thismodernlife

So htf do I delete a submission? I've emailed [email protected]. Clearly I'm just an idiot.

Yes, I edited the original post to have a new title which gave it a new URL but I can't edit this submission. I've tried to hide it but I have no idea what that means. I've emailed [email protected] to just delete the lot :(

what are you talking about?

Note: you can't actually delete a post on here so I clicked "Hide" which I'm presuming does the same thing. If a mod wants to actually delete them for good please go ahead – no big deal

I changed the title and the URL of the post because people on here said it wasn't a review. I couldn't edit the URL so I deleted the old submission and created a new one. Is that a problem? Jeez

Changed the title. Better?

Changed the title FWIW

Er, why would I write an ad for Kagi? Nothing in it for me! I’m writing up some thoughts having used it for a couple of months. It’s what I do on my blog ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

An ad for Kagi? Just thoughts after using it. Bad title perhaps?

Hi, creator here.

Stuck in lockdown, I wanted to hack on something fresh so I created a blogging app (yay originality!) for my personal sites which had languished, gathering dust as they often do. I really enjoyed building it (Ruby on Rails, if you wondered), I learned a lot. It turns out I also really like using the app, and I've actually blogged a lot more since I built it.

I hadn't planned to 'commercialise' it at all because I figured not many people in 2021 want to pay cash money for a basic (albeit intentionally!) blogging app, and B2C is generally a tough place to live.

Despite knowing better we got locked down again so I built a marketing page and I thought I might as well ask the Hacker News massive what they think of it before I inevitably turn it off. Is old-school blogging dead? Shall we try and resuscitate it? You tell me.

Go forth and roast me - I can take it! :-)

Ouch, that’s tough :(

Were you on your own domain? In that situation I guess you could have changed DNS and piped it to Gmail temporarily.

I honestly don’t load it that often - it just sits there in a open tab all day. Viewing, moving, composing messages (esp with keyboard shortcuts) is literally instant for me. I have never noticed it being anything other than fast. Same for their iOS app (which I think is largely a web view).

How many things are you moving for it to take that long?!

I accidentally marked everything in a folder as unread recently and that did take a while, but I did get a very helpful progress bar while it chugged away.

Oh wow thanks for replying. How many people in the company in total, if you’re able to say?

Thanks again for a fantastic product and service! I really think you should blog a bit more about the company and culture, that would probably be all the marketing you’d need :-)

Apologies for incorrect political parlance! Yes, I meant a change of government. You’re probably right but one can hope and dream ;-)

Pretty sure you do but that extra $2 buys you a lot more if you can stretch the budget - 30GB storage over 2GB and custom domains. Annual billing is cheaper I think and you can get 10% off first year with a referral link (DM me if you want)

Yeah if you want any sort of power features then Fastmail will win over HEY every time.

I’m pretty sure that can’t be all of them. The founder (or maybe CTO, can’t remember) often pops up on Hacker News.

It would be good if they would blog about more about the company itself actually. I don’t remember them publishing much about that.

The notes product could do with a bit of love I think.

A todo feature is an interesting idea.

Check out their GitHub

https://github.com/instacart

Yes the Australia thing is unfortunate for them but I imagine this may change over time with a new administration.

I’m not too bothered by it, it’s email and I’m more concerned about high quality product, availability, stability and them not selling my data or using it for ads.

If I wanted to send something truly private by email I’d just use GPG :-)

I don’t know much about Instacart as I live in Scotland but what they have done (Andrew Kane in particular) for the Ruby on Rails community through their open source is incredible. Kudos.

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc.

Really one of my favourite tech companies.

Not an employee just a happy customer!

If they release a new form factor I would imagine the current “starter” M1 MacBook Pro with touch bar will be retired so this won’t be a problem.

Perhaps they’ll make Touch Bar an optional extra.