u/boatnoteapp

How is everyone capturing notes when they're out and about on the move?

What works well for you and what's missing to make your life easier?

Being extremely passionate about what you're building means that motivation is rarely a problem, but good software is not only well designed and well built. It is also well tested, And one of the things that surfaces the most product opportunities is dog fooding. Using your own tools.

Do your dog food, how does it help you and have you worked on projects where dog fooding was either difficult, discouraged or not even considered?

In fact, any predictions about the future are difficult when the outcome is non-deterministic. I'm not talking about whether the sun will rise tomorrow or not.

12 months ago my boss at the time, someone who'd work for all of the big names.. FANGER... you name it, told me flat out that I was wrong about how AI coding tools would change not just development but a lot of the knowledge work roles, he also said that Google was dead because of the shift in SEO.. And that MCP was the new JSON.. zero for three or maybe the jury is still out on MCP.. perhaps it's another harness that the models will eventually eat.

It's risky to make predictions because often you will be wrong. When did you last take a risk and publicly state something would happen, and what actually did happen?

We're building a system where we want users to have really high levels of transparency and control over their spending on paid features, and this includes showing the cost of every request, ensuring the user accepts initially and on an ongoing basis to pay for features and comprehensive tracking of how much each of the features cost over time and on average. We even put a button at the top of all of the settings and a shortcut to it which disables all paid features. I'll credit lasts forever so there is no rush to spend them and they're also refundable.

If it's not clear, we're trying to differentiate on total cost control and transparency.

Do you think it makes more sense to implement a flat rate charge even if that has a variable effect on our profit margins? For example, $0.01 for every request or continue to charge the variable rate depending on the complexity of the query, aka token usage + a spread.

And do you think it makes more sense to the user to talk about real cost or to talk about credit consumption cost?

If they already understand that 100 requests costs $1. Is it more valuable for them to see $0.01 or 1 credit in terms of their tracking of their own spending.

How is everyone using Apple Notes to capture notes when they're out and about on the move?

What works well and what could be better?

I've always found exercise and being outside in a different environment, rather than sitting at my computer to be the place where I have most ideas, only topped by the shower!

Does the great outdoors inspire you to find solutions to the problems you face in the real world and if so, how do you record them while you're out and on the go?

What do you consider to be the best or safest way to allow an LLM to interpret user requests and setup or carry out activities for user in your apps? What safeguards do you place and which steps do you allow the LLM to run directly or do you always require the user to 'action' the outcome - essentially adding an extra step between their request and the event?

We see the CLI as 'hands' for the CLI to reach into the application features and user data and to create actionable links, analytics or guidance on the UI for users - but with safeguards to ensure destructive actions are gated behind consent steps

Note - in our application, all user data is stored locally, the LLM is mostly working out what type of query or insight to generate based known commands and descriptions of UI features, before building the output on the device.

Give a big hand for Boat Note

The subreddits that we're monitoring seem to be full of product launches, led by extensive feature lists - so it seems that most founders are betting on their feature list being better - or bigger - than other, similar product feature lists.

My question is - do you as a user buy into a product because of the features it has or the outcomes it can offer you - meaning the behavioural changes it could potentially bring?

How do you position your product?

How is everyone using Notion to capture notes when they're out and about on the move?

What works well and what could be better?

Most apps makes you pick a time when setting up a reminder - Boat Note assumes 8am tomorrow morning - want a different date or time - recurring dates? Use voice mode and Boat handles the rest.

Are we right, or is 8am tomorrow a bad bet?