time spent) in a log where it will be remembered forever
6. A list of all the other things you want to get done after this task
That's interesting:
Do you have a rough estimate of how long it takes before your focus drifts? Is it closer to 1 minute or closer to 2 hours?
Also, when it does, do you know roughly what fraction of time it remains in the drifted state?
Also, when it does, do you notice it and have the opportunity to make a conscious decision about how to react?
I wonder if anyone can put a time one focus drift without deep research on themselves with all the brain gizmos while doing day-today tasks, I certainly can't!
I wonder how closely this relates to the need gap "Getting things done at individual level"*. It seems to me that both are indicating the individuals are feeling an urge to spend time on things that they later consider to have been a suboptimal use of time.
It could be interesting to try ActivityRecommender: https://github.com/mathjeff/ActivityRecommender/blob/master/README.md
ActivityRecommender reminds the user (via suggestions, feedback, graphs, analyses, and more) about the things that the user tends to say are valuable, essentially giving the user a stronger voice in deciding what to do next.
*I don't seem to be able to link to Needgap from within Needgap at the moment but I've reported this to the meta discussion
Allow linking to needgap comment url from this page
I attempted to enter a link to https colon slash slash needgap dot com slash comments slash 1099 in the comment below, in an attempt to provide partial reproduction instructions, but I received an error saying that there was an invalid url
Unfortunately I also can't enter the full url into this comment either for the same reason, so I've written out "colon" and "slash" and "dot".
Is this expected?
Thanks!
Yes this is an issue, I will enable comment linking just like how problems can be linked with [/problems/problem-number] and it should address this issue.
Consistent character-limit validation
I was making a rather long comment (
needgap.com slash comments slash 1099
, "Jeff , posted comment on Getting things done at individual level" ).
When I entered the comment, I saw a warning that looked like:
"Character limit reached: 1262"
So, I made some changes to the comment (removing some words) so that the message disappeared.
However, then when I tried to make this change (in this case I was editing an existing comment, and I pushed "Save"), I encountered a new page telling me that my comment was too long and needed to be < 1250 characters.
I eventually discovered that to submit this comment required removing more words (you can see the final, submitted version in the link above).
Is it possible for the "Character limit reached" warning to appear in all of the cases where the comment is too long?
Thanks!
That's interesting because it should be functioning just as you asked i.e. When the characters are greater than >1250, the warning appears and you have to reduce it to be below 1250 characters and when you submit the comment will not be accepted if it is > 1250 characters (For security reasons).
There could have some delay regarding the warning depending upon the typing/deletion speed which might caused the issue, I will see what I can do about this. As always, Appreciate the feedback.
Thanks so much! I'm glad to know that feedback is helpful; that makes it easier for me to keep doing it
You might like ActivityRecommender, which quantitatively measures and optimizes your happiness, motivation and efficiency:
1. Record what you've accomplished; reflect later
2. See what's correlated with future motivation
3. Check the graphs of time spent. Are you getting more motivated?
4. Run an efficiency experiment: agree to several tasks to do now. One is chosen randomly for you to do. In the future you'll do another one. The ratio of the time spent is an unbiased estimate of the ratio of your efficiency at these times. Compete against yourself!
5. Write down partial ideas to revisit later. Lazily sort them whenever you want, like a tournament. Turn them into ToDos when they're ready
6. See what's made you most happy/sad recently
7. Reminisce: see a randomly chosen, high-rated comment
8. Feedback! Whenever you do something, you see a positive/negative number, some (usually) encouraging words, and a button for more details
9. Receive suggestions for what's next: even request something Fun and at least as good as the game you're considering
Download: https://github.com/mathjeff/ActivityRecommender/blob/master/README.md
(Disclosure: I'm the developer, of course)
Feedback is super appreciated!
I like the function over form, Quite different from other apps here!
Hi! I want you to try MeTime2, an app that syncs with your iOS calendar to visualize the log of time you spent each day!
The interface is very beautiful and excellent.
https://apps.apple.com/app/metime2/id1557459880
I think that scheduling and logging are effective ways to consciously use your time in your daily life. However, it can be suffocating and tedious to do these things every day.
MeTime2 makes it easy for you to reflect on the balance of your time usage by simply entering your appointments/spent time in the calendar, and to have a sense of control over how you spend your time. You can do these things in a fun and sustainable way, not suffocating.
MeTime2 will help you live a richer life.
I hope you'll give it a try!
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing! Looks neat, I will give it a try.
Hey, thank you for sharing!
This sounds interesting and I could do this.
Are you interested in Search Shadowban or some other kind?
How much per month would you pay for such a service?
How fast the notification should be? Is daily email ok?
Do you know other people who would benefit from this?