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Building an intelligent typing application. https://typequicker.com

Anyone can learn to type +100wpm - just have to focus on your weak points and spend 5-10 minutes a day for a few months.


This is a great idea and can help with dry eye.

Many people who work in front of a computer have dry eye which can be literally be solved by blinking more.

Great idea


Thanks! Welcome to have your feedback.

This was a terrifying read because I initially read about this at the air port in Madrid after taking a Renfe train from Alicante; literally at the same time...just a different line

I don't understand all these dictation tool.

The default mac dictation tool that ships with Mac and every other device has been good for an over ~5yrs

What do these tools have that the apple dictation doesn't. (Aside from marketing)


To me this makes me question the effectiveness of therapist led CBT in general.

I tried therapy online and talking to human therapists might as well have been an LLM. Every response was so generic


Yes please. I'm curious


Came here to add this as well.

tmux is probably my favourite tool by far. I highly suggest going through its documentation (even easier with LLMs now) to learn the basics. It's extremely scriptable.

One of favourite uses of it is its 'popup' feature. Combining the tmux popup with fzf creates a crazy opportunity of whats possible.

Highly suggest learning these tools; literally just point an agent at my comment here and ask it what one could do with tmux popup and fzf combined


I hadn't heard of this feature, so I looked up a video of what it is. Turns out I'm using this every day!


You described my observation of many products today extremely well!

One interesting care study is Posthog (I felt like it was a labyrinth; using your analogy) - primarily build in an age of LLMs, with a large investment and a large team behind it - it reached this stage:

> one player in a space gets huge, keeps adding features, loses sight of what makes them a good market fit

My first experience using their product (they had a generous free year for new startups) felt like exactly what the author describes. A collection of features.

I think it's just really hard to "not build a feature" and keep a product focused. Whether you're solo or a large team


This is such a good article and absolutely nails what I've been feeling recently.

> The product changes are primarily additive, not improving the core problem.

> I think the reasons for this is that it's lot easier to add new capabilities, than rethink existing capabilities.

> So each product becomes a collection of abilities, without actually having unified point of view.

> I wonder whether some of this comes from how the work is organized. Individuals work with agents to produce changes independently, each operating a small software factory.

I recently left my job and have been working on building a product. And even though I'm solo, I notice it's still very easy to fall into this way of operating. (Even before AI)

Having a clear product vision and sticking in to it; whether its features, design, copywriting, etc is really hard to do consistently over the lifetime of building the product.

I've had to revisit my product direction and realized a year and half in that I've been approaching the problem with a heavy bias of what I think people want vs what I should have been doing and building what people want.

The latter is really hard to do well


> Seriously, if a single politician stepped forward and said "i'll bring down ram prices" they could then shoot a puppy and call me a slur and I'd still go out and doorknock for them.

I spit out my coffee laughing when I read this


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