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I did the exact same thing when I saw DreamBooth for the first time! I showed it to a bunch of friends and they convinced me to turn it into an iOS app. https://apps.apple.com/app/ai-avatar-for-dogs-floof-ai/id165...

People have been sending me the cute pics the AI generates of their pups. I think this is arguably the best thing so far in this latest wave of AI releases!


I regularly chat with folks running competitors to my business. It's a fairly niche space so there's not many people who understand what we're dealing with day to day.

I remove them from my user forums when I see them join, mostly because I like to post my product roadmap there. They could join pseudonymously, but time spent worrying about competitors is time better spent thinking about other stuff.

End of the day, a competitor can only beat you by building a better product or doing better marketing. Neither of those is possible by copying.


> You might be afraid of someone stealing your idea. Don’t be. Remember, ideas are an abundant commodity–it’s time that is scarce

I wish more people understood this! 2/3 of the time someone asks me to hear their idea they want me to sign an NDA first.

As though I have time to build a dating app that matches people based on their favorite color!

But seriously, I think people would be surprised how much two ideas can diverge based on execution and in most circumstances sharing your idea is very low risk.


linkdrop.co -- Pays for the occasional (happy hour) beer, but I have a huge backlog of user feedback and TODOs that I never have time for which is why I consider it half baked.


Hey I built https://www.linkdrop.co/ about 6 months ago to solve exactly that problem.

Linkdrop doesn't have any unread article lists. When you "save" an article, it queues it up to send it to you in an email the next day.

Since I've been using it I find that my actual bookmarks are things I want to save instead of just random articles. Makes things a lot cleaner :)

It's got a good number of users atm and things are running smoothly, it's also free. If you do use it, feel free to send me any feedback you have. I've been trying to find more time to hack on it and would love some more direction.


I posted about an extension I built to help me manage my bookmarks yesterday. It sends you an email of all the bookmarks you make for that day at the end of a day (similar to a news letter). You can find it at linkdrop.co

It sounds like you are more concerned with management than rediscovery, though, so it might not solve your usecase. In that case, I would definitely recommend getpocket.com for saving bookmarks across browsers/machines.


Hey thanks! I've never seen mailist before. I probably wouldn't have built this if I had haha.


Hey thanks so much for your comment! I'm glad you find this tool helpful. If you have a minute, I'd love to hear your thoughts on how I could improve it further. My email is in my profile. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!


Ugh thank you for catching that. Will fix in the next push.


Interesting, the default behavior is for it to carry over but I thought that was weird so I clear the inputs when you switch between the two. I can see how that is annoying since they look so similar.


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