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Show HN: I made an app that tracks your devices' batteries from your Mac

111 点作者 ronyfadel超过 3 年前

23 条评论

kroltan超过 3 年前
Congrats on the release! As a part-time nit-picker, I found some issues on your landing page:<p>The &quot;hero image&quot; overlaps the subsequent heading. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;PiCekWg.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;PiCekWg.png</a><p>Your links (the &quot;Batteries for Mac&quot; heading, &quot;Buy Now&quot; button and &quot;Download&quot; button) do not work in a non-JavaScript-enabled browser.<p>The foldout FAQs are permanently hidden on a non-JavaScript-enabled browser. Suggestion: Have them visible by default and use JS to hide them.<p>You have a &quot;they&#x27;re talking about us&quot; section, but no links. I&#x27;ll have to take your word for it.<p>In the FAQ, the screenshots have some intense JPG compression artifacts. Consider reacquiring using a lossless format such as PNG.<p>In the FAQ, the screenshots are absolutely huge. Consider setting a width&#x2F;height based on the density-factor of your screen. Web layout pixels are not physical pixels, so if your Mac is 2x density, these screenshots should be set to half their actual size.
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egypturnash超过 3 年前
What does this do that iStat Menus&#x27; battery menu doesn&#x27;t do? (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bjango.com&#x2F;mac&#x2F;istatmenus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bjango.com&#x2F;mac&#x2F;istatmenus&#x2F;</a>)<p>iStat Menus costs $1 more than this, and gives you &quot;detailed info on your battery’s current state and a highly configurable menu item that can change if you’re draining, charging, or completely charged. Plus, battery levels for AirPods, Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and other devices.&quot; (copied from their page), as well as giving you menus for several other things you might want to monitor (fans&#x2F;temperature, date&#x2F;time&#x2F;calendar, CPU&#x2F;memory&#x2F;disc usage, and the weather).<p>The only unique thing I can see that this does is put stuff in the touchbar.<p>----<p>Also, searching for &quot;cult of mac batteries&quot; brought me to an article for a notification center widget that shows this same stuff for all of <i>three</i> bucks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cultofmac.com&#x2F;659946&#x2F;batteries-widget-for-mac-app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cultofmac.com&#x2F;659946&#x2F;batteries-widget-for-mac-ap...</a><p>...actually that seems to be the same app as this? It&#x27;s got the line about &quot;missing little things that make iOS special&quot;?
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jreese超过 3 年前
This was a no-brainer purchase, if only for the low battery notifications alone! I can&#x27;t tell you how many times I&#x27;ve gone to pick up my iPad or work phone, only to find the battery at &lt;10%, or completely drained. I very much look forward to seeing a gentle reminder to plug them in before they are gone.<p>Is there any way this can also include the battery level of my Apple Watch? I&#x27;m a sleep tracking user, so I have to find some time during the day to charge it, and I frequently find myself missing the taps when it gets to low battery.<p>Thank you for your work on this!
metahost超过 3 年前
Isn’t this the default behaviour on clicking the Bluetooth icon when a device is connected to a Mac?<p>I am on macOS Monterey (12.0.1) and this is what I see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;SAKj3Cs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;SAKj3Cs</a>
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jensenbox超过 3 年前
I think your messaging should say &quot;Apple Devices&quot; as clearly it does not track Android.
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Brajeshwar超过 3 年前
First, congratulations on the App release; and I think I saw this highlighted on SetApp few days&#x2F;weeks back. Sorry, I didn&#x27;t install this time around. I do love to try indie-developed apps and have quite a few in my toolset.<p>Personally, I have been moving more and more towards &quot;defaults&quot;, tools as means and get to my end (the work) as much as I can. Spend some time learning the features, nuances of the default apps and they become part of your muscle memory. For instance, swiping left-right on the iPhone screen shows the battery of the phone and the watch. Doing the same on the iPad, shows its and the Pencil. I like clean, non-distracting desktop and try to minimize anything beyond the must-haves.<p>I stopped using any percentage&#x2F;number indicator for batteries since 2013 (or so)[1] to stop the anxiety of charging&#x2F;topping up. If something dies, good time for a break, slow-down, or read a physical book or just play around with the kids.<p>A rather personal thought and opinion, which might help others be actually productive in short burst and to be busy at all times with notifications sneaking round the corner.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brajeshwar.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;missing-step-productivity-activities-stop-notifications&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brajeshwar.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;missing-step-productivity-activi...</a>
captaincrowbar超过 3 年前
I like the idea, and I&#x27;d be happy to pay for it if it worked properly, but I can&#x27;t get it to see my iPad. I followed the procedure at the bottom of your page but it still doesn&#x27;t work. My iPhone shows up (didn&#x27;t need to do anything for that) but I can&#x27;t get the iPad to work.<p>A couple of other issues:<p>- The linking procedure is poorly explained. It took me a while to figure out what you wanted me to do. (Maybe I still got it wrong.) Showing devices in Finder is a feature most people have probably never heard about - who has any reason to physically plug a device into a Mac these days? I had never seen that screen before.<p>- I suspect you only tested this on laptops, because it tries to show the battery status of my desktop iMac and reports &quot;Battery 0% Power Source: Unknown&quot; :)
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CPLX超过 3 年前
This is genius. Really good idea.<p>It makes me sad on your behalf to wonder just how long it will take for Apple to see this and put it into their next OS release. For your sake hopefully not right away.
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myvoiceismypass超过 3 年前
I bought it before I tried; I have &quot;Show this iPhone when on WiFi&quot; checked in Finder &#x2F; Locations &#x2F; myiphone, but alas - my iphone does not show up in the menu. My Apple Watch showed up in the menu for a few minutes (with no battery level) and then disappeared. I guess I&#x27;ll try restarting each device to see if that helps.
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hpen超过 3 年前
This is cool I was ready to try it! Then I saw it wasn&#x27;t free :( I pay for lots of apps but this doesn&#x27;t seem worth it to me.
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steve_adams_86超过 3 年前
Nice. Dead simple, costs less than two lattes, might save me from forgetting to throw my phone&#x2F;AirPods on the charger while working (a regular occurrence...), I&#x27;ve got a watch on the way, I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;ll help a lot with reminding me to charge it too. I got a copy!<p>I suppose it can&#x27;t connect with AirPods while they&#x27;re hanging out in the case?
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rhtgrg超过 3 年前
How much time did you spend on the touchbar integration? I was at an Apple store recently and saw that the newest Macbooks have gotten rid of the touchbar. I&#x27;m wondering whether making such integrations is still worthwhile.
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terr-dav超过 3 年前
I would love an iOS app that notifies me when my AirPods reach a configurable battery level.<p>This would be help me do two things: - Manage battery wear - Avoid losing audio when I&#x27;m using just one AirPod at a time<p>Does anyone know if this is possible?
trungdq88超过 3 年前
This is awesome! Gonna pick it up as soon as I&#x27;m on my laptop :)
yosito超过 3 年前
Related question: is there an app that would allow me to see my Android phone&#x27;s signal strength from other devices that are tethered to it? (Android, iPhone, Linux and&#x2F;or Mac)
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spike021超过 3 年前
Will you add the Apple Watch too? Something I struggle with is timing when to charge it in the evening. I&#x27;ve used the Bedtime function and it works alright but not well enough.
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josh_carterPDX超过 3 年前
Love this! Congrats on the launch. Can&#x27;t wait to try it out.
ixnus超过 3 年前
Loving the layout of your site as a whole. props on the launch
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diebeforei485超过 3 年前
Interesing. I know this is something that is supported by Find My, but they don&#x27;t make it easy to see the battery levels at a glance.
quyleanh超过 3 年前
I don&#x27;t even turn on showing percentage in my phone, watch, headsets. Am I the only one don&#x27;t care about battery percentage?
atonse超过 3 年前
I would love for my iOS to also show the battery status of my car and highlight it similarly if low.<p>Maybe you can add that too?
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bananabernhard超过 3 年前
Seems useful, I&#x27;m kinda sad that I can&#x27;t use it, because I&#x27;m one of these psychopaths who like macOS, but dread iOS. And kudos for not making it a subscription model.
dmd超过 3 年前
Congrats on the launch. This is really interesting to me, not because I need it, but because I don&#x27;t, and it would never have occurred to me that anyone else might. Personally I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever, in my entire technology-using life, had a device run out of battery or even drop below around 40% [1].<p>So it&#x27;s always a good reminder to pay attention not ONLY to building products that solve your own needs, but also finding what needs other people might have that you&#x27;d never even considered!<p>[1] with the notable exception of some awful NiCd-powered VHS camcorders in the 80s