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I released Humm[1] last week. Realtime speech-to-text with a focus on privacy. No backend, no telemetry - just a fast, nicely designed app wrapping local stt models. [1] https://hu…

I found the UX of most speech-to-text apps unnecessarily complicated, so I built Humm as a simple, privacy-first alternative. Press a custom hotkey, talk, and the text lands in wha…

Data extraction: https://simplescraper.io A project that I launched on HN that became a business. Simplescraper rode the no-code wave of a few years back ( 'instant structured data…

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Made a quick tool so you can check if your extensions are on the list: https://extensioncheck.val.run 1. Go to chrome://extensions and toggle Developer mode on (so IDs are visible)…

This guide may be useful for anyone interested in building their own spec-compliant MCP server: https://simplescraper.io/blog/how-to-mcp . Albeit, it's a few weeks old so already i…

> I'm always a bit wary of approaching these ideas though because I feel like nobody would ever pay for small web stuff? Build them and find out! There's almost always room for som…

1. Clicking the box programmatically – possible but inconsistent 2. Outsourcing the task to one of the many CAPTCHA-solving services (2Captcha etc) – better 3. Using a pool of reli…

Making my data extraction Saas ( https://simplescraper.io ) more LLM friendly. Markdown extraction, improved Google search, workflows - search for this terms, visit the first N lin…

Things are much easier for one-person startups these days—it's a gift. I remember building a todo app as my first SaaS project, and choosing something called Stormpath for authenti…

Sounds like you've learned a lot of what not to do, which will be invaluable when you try again. It feels like the only areas where a solo builder can gain traction are in B2B prod…

> perhaps you can simply ask the API to create Python or JS code that is deterministic, instead. Had a conversation last week with a customer that did exactly that - spent 15 minut…

I'm making https://simplescraper.io - a no-code web scraping tool. Saved up, quit my job and went all in...on a todo app. Needless to say that idea didn't go far, but it taught me …

Nice job. No RSS though as far as I can tell. For something slightly less minimal but very nice to use, I stumbled across this the other day: https://blogstatic.io/ Feels likes - a…

Congrats on the persistence! The lesson: things take time. Took me about a decade. I also tried a note-taking app (every new developer's rite of passage it seems), an event guide, …

Another great resource is incolumitas.com. A list of detection methods are here: https://bot.incolumitas.com/ I run a no-code web scraper ( https://simplescraper.io ) and we test a…

I'm building https://simplescraper.io - data extraction in the spirit of the late Kimono Labs. Front: Vue.js, Tailwind Back: Node.js, Firebase (Database, Hosting, Functions, Schedu…