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  • newswangerd2 hours ago
    I would also love to hear what kinds of plugins the HN Community would like to see. At the moment I&#x27;m thinking about the following:<p>- Github: this would allow you to set goals based on reviewing PRs, closing tickets, reading GH notifications etc.<p>- Homelab&#x2F;Zapier&#x2F;IFTTT: this would allow some kind of funny things like turning off lights or locking locks if you don&#x27;t complete your goals. I don&#x27;t have any smarthome stuff, so this would be hard for me to personally build.<p>- Notion&#x2F;Obsidian&#x2F;Jira&#x2F;Trello<p>- Google&#x2F;Apple Calendar: this could help people focus on meetings instead of (for example) scrolling HN
    • eightysixfour1 hour ago
      I wonder if you could set it as a sensor for Home Assistant, then we could build our own smart home automations outside of the app instead of you needing to do anything.
      • newswangerd1 hour ago
        How do home assistant sensors work? I&#x27;ve thought about adding a webhook capability. Would it be something like that?
        • eightysixfour55 minutes ago
          There&#x27;s a push and a poll model for home assistant sensors: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.home-assistant.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;integration_fetching_data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.home-assistant.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;integration_fetchi...</a><p>Pretty easy to set-up a webhook trigger for automations in home assistant as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.home-assistant.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;automation&#x2F;trigger&#x2F;#webhook-trigger" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.home-assistant.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;automation&#x2F;trigger&#x2F;#webho...</a>
          • newswangerd39 minutes ago
            I was thinking about ways for the app to receive webhooks, but being able to send webhooks is an even better idea! I&#x27;m going to start writing down some thoughts for creating generic webhook triggers. That should also work for zapier (and possibly IFTTT) as well.
    • Johnny_Bonk2 hours ago
      Hahah love the idea of turning off lights etc lol
  • newswangerd3 hours ago
    I would LOVE to be able to open source this project at some point, but I also want to be able to make a living off of maintaining it. I&#x27;ve been reading up on some source available licenses such as Polyform, which can contain clauses that trigger the code to go open source at some point. If I get some traction, I&#x27;d really like to make a similar commitment where we will open source this in X months&#x2F;years. Does anyone have experience with this sort of thing? Is this a good idea?<p>I&#x27;m a former Red Hatter, so I&#x27;m all too familiar with the revenue hits a product can take when they go open source, but I have no ambition to turn this into a big business, so I think that should be acceptable (unless revenue dips to zero).
  • cadamsdotcom2 hours ago
    It’d be neat to have a proxy that can just block the feeds, or block content from anyone with more than 5000 followers.
    • newswangerd2 hours ago
      I&#x27;m working on something like this for Android. My goal is to build a system where plugins can selectively block parts of apps based on a set of rules. I can&#x27;t promise that this will end up making it into the final version because the Android documentation states that the accessibility APIs may only be used for accessibility tools, but it&#x27;s what all of the other app blockers on android do so fingers crossed they let me do it as well.<p>This would also be possible for desktop, since I&#x27;m using browser plugins to block websites on Desktop at the moment. I don&#x27;t think that this is possible on iOS, but there may be APIs that could enable something like it that I&#x27;m not aware of. As much as I like Apple&#x27;s commitment to privacy, the way that they&#x27;ve locked down a lot of their APIs has been a real thorn in my side for enabling some of these more advanced use cases.
  • mrbluecoat2 hours ago
    &gt; Create a 15 minute timed goal that you have to start as soon as you wake up.<p>Could this be automated to trigger on first device unlock after midnight?
    • newswangerd2 hours ago
      At the moment pretty much everything automatically resets at midnight, including any timers. It&#x27;s not an issue for me since I rarely stay up past midnight, but I did notice one problem where my step goal reset on New Years eve and I wasn&#x27;t able to watch my sleep videos on youtube because of it, so I&#x27;d like to find a way to make this more configurable.