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As a normal person I couldn't agree more, but look at it from a business or indiehacker point of view. If you use Twitter to share your work and connect with potential customers, it's a bit of a loss. It would be similar to creators or streamers if someone were to buy YouTube or Twitch and potentially ruin it.
What if we just don't acknowledge the new name and refer to everything by Twitter or Tweet?
Re:Show HN: Privacy-Focused, Open-Source Web Analytics on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:37AM (#35698273)
Backend is 100% Go with Clickhouse for analytics data and PostgreSQL for everything else and a Vue frontend :)
You can take a look at Pirsch Analytics [0], which I am a co-founder of. We take privacy very seriously, that is why the core of Pirsch is open-source [1].

[0] https://pirsch.io/

[1] https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch

Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:52PM (#26878083)
Dark grey is probably reserved for the iMac Pro.

Spoiler alert: It will be the fastest iMac ever.

Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:47PM (#26877963)
I got so used to the Apple logo on the chin bar that removing it makes it looks like a knockoff product.
They did get more annoying lately though. Nowadays you have to wrestle through a horrible click game of dark patterns to not accidentally accept anything. Things like putting a small "Accept all" in the top right corner where you expect a close button or hiding the settings with at 12px in light grey.
Hey Hackers!

We're a two-person team based in Germany and proud to announce the beta launch of our latest product!

Pirsch is a simple, privacy-friendly, open-source web analytics solution free of cookies. It can be integrated into your website using JavaScript or directly into your backend. We put a strong focus on developer friendliness by offering an easy-to-use API, SDKs for different programming languages, integrations for popular platforms, and good documentation.

The main benefit of our backend integration is that it can't be blocked by browsers while respecting your visitors' privacy at the same time.

Pirsch does not collect personal information. All visits are anonymized and aggregated into meaningful statistics once per day. This ensures that we don't save individual page visits longer than 24 hours while you get the data you need. For details, you can check out the open-source core of Pirsch on GitHub: https://github.com/pirsch-analyt...

The name is German and refers to a special kind of hunt: the hunter carefully and quietly enters the area to be hunted, he stalks against the wind to get as close as possible to the prey without being noticed.

During the beta, we will make improvements, fix bugs, and add more features. Here is a list of a few additions we had in mind:

* add more documentation

* email reports

* data export

* more SDKs

* goal, event, and campaign tracking (further down the road)

We expect to move out of beta at the end of February. Everything will be free until then, but you can find prices on our website. Let us know what you think!

Cheers,

Daniel

Re:Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown? on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:31PM (#23593571)
We completely rebuild the frontend of our app [1] to focus on keyboard input. It was just released and I am quite happy with it.

[1] https://emvi.com/blog/product-update-june-2020-0DdK57ngZ2

Re:Ask HN: Developer/Markdown friendly hosted wiki on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:29PM (#23418682)
Disclaimer: I am a co-founder.

I guess Emvi[1] checks all your boxes. We are currently working on a new user interface that focuses on keyboard input and it will be available this summer. You can read in our blog [2] how it all started. Markdown-like shortcuts [3] will come with it as well!

[1] https://emvi.com/

[2] https://emvi.com/blog/a-new-experimental-user-interface-QMZg...

[3] https://twitter.com/emvi/status/1264962445585637385

Re:Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:38AM (#23389947)
Nice to see that the "Zettelkasten" is getting more and more attention. We published an article about it on our blog a couple of months ago as well:

https://emvi.com/blog/luhmanns-zettelkasten-a-productivity-t...

Re:Show HN: An experimental, keyboard-first user interface on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:55PM (#22647862)
Good point. We are on QWERTZ aswell, so we are thinking about making it customizable at some point.
We are trying to present GUI users with good arguments for a switch. Our tests with people that are unfamiliar with CLIs showed they were up to speed after a short amount of time.
You are right, I created a ticket for this to be fixed in the next release!
Interesting thought, I would love to hear the leading UX designers of those companies discuss their ideas, desperately trying to settle on a solution they all like.
That's definitely something we have to look into. We currently see mobile usage primarily for searching and reading and less for creating content. But you are right, this needs special attention. We do not want to maintain two different approaches.
We have not found any reliable numbers on keyboard usage vs mouse input yet, but it would be quite valuable.

Compared to normal shortcuts the commands are easier to remember, because they mostly represent the verb for the action you want to accomplish. Instead of memorizing Ctrl + E or similar for a new article, you type /write or an alias like /new. This way you only have to know what actions are possible, without connecting them to an inconclusive key combination. Most commands will auto-complete after the first two letters, so you are not losing that much time either.

Our frontend is build on Vue.js and the shortcuts are handled by global JS events.

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