I was a very happy Codekit user way back in my undergrad days when I hand coded html landing pages as a side hustle. Glad to see Bryan is still making useful, well-marketed apps
When you're screen sharing, you could receive company notifications that you don't want everyone.
Firstly, you don't necessarily coworkers to see some notifications. A manager might not want underlings to see their notifications, for instance, like that such and such is going to be laid off.
Secondly, who says the screencast is always for coworkers? You don't want a client or investor to see internal company notifications.
So, yes, there is a use case for suppressing notifications even if you have no personal logins.
Even fellow colleagues can send embarrassing notifications on work related accounts. "I can't believe they don't understand such a simple concept" is not something you want appearing in a message addressed to you from a co-worker.
I've seen my fair share of embarrassing messages show up from Microsoft Teams when someone else in my corporation is screen sharing.
Auto-completion of history is something I find annoying to start with. Firefox actually has the great option of removing history from auto-complete, leaving things like open tabs and bookmarks.
Auto-completing bookmarks and not history creates a nice little incentive to bookmark stuff you care about, too.
With my new SAAS intrig.ue, you can schedule intriguing notifications. Impress your coworkers. Your friends. Your parents. Your hot date. The asshole peeking over your shoulder at the coffee shop. intrig.ue.
Excellent. You should have different premade profiles like SexyMysteriousCool, LovingCharitableResponsible, FunPopularWanted, HasACutePuppy so users don't need to plan how to look interesting.
Mission accomplished. I thought based on the other comment that it was real. It reminded me of the first app I ever bought for my iPhone: Fake Calls. You could set a timer and then make your phone ring a few minutes later. Very useful when I had to go ask a quick question of a talkative colleague!
I clicked through to CodeKit and then looked at what was included and saw, "Neat". My heart skipped a beat that they included my simple unknown framework. Then I dug deeper and found "the other Neat". Uhg, it's impossible not to name collide these days. I tried searching for others at the time and didn't find any...
If you hold the option key whilst clicking the notifications icon on the far right of the menu, you enable Do Not Disturb. This generally does the same thing for meetings, screen sharing etc.
True story -- I got hired at a startup, and sometime within my first few days we went into a team meeting. The Chief Product Officer plugs his computer in to present, and Slack is up, showing his direct conversation with HR regarding my salary. Team lead saw that I had been brought on for more than him and quit. Many others threatened to quit, and they had to give a lot of raises. I guess it wasn't a notification but easily could have been.
I don't live a life that will put me in a position to be embarrassed by notifications (at least not like on the site), but there is nevertheless a real business need for privacy that is not related to what some might call immoral behavior. I think to expand the reach of this product you might need to take that angle. If Muzzle is meant only to handle embarrassing notifications, I believe it will become embarrassing to have it/be using it. Just my 2 cents.
I mean, being secretive about employee compensation in order to extract the most work for the least cost is exploitative and immoral. It's just something that everyone does, so somehow that makes it okay.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 84.0 ms ] threadI typically just go into DND mode, so I'm not sure what the point of this app is, but cute landing page.
Firstly, you don't necessarily coworkers to see some notifications. A manager might not want underlings to see their notifications, for instance, like that such and such is going to be laid off.
Secondly, who says the screencast is always for coworkers? You don't want a client or investor to see internal company notifications.
So, yes, there is a use case for suppressing notifications even if you have no personal logins.
I've seen my fair share of embarrassing messages show up from Microsoft Teams when someone else in my corporation is screen sharing.
Auto-completing bookmarks and not history creates a nice little incentive to bookmark stuff you care about, too.
If I had to screenshare regularly I’d definitely have a whole dedicated OS profile.
Maybe the solution is to use a different OS user or browser user dedicated for demo purposes.
[0] https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier
Anyways, NeatCSS is my minimalist CSS framework.
https://neat.joeldare.com
I have no affiliation whatsoever, just thought it was of interest to HN as a brilliant little piece of digital marketing.
I wish I was important enough for this to be a problem for me /s
I guess you should remove the Show Hn part from the title.
(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24750736
To clarify: if you just click, the pane slides in from the right. On my system there's a toggle DO NOT DISTURB (in all caps).
However if you option-click, you toggle directly and the notifications icon switches between being grayed out or not.
I don't live a life that will put me in a position to be embarrassed by notifications (at least not like on the site), but there is nevertheless a real business need for privacy that is not related to what some might call immoral behavior. I think to expand the reach of this product you might need to take that angle. If Muzzle is meant only to handle embarrassing notifications, I believe it will become embarrassing to have it/be using it. Just my 2 cents.
Source: I'm a user.