Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
by dingsbumps on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:58AM
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I'd love to make labels like this for the boxes in my storage unit (and then be able to look up the contents from home). Your site clearly explains the product, it's very compelling for me!
I couldn't find anywhere on the site though: can I export the data and self-host? If I were to invest time cataloging my data this way, I'd want to be sure I had a backup plan just in case the service went down one day
Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
by bradgessler on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:19AM
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There’s a CSV export for backups that you can find from the Dashboard.
Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
by lsferreira42 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:47PM
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Is it open source?
Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
by bradgessler on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:20AM
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It’s not open source.
I actually really love the illustrations!
Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
by bradgessler on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:08PM
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Thanks! Me too, and I say that because they’re my 4 year old daughter’s style of stick figures: egg bodies with arms and legs sticking out.
just fyi your thermal laser printers link on the about page is broken. I didn't have a hard time finding the page but still wanted to bring it to your attention.
Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
by bradgessler on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:45AM
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I'll take a look, thanks!
It’s a home inventory app!
I’ve been working on this and using it for almost two years now in tiny little scraps of time I have between my day job and raising 2 kids.
I’ve embraced the “half-baked” aspect of shipping a project like this by drawing silly stick figures for all the illustrations. It’s just been so much fun building and using it.
If you use it, don’t worry about me abandoning it. It’s improved my life so much that I’m going to be constantly improving it and keeping it around. Working in an iOS turbo app for it next, and I’d like to build lending and expirations into it too. It’s going to be awesome.
Share your feedback with me if you use it!