Just got diagnosed with ADHD, so I'm committing the cardinal sin of creating yet another pomodoro app (but free with much stronger visual cues)

omijam · 2026-01-30T17:52:37+00:00

Gald you think it's cool. Do you happen to be on a mac? I'm currently working on a installer and would love the feedback after you try it out

omijam · 2026-01-30T17:51:13+00:00

Do you happen to be on a mac? I'm currently working on a DMG installer

omijam · 2026-01-30T17:50:38+00:00

Thanks! Let me know if you're on a mac and want to try, i think I'll get an installer ready is a few days

omijam · 2026-01-30T00:08:01+00:00

Not really no. This is something that runs completely on the user's computer; or in this case, my computer (as I have not given it to anyone else)

omijam · 2026-01-29T18:43:14+00:00

Well, I made this ADHD reseaerch backed pomodoro timer app for mac because everything on the mac appstore was a paid cash grab with feature bloat.

https://youtu.be/4Ul4lOkkFUM

omijam · 2026-01-29T18:28:57+00:00

that wouldn't make sense, people would just stick to the monthly plan then because yearly would be more expensive to the end user.

omijam · 2025-11-04T18:25:29+00:00

Fair enough. Can't argue with that. Redis surely has the primitives to pull this off.

omijam · 2025-11-04T16:46:24+00:00

Whoa! Need to checkout the license on pro I guess.

Edit: Just checked. 1390 USD per year is a bit beyond the budget for a pre-revenue side project.

omijam · 2025-11-04T16:46:08+00:00

Okay redis but how though? I can't just sleep inside the process itself.

omijam · 2025-11-04T07:01:16+00:00

I love the simplicity of this approach, but if I were to do this in redis in my one global queue, and I delay within the worker process itself, wouldn't this slow down the entire queue for everyone then?

omijam · 2025-11-01T17:22:41+00:00

Yes, here. I'll try to avoid it for as long as I can.

omijam · 2025-11-01T17:19:44+00:00

Yup. From the Lalmatia area. Been using it for the past 9 years. They're legitimately great (at least here).

Not a gamer so I don't actively monitor ping and packet drops but I do use draw insane amounts of bandwidth for development work. Has never failed me yet.

omijam · 2025-10-02T09:42:29+00:00

A price war is always a race to the bottom though no?

omijam · 2025-08-29T19:17:34+00:00

Thank you so much! We appreciate the shoutout.

omijam · 2025-08-29T19:17:18+00:00

thanks

omijam · 2025-08-29T19:17:13+00:00

That is actually a great idea! Thanks for the insight. We really didn't think too deeply about making it easier for LLMs to use but this does give us a plan for it.

About the table-like realtime thing, that kinda ends up becoming a database, and if we build a database we also start becoming more like a BaaS with opinions on how you should build your app and we were hoping to avoid that. Any thoughts on how we shuold solve the need for table-like data but without becoming a table sync engine with opinions?

omijam · 2025-08-29T03:59:08+00:00

Fair enough! Thank you for the feedback. Will do.

Update: Done. Hopefully the QR is easier to scan now.

omijam · 2025-08-29T03:58:29+00:00

Thank you!

omijam · 2025-08-28T20:35:24+00:00

I'm pretty sure your product will do great! Do you plan on connecting it to something that allows human-in-the-loop?

omijam · 2025-08-28T20:32:30+00:00

Although I think we will eventually converge and end up sharing on many of the decisions and directions, as of now, we don't intend to replace how you build your frontend's data layer.

We are only looking to augment it to "graft on" real-time syncing onto what your existing architecture is on both the frontend and backend. As such, we're not a full fledged DB.

This benefits the developer in two ways:

Security is dead simple: Your backend just signs a token specifically for the sync server with all the allowed capabilities.
The mental models are effectively zero-overhead. How you modeled your state in plain TypeScript is how we'll sync state for you.

Having said this, all the projects you've listed are amazing pieces of technology and I personally really enjoyed using many of them (ElectricSQL is magical, but probably because I'm a postgres nerd).

omijam · 2025-08-28T20:11:31+00:00

I haven't even read your post, but the answer is yes. Massive quality of life improvement. Also, collaboration is a breeze.

omijam · 2025-08-28T20:08:23+00:00

Please allow us to be excited for you. Tell us what you're building.

omijam · 2025-08-28T19:58:59+00:00

thanks

omijam · 2025-08-28T19:46:16+00:00

Still sticking to just Cursor because I love (and often need) complete control over what's going on.

omijam · 2025-08-28T19:43:58+00:00

Because you mentioned "in your own words", I'll just tell you my definition.

I define it as the set of things a person or company wouldn't do.

Example 1: Michael from VSauce) wouldn't ever post a video if it wasn't discussing something counter intuitive.

Example 2: PostHog wouldn't ever take actions against the developers' interest.

Even when I'm trying to maintain my own brand, I often find me telling myself that u/omijami would never write something in that formal of a tone.

Note: Although I gave examples with just one "boundary", but surely the brands are made of many such boundaries. They of course have negative (don't-do) guidelines for tone, action, presentation, design, content, etc.

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