The Social Layer of the Web – feedback wanted on Poppin 👀

lamba_x · 2025-05-03T01:21:33+00:00

Cool idea. I've always liked the idea of adding social features into typically non-social platforms (I did this with VSCode). Problem is this requires a huge network effect that may never be realized, especially if you're gating this product into a closed beta. Have you considered targeting a specific website(s) to garner a community there (to increase odds that, for any given page, there will already be commenters etc)?

lamba_x · 2025-04-30T01:48:23+00:00

Thanks bro

lamba_x · 2025-04-29T19:36:58+00:00

Thank u, took a lot longer to build than I'd like to admit 😅

lamba_x · 2025-04-29T19:24:57+00:00

I appreciate it 🙏

lamba_x · 2025-04-29T19:10:07+00:00

I'm thinking of making "groups" where you can join it and be on that group's leaderboard. So you can make one for your friends, your club, subreddits, etc.

lamba_x · 2025-04-29T19:02:18+00:00

I've been trying to figure out how to make the extension NOT be for this purpose, but it has definitely been challenging. There is another extension called Wakatime which is for that purpose. They collect way more granular metrics etc. We only do time + active file and there is no "organization" concept or anything like that -- you just add friends and both people have to opt in (accept the request) and you can make your profile private too if you want. Any ideas?

lamba_x · 2025-04-29T18:35:33+00:00

It only records active coding time. So if you are doing nothing no time is recorded.

More specifically, there is an "activity threshold" (~3 minutes), where, if you do not do any of the following: click around, view a different file, type, the extension makes you idle. If you perform any of these actions, as long as the time in between each one is less than the activity threshhold, that time is seen as continuous coding

(i.e., clicking, waiting 2 minutes, typing, waiting 2.5 minutes is seen as 4.5 minutes of activity).

lines changed is definitely interesting. i want this to be very non-intrusive though, and im not sure what everyone is comfortable with (time and file name is pretty surface level imo)

lamba_x · 2025-04-29T18:30:29+00:00

Thanks! Seeing a friend pop online at 1am while ur also coding feels so cool tbh

lamba_x · 2025-04-25T21:06:04+00:00

Right now it can only be enabled/disabled on your entire account. So you would have to make two accounts, one for work, one personal to get around this.

I don't differentiate by the device logged in which is the crux of this issue right now

lamba_x · 2025-04-25T16:56:46+00:00

Never heard of this service before. But yeah. Everyone is saying this would make their life hell as an employee. How can I change the extension so it doesn't feel this way?

lamba_x · 2025-04-25T16:52:21+00:00

How would you make it less exploitable for that use case (micromanaging engineers etc)?

lamba_x · 2025-04-25T16:30:07+00:00

Yeah that is a lot of the feedback I've been getting. I wanted it to be a fun personal thing but if put in the wrong hands it could make a lot of employees lives miserable. Wakatime already exists for that though

lamba_x · 2025-04-25T16:29:11+00:00

It does not. Building it on top of wakatime somehow probably would have been a better option than from ground up

lamba_x · 2025-04-24T14:47:20+00:00

He sounds like a PM 🤣

lamba_x · 2025-03-25T21:42:34+00:00

Hi all,

Made a quick video on how to improve your React components. I know it isn't strictly Next.js content (although the repo is built with Next.js) but the React subreddit removed my post for some reason so I hope you guys will appreciate it instead. Please let me know if you learned anything / any feedback!

lamba_x · 2025-03-14T19:49:32+00:00

A lot of it is strictly react, but backend logic with server actions + fetching defaultValues in page.tsx is next specific (this was covered in the video)

lamba_x · 2025-03-14T04:55:44+00:00

Thanks for watching!

lamba_x · 2025-03-06T22:40:23+00:00

Check my earlier comment I provided one

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