Anyway, I found the most useful productivity method to be just plain to do lists and some kind of canvas (I mostly just use pen and paper now), so I decided to apply: Notion logic + simple to do lists + canvas.

You can try it out here: https://kanvas-app-zeta.vercel.app/

(Everything is stored locally in your browser, no servers)

How it works:

1 - you can create cards (draw or space or cmd+n)

2 - inside the cards you can put text and to dos (cmd+shift+k)

3 - you can create groups of cards

There are also tons of shortcuts, planning to add more.

Feedback always appreciated!

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We’ve built vykee.co as an onboarding tool. Idea = make SaaS interfaces easier to understand, by hiding advanced features for new users.

One of the main features is a tagging system that allows the SaaS company to tag elements, and group multiple elements into one feature. So basically we have an UI layer of the frontend (complete with unique identifiers and annotations for every element and feature).

I think this UI layer could be pretty useful to LLMs: If we put all that UI info in a simple llms.md file (like a robots.txt but for LLMs), they could understand the interface much better than having to parse the hmtl or rely on screenshots.

Now – this would only be helpful for browser-based agents.

We’ve had this discussion where some argue it would make much more sense to bet on MCP instead of browser-based agents, since it’s the standard and more widely adopted. The idea being to set up an MCP and connect it to the tagged frontend elements.

Do you think it still makes sense to bet on browser-based agents?

Thanks!

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[1] https://vykee.co

Hypothesis: Simple software is better for user activation.

The problem: As time goes on, any software becomes more cluttered with features, which make it less simple and therefore harder for new users to use. They try the software, they don't get it, they leave. -> The company loses out on money.

The solution: Most SaaS companies try to counteract this by using ……… PRODUCT TOURS. Product tours make the problem even worse, by further cluttering the software more and hence make it even harder to understand. Also, many users just skip them and get annoyed.

The REAL solution: Software should be simple in the beginning – only basic functionality. Advanced and non-essential features should be hidden for new users (with the option to show all features of course). Advanced features should be revealed when a user is "ready" to use them.

Am I missing something?

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You play in a group of 3 to 20 players.

1. After choosing a category, you pass the phone around in a circle. Every player on their own will silently read a word on the screen. The word will be the same for every player – except for the liar (who will read “You’re the liar” on the screen instead of the word). You can put the phone away after the last player has read the word.

2. Player after player will make a short statement describing the word (without saying the word itself). The liar’s job is to make their statement unsuspicious and fitting and not be identified as the liar.

3. When the last player has made their statement, the group collectively discusses who the liar could be. If everyone in the group agrees on the same suspect, go to step four. If there are multiple or no suspects, go to step two.

4. If the group suspected the wrong liar, the real liar gets 2 points.

If the group’s suspicion is correct, the liar has the chance to guess the word – if the guessed word is correct, the liar gets 2 points.

If the liar cannot guess the right word, everyone else gets 1 point.

-- It's completely free and I hope you like it! :)

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As for the analytics tool: Yes, ours is pretty basic and straightforward – super easy setup and gives you the most important information though.

Will I get this flow every time I change computers, delete cookies, etc? -> No, settings are saved per user in the database. So it is synched across all devices and you won't have that problem.

How much will it bloat the experience once I'm an expert? -> Depends on the SaaS but ideally once you're an expert you just see all available features (as you normally would).

But good point, we might change that.