Indeed. I'm not sure network effects is the main topic here, as you can use Linear perfectly fine when everyone else is using Jira, without missing out on anyrhing. Same applies to many B2B services.
Maybe I could see this argument being used for cross-company collaboration tools like Slack, Zoom, Miró. But even then it's weak.
As you say, cornering the market seems way more important.
No, actually, they don't. Go read some Lebanese newspapers - they are more critical of Hezbollah (and sometimes Iran) than are Israel.
Unless by "the other side" you mean Hezbollah and Iran. I'd love to hear your defense of them. Is Hezbollah protecting Lebanon by getting involved? Do you believe that they are they "on the road to AlQuds (Jerusalem)", as they say?
My gym uses TopLogger. It's not super bad, but it could use a nicer design. Are you making an app for indoor gyms or outdoor boulders? Or both? Sounds good with another alternative in the market.
That one looks nice. We'll see where this goes, it's starting as just scratching an itch so is likely to be really pared down compared to other apps. I'm also not a designer, so far the UI is all AI generated and it's very "bootstrappy".
My gym uses griptonite which is fine except there's an ad for their premium thing every time I open it and it's extremely slow. Also either due to the gym or griptonite not all the climbs get added, and not right away. It's frustrating hitting a new grade and then not being able to record it, as then I've got a log saying I have maxed out somewhere I haven't.
The main realisation I had was that griptonite tags are IDs, I don't actually need any griptonite data or to get the gym to sign up for anything to start tracking my own climbs. I can just scan the tags as they are. I'm also making it require a photo of the climb as I'm tired of trying to talk with my wife about which ones we were working on "the pink, next to the green that's orange? With the weird hold? Oh the round one?" and would like just a picture to point at.
I'm planning to do a few things like add live customisable leaderboards, which should be easy with instantdb, mostly for fun. Maybe I'll throw on a few affiliate things on top, otherwise I expect this should be lightweight enough it won't really cost me anything to run.
Also my background is AI stuff and I'd like to try things like using SAM to pull out the specific climb from a messy image, classify holds to say whether climbs look "crimpy" or "juggy", find similar climbs by image (recommend next ones to try) etc.
