nate parrott

hiya – i'm nate, and i made this app for myself. day after day, i found myself scrolling mindlessly through instagram, gaining nothing. i realized i was hopelessly addicted to feeds that were feeding me things i didn't need to see! at the same time, I was reading a book on the history of Sesame Street [1]. in the 60's, educators looked at television with fear — it was too addicting. Sesame...

it is what it is 👁👄👁

I created Flashlight, the Spotlight plugin platform this is based on. I've written a bunch of plugins for it, but I find myself using this plugin from Marc Bachman more than any of the others. It's incredibly 🆒 being able to insert emoji anywhere, just by bringing up Spotlight and searching.

This is awesome! I made something like this a while ago as a side project: http://42pag.es . This is the same basic concept, with a very different UI.

Nice! This is tangential to what Tab Snooze does, but I've always wanted an extension that just takes all my tabs, closes them, and sends them to Instapaper.

Hey all, One day I wanted to write a plugin to let me search for weather forecasts in Spotlight — but I discovered Spotlight didn't have an API. So I made one, by injecting code into the Spotlight process. It's not perfect (and certainly not as good as Alfred at this point) — but I think it's a big plus to be integrated into existing Spotlight results.

This is, of course, my shameless ripoff of Cosmos Browser (http://cosmosbrowser.org/) — it takes the idea of browsing over SMS even further by eliminating the app, making it much, much more accessible and much, much less enjoyable to use.

If you're a teacher — or you know any — check it out and please give feedback at team@instagradeapp.com or on Twitter. I'm not a teacher myself so I have no idea how this works in the real world. Early users seem to be using it pretty heavily, but it's impossible that I'd get it 100% right on the first release.

Hey all, I made this because I wanted a simpler, quicker way to authenticate users for simple web apps. I'm planning on adding many more popular oauth login services in the future (facebook, twitter, github, yo[1]). [1] http://yoauth.herokuapp.com/

The best part of this website is the footer... Glad BuzzFeed agrees they're "kind of legit."