Show HN: Developer First Engineering Metrics Engineering metrics for developers are becoming more popular and they going in a negative direction and I want to fix this with my developer first engineering metrics. Solutions like GitPrime (now Pluralsight Flow), GitHub Insights (formerly Gitlaytics) and other similar solutions are giving non-technical people a false sense that you can easily roll up metrics to quantify developer productivity. In the "The Space of Developer Productivity" [1] that was posted on HackerNews this week, it goes into great detail to explain that there are a lot of variables at play. In the business world, business intelligence is widely accepted and business leaders do not assume business insights will come easily. People are actually hired to generate business intelligence reports and I'm hoping this type of attitude is adopted for developer insights as well. There are a lot of variables at play, and it should be expected that leaders will need to work for meaningful developer insights. Right now, I'm still early in my research, but I believe impact based metrics is something developers and leaders can get behind. Rather than repeat what I've written before in another thread, you can learn more about my thoughts on impact based metrics at https://ift.tt/3110bAY Like the saying goes, a single line change can take more work than a hundred, and that is ultimately what I want GitSense (my solution) to be able to show. If you want to play around with GitSense, you can do so at https://ift.tt/3lxN5oq and if you want to install it, you can find the instructions at https://gitsense.com [1] https://ift.tt/3bKUCwJ March 20, 2021 at 12:50AM
Show HN: Tape It, iOS recording app for musicians Hello HN, Over the last 15 months, two friends and I developed the music recording app we felt we wanted based on our own needs as musicians. It's called Tape It [1] and has just recently hit the Apple App Store [2]. We put a lot of effort into a good UX to help musicians really focus on playing their instrument instead of pretending to be a recording engineer. The app records in stereo on newer iPhones (although that's a premium feature; the free version only records in standard mono audio quality). I would be really grateful for advice from this community on how to best approach marketing. We had a great TechCrunch article covering our launch [3], and we posted it on various music websites. Turns out advertising on Google or Apple Search is a dark art, though. We have some good ideas for developing a good social media presence, but they will take time. Please hit us with feedback, opinions and advice that you think a young ind...
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