Kyoto Tech Meetup: Dec 4 Wrap-Up
For the month of December, the Kyoto Tech Meetup is trying the Morning Tech & Coffee series as a weekly event. Still the same format: meet at the same cafe, grab seats, and just chat tech before work. The conversation drifted across projects, tools, and whatever links people had been thinking about recently.
One person shared a new website and asked for design feedback. Another posted an AI tool for sketching database schemas. Links kept coming in: a screen-overlay to-do app, a Paul Graham essay, a thread about product idea marketplaces and user validation, a reminder of OpenDoc plus that well-circulated Steve Jobs clip where someone yells at him about it... and a few writing apps. The usual mix of practical tools and rabbit holes.
Below is the running list of everything mentioned (at least the links that I caught).
Stuff our meetup members are shipping
- https://ashwin-anil.pages.dev/
A personal site by one of our meetup members. - http://enrichtheirlives.org/
A new project by another one of our members who's currently in grad school. - https://www.collxn.com/u/ash
I just shipped user profile pages for Collxn this week. This one is my own profile page for my vinyl record collection!
Links from this week
- https://database.build/
An AI tool by Supabase for sketching database schemas. - https://www.producthunt.com/products/billable-for-solo-founders-freelancers
A lightweight, on-screen task overlay for solo founders and freelancers. - https://ia.net/writer – iA Writer, a focused Markdown writing app that I brought up in the context of tools for writing.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc – A background article on OpenDoc, Apple’s discontinued component-based document framework from the 1990s.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o
The well-known Steve Jobs clip where he tooks some darts from a developer during a Q&A. - https://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
A Paul Graham essay on the hidden work behind good ideas. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21991260 – A Hacker News discussion thread related to the idea marketplace / schlep topic mentioned in the meetup.
- https://alpaca.markets/ – A brokerage API platform that supports programmatic and algorithmic trading.
That's all from this week. We've got a small rhythm forming. If you're ever in Kyoto, I hope you jump in!