[lubujackson]

This is a great way to find ideas for a startup btw... the classic one is finding out what tedious stuff people do in Excel all day then simplify and automate.

I will say for me I spend probably too long opening a series of programs and getting set up before I can work. I believe there is software for this, but my dream is to have it simple and customizable by project. I would love to be able to open everything to the right directory and the right apps for working on different projects, or adjust the ones I need at any time based on being at a different point in the project.

All told this is just a few minutes every morning, but always a minor annoyance.

[guessmyname]

> I spend probably too long opening a series of programs and getting set up before I can work

Someone just released an app for macOS to solve this problem [1].

[1] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/workspacepro

[ttamslam]

I would absolutely love a keyboard shortcut per project so I could hot swap between services without having to worry about killing containers, building new ones, opening and then resizing/positioning editors, opening (resizing/positioning) spec docs.

I agree this sounds trivial, but the overhead of getting my multi-monitor setup just right when switching to a new service in the codebase is enough to kill flow.

[vcavallo]

window manager plus tmux could probably take you far. i agree that “trivial” frictions like this really add up to stress and work avoidance

[cyberfart]

Can you not solve this by not closing your essential programs and putting your device to sleep instead of powering it off?

PS: Don't do this without battery/ups fallback.

[maccio92]

I believe his complaint was with multiple projects, each one has it's own set of essential programs, and switching between projects means closing down one set and opening another