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Textus – WYSIWYG Markdown editor with built-in AI writing tools
Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac
What a time to be alive.
A) Without providing a viable option for mobile (or even via a web UI on mobile), my guess would be that a desktop-client-only solution (like this appears to be?) is going to be a non-starter for a significant number of your potential audience. To me, cross-platform doesn’t just mean cross-desktop-OS - If something says cross-platform my personal expectation is that means desktop/mobile/web.
B) If your top-level value proposition is a focus on privacy and security, people are naturally going to ask further questions about the details. For example: - What encryption is being used here, and how? - If data isn’t stored on external servers, how do “your notes sync effortlessly”? What mechanism makes it possible to “access your data from any device, anywhere”? - How do I get my data OUT of this thing, if I decide it isn’t right for me?
C) If you’re going to go down the “unlike other note-taking platforms” route, it might be valuable to explicitly help people make the comparison in terms of features/approaches/architecture/trade-offs etc. How should one compare this against [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md)? [Simplenote](https://simplenote.com)? [Logseq](https://logseq.com/)? [Zettlr](https://www.zettlr.com/)? [Standard Notes](https://standardnotes.com)? Notion/Google Keep/Evernote/Workflowy/Dynalist etc?
RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1 April 1996, Ross Callon)
Location: London, UK / Auckland, NZ / Sydney, AU
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
Full-stack dev/product designer who is very comfortable with code - HTML/CSS optimisation/perf, JavaScript/TypeScript, product/system/visual/service/UX/interaction design, Figma/Sketch/etc, design systems, React + other frameworks, Ruby/Rails, Node, Python, Go, Rust, Zsh, Git, GitHub (built big parts of it!), Perl, Docker/Heroku etc, Chef/Puppet/Ansible, SQL/Postgres, R, security/cryptography/penetration testing, ML/AI/NLP Stuff™, Analytics/Data Science™, People Management™/coaching.
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cobyismWebsite: https://cobyism.com
GitHub: https://github.com/cobyism
Email: cobyism [at] pm [dot] me
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Quick TL;DR:
• Building products for the web for ~20 years — remember frames? spacer gifs? CGI? ActiveX/Flash? I do ^_^
• Product design at GitHub - My claim to fame is that while on the core team as an IC (~2012–2016), I was the 13th highest overall contributor to the github/github codebase by commit count.
• Product design at Intercom - First hire for London office, led major redesign of Messenger, led design of first ML-based chatbot product.
• Coach for Seth Godin’s altMBA
• Various adventures since pandemic/onset of apocalypse.
Seeking full-time roles, ideally focused on ML/AI space (although open to other areas, e.g. climate change, OSS/open data, web3, etc). Excited to help shape/design/build the infrastructure which will soon be at the core of how AI (and other high leverage tech) shapes the world. Especially keen to speak with anyone focused on AI safety/interfaces/governance.
So you want a job at GitHub…
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GitHub Flow for Heroku with Pull Request Apps
The Burnout Equation
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