Accidental Tech Podcast680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese
https://atp.fm/680
Our home screens, desktop audio setups, document-saving models, what we hope to “experience” next week, and where not to aim snow.
Will Henney@atpfm Shouldn’t the new @marcoarment app be called Overdue?
Marco Arment
Tim Peix@marcoarment @whenney @atpfm I just had the same thought when you talked about what the icon of your current reminder app project represents: call it “Overdue”. I get that you don’t want to annoy / poke the bear with Due, but it’s just the perfect name. Either just release it and see what happens (they’re surely not gonna sue you right away) our you reach out to them upfront and tell them what you’re planning to do and if they’re OK with it.
Christian Kent 𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥@timpeix @marcoarment @whenney @atpfm Literally came here to make this same suggestion while listening to the episode (and would love a co-credit but that’s not how that works LOL)
It works because:
- cobranding
- leans into the reality vs aspiration vibe
- easy to remember
- doesn’t clash with the Other One
Now I’m starting to think of the Marco Oversuite:
- Overwrite, your notes but with git-level transaction logging
- Overdone, a gamified time & calm manager
- Oversight, a goldilocks zone between magnifier apps and camera apps
- Overseer, a control panel for non-tech parents to manage content control on open-source (WRT?) routers
- Overcook, finally, a recipe app that lists instructions against a timeline, not a magical numbered list with variably sized tasks
- Overjoy, a cut-down social media & news feed that autoblocks anything that isn’t fun or wholesome or cute animals
- Over’t, a basic and friendly checklist scanner (and reassurance tool) that recommends safer privacy options like password managers (unless it’s a bad one), search engines, DNS servers, mail servers … this is like that XKCD comic where we think “okay we’re experts but everyone else knows at least X and Y” and no they don’t.
@whophd @timpeix @marcoarment @atpfm
- Oversubscribed: Tame your app subscriptions (for the low low price of $999/month)
- Overwhelmed: /dev/null for your Inbox
- Overton: Track the sickening rightward drift in public discourse
- Oversubscribed: Tame your app subscriptions (for the low low price of $999/month)
- Overwhelmed: /dev/null for your Inbox
- Overton: Track the sickening rightward drift in public discourse
@whenney @timpeix @marcoarment @atpfm okay definitely like these!
- Oversubscribed: if this can be low-friction automated somehow, yeah I think I’ve heard of existing apps like this
- Overwhelmed: Works like an answering machine, but also for DMs? Not just emails.
- Overton: gotta love this but what does it do? Maybe it can be a sister app to Overjoy, where you set your Overton Window for a news feed. Unlike Overjoy I dunno if it could be done with on-device LLM analysis. Would have to plug in to Ground News perhaps? The one thing I wish Ground News would do is create private social media feeds for their customers — I like their service but it doesn’t integrate into my existing feeds. I don’t want one more feed (refer to “we need a new standard!” “okay now we have 14 standards”)