This looks really great! I've suggested it to some people in my team.

Can I ask, how accessible is it? Is the knowledge base accessible to people using a screen reader for instance?

Thanks!

Currently no. But you can customize its colors as per your preference and has various layouts to choose from for helpcenter.

But built-in accessibility friendly themes are coming up for all sub-pages.

Please try, it has more features than what it actually seems.

I'll try I suppose. But if it's not accessible then I don't see how I can :)

I completely agree, the start stop thing never worked for me. I also didn't like the idea of those apps that track what applications you have open, seemed really creepy.

I built a tool to extract the calendar data (mentioned in abother comment, don't want to spam). I'd really appriciate any feedback you have :)

I've built https://billabl.co with this idea in mind. It's early days and I'm just hacking on it as a side project. I use the event title for the project name, or sometimes the client name (depending on how busy I am with that client, or how detailed my invoices need to be). Sometimes I'll create a separate calendar just for one client. So far it connects to Google calendars only.

Discourse[1] is the only one I'm aware of. It's open source and pretty easy to self-host.

I'd be interested in any alternatives that people rate highly. In particular I have a client who wants forums and live chat in the same solution.

[1] https://www.discourse.org/

This looks like a fantastic product, nice one!

I've been shopping around for logging solutions like this for years. I can't find anything that meets our requirements:

We're a small team of devs working on various projects for multiple clients.

We don't have enough person-power to host something like ELK or Greylog. Keeping client projects running is enough DevOps for us.

Each project has very low logging rates, but we'd want to retain logs for a decent amount of time so we could do month-on-month comparisons etc.

For many projects I wouldn't feel comfortable logging to a cloud provider, there's too much possible user data that could get logged.

I'd like it if our team could have a single place where all logs went. Without having to switch accounts per client.

As cheap as possible.

Axiom would be great if the Enterprise license didn't start at $600 per month. We could self-host and the team would only have one tool to learn (and a very pretty one at that).

Our current solution is that each project has a bespoke "log some JSON to some files" solution and we try to pull data out of that when we need to. Many project don't have any logging system properly in place and we just end up tailing the logs when we're reproducing bugs :) Plus we don't have nice graphs or dashboards, or any QOL stuff really.

That gitlab link was a good read, thanks!

One of the points was that migrations should always be reversible. I’ve struggled with this in the past when it comes to migrations that change or drop data. How do you write a downgrade script that recalls the previous data?

I’ve given up with downgrades now. I make sure to take a dB backup or snapshot before running an upgrade. I’ve never had to test this solution in a tense situation though...

One way is to keep a polymorphic (postgres unloggged) `backups` table with bson/json field to store any table's row. use this before and after migrations and backup and truncate this frequently.

Thanks!

I kinda suspected this would be the answer really. I'll have to be more proactive about communicating these things. I'm generally on top of other communications.

Setting myself a 4 week advance notice period seems like a good idea.

I've had this exact idea floating around in my head for a while now. Really excited that you've gone and built it :)

As with any social network, the hard part is getting lots of people to use it. There's no benefit to me if I have a card but none of my friends do. How are you going to tackle this problem?

I'd really like to use this kind of product at the company I work for. We have a fair amount of people churn, with contractors coming and going. It would be great if my address book could auto-update with their details. Do you have any plans for some kind of company tier, where you could add/connect cards to a company on behalf of the user?

Thank you! I truly believe in the idea: I've had it since 2014, and after a few stranded attempts with various co-founders (as a side project, no funding nor enough time) I decided to roll up my sleeves and learn to build everything myself.

> As with any social network, the hard part is getting lots of people to use it. There's no benefit to me if I have a card but none of my friends do. How are you going to tackle this problem?

The way I see it, a social media platform only offers value if you have people actively posting content. Cardbox is different in that it already offers benefit if you have just one connection; that's one contact you never have to manage again. And this is true for every connection you make.

Right now, it's not yet a full replacement of your old address book, but rather a utility to modernize it, bit by bit. As the user base grows and the app becomes available on all platforms, it can become that replacement.

If everyone manages to just convince their closest circles (and/or people that change phone numbers or addresses a lot e.g. due to travel) to use the app, at some point enough people will have it so that it can unlock its full potential in situations of meeting new people.

To promote this, there's the referral program that rewards free Pro. Hoping early adopters want to set up the app for family members etc.

> Do you have any plans for some kind of company tier, where you could add/connect cards to a company on behalf of the user?

Absolutely, lots of potential there; company cards and business cards are on the roadmap: https://cardbox.app/roadmap

> Also, where is the data kept? Is this GDPR safe? I'm in the UK and I'd like to keep this company/user data somewhere safe :)

It's stored on AWS in the Ireland region. Of course, Cardbox is GDPR compliant; privacy is a core focus :) See https://cardbox.app/privacy

Also, where is the data kept? Is this GDPR safe? I'm in the UK and I'd like to keep this company/user data somewhere safe :)

I found the context switch trigger too hard a problem to solve. The real problem for me was that I found any app that tried to watch me work just too creepy. So then any simple app required lots of manual effort.

I built myself a solution that means I can add events to a calendar that describe my day. Different calendars for different clients and different event titles for each project.

This worked well for me and now I’m trying to build it out and sell it. If you’re interested it’s here: billabl.co. I’ll warn you though, it’s early days and likely to break (although I’ve been using it for years).

Minor bug, but it looks like all your call-to-actions on the features page are too large. (FF on Pixel 1)

Ha! Cheers! I’ve not checked on my phone for a while, that’s definately not right.

It tickled me that Westminster University has a policy of not allowing people to speak who are intolerant of free speech. Presumably no representative of the university can ever speak. That must be hard for them.