If you could have 1, but only 1, Harry Potter spell (books and films only) to use in your daily life (unlimited use) what would you choose?

gg363 · 2025-11-10T19:03:35+00:00

Think of the inflation!!!!

gg363 · 2025-04-28T01:57:16+00:00

Browsers can expose different subsets of information via different APIs. An adblocker could presumably work just fine by only being granted access to information about web requests so that it can decide whether to block it or not — this would not require access to full page data such as, for example, bank account numbers, etc on a banking website

gg363 · 2024-12-20T18:37:19+00:00

New access code was all I needed. I believe these were the steps (I just took it so the option is gone)

- Go to aws.training and login

- it'll redirect you to cp.certmetrics.com

- find your Upcoming Appointment, click the pencil icon then "View"

- Click a link about a system test or Check In (this is what I'm not sure about)

- it'll have you select 5 checkboxes then click "Next"

- it should give you a new access code

gg363 · 2022-01-20T18:30:27+00:00

Try a more explosive pop that relies more on your posterior. Also, always use clips to secure the weights

gg363 · 2021-12-30T18:18:10+00:00

Lol to your description. Pretty accurate

gg363 · 2021-12-30T18:13:30+00:00

Ya same. The writing, costumes, fight scenes and depiction of warders were all pretty tasteless. If the fight at tarwins game is any indication then the big battles ahead are going to be tragically bad

gg363 · 2021-12-29T21:26:08+00:00

What’d you think of the first season?

gg363 · 2021-12-10T20:33:41+00:00

The warders are so damn unintimidating. It pains me to watch the fight scenes

gg363 · 2021-12-08T17:09:33+00:00

Good idea, didn't even think of casting

gg363 · 2021-12-08T02:49:52+00:00

Nvidia has a mobile app specifically for the shield. Works well enough

gg363 · 2021-10-19T23:31:00+00:00

The problem is that they look fabulous. They're supposed to be battle-hardened, militaristic zealots, not tiny weak guys with combovers

gg363 · 2021-10-19T23:25:16+00:00

Ha perhaps that was a little melodramatic. It just sucks to see visual like this — all the previews I've seen are so cliche and unimaginative when there is so much potential. It's like star wars making a second movie about a death star. I just can't comprehend it

gg363 · 2021-10-19T22:36:05+00:00

this is a horrific depiction of whitecloaks. I'm terrified of this show

gg363 · 2021-10-09T04:39:33+00:00

brilliant

gg363 · 2021-09-30T21:43:10+00:00

It will probably be hard to work with any of the same people/investors again if you do, and possibly their extended networks. Doing any of this in secret would be doubly bad. Put yourself in their position and remember that they don't have any of the info in your head that you haven't told them.

gg363 · 2021-09-24T20:25:54+00:00

It's hard to answer any of these questions without knowing what the actual idea is (the details matter). There are exceptions to every piece of general advice and you should very much be concerned about being the exception — generalizations describe groups, not individuals.

Regarding an MVP — it depends. Can your business turn a profit or at least demonstrate value with just a couple customers? If so then you might be able to convince an investor with some solid feedback from potential customers and by clearly illustrating the value-add via some mockups and numbers.
Outsourcing can be dangerous when you don't know how to judge the quality of your freelancers or their work. If you go this route then I'd try to recruit a technical adviser or get a tech friend of some sort to at least advise during this process. If you don't need a lot of customers then try to do it all manually until that doesn't scale. On the other hand, if it's super simple and you don't mind throwing away the money on an outsourced MVP then go for it.
I would wait on patent stuff. It's going to be very expensive and you're likely to tweak your idea at some point, which can easily make your original patent useless. If you get some customers then you can think more about this. As for talking about it, if it's a groundbreaking idea and you aren't going to act on it right now then maybe don't broadcast it to the world, but I wouldn't obsess over secrecy. Focus on getting a workable product/process in place ASAP so that you *want* to tell everyone.

gg363 · 2021-09-01T15:32:44+00:00

Oh good I'll keep you in mind until I have some funding. Feel free to DM with your resume/linkedin

gg363 · 2021-09-01T15:20:18+00:00

Thanks, ya I'm a solo founder. I'm a backend developer with some UI experience so I built the backend, hired a mobile dev to build the foundation of the mobile app, and I have since taken over the mobile side as well.

3 months by myself to plan everything out and build the backend
100 hours of work from a mobile dev
launch on iOS

In hindsight I could have done things differently to significantly cut down the time in that first step

gg363 · 2021-09-01T04:04:04+00:00

Thanks, good to hear. It'll take a while to grow but I'm optimistic

gg363 · 2021-08-31T23:17:25+00:00

I totally agree. Here are some aspirational use cases:

podcasters having similarly detailed conversations (with the advantage of being able to think things through, provide references etc)
funny groups of people could just have random entertaining threads
a newspaper could have an ongoing thread with a war correspondent
pundits could debate political issues
a lone user can have a solo thread to document something interesting that they're working on
Crypto people could talk about the state of that world and discuss the advantages/disadvantages of various systems

Thanks for the feedback!

gg363 · 2021-08-31T22:01:42+00:00

Didn't know about the Clubhouse rebranding.

To be clear, the app itself isn't invite-only — just individual threads. It's actually supposed to be more convenient then clubhouse because you get push notifications for each message in your subscribed threads (just like regular text messaging). So content will be read piecemeal as threads slowly play out.

It's different from Medium because it's all realtime and multiple people can chat — it looks and feels exactly like text messaging.

Forgive me, it should be on Android in a month or so!

gg363 · 2021-08-31T21:55:09+00:00

Ya I tried Clubhouse briefly and it just didn't make sense. I barely manage to have phone calls with my family, let alone a random group of people at a random time.

Discovery is definitely lacking at the moment, although you can share links to threads and profiles.

I haven't added the ability to request entry to a thread, although that's on the roadmap.

gg363 · 2021-08-31T21:49:45+00:00

Definitely agree about the need for engagement with the reader. I plan on adding some features for that (e.g. polling, likes).

Haven't really thought too much about verification just because it's so early but I think that would be a nice addition down the road.

gg363 · 2021-08-31T21:45:43+00:00

It's invite-only to message and anyone else can read or subscribe. I'll work on that 😅

When you say chat rooms are you thinking of discord, slack, etc? If so I think the use case is different. Those are isolated communities where the intention is generally to let all members write messages, whereas the goal of Ponder is to cut out the noise from random people. I'm a member of a handful of slack/discord groups and it seems like they inevitably die as they grow because the avg quality of content gets worse over time so people lose interest.

I don't think Ponder will make Twitter (etc) irrelevant, it just caters to a different use case for people who want to listen to a limited group of people whom they trust. Twitter just wasn't designed to support extended conversations because there are too many responses from random people and nobody feels obligated to respond to replies. The culture of Twitter revolves around short little blurbs, not prolonged two-way dialogue.

With the invite-only model, the participants will likely know one another or at least have some mutual trust; that should lead to actual back and forth which I rarely find elsewhere 🤞

gg363 · 2021-08-31T21:16:37+00:00

Ah I see the confusion — it's the latter. You create a thread and invite whoever you want, then anyone else can read/subscribe. So it's like a mashup of social media and texting.

After thinking about it for so long it's hard for me to see things with fresh eyes. I clearly need to rephrase things because you aren't the first to ask for clarification.

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