Looks great! Reminds me very much of AppGyver, which is a tool I've been using in few client projects. It uses react native under the hood, allowing for example creating logic using either the node-based logic builder or plain JavaScript. Interested to hear where do you see your advantage over AppGyver and similar tools?
One pain point of mine in visual app builders is the not being able to search the "code", for example when I've built a logic for fetching and mutating data in one view and now need to change it but can't remember where it is. Have you come across this problem and have you already solved it/have a plan for solving it?
Re: AppGyver, one big difference is the ability to generate clean code that can be exported. And there's also Flutter, which we think is the framework that will finally make low-code app builders work.
Being able to easily search and find where your network requests, custom function calls, conditional variables, etc are used is definitely something that has come up. We've started making progress by adding visual elements that help you identify them. For instance, you can see what element on the widget tree has a query (or action) on it based on an icon + color. We plan on adding toggles for overlays of different views, along with the ability to see where an API call is used (from the API configuration page), or where a specific collection is read (from the Firestore configuration page). It's definitely solvable, and we'll keep talking to users and iterating till we get there :)
The new remote is a welcome change. If it's backwards compatible I might end up buying just to replace the current one which is very inaccurate for navigating.
I made this app originally half a year ago because I use Netlify for a lot of sites and needed a quick way to check deployment information and form submissions. Finally two weeks ago I decided to see if anyone else would have any use for it and fixed a few bugs, bought a domain and setup testflight beta group, which ended up getting close to 200 users and a lot of feedback.
It's built with React Native. Works for on both iOS and Android, and is free to use through the open beta programs. Let me know what you think and what features you might possibly want to see.
Hey this is actually something I’ve been looking for! It’s simple and fast without the extra stuff you often find on sites proving the same stock search functionality. I also like the ability so explore by country. What are you using as the data source? Would it be possible to bring figures such as P/e to the site as well?
I'm trying to get people to sleep better by providing them relevant sleep coaching by combing their sleep tracker’s data with CBT-I derived sleep coaching program. Been working on this project for a year now, and it’s finally starting to take the shape I wanted it to have.
Been a really tough journey. I’m was the only coder and designer in the project for the longest time, and my development skills weren’t really that good when I started building this.
Nice start! Is there any fitness trackers you believe outperform in terms of sleep tracking? It's an interesting idea for an app. because I have personally found specialists are booked 3+ months in advance.
Oura seems to be the most accurate at the moment, but only by a small margin, and that is mostly because it's the only one that uses also temperature to measure sleep (in addition to heartbeat and movement).
Detecting when person is asleep has become quite good, but there's still a lot of work to do in also detecting sleep stages. I would not trust any wearables deep sleep readings too much.
Your explanation on how you plan to keep the data anonymised sounds good. I also love that you’re using existing cameras, I recently observed as a large it-consultancy piloted their multi-camera solution with a large Finnish grocery store chain and got rather poor results, mainly due to cost and amount work being too high when compared to the results.
This also instantly reminded me of the time I used to work in large thrift shop. Everyday the owner would count the daily visitors and compare it and the daily sales number to factors such as the amount of tables, changes in floor plans, amount of new items etc. He would have loved something like this.
Thanks for the kind words plahteenlahti - it would be great to hear about your experience with the groccery store, what kind of data were they experience poor results from, was this because the data was poor quality / inaccurate, or simply due to not getting return once acted on?
According to his tweet [1], there is a separate hiring track for front end engineers that does not include that much algorithmic knowledge. I was surprised too.
Facebook can afford (nay, NEEDS) to rise to that level of specialization. But that's only going to be true at the level of a megacorp, like Facebook, or Google, or Microsoft.
For even moderately sized companies, someone with wider knowledge will fare better, because such companies aren't going to spend $500k/yr on someone who doesn't know algorithms (or on someone who ONLY knows algorithms). The marginal cost to Facebook is near zero, the marginal cost to a smaller company certainly is not.
To be clear, once you get in, there is no actual distinction. People can choose any team, and "front end" people sometimes work on the backend or mobile or services or IDE or a compiler, etc. We try to hire generalists.
It’s an honest look at the life of a startup founder, but without all that self-congratulatory stuff and bragging you often find in these books. I would say it is a definite read for anyone thinking about joining the crazy world of startups.
One pain point of mine in visual app builders is the not being able to search the "code", for example when I've built a logic for fetching and mutating data in one view and now need to change it but can't remember where it is. Have you come across this problem and have you already solved it/have a plan for solving it?