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akarshhegde18

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About akarshhegde18

Software developer and founder building a developer efficiency tool called Meridian which runs on your machine and helps you with your everyday repetitive tasks, no data leaves your machine

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    Ask HN: How are you creating demo videos for your product?

    I am building a SaaS product, which tools do you recommend? any open-source or free ones available that are extremely good?

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    I think I wanna target customers who are in small and medium scale orgs, where they use some standard tool like jira/linear but don't have a hard security team blocker. Target deve…

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    The product runs on the machine locally, captures accessibility/screen ocr and takes care of your Jira task updates. No data leaves the machine This is where it is right now, but t…

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    Sure and any suggestions on processes to follow to make some good open-source impressions and github stars?

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    It runs on your machine locally, understands your work and takes care of your Jira task updates for you. No data leaves your machine This is where it is right now, but the idea is …

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    Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?

    What are your suggestions for an open-source developer efficiency product to get more engagement and reach. The product is for software developers right now

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    What do you mean this is the worst time for saas?

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    Would you pay for this? And what would be the expectation?

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    Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?

    Built a product that runs on your machine, understands your work and takes care of your Jira task updates for you. No data leaves your machine

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    Makes sense. I'll ask sonnet 5 to help me out with the comparison

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    Comment #48742857

    Not in SF, so no SOMA sign for me. I'll just keep yelling into Reddit and hope the algorithm mistakes it for foot traffic.

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    This is the repo: https://github.com/obris-dev/openmagpie

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    Why 36 months?

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    Thanks for the share, really good read!

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    64GB is good for me for now, I'll wait for the M5 upgrade

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    The memory size looks insane! Is that even real? But they had the 512GB version in M3 Ultra so highly likely that it is

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