krishadi

Curious what items under $100 have made your life better or any meaningful impact.

Revival of this [thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363396) from 6 years ago. Thought it would be fun to have new answers to this :)

I'm curious about how a software developer's time is distributed across different phases of a product's lifecycle, how much time is spent writing code, reading code, writing design docs during each of these phases.

And, for 'each of these phases' I mean during ideation, prototyping, and after gaining users shifting towards maintenance, refactoring, and scaling.

At what point does feature development slow down in favor of bug fixes, tech debt reduction, and performance improvements?

Also, how does time allocation change in different environments—startups vs. big companies, SaaS vs. consumer apps, open-source vs. enterprise software?

Any patterns you've noticed?

WhatsApp, Slack, and many of the messaging apps introduced a send a message to yourself feature a while back. Essentially to a place to put in rough notes.

Do you use this feature? For what and why?

Are there any blog hosting platform that connects to a github repo and publishes all the markdown files as blog pages?

This is already possible for technical docs which is supported by something like https://mintlify.com/ , I want something like this for blogging as well.