oh snap you have the prodigy on here. haven't listen to them in a long time

> With all due respect, I'll stack up anything I've ever created against anything of yours at any time.

I love this response. for what its worth there is some thought here on this app.

yes with the whole goal to make the utensils better

yes. especially when you consider that point 2 requires some amount of investment (writing the api docs, ensuring no ip leaks, etc.)

Those APIs have already existed. So it is probable that they already had a documentation.

Sanitizing an existing documentation for public release might take notable time and effort if there are 100s of endpoints. But I would assume that is not the case with an API for a speaker.

dead. how in the world does a thought like that come into your mind. i feel like i got 0 in creativity

if the analytics lead to an actual game on steam im down

You could just package an arbitrary 100 levels, let the player play them in any order, then give rewards for 10, 20, 30, 40, etc. levels completed/mastered.

This would still benefit from a difficulty rating system or order

Or go full on kaizo Mario and make it a random room out of the 100

naw im looking to have fun, not cry

something in me loves progressively harder levels

damn, everyone is having such well thought out conversations, and I just scrolled to see the Pokémon that were selected.

I think I'm one of those people who worries that if i understand the math of it all, it'll lose some of the magic that made me keep my raticate for no other reason than because it was the first pokemon that accepted me without me dealing any damage to it.

I have very fond memories of playing the Pokemon games, but I always saw the battling aspect as a hurdle to unlocking more of the story/world, which was the true appeal to me. I was content turning my brain off and overleveling my mons. Different strokes, I guess.

ngl, i think the fact that this is even possible and can get people is really dope.

I wish there were public studies like, 'We ran an experiment where young, attractive women wearing Polish clothing caused people who would naturally express these ideologies to stop scrolling more often than young, attractive women not wearing Polish clothing, for x demographic"

Something can be simultaneously "dope" and also very obviously extremely destructive to society if one looks past the tip of their nose. Let's try not to get too excited by those things.

Not exactly the same, but I've seen some studies where people are shown things, art, music, people, cars, etc and asked to rate them.

Its very easy to influence their rating by showing them fake ratings from other people.

Additionally they can show who rated it a certain way and influence the test subjects ratings even more.

It is scientifically proven that people don’t change channels on TV if the ad has a dog in it. I don’t see why this can’t apply to people on screen as well.

i think what i'm getting at is fundamentally different...watching tv and scrolling through social media are distinct experiences.

When you scroll, the content is directly in front of you and you're actively controlling the flow (you decide whether to keep scrolling or stop).

With tv, the input is removed from you (you'd have to reach for the remote to change the channel) also channel flipping during ads isn't really a thing anymore.

So while the "dog in the ad" principle might work for tv where people are more passive and less likely to change the channel...i'm not sure it directly translates to phone scrolling, where you have more immediate control and are actively making micro-decisions about whether to keep scrolling or engage.

damn. super cool that posthog is acknowledging the pains of growing even at their scale.

This is one of those issues that only comes to mind when you’ve experienced a major outage. From what I’ve seen, indie developers and small SaaS teams rarely have the engineering resources to manage backup tools, so I doubt they’d be willing to pay for them. Typically, if backups are a priority, it’s because you’re dealing with SOC2 compliance, PII requirements, and strict SLAs.