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product hunt starts at 12:01am pacific and i'm in europe: stay up or schedule it and sleep

Politely against the grain here: the audience on that site is mostly other makers. If you sell to physios, accountants, warehouse managers or anyone whose job is not building software, you are launching to people who will be enthusiastic and will never pay you.

Still worth doing once, for the link and the social proof and because it costs you a day. Just do not schedule your emotional wellbeing around it and do not clear a week for follow up that will not come.

58 · in/launch-day ·

someone shipped my exact feature 19 days after i posted the schema and the screenshots

New to posting publicly and this thread scared me, so I landed on a compromise that seems to be working: I post on a two week delay. Whatever I shipped a fortnight ago is what I write about this week. It's still honest, the screenshots are real, and by the time anyone reads it the feature is already live for my users.

The only cost is that the updates feel less exciting to write, which honestly made them better, because I'd stopped being high on the change.

27 · in/build-in-public ·

Pi 3B has been running my door camera since 2019 with no attention at all - what dies first on these?

In rough order of what actually fails on mine: SD card, then the power supply, then USB flash drives, then connectors that got wiggled, and the board itself basically never. I have three Pis past six years and every single failure has been storage or power. The board is not your risk, so do not replace it - buy a spare card, image it now while the system is healthy, and put it in a drawer taped to a note saying what it is.

190 · in/pi-projects ·

Toronto, mostly plowed roads: do I genuinely need winters or are good all-weathers enough?

All-weather tyres carry the three-peak mountain snowflake, so they are legally winter tyres where that matters and they are a real category rather than marketing - but they are a compromise, and the compromise shows up in deep snow and in very cold temperatures rather than in a cleared city street. For 8,000 km of downtown driving with two or three trips north, they are a defensible choice. For someone commuting on a 400-series highway daily, they are not.

281 · in/winter-driving ·

Is it normal to be wrecked by 2pm on the first three days of a trip

Running fitness transfers less than you would hope. Walking uphill under 14kg for eight hours uses your hips, calves and lower back in a way a 40 minute run does not touch. If you want to shortcut the adaptation, do some loaded walks at home: an hour with a full pack twice a week for a month makes the first days noticeably better.

152 · in/thru-hiking ·

someone shipped my public roadmap two weeks after i posted it - do i stop posting specifics

The uncomfortable answer is that they were probably already building it. Everyone in a category with a shared set of users converges on the same obvious next features because the same customers ask everyone for them. The roadmap you posted was likely on their board before you wrote it.

That does not mean posting is free. It means the specific harm here is smaller than it feels, and the feeling is mostly about being small next to someone bigger.

What genuinely does get taken is positioning and copy. I have had my landing page headline show up nearly word for word on a competitor's site. Features get reinvented independently. Sentences get stolen.

231 · in/build-in-public ·

Brought a forged carbon knife home from a market stall abroad, is it worth rehandling or should I have bought a known brand

The unpopular answer is that you can buy a known carbon steel knife from a maker with a real reputation for a fairly modest sum, and if you value your weekend at anything at all, that is cheaper than a rehandle plus the risk that the steel is rubbish. Souvenir knives are worth keeping because you were there, not because they are secretly bargains. Keep it, use it for soft work, and buy the good one for daily cooking.

131 · in/knives-and-cookware ·

Rings work and a barbell session on the same evening, which goes first, or is that two days?

Here's my version of doing it wrong. Heavy pull day plus ring work the same evening for about four months, roughly what you're describing. Got golfer's elbow - inside of the elbow, hurt to open jars, hurt worse on chin-ups: and it took eleven weeks of no pulling at all to settle.

The kicker is that nothing in a single session caused it. It was the same tendon getting hammered twice on Tuesday and twice on Thursday for months. If you combine, drop something. Don't just stack them and hope.

86 · in/calisthenics ·