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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
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Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
#492I co-founded MobyGames with one of my oldest friends. About a decade later, it weighed very heavily in my favor getting a DevOps position at a quant trading firm, as they were looking for people with initiative, unconventional thinking and troubleshooting skills, and a willingness to solve problems.
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> Well that's why, because you already make very good money here. But the vast majority of Poles, or even Europeans in richer countries, don't make anywhere near that money. Sure but we're talking in a technical forum where most of people work in software. Most devs in Poland make good or really good money. > But what about those on less fortunate salaries with no wealth to their name, who would get a shot in the US…
>Sure but we're talking in a technical forum where most of people work in software. Most devs in Poland make good or really good money. That may be, but on the topic of emigration from the EU to US, I was talking about the general population and what reasons they may have to move there since the initial question was about Germans wanting to move to the US, not about German devs exclusively wanting to move to the US,…
The comment you initially responded to was
> Most Germans I know in tech
It looks like you're the one trying to move goalposts on this conversation.
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Add-on story: I joined binwiederhier for a while in developing Syncany and he invited me for an internship at his current employer. The experience I gained both in contributing to Syncany and said internship helped me indirectly land the role I'm currently in, and my open source experience in general helped me land a cool engagement where I got to do some innovative open source projects.
Oh man, Pim! What a small world. I looooved working with you on Syncany, and I tried so hard to recruit you hehe. I looked you up on LinkedIn the other day and it looks like you're doing amazingly. Ping me and we'll chat if you like. I'm working on a new open source project [1] that needs your help, hehe. [1] https://ntfy.sh
I saw CT and I was like "hmm I wonder where in CT" and then I noticed the username. I kinda sorta know you IRL, so definitely a small world :D (worked at the same CT company)
First time I recognized someone on HN so I have an uncontrollable urge to tell someone.
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How difficult was it to connect to banking API to get the transaction list?
Not many banks offer APIs to pull transactions. It's easy if you don't mind usign a third party like plaid. I wanted a solution for managing personal finances and didn't want a third party getting a copy of all my financial data, so had to build my own. I ended up building a solution using sqlite and Apache superset, however it used a module that imported data from exports from the banks (so that was a manual step)
Most banks do offer APIs due to various regulations [0], but they don't have to offer these APIs to end users, just to other (regulated and certified) companies. Also the output format can be a wild west. Therefore there is not much practical choice other than to use Plaid, Nordigen, Basiq, etc. Afaik European PSD3 wants to address these 2 issues [1], but it will probably take 3+ years before it gets into effect.
[0] https://www.openbankproject.com/solutions/compliance/
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_...
Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
#496Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh man, Pim! What a small world. I looooved working with you on Syncany, and I tried so hard to recruit you hehe. I looked you up on LinkedIn the other day and it looks like you're doing amazingly. Ping me and we'll chat if you like. I'm working on a new open source project [1] that needs your help, hehe. [1] https://ntfy.sh
I saw CT and I was like "hmm I wonder where in CT" and then I noticed the username. I kinda sorta know you IRL, so definitely a small world :D (worked at the same CT company) First time I recognized someone on HN so I have an uncontrollable urge to tell someone.
It has happened to me a few times, and it's really odd. Hi dude! :wave:
Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
#497A few years ago a few buddies and I made an Ethereum application called LayerOne. It was a game where players could buy and sell parcels of land. Kinda like Decentraland.
We got bought out and hired by a blockchain location company called XYO. We didn't interview at all. Well, I didn't. The rest of the team went to the company's HQ to sign paperwork. I happened to be on vacation at the time, so I had to call my boss while I was on vacation to give my two weeks.
Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
#498I wrote a Dropbox-like file sync and share application called Syncany [1] as a side project back in 2014/2015. While it never made it out of alpha, it had gotten some traction, and looking back, I am still proud of the architecture and design (not so much of the code, hehe). One day, a developer from this random company in Connecticut (I am German and lived in Germany at the time) reached out to me in my project's IR…
Drew Houston probably wanted to see if you were a threat ;) If you had written back and asked about an acquisition/ or how you are focusing on "Taking Syncany to the next level", you might have gotten a response. That was when they were doing their network expansion initiative.
That would be incredibly underhanded. But it's the most likely explanation on why the CEO personally made an offer and then ignored him.
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There are literally hundreds of thousands of software engineers employed at companies that are of similar prestige and pay as Apple, and many of them will be on HN. If you're getting paid $500k at Netflix/Google/Meta, why work for $400k at Apple?
Uhh no, have you ever dug into compensation that most companies that post on HN are offering? They are offering regular old CRUD enterprise level compensation and “equity” that probably won’t be worth anything
Sure, but that has nothing to do with what I said. There will be many HN users who are earning as much or more as Apple engineers, even if many are earning much less, so assuming that someone here would definitely jump at an Apple offer is not particularly reasonable.
Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
#500I made a theme for Obsidian linked below. As a result I got to know the founders, and helped design the 1.0 version of the app. This eventually led me to join the company as CEO. I had previously founded and run two startups, so that helped too. https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal
Nice work. Obsidian is awesome. Obsidian Sync has saved me a few times too. The only thing it lacks for my usage is an API. I just want a clean way to backup my notes to my own storage.
Same, I've been using this cron script for that: https://github.com/allen-munsch/obsidian-daily-cron/tree/mai...