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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by hakanderyal »

cambaceres wrote: post #340
ToJans wrote: post #339

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Very nice. Having walked down this path: get the signature under the contract or an advance before you build "one more feature". In my experience "one more feature" is usually a very polite way to say "no", and it can be a sign that you haven't identified the proper solution to their "hair-on-fire" problem yet. (I've built the exact features prospects requested, and after showing the built feature I usually got anoth…

Thanks a lot for your advice, I will discuss it with my partner ASAP. Good luck to you too:)

"We have been promised around $8000 / month from 8-9 companies as soon as we finish a couple of more features and we estimate that there are at least 100 potential customers in our country."

This assumptions have been the death sentence of startups since the dawn of time.

Don't get your hopes up just with that alone. Don't count on them to buy.

Just wanted to reiterate the importance of the parent message.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by user_named »

dopeboy wrote: post #32
user_named wrote: post #21

I'm hosting one dinner party per month at my place

Love this. What inspired you to do so? Do you cook or is it like a potluck?

It started as a thing around BBQ as I have a small indoor infrared grill (all my friends have small places too).

Will also do other stuff like Mexican chili, bring your own steak and grill it etc. People bring drinks and snacks or dishes.

What inspired me.. My friend used to do it a few years back and somehow I realized it let's me become a social hub, have people invite their friends so I keep in touch with and make new friends.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by Msurrow »

unity1001 wrote: post #490
Msurrow wrote: post #487

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At a first read through there seems to be a of usefull knowledge and experience in your post. So I’ll surely go through it in detail and take away everything I can. That being said, unfortunately you have a few assumptions, that makes some of what you write less relevant. > But then many users wont use your service because they cant install the plugins they want. This is sort of the core misunderstanding: This setup…

> This is sort of the core misunderstanding: This setup is defined for one customer (marketing agency) so I dont really care how the masses would like to use WP hosting In case you missed, I already made an example of that case. It is a workable format in the WP ecosystem and there are many who use it. However, the market for it is limited to the customers whose needs fit the specific features you provide. That said,…

Well, we have a lot to disagree on. I’ll find the time to read your comment in detail and comment on some og your points, b/c I find the debate interesting. But I just want to say this right away:

> > We’re not savages. Thats a very crappy way to look at this. The flower shop owner above will not like that kind of perspective. Neither the rest of the WP ecosystem. Such attitude and arrogance is not well-received. Especially keep it away from any support/comment thread at WP.org. You would get very harshly rebuked.

It was a joke and just intended for the quote to add some humor to the post. I’m sorry if it didnt come across like that.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by scottmcdot »

flutas wrote: post #61
scottmcdot wrote: post #50

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You should check out pricehipster.com. It was really good until companies started making it difficult to maintain a data feed.

Looks interesting and almost the exact same idea, just a different industry. I am worried about the data feed aspects, the stores aren't exactly going to enjoy this, since they are the ones making the majority of the profit in this situation (my brother works at a manufacturer on the other side of this, so I know roughly the margins involved). I understand it though, who would enjoy something like this coming out whe…

I noticed that Price Hipster had affiliate codes in the URLs. Perhaps that's something you can do to win over the stores? E.g. justify their data feed with affiliate tracking volume.

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Post by montenegrohugo »

eaurouge wrote: post #113
montenegrohugo wrote: post #66

I'm trying to make a dent in the UX of crypto. Currently, it really really sucks. The first thing we've built is https://peanut.to - a way to pay people with just a link. Happy to take feedback and suggestions!

Is this built on Ethereum? What does the rest of your stack look like?

For now we're on EVM's, yes (Ethereum but also it's Layers 2s and sidechains)

But we really want to deploy on all sorts of chains and offer very very simple UX for users. No one should have to care about bridging between chains or swapping or what currency they are getting paid in. If crypto is to get mass adoption, stuff should be dead simple.

Rest of the stack: - postgres DB - Flask Backend - Alpine JS / TailwindCSS / HTMX / ethersjs / web3modal on Frontend (and then obviously the decentralized smart contracts)

Happy to answer other questions!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by unity1001 »

Msurrow wrote: post #494
unity1001 wrote: post #490

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> This is sort of the core misunderstanding: This setup is defined for one customer (marketing agency) so I dont really care how the masses would like to use WP hosting In case you missed, I already made an example of that case. It is a workable format in the WP ecosystem and there are many who use it. However, the market for it is limited to the customers whose needs fit the specific features you provide. That said,…

Well, we have a lot to disagree on. I’ll find the time to read your comment in detail and comment on some og your points, b/c I find the debate interesting. But I just want to say this right away: > > We’re not savages. Thats a very crappy way to look at this. The flower shop owner above will not like that kind of perspective. Neither the rest of the WP ecosystem. Such attitude and arrogance is not well-received. Esp…

> I’ll find the time to read your comment in detail and comment on some og your points, b/c I find the debate interesting

Do feel free to do so. I've been dealing with this kind of thing (HA + scalability and bringing WP into that realm) for the last ~1.5 years for an important project, so Im pretty loaded on that front.

> It was a joke and just intended for the quote to add some humor to the post. I’m sorry if it didnt come across like that

Gah. Great.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by mighty_donkey »

kinow wrote: post #90
mighty_donkey wrote: post #30

Working on making big geospatial data (from sources like NASA, ECMWF) really easy to work with through a simple API that integrates with common tools in python/R. Would love to help ppl focus on answering really interesting questions (e.g. impacts of climate change, energy load forecasting, food security), without needing to be experts in geospatial data engineering! https://www.pharossoftware.com/

Sounds interesting! I work with these data, is any of that going to be Open Source or commercial only?

Hey, thanks! The data we connect to is open-source but the ETL and connectors itself (which is the actual service) is not. In the future, there are a few things we'd love to release as open-source packages, but we're just not there yet.

What kind of data/sources do you work with mainly? Would love to learn more

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by freilanzer »

I haven't decided on something final, but with the release of Dwarf Fortress on Steam I got inspired to try something similar - although obviously of massively more humbling scale. Basically, I want to implement an ant simulation, down to pheromones, etc. and if that goes well combine it with reinforcement learning. Less of a video game and more of a self running simulation, though.

That, and actually get around to study more math and read more books and write my own horror and scifi short stories, that I have floating around in my head.

Busy year.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by coreymaass »

I’m building and launching a new WordPress plugin with a new partner soon, and we’re planning on doing it live and in public. Weekly calls will be live streamed and archived. Some of it will not be pretty. :-) Sign up here if you want to follow along: https://express.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9ee9c87b6b6...
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