Ha, I thought this was a great line, I guess I always assumed you'd spend all your time building the products you were selling. But I can imagine there's a ton of customer support, unplanned features requests, talking with tax people and other business owners in the space etc etc

"Starting out, I thought bootstrapping meant freedom from the messy complications of building and maintaining relationships. Turns out, it's just the opposite."

Author here - Yeah, realizing I couldn't spend all of my time just building the product was a hard lesson to learn. This experience has forced me to learn a lot of new skills though, and I'm much more rounded as a person because of it.

This is a very cool idea, I'm curious what kind of data sources/APIs your using to calculate points?

Hey thanks! All data comes from the US Government Publishing Office https://www.govinfo.gov/features/api and https://api.data.gov/

I use it for git repo management on some of my home things. Have not used it for much outside of that.

Hopefully they get it fixed soon! But I wouldn't mind if Plus never came back..

Finally, tabbed Finder ftw!

Well, maybe not the only reason, but he was one of the worst.

... ok.

I'm kind of hoping Microsoft releases their own mobile app for this. Something where you could stream your desktop, or at least the tablet/metro version of it.

If you're a student do a search for tdcs in your libraries online catalog. There's tons of journal articles and studies about it! It's all pretty interesting stuff, just be prepared for lots of phd language..