Are some of these things not simply artifacts of switching to a paid model?
I think only integration with the payment provider.
The GitHub README would do just as good a job for the Onboarding screens and website for most people.
For tech people only, when the audience is not a tech people, it could be product managers, sales people who don't know anything about Github. We wanted to have very nice website and very smooth/clear experience of using the app.
I have no confidence that my Mac has the microphone muted at any time.
It does not :) Mic is always turned on.
Having a big red icon telling me I'm safe would be a big confidence boost,
That what we do, and actually having the same for webcam also could be a good idea.
Grew up in Russia, lived in the States, moved to Germany, sometimes live in Spain. I program since I was 13. I used to program games, maps and now I reverse engineer password managers and other stuff
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Webcam is easier. I have a sticker of a dinosaur on it my son gave me ;)
Do you have confidence in your workarounds though? I have a feeling it could not be trusted to be bulletproof from what you're describing. Maybe some other app turns it on without your app registering it.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I saw this the other day: project alias which is a physical solution for always-on devices but obviously that would be more difficult to make for a variety of different laptops.
Grew up in Russia, lived in the States, moved to Germany, sometimes live in Spain. I program since I was 13. I used to program games, maps and now I reverse engineer password managers and other stuff
Location
Berlin and Málaga
Education
MS in CS from State Polytechnic University of St. Petersburg
Webcam is easier. I have a sticker of a dinosaur on it my son gave me ;)
Do you have confidence in your workarounds though? I have a feeling it could not be trusted to be bulletproof from what you're describing. Maybe some other app turns it on without your app registering it.
I saw this the other day: project alias which is a physical solution for always-on devices but obviously that would be more difficult to make for a variety of different laptops.
Yeah, it would be difficult to work with a parasite on my laptop. Good idea though.