Sindre Sorhus

First-mover advantage used to buy you years. Now it buys you a head start at best. U can spend months understanding a niche problem and building something thoughtful, and someone else can recreate a decent version in days just by copying what’s visible, and sell it for cheaper. So being first isnt the edge. The edge is taste, trust, distribution, and going deeper than whats obvious from a quick glance at the UI. Surface ideas get cloned. Depth is harder.

I’m not stopping. I’ll keep making apps the good way. I just think it’s soon going to become more of a passion thing than a real business opportunity in general. Which is fine. It’s always been passion for me anyway, not the money. It will feel more like restoring an old car than running a startup.

If you use the Node.js test runner (node:test), you may like the new ESLint plugin I cooked up. 64 rules to improve your tests, prevent mistakes, and enforce style. https://github.com/sindresorhus/eslint-node-test

New actions: Ask for Input with Dialog Combine Audio Files Counter Keychain Make Live Photo from Video Create Temporary Folder Generate Emojis Filter List of Dictionaries Sort List of Dictionaries Remove Dictionary Values Get Contents of URL Get Dates in Range Get Image URLs from Web Page Get Images from Web Page Get Meta Tags of URL Get Media Metadata Convert Text File Encoding Manage Shortcut Lock Overlay Image Scan Barcodes Find Points of Interest Calculate Bearing Parse/Make Markdown Table

Completely free Requires macOS 26, an Apple silicon Mac (no Intel), minimum 16 GB RAM, and 20 GB free disk space

@ctietze@mastodon.social Yup. One will need to adapt for that. At least until universal basic income arrives.

For example, the app icon was generated by the app. Unfortunately, I lost the prompt.

@talosman@mastodon.social Not a company. Just me. And these things were accurate when I first wrote them some years ago. For example, your help docs did say 100.000 limit (not per dot) when I first wrote this. I have updated the FAQ now. As for why such FAQ, users ask, so I had to write a FAQ about how it differs from Tot. Tot is great, I even recommend it in another FAQ. As for "Tot advantages", just tell me what to include there. It's just my quick observation from using it for a couple of days.

@nutilius@social.sdf.org I will add these in the next update.