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tobinharris

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May 7, 2008 (18y ago)
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Geek, dad, author, noodler. Managing Director of Pocketworks, a bunch of UK app developers, design thinkers and co-founders.
  1. Show HN: Input your app idea and get a visual spec and business strategy

    https://appflows.ai I've been tweaking this side-project for the last week, it's getting a bit more useful I think. Features: - It's free - Generate app spec with AI based on your idea - Generate business strategy with…

    2 points 0
  2. Create visual app specifications, with words (appflows.ai)
    3 points 1
  3. WHO started a Flutter Covid-19 app 13 days before lockdown

    Mildly interesting... In 2020, The World Health Organisation started working on a COVID-19 app for Nigeria, built with Flutter. I've been actively interested in Flutter since 2017, but for some reason never saw this in…

    12 points 3
  4. Ask HN: How does your team get books?

    I run a small software company and would like to offer everyone access to whatever books they want. Ideally the team could share books, so we could just order physical books on Amazon as needed. Some will use this, some…

    2 points 0
  5. Ask HN: Distributed transactions from mobile app to web server

    This is bugging me... 1. A mobile app places a booking on the server over a HTTP POST 2. Server completes transaction, sends 200 response back to app. 3. Network blip. App didn't receive the response. Server thinks…

    4 points 7
  6. Ask HN: Developers, do unexpected ad-hoc requests piss you off? How to avoid?

    TL;DR When you're at work, how often do unexpected tasks crop up from management? And does this piss you off? And does anyone know how to avoid it? To explain... My company combines client work and internal product…

    3 points 8
  7. git2pdf: Get your GitHub issues on your wall (pocketworks.co.uk)

    A little command line tool I wrote last night so we can print our GitHub issues in a pretty way. We love using Github for requirements, tasks, stories and bugs, but we want to have these IN THE ROOM on a board,…

    1 points 0