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Re:Modern Android is pretty secure on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:36PM (#23715066)
Then it should not allow apps to ask for permissions they don't need. Just a thought..
Re:Show HN: A curated directory of tips and resources to help you lose... on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:28PM (#23714987)
Thanks for the suggestions! It's right everyone has a different view for losing weight, but I found that a lot of people don't get the basics.

Great idea for dynamic suggestions. Thanks!

Is Hacker News better than Product Hunt?

Posted by stefannn on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:44AM
from the self-post dept.

Hi guys,I wonder if HackerNews is lately better than ProductHunt for legit feedback. I've worked on WriteNext and currently, we're looking to gather as much feedback as possible and to get early adopters.When we submitted it to HackerNews, a month ago, it had amazing traction. In 24 hours, we got over 15000 unique visitors on the website and over 1300 signups. Moreover, there have been 262...

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Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:24AM (#23324729)
We don't consider it as a short-term feature, but it's in our plans to make integrations with Wordpress / Ghost in the upcoming months.
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:29AM (#23323853)
I agree, writing or exercising every single day can turn into more bad than good in the long run. I think 4 days per week is ideal.
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:14AM (#23322060)
I'm using Typora too when I have to write something in Markdown. Though it is limited to being a markdown editor and it's not a platform that would help me to focus on writing more and frequently.
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:13AM (#23322052)
I agree that writing daily doesn't necessarily makes you a better writer, but usually it helps a lot. Also, writing your thoughts as often as possible gives you more sense of clarity.
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:12AM (#23322043)
We're early yet, but we have in plan for the next weeks word analysis, writing clarity, readability and sentiment analysis.
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:11AM (#23322037)
Hello, Marco! If there is anything that you want to be improved or you're missing something, please just drop us a line!
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:10AM (#23322030)
Although there are many other free-distraction tools, we believe WriteNext differentiates from them. Our main focus is to help you write more often and better by creating a writing habit. It is not enough to have a distraction-free tool if you don't return to write there daily.
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:08AM (#23322010)
Thanks for the feedback. We've added those platforms that we believe are most popular for the majority of web users. In my opinion, the best solution would be something similar to what Solid (https://solid.mit.edu/) proposes. Unfortunately, they don't have much traction yet.
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:05AM (#23321992)
The encryption key is generated dynamically and it is not stored together with the encrypted content, thus in case of any leakage the words that were written are safe. The writing is decrypted and shown decrypted only to the writer itself and our team doesn't have access to see the words you've written.
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @05:44AM (#23321179)
There was a quick update that we put and the server was down for around 1 minute. I think you accessed just at that moment. Sorry for the inconvenience, please try now.
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @03:56AM (#23320549)
Absolutely, the text you write is encrypted using aes-256 before being stored on our servers. We're also considering allowing an option to encrypt once more with a custom password set by the writer - the problem with this custom encryption is that if you lose the password you're not able to get your words back.
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @03:51AM (#23320517)
That's what Tim Ferris said, right?
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @03:51AM (#23320515)
Thanks for pointing that out, it's updated now!
Re:Make Writing a Habit on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:44PM (#23317334)
Are you asking about book publishing or web blogging platforms (e.g. Wordpress / Medium / Ghost)?

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