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gaborme

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About gaborme

Bootstrapped and exited a gui testing company with my dad (Ranorex). Ex-CTO, now indiehacker. I write at gherget.com

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    Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app

    I bought a wifi switch from Belkin over 10 years ago, but the app got turned off. I wanted to use the switch to automate my mosquito repellent. Unfortunately it still had my timer …

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    What I had to unlearn as a perfectionist before I could ship

    As a perfectionist, I struggled to finish products. As it turned out, garbage for me was not a bad product for users. I always found something that needed to be done. A nice button…

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    I check Hacker News way too much. I love seeing new tools and reading the comments, but I often get lost in the threads for hours. To fix this, I built this tool. It sends me one e…

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    Show HN: I built HN Buddy to stop compulsive HN checking

    I found myself compulsively checking Hacker News and wanted a calmer way to keep up – just one daily email. So, I built HN Buddy. It's an open-source project you can self-host. The…

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    Nice. Why not use a full-text search like self-hosted Typesense?

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    I really like the sticky face menu on the bottom right. Never seen this before. Gave me some inspiration for one of my sites.

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    I’m using KeePass since decades.

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    Thx! It works surprisingly well. I have also added a retry button. This comes in handy when the result is not as good as expected.

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    I’m more than happy to send you the first version. Here is a video of how it works and form to request access: https://twitter.com/gherget/status/1623979080499470338

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    Ask HN: Would you use an app that turns emails into tasks and suggest replies?

    The idea is to create to-dos for each email and show reply suggestions. It will also detect who is responsible for the task. A friend of mine had this idea for years, and with the …

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    Show HN: I built a remove BG product using ChatGPT, Midjourney and HuggingFace

    I wanted to select certain parts of a photo, extract them, crop them, and remove the BG. All without using a brush or any manual process. ChatGPT helped me to come up with the prod…

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    I built this tool to remove the background of a selected object in an image and crop it. Most background removal tools require a brush to manually fix an image for multiple foregro…