Before I start, let me start: without a doubt, children should be children and enjoy their childhood.
However, many makers here already have families, and the role of founders also affects how their children perceive them (they probably see their parents as role models).
This question is for employees who have or would like to transition to working from home, but employers are free to respond with their thoughts as well.
Everyone tells founders to get a mentor, so I tried properly. I used one of the mentor-matching platforms, had one useful call and then the person stopped replying. That was not a one-off. A lot of people there never reply, and of the ones who do, some profiles look fake and others are mainly there to sell you their agency.
Reaching out directly was not much better. Two advisors cancelled the intro call once they heard we are bootstrapped rather than venture funded, because their real service costs tens of thousands, not hundreds. Another sells a course for $10K, advertises large growth, but in reality there is no guarantee.
I launched a product on Product Hunt for the first time today, and the experience has been very different from what I expected.
Before launching, I focused heavily on the product itself: making it useful, preparing the demo, screenshots, copy, and making sure everything was ready.
Some product categories are naturally fun to talk about (AI video, dev tools, design tools, consumer apps). People understand the product and get excited pretty quickly.
But then there are categories that are important, useful, and valuable, but historically kind of boring. Things like analytics, internal tools, compliance, finance, HR software, etc.
I look at my GitHub profile and sometimes wonder if I'm doing this wrong
Here's what I currently maintain, solo:
WP Bones a Laravel-like framework for WordPress plugins. PHP, Composer, Blade templates. 169 stars, v2.0.3, active since 2018.
20+ Mantine UI Extensions React components for Mantine: Parallax (Apple TV card effect), Split Pane, Window (draggable/resizable), Rings Progress (Apple Watch style), QR Code, Onboarding Tour, and more. TypeScript, published on npm.
FinderGit a native macOS app that turns Finder into a Git-aware file browser. SwiftUI, no Electron, with inline diffs, Git actions, and AI commit messages. Free, in public beta.
octoscope a terminal dashboard for GitHub. Go + BubbleTea, with 7 themes (including a CRT phosphor mode), single binary via Homebrew.
Four languages. Four ecosystems. Four very different user bases. One person.
The last 2 or 3 years, I have been trying to learn more foreign languages besides English. My go-to app is (not surprisingly) Duolingo.
I have also experience with Memrise, but it didn't feel like a good fit.
I find these apps to help learn vocabulary or for keeping up with a language I've previously learned in other ways (for example, from a language school or online lessons), but not necessarily for learning at a conversational level.
