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Interesting, nice landing page. But I wonder if users care that it is "AI-native" As in, do users look for contract generation or eSignature that is infused with AI? Or rather are users interested in their own "job to be done" - whether that be creating a contract, agreement, or getting it signed efficiently.


Haha thanks!

I'm still trying to understand what users want. The origin of this site was a friend's issue - everytime he wanted to make a contract and send it to someone he would (1) generate w/ gpt (2) paste in google docs (3) export as pdf (4) drop into docusign and drag signature fields into blanks (5) sign + send.

After I talked to another person who recounted the same story, I thought there could be something here.

I did learn that people have their own existing contract templates they want to use instead of generating new ones each time (though sometimes that's nice), and that feature is in dev.

But all my data on what users want is from very low sample sizes :(


Can you help me understand why you need to use a bunch of python scripts to generate the PDF?

Couldn’t you just make it in Adobe InDesign? Cool item, btw. I used to play saxophone years back.


Oh, sure. I mean, the first reason is because I am a backend engineer and all I know is python! The second reason is that it made it easy for me to iterate - you have no idea how painstakingly I adjusted the line thickensss, spacing, margins, etc. So being able to just update a little config file was super useful. And, finally, for future product lines (different sizes, for example) using code made it easy for me to, essentially, provide the dimensions of the book and have the code make the "right" design choices to generate a new PDF.


I take a lot of screenshots for work doing competitive analysis with Chrome Extension Screenshot Minus, which are saved to Dropbox.

Now, what problem do I actually have that I have sought out a solution for but couldn't find? The abilty to automatically search these screenshots' content. eg. I know I took a screen of a certain site and want to find it quickly, without estimating when it was captured and previewing images around that date and hope to find it.

Accomplish this by either OCR on the images and index the content to make is searchable or save the HTML of the page with the image and index that.

I've looked into OneNote, Evernote and although they have some OCR it's meant for taking pictures of documents and doesn't kill my pain.

Put that in a Chrome extension and service I would gladly pay for that since it solves a real pain that costs me time and had too much friction.


Saving the HTML or the stripped content with the image wouldn't be much of a problem to make right? Why OCR when the screenshot is of a website?


I sometimes screenshot an entire w full page, sometimes just a portion with a manual crop with Screenshot Minus extemsion. I only want to index the part I capture and search the content within.


Ah that is indeed more complex... Can't you tie some services together that do that? If you are the only user it can't be expensive. If no-one already did that? Would actually be interesting to try. There are OCR cloud services ; just no clue how solid they are ; anyone tried here?


Saving the HTML would be really useful, the OCR bit would also come in handy for the aforementioned cropped content use case, but also for dynamically loaded content?


That's great insight and advice! Thank you :)!


Well my friend raised over $6,000 on IndieGoGo [1] to buy homes at the foreclosure auctions to give to the families who live in them. There's a potluck tomorrow with all the families and funders to celebrate the success.

I could see many more of this type of effort in Detroit being successful.

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-tricycle-collective


This is wonderful.

I would invest in something that took it a step further; turn it into self-sustaining non-profit or co-op that's focused on keeping people in their homes and able to repay the costs of repurchasing them.


Along these lines, what if the tabs could pop back up at a certain day/time or if you could just snooze tabs? I see people use tabs as a pseudo todo list. Reminding you to do, schedule, research, or buy something. What if you could continue to use tabs that way, yet not clog up your computer, use up memory, or distract you from getting stuff done with open tabs.


*> ... what if the tabs could pop back up at a certain day/time or if you could just snooze tabs?

There are several GTD-type web apps that support "desktop notifications" that might fit the bill.


One weird thing you can't do with Simple is deposit cash directly through any ATM. They do not allow that. The only way is to get a cashier's check or similar instrument OR deposit cash in an account that does accept cash then transfer the money (and wait several days for it to clear)


This is correct, and while I haven't and should never have the need to do that, I understand some people may require that functionality.

EDIT: It appears you can get a money order at Walmart for 70 cents, and $1.20-$1.60 at USPS. Cashier's check at a local bank would be ~$5-10, depending if you're a customer or not.


I just couldn't let that quote slip by without responding.


I've thought about this before, you also should be able to get a somewhat accurate estimate of the median age of a group of attendees to an event based on the first names alone. See Baby Name Wizard Voyager tool for visualizations of first name occurences since 1900s: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager


I would be impressed by that!


So this is aimed at more at "coding literacy" than being able to actually use code to accomplish something. Perhaps the answer is less focus on syntax and more on how the pieces fit together. eg. what is an API? Why would your app want one? Here are some real world examples of how it is used in a simple web app.


Agreed. Most business folks don't know the answer to that. And given the booming tech industry, many of them are switching in from non-tech roles. Suddenly they find themselves needing to ramp up fast.

Unfortunately, none of the online courses I've seen teach this.


One could also build a version of this with a Raspberry Pi, LCD screen an a little scripting for less than $60.


The selling point of this device is the novelty aspect. You can interact with a physical device simply by Liking a Facebook page. By keeping it digital, you do not traverse mediums and it will be adding very little to the smartphone age. You can fake the flip transitions, but it is just not the same.


Or drop a bit more cash on an android tablet displaying a web page using the FB API.


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