Geoffrey Wiseman

I get the novelty, and when the bots are good enough it’s not hard to imagine robots replacing chefs for niche restaurants with carefully selected menus ... but I feel like the latest round of robot restaurants are mostly just showing the tech isn’t quite strong enough yet.

Is this just useful during initial prototyping? Can you use it when you've already started building the app and you want to enhance it?

Up to six hours a day for $990/month? Gotta assume offshore developers, 'cause $9/hr would probably not even NA cover students once you throw in overhead? Even assuming many users don't consume the full six hours, it's still a pretty low price (which is great for the customer, as long as they feel they got the value for their money).

It's neat, but an iPad is a more general-purpose solution IMO. If I only wanted a reader/notebook and I didn't want all the other things I can do on an iPad, maybe.

Looks nice, although the subscription cost feels high to me (although obviously that's a matter of opinion). The lifetime option definitely helps, though.

Lemme know when there's more support for Canadian markets / equities, and I'll be more interested. ;) Looks nice, though.

I use timing in combination with toggl right now -- it hasn't become my primary time tracker, but it's still very useful to help when I fail to turn timers on (all the time). I'm a consultant, so time tracking is important to me. Timing 1 was already useful, but Timing 2 is vastly better in all the ways I care about. Definitely worth checking out. I recommend it. ;) As soon as I get back from...

Manifold looks interesting enough, but I clicked through to their Torus tool, and that I like. ;)

No RSS?

LOVE the pricing strategy. Many pricing models only work if you're going to use the hell out of the product, but Prospero's pricing model lets me experiment and pay-as-i-go, and then upgrade if I /do/ use the hell out of it. Sweet. Will definitely check it out.

Looking forward to seeing a stronger mobile story from AppCues. One of my clients might well look into it more closely then.

Pinterst? Tumbler? Proofread! ;)

Basically not currently ready to be hunted.

Phew. 125 € per platform per month will certainly cut out some uses (which doesn't mean it's the wrong price, just means there are apps I wouldn't use it for).

I hate "custom" pricing.

I dunno -- I mean, I guess it's better than nothing, but ... you can't control the photons once they leave the phone, so all you need is a tiny bit of privacy and a second camera and the image/video is no longer secure. It would have to be used in a very tightly-controlled way to maintain security.

RSS would be nice.

RSS?

Really feels like Swift Playgrounds for JavaScript. Nice.

Given the cost of the system up-front, plus presumably ongoing costs for the nutrients, most plants aren't going to be worth it unless you just like the idea of growing at home without all the work of gardening. Cannabis, of course, is a special case -- and possibly the only case that really justifies a system like this?