Been there and done many of the things you described, have a family today and I still love being a founder and working very long weeks. I know not everyone is like this though.
The only unmet desire I have left to work towards is to serve others and improve everyone else's life. And building a big successful business is the best way to maximize that desire. The clearest derivatives of my work efforts are the great jobs and work created for everyone at the company and the improvement on our customers lives.
But if they are doing accessibility they have to create alt text for the icons anyway and that needs to be translated. So the only i18n complexity left would the ltr vs rtl languages and depending on how you place the text they wouldn’t need to really change the layout to accommodate both.
As someone who's done a fair amount of frontend work, the hard part is always squeezing text into a clean UX.
The problem language is usually German, so if you have copy like "share screen", you have to find a way to fit in 12 (2x English) 'M' characters comfortably.
There was this "SpaceTop" startup making a laptop with no screen [https://www.pcworld.com/article/1919392/spacetop-is-the-firs...], just a built in case for XR glasses like this (except the case was built into the body). They gave up and pivoted into AI...
I was thinking I'd want to make my own. How hard could it be? Just a phone, keyboard, and usb hub fitted into some framing. I tried 3-4 demos of XReal glasses though and (when I found a pair that wasn't broken, cable damage?) the FOV was much smaller than they seemed to be claiming. I think the bridge of my nose sticks out so the glasses are significantly farther away.
I would love that. Happy for it to be a thin client type of thing too. Imagine a plane where you have room for a keyboard but that is it.
Makes me think: with this your phone is fine. You can run a Linux on your Android then have a thin client. Lots of options!
The laptop form factor makes a laptop fragile. To the point where a 2 yr old XPS has been serviced 20 times (pro tip: get all the top level service options for 3 yrs it was about 30% added to the cost). And I have a probably 12 year old Dell desktop with no issues at all.
I'm on my third xps across 8+ years. 2 cases of services, the first one was a faulty keyboard on delivery and the second was a 1 meter drop into concrete that busted the screen.
Still looking for alternatives for my next one and thinking the System76. Gotta say though, I'm really happy with the xps model so far.
I was spinning a ThinkPad diagonal corners between my palms, fumbled it, my catch attempt put more energy in to it, landed on front right corner on the kitchen floor, bounced.
Nothing wrong with it, nothing broke, everything worked.
This was back when IBM still ran the brand.
I wouldn’t encourage anyone to try that with my HP x360.
Amazing. Someone ran similar setup with a thinkpad workstation with deadscreen in studio, they fucked up screen replacement but ended up just using bottom chasis hooked up to a externaml monitor for the rest of school.
There were some people doing something similar with the Vision Pro and detaching the monitor from a MacBook Air[0]. It looks really slick, but how well it actually works, especially given the drawbacks of the Vision Pro, is… up for interpretation.
Hadrius is a B2B SaaS app for legal and compliance teams in the finance space. We help our users save time and automate the tedious and predictable aspects of compliance. We're breathing life into an overlooked space and design is a big part of that - we're looking to bring someone on who will lead the team in design and lay the foundation for a strong design org in the future.
The only unmet desire I have left to work towards is to serve others and improve everyone else's life. And building a big successful business is the best way to maximize that desire. The clearest derivatives of my work efforts are the great jobs and work created for everyone at the company and the improvement on our customers lives.
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