[HN Gopher] Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the ...
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Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar
Author : vicke4
Score : 85 points
Date : 2021-06-19 12:37 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (getradar.co)
(TXT) w3m dump (getradar.co)
| iillexial wrote:
| The site says that "Radar is entirely free for open-source
| maintainers.". Can you please elaborate on this? I understand it
| as if you're contributing to any open-source software, and can
| prove it, you will get won't be asked to pay?
| vicke4 wrote:
| Sure. Without open-source projects, I would not have been able
| to build Radar. So, I wanted to give something back for the
| incredible work open-source maintainers are doing out there.
| Hence, the statement.
|
| You will find it on the pricing page when Radar comes out of
| beta. The only thing I'm confused about is what kind of
| criteria I have to set before giving a free license to the
| person who wants to claim the offer? I'd appreciate it much if
| any of you guys can help set the criteria.
| seaucre wrote:
| Trying to install the cryptocurrency extension, but it's not
| working for me. Opening the XDG link from Chrome doesn't affect
| Radar. Running Ubuntu 18.04.
| vicke4 wrote:
| Thanks! I will check it out. Please get in touch using the
| support link in the landing page so that, I can let you know
| once I fix the issue.
| poniko wrote:
| Love it, especially the no account part.
| leshokunin wrote:
| Based on the photo this isn't in the menu bar. It's something I
| can see in a menu that I can get to from the menu bar.
| franky47 wrote:
| Neat idea! If the author is checking the comments, videos don't
| work on Firefox Android (they do on Chrome Android).
| vicke4 wrote:
| Thanks! I will check the issue.
| neom wrote:
| How much are you thinking in terms of price? I'd be willing to
| pay between $10 and $20 USD.
| vicke4 wrote:
| I haven't finalised the price. But, it'll be more than $20 for
| sure.
| xeromal wrote:
| More than 20 a month, annually? Fixed purchase.
| vicke4 wrote:
| I meant that for a fixed purchase. I'm still contemplating
| setting up subscription plans.
| xeromal wrote:
| Then over $20 is definitely ok. I was just surprised
| thinking it would be +$20 a month! Just downloaded.
| canada_dry wrote:
| > I'd be willing to pay between $10 and $20 USD
|
| I'd argue that seems grossly optimistic for most users.
| Considering that many useful tools are free and most people
| balk at paying $6.99 for an app.
|
| How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a max
| freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee that is
| more generous, but still constrained, and finally have a
| monthly fee that allows unlimited.
| vicke4 wrote:
| > How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a
| max freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee
| that is more generous, but still constrained, and finally
| have a monthly fee that allows unlimited.
|
| Yeah! That seems like a nice strategy. Do you think people
| will be ready to pay subscription for unlimited access?
| neom wrote:
| I would MUCH prefer a subscription personally.
| KMnO4 wrote:
| I think you would be the exception. In fact, you may the
| only person I've ever heard express this preference.
| canada_dry wrote:
| The problem with a one-time-fee for a cloud service is
| that it's unsustainable. That's why I suggest OP have
| constraints on accounts unless paying a subscription fee.
| If you really find a 3rd party cloud service (requiring
| servers/networking/bandwidth) valuable, you should assist
| in its survival. The fee should be nominal (unless real
| support is included) but non-zero.
| neom wrote:
| I agree, and that's why, although you maybe thought
| somewhat outrageous, if OP is going down the 1-time path,
| i'd rather pay a lot in hope that they can keep the cloud
| services running for years even if they decided to stop
| working on it. I like your formula approach.
| neom wrote:
| What canada_dry said below. Especially for what seems to
| be a solo developer, I'd rather this was costed so as
| even if they decided to stop working on it, the margin
| per month was such that I could continue to use it for
| years. I feel like for a solo developer doing a 1 time
| fee, more likely to disappear after a couple of years
| parsecs wrote:
| I second this. Most people I know, including myself,
| would much rather have one time purchase.
| sebringj wrote:
| This is a great idea but just so developers know, you can do some
| great stuff with google sheets, I made one with google sheets and
| the built-in request object via google sheet scripting to do REST
| requests for data and found that to be super useful. You can then
| tie it in to calculations and totals etc. using spreadsheet
| functionality...but this is nice for a quick summary with little
| effort.
| plasma wrote:
| Like the local data approach, but was surprised to read for at
| least the Google Analytics option your OAuth token is routed
| through Radar services (even if it's use is then local), which
| feels a bit of a bummer when the effort was otherwise there to be
| all local.
| vicke4 wrote:
| I can understand your concern. But, I need to comply with
| Google APIs Terms of Service.
| https://developers.google.com/terms#b_confidential_matters
|
| > You will keep your credentials confidential and make
| reasonable efforts to prevent and discourage other API Clients
| from using your credentials. Developer credentials may not be
| embedded in open source projects
| Hnrobert42 wrote:
| What is the minimum refresh interval for auto-refresh?
| vicke4 wrote:
| It's 1 minute.
| hliyan wrote:
| The part that appealed to me the most: unlike other apps where
| you have to select from a list of integrations, you can literally
| craft a HTTP request like in Postman to get data from any API:
| https://getradar.co/docs/adding-data
| vicke4 wrote:
| How about the scriptable output?
| https://getradar.co/docs/customizing-value ;)
| onion2k wrote:
| URL: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/onion2k.json
|
| Path: data.karma
|
| Now it's _useful_!
| vicke4 wrote:
| Will add the Hackernews 1-click installer to check karma
| points ;)
| vicke4 wrote:
| Added a 1-click installer to check HN karma points.
| [deleted]
| rognjen wrote:
| Unfortunately the things that I keep checking don't have an API.
| So I've been looking for something like this that scrapes - and
| that can detect if it's a login page and log me in.
|
| I realize that it's unlikely that I'll ever find it but I don't
| have the time to make it myself atm.
| ronyfadel wrote:
| Can you contact me (info in bio), I'm working on something that
| does what you just mentioned. It would be great to see your use
| cases so that I can integrate them.
| vicke4 wrote:
| Sure. Will do that.
| m3kw9 wrote:
| It's a nice utility but I feel it is another activity that will
| further sap our focus. As if social media hasn't done enough
| damage by utilizing "easy" to get our attention.
| vicke4 wrote:
| Yeah. But, I felt this is better than opening multiple browser
| tabs and losing focus. So, I built this.
| edoceo wrote:
| Me too! I did my fix with a new-tab-page. So I see all that
| glance-able stuff frequently
| vicke4 wrote:
| Would love to hear more about your fix.
| edoceo wrote:
| Ok. It's a new tab extension for FF or Chrome. Put all my
| favourite (read: work sites) on huge buttons at the top -
| so two clicks to CorpSlack (and like a dozen other sites.
| And below is these Social widgets, little JS tools
| showing me neat things from Reddit, Twitter, etc and then
| I put a textarea in there too, so I can quickly Ctrl+N
| and write a note (in local storage) extensions are super
| easy, and easy to extend too (for a cider)
| stevenicr wrote:
| reminds me of pageflakes/netvibes/my.yahoo days -when rss
| was prevalent and super useful.
| cyberbuff wrote:
| Bitbar also does a decent job on Macos
| ilogik wrote:
| birbar isn't developed any more. it's rebooted as xbar
|
| https://github.com/matryer/xbar
| girishso wrote:
| I've switched to SwiftBar currently.
| https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar
| Hnrobert42 wrote:
| Why did you switch? I use xbar to run a script every second
| for the existence of a file, and I noticed xbar using a lot
| of resources.
| girishso wrote:
| After moving the icon around to my fav place, xbar didn't
| retain the position on menu bar after restart.
| sails wrote:
| Bitbar/xbar is great because it isn't limited to just calling
| an API. You can run a .py or .sh and print the results,
| enabling more complex workflows and displays. I've build some
| pretty niche tools using it, mostly related to local weather
| agustif wrote:
| Raycast does it as a spotlight replacement.
|
| I contributed a minor update to the Gitlab scripts.
|
| Can recommend
| girishso wrote:
| Raycast does look interesting.
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