Iven Prillwitz

Indie dev from Germany 🇩🇪 Building SideGlass: everything that matters, at the edge of your Mac. More productivity without losing context.

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The hardest design problem in my Mac app SideGlass wasn't code. It was hover.

Open on hover, and it pops up every time your mouse brushes the screen edge. Open on click, and it feels sluggish.

The answer was somewhere in between: I need both. Now you can hover and click icons. ✌️

What's a UX problem that looked trivial and absolutely wasn't?

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I code with music, but only without lyrics. Words in my ears fight with words in my head, and my head loses.

Film scores and lo-fi for deep work. Podcasts only for boring stuff like sorting invoices.

Music, podcasts or silence?

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@iuliatech Addictive and fun ✌️

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@manxlab Hi Chris ✌️ let’s connect

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@MKBHD Nice video. Love the animations. Best reviewer on YouTube for my opinion.

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I think it’s a good time to watch for Wordpress alternatives to get rid of PHP.

Tips?

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@ios_dev_alb But it’s kinda true 😂

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I paid attention for one day to how often I switch windows just to check something. Calendar, the current song, a task, a note.

The result was embarrassing.

Each switch takes two seconds. Getting back into the thought you were in takes ten minutes. Thats why i build SideGlass.

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@i_am_fabs Leider geil.

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@aiwithadb Hi 👋

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@oldstackjournal Hi Lars ✌️

I’m currently building SideGlass, a beautiful MacOS Sidebar. What are you building?

https://t.co/i3mCDQm9HK

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@technoSaas Claude aka Opus 5.5. I get so much done.

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@Dimillian People could do anything even before AI. The difference is still the same.

Some just do it, and others keep talking about how they could.

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@sarunw Oh that’s a really nice feature! Thanks for sharing!

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@twostraws Keep up your great work Paul! 👍 love your Content and Products!

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The bottleneck isn't the model anymore. It's me.

An agent writes 400 lines in two minutes. Reading them properly takes me twenty.

So I ask for smaller changes now: one thing, one commit, one thing to review. Slower on paper, faster in real life.

How do you keep reviews from becoming the bottleneck?

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@wolefile @ios_dev_alb Its crazy nowadays

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@MarinoFourK @rsgnl Ok. Oled will be the new default for the MacBook display in the years to come. There’s no need for a touchscreen in my opinion. Think about the touch bar.

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@skibididididdy @rsgnl Which other “premium” laptop have a touchscreen that makes sense?

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@ajayidavid11 @rsgnl Could you flip it into a tablet mode? If so it’s fine. But I don’t see apple do something like that.