Hello HN! RemoteHabits is a small site I launched here on HN a few months ago to figure out the best ways to work remotely.
I noticed when I started remote work, I struggled with a lot of basic things like habits, disciplines, routines, finding community, etc...
I wanted to learn from other people that had already done it, without prescriptive advice like "the 10 things you MUST do with remote work"—so landed on remote interviews.
We aim to release a new interview every Monday, and are always looking for interesting remote workers to interview. If you're interested head over to https://remotehabits.com/interview-me/
With RemoteHabits I'm aiming to build a resource for people to learn how to work remotely. I've struggled with this a bit as I went from full-time -> consulting -> my own projects.
Please let me know if you have any feedback or anything that can be improved!
The idea is to capture notes/thoughts/todos quickly and send them to any service (Trello/Basecamp/Asana/etc...). For people doing deep work (programmers, designers, writers) you want to stay in flow but also be able to capture any random thought that pops in your head.
This project is a bit harder than ones I've done in the past because I'm trying to take it cross-platform (macOS first) and keep it native UI everywhere.
For the past few years I've been storing almost everything in Markdown and organizing files into yearly folders—I call it my "memex".
It ends up being pretty simple, but I end up missing some information that gets silo'd off in services like Trello.
Hey HN! Here's a small side-project I've been working on to help remote workers. I noticed when I switched to full-time indie dev, I experienced some new problems, like building discipline, habits and healthy routines.
I don't like most productivity advice, as Paul Buchheit says most advice is limited life experience + over-generalized to fit your situation.
I thought a good way around this would to just tell stories about remote workers, how they got started, what they like, what they don't like, routines they've found that are helpful, etc...
So that's what the site aims to do—interview remote workers so you can learn from their experiences.
One cool thing about the site is you can deep dive specific questions, like
Didn't this come up with TiVo commercial skipping? The issue was with TiVo, the customer never even had a chance to see the ad, not that ads are mandatory to watch. Doesn't that apply here?
Yea, I agree excessive self-promotion can be bad for a platform.
In this case I included a link because I think it strengthens the argument. Product Hunt was built to help people like me—and it did. Here's the proof!
And I think my post confirms what you're saying—I was able to use Product Hunt as a tool to help reach my goal. I know this isn't always the case, which is why I wanted to give my experience.
What Ryan and Product Hunt did was incredible. So many people wanted to create an alternative to Hacker News and Reddit for product people. Everyone else failed but they figured it out. That's awesome.
Product Hunt personally helped me in my goal of becoming a independent app maker by showcasing my app https://www.producthunt.com/posts/focus. As of tomorrow I'm full-time indie (YES!) and I proudly display my Product Hunt badge on my app's page https://heyfocus.com/. I didn't have any connections there—I just made a product people liked.
And AngelList seems like a great fit. It looks like they're building a crowd-funding platform, and Product Hunt as a marketing/discovery engine makes perfect sense. In that context, Product Hunt is worth a bit of money.