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fotoflo

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About fotoflo

Hi, I'm Alex — builder & investor, 25+ yrs across Asia. PM at Renren.com (NYSE IPO) → EIR at 500 Startups & Accelerating Asia → skin in ~50 startups.

Now: AI workshops/advisory (https://aimhuge.com) and Zeph.vc (https://zeph.vc), a new energy seed fund focused on Bangladesh with optionality across Southeast Asia. On the side: Plain Dharma (https://plaindharma.com) — the Buddha's core teachings in plain modern English, as a book, audiobook, and app.

Obsessed with climate startups that actually make money — hundreds of ideas at https://zeph.vc/idea-bank. Email me anything: fotoflo@gmail.com, or pitch our partners at pitch@zeph.vc

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    I kept getting burned by rate limits in Claude Code. I'd be deep in something and just hit auto compaction or start to get near the end of my context window without noticing. Then …

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    Show HN: This Dave made the windows task manager [video]

    Pretty amazing. And there's a lot of classes with Dave's name in them... InitDavesWindowProcedure is apparently still in 2024's codebase

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    Comment #40025295

    Thank you! Really helpful to hear that! Like the idea of using the testimonials this way.

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    Comment #40023174

    Thank you I couldn't find "continuosly" in the dom - where is it? "Continuous Monitoring & Alerts for Downtime and Page Speed. Share Notes, Discuss Changes, and More." best → easie…

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    Ask HN: Roast My Website: Rewrote the Copy

    Hi guys, I was having trouble with a lot of people not understanding the key points my product seeks to address. Can I ask you to roast it? https://fastmonitor.io Thanks!

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    Comment #40018812

    Its coming... Did you paste images into chatgpt to show it what the layout was looking like?

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    Comment #40008096

    Really nice and clean! I made something a little similar - https://github.com/fotoflo/alfred-whatsapp-linker - this one is an Alfred Workflow ( https://alfredapp ) that assumes you…

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    Comment #39986762

    But it wouldn't be easy. It requires a pro plan on vercel to even run, because of the long time outs of the serverless functions.

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    Comment #39986757

    No there isn't an option for that at the moment... Might be interesting to open source it if i cant build a business on it.

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    Ask HN: How do you get better at web performance?

    Was curious to know all the tools you guys are using for web performance. Disclosure: I'm the founder of a web performance tool.

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    Comment #39975496

    Not yet! Is that important to you? Can i ask why?

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    Comment #39975492

    Forever with a limited amount of URLs

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    Show HN: I made a Continuous Page Speed & Stability Monitoring tool

    Hi Everyone, I've been working on FastMonitor.io solo for about a year now. FastMonitor monitors how fast your site is, and alerts you if it gets slower. Wanted to show it to you g…

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    Comment #39956958

    Yes! For images that are large and you know the user will wait. But why not use webp too?

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    Comment #9844180

    Wouldn't it be great if your i18n workflow was as easy as slack? Well now it is. Just integrate connect your Slack to Texturner and be done with it. (just launched this thing. woul…

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    Comment #7643609

    It would probably need a good way to get input: a usb keyboard or something? But if it's an iPad teddy bear, maybe you're biting off more then you can chew -- teach them to read be…

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    Comment #4821995

    Thank you. I went back and looked, and you're right, it seems that it didnt submit ALL friend requests, only about a hundrad apperently. You can use this jQuery to click all friend…

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    Comment #4821724

    You can pretty much use this trick everywhere...

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    Comment #4788772

    So... hacker news chose to let their product be limited by an engineering issue?

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    Hacker News: Unknown or Expired Link

    Why do i get a single line " "Unknown or expired link" when I curl some YC pages? http://news.ycombinator.com/x for example. If YC is full of such great product people and hackers,…