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Hi HN, I built this as a weekend side project to try automating personal finance tasks like expense tracking, reports, and taxes with AI. It’s open source if anyone wants to run it…

Location: Dallas, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Figma, Sketch, Python, Django, React, React Native, AWS (S3, CloudFront, Lambda), Cloudflare, Heroku, Postgr…

Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockmann ( https://amzn.to/3Mzt5AB ) is my favorite design book, but I just use an 8x8 grid since it became the standard on iOS.

Cool idea! I would use something like this to discover AI-related Python starter apps and guides to integrate AI into my projects. I built a free Django and React starter repo for …

I've been running https://chat.dog for 7 years — don't spend any time on it but it's a fun side project. Building https://mailgrid.app now.

I love Django. I was inspired this summer to start an open source project for gaps in their docs like setting up a local development environment, using React for the frontend, depl…

I started https://learndjangoreact.com/tutorial to be concise and easy to navigate with good examples.

Hey HN, I started this tutorial and open-source starter app project to make it easier to start new side projects faster.

I made https://jfornear.com with Jekyll and GitHub Pages. I haven’t updated it since 2019... I’ve been focused on building https://pinjour.com lately.

Readability has improved with the latest typography updates. App looks nice. I mostly read emails but find some newsletters get annoying with too many low-quality updates. I wonder…

Excited to launch this. If you're into birding, fly fishing, hiking, travel photography, etc., try it out and let me know what you think so far!

Hey HN, launching my quarantine side project today. ReadyKit is a community-curated emergency preparedness kit on Amazon. Build your survival kit, first aid kit, and natural disast…

Great guide, looks nice on mobile. Most personal blogs on HN could benefit from following this. :)

I've been using DGG and find myself switching to Google for maps, images, news, and sports scores and schedules—Google has really built out over the years.

I think one way to look at it is that minimum viable products can easily be “viable“ in the short run and still fail in the long run due to lack of vision and willpower, grit, or c…

HR professionals will tell you that many people lie about their compensation. This is probably not worth talking about without sharing your pay stubs or tax returns.