Hello everybody,
I am new to HN but I must say I really enjoy the vibe.
I have been coding for almost 15 years now and after having fired myself 2 times in a year (both from corporate and startup worlds), I decided to dedicate full time to what I love: building cool stuff for my own, with the dream of becoming a solopreneur.
Among my many passions (some dangerous), I love scuba diving. All the logbook apps I tried had these problems:
- Distant from the user experience and needs.
- Complicated yet useless features that no one uses. Literally no one, not even those who created them.
- Ugly.
- I mean very ugly.
So I spent the last months building my own from scratch.
Cool fact: the most famous platforms for divers on the web actually have pretty naive algorithms for computing consumption. Therefore I worked with my brother (PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Fluid dynamics) to devise a very accurate - probably the most precise among existing apps - model for computing true mixture consumption, which actually is a fundamental parameter to keep under control when diving. I think we will write a blog about it.
I do not know if there is any dude here on HN that is both a tech nerd and scuba diver, but hey, if you do exist, I would love some feedback.
Cheers!
Matteo
Also small piece of feedback. The affiliate model being so prominent and with only a lifetime price, I as a consumer don’t have a high level of confidence of this existing for a long time. Especially since it’s web based so you need to keep servers running.