Been working on a solution to my meeting fatigue. I sit in way too many of them where I'm only there "just in case someone has a question" and realized I needed a way to safely not care about my meetings.
The idea is: you join a meeting, hit start on the app, minimize, and go do actual work (or go make a coffee). When someone says your name or any keyword(s) you set, you get a native macOS notification with enough context to jump back in without looking lost. It uses whisper and is 100% local and doesnt leave traces, also very OE friendly.
pingmebud is the equivalent to having @-mentions but in voice calls. Imagine a standup meeting at work where someone says "what do you think about this, John?" and you were not paying attention and have no idea about what the context of the conversation is. My app solves that.
You context switch back and take 2 minutes (at best... much longer than if you were in the actual conversation paying attention) to answer. Now everyone else in the realtime conversation is waiting on your answer because you were expected to be in the conversation as well. That doesn't seem like good UX to me.
Really nice game OP. Would you consider making a version of the game with no timer?
I was thinking in sending this link to my family but probably the timer is really fast for them but I think they could used your app as "training" so they know how to spot a dark pattern in the future
Congrats on the launch! I find the name really nice and i think it has lot of potential for marketability.
Is the goal to have your website/blog only for friends or also for strangers? If its the second I think it would be nice to display "Random site of the day", "Most visited post of the month" and "Most visited page of the month".
This because i think there is people like me who dont write much but likes to read other peoples blogs and would be great for discovery
Thank you! I like the ideas and will think about it.
I'm working on a concept for webrings which can be used to discover new sites. They'll work like this:
A webring consists of multiple sites. The oldest one comes first and newer ones get inserted at the end. Visitors can browse their way through all sites by using previous and next buttons. If a site is in multiple rings at once, visitors can hop onto another ring and continue from there. I think it'll be a fun way to discover new sites that doesn't rely on some kind of performance measure like upvotes or views.
In addition to that, every webring will have a feed overview where the latest blog posts of all sites in the ring are listed. I'll have to think about moderation carefully, here.
It's really tempting to implement something like upvotes but I think without them it'll be a calmer experience. I also didn't implement analytics yet (IP addresses are not tracked).
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The idea is: you join a meeting, hit start on the app, minimize, and go do actual work (or go make a coffee). When someone says your name or any keyword(s) you set, you get a native macOS notification with enough context to jump back in without looking lost. It uses whisper and is 100% local and doesnt leave traces, also very OE friendly.
https://pingmebud.com
Would love to hear what you think, especially if you're drowning in meetings too.