isntThatSth
isntThatSth on Hacker News
It's essentially a find-a-name-for-your-coming-child app for expecting parents.
Please shoot me an email (the email address is in my bio) if you have an active Android developer account and are potentially interested in taking over the app; then I'll send you the info.
Not all new tech is good. As someone who experienced life before smartphones, I can unironically and without hyperbole say that life was better back then, and people were smarter and more informed. Now imagine this dumbification on steroids: That's what the AI revolution is.
Posted by
isntThatSth on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @11:55AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I’ve made a mobile app that taught me a lot about the process of app development, but hasn’t seen a lot of downloads. For various reasons I’m moving on, and after having closed my Apple Developer and removed the app from the App Store, I tried to remove the app from the Play Store and close my Android developer account, only to find that Google doesn’t let you remove your apps or close your...
> It makes no sense to bother individual translators with such a miniscule job
You're not bothering them if you're paying for the job. On your part, all you need to do is to set up a web-based interface that makes it easy and fast for them to log in and add the translations.
Machine-created translations are bad. They've become better over time, but they're still bad. If you've ever tried having your native language butchered in the way that machine-created translations butcher my native language on the daily, you'd understand why. I suspect a lot of the push for machine translations comes from monolingual developers in Silicon Valley.
It wasn't immediately obvious that the form on the page can be edited. Also, several links aren't working. While the idea might be good, some work needs to be put into telling users what this is, why they would need it, and how to use it. Good luck!
Six months of darkness is a bit hyperbolic, to say the least. The sunshine, temperature and daylight situation in Denmark is on the whole comparable to what you'd find in Germany, the UK, and Northern France.
Also, long winters? You're thinking about Canada. The daily mean temperature in Aarhus, Denmark in January (the coldest month) is 1.3 C (34.3 F). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus#Climate.
By comparison, Montreal, Canada has a daily mean temperature in January of -9.2 C (15.4 F).
The Proton ecosystem (email, calendar, drive, docs, password management, VPN, etc.) is great.
https://proton.me
I second the support for Proton. Proton, however, is not EU-based (not that it matters in this context). It's Swiss. Switzerland, like Norway and the UK, is not part of the EU.
Hope everything works out for you!
Posted by
isntThatSth on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @11:51AM
from the self-post dept.
It's been a few months since Lynx JS (https://lynxjs.org/) was open-sourced. It seems to offer a lot with regards to speed, but it doesn't use real HTML elements, and seems to cater to the React crowd.Has anyone used it for anything serious, and what are your thoughts? How does it compare to e.g. Flutter, Ionic + Capacitor, React Native etc.?
Based on the numbers I've seen and the comments I've read here, I'd go for in-app purchases instead. Good luck with your app!
Well, in this case the screenshots show you exactly what the app provides. Having said that, in the future I'll probably go for an in-app purchase model like you suggested, given how few people download paid apps.
I have to say I don't recognize that experience at all. There are plenty of good apps - both from large companies and solo developers.
Posted by
isntThatSth on Monday July 07, 2025 @02:55PM
from the hiblog.pages.dev dept.
It genuinely wasn't meant as an ad. What sucked about it was realizing that every prospect I had of making money through paid apps (as opposed to apps with in-app purchases) withered away once I realized just how few downloads paid apps get.
Posted by
isntThatSth on Friday July 04, 2025 @09:17AM
from the hiblog.pages.dev dept.