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Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by john01dav »

sponno wrote: post #522

I got so upset with Docusign being too expensive and unfair, that I quit my last startup to build a new one. I built a complete platform over the past 3 years, that doesn't require a subscription and you only pay for what you send. Give it a go if you need to send a document that needs to be signed. https://goodsign.io

I have been looking for something like this, but the pricing is too high for my use case. It needs to be comparable to just printing the document and signing with pens, or it's not generally worth it to me. It seems wild to me that something that in principal could be basically free costs so much.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by chauhankiran »

I'm creating a simple and lightweight CRM (customer relationship management) as RMS (record management system) system. Code is too early state to try.

I've take the different approach in building this system as it is traditional MVC architecture in Node with Express, Postgres, Pug, etc. as technologies.

https://github.com/chauhankiran/rms

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by tmikaeld »

tm11zz wrote: post #526

I'm working on a service that generates SVG vector graphics using generative AI. This is something current models struggle with but I've always wanted high quality vector graphics for my projects. https://vectorart.ai

This is really nice, is this converting to SVG from Raster like similar services?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by niklasmtj »

I am working on my text course about Deno (https://niklasmtj.de/deno/course/). With Deno 2.0 just right around the corner, I'm excited to get this course into the hands of possible new users. I really like how Deno does a lot of things better than Node. With a toolchain similiar to other modern language enviroments (e.g. Golang) it helps a lot not thinking about "What might be the hot package to use right now".

Right now I have 3/7 chapters ready and I am working on the 4th right now. It will be about Deno on the CLI, learning about the permission model, getting user input etc. creating a small CLI application as a single file binary (deno compile)

After abandoning a lot of smaller side projects for years now I wanted to push through and ship something that is not just some hours of work (read <3-4 hours). I learnt that I have a lot of fun writing about and trying to teach things that I'm interested in.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by ofcrpls »

socketcluster wrote: post #534

I've been working on https://saasufy.com/ - No-code/low-code serverless platform for building web applications. The idea is that if you're a highly experienced senior developer, it should feel oddly familiar. It aims to address every possible concern that a senior developer might have when building a web application. Avoiding footguns is one of the core principles behind it. It aims to strike the ideal balance betwee…

Saasu Maa in Hindi means Mother-in-law and chortled at the thought of converting any Website copy to a mean spirited MIL's voice.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by sssilver »

john01dav wrote: post #541
sponno wrote: post #522

I got so upset with Docusign being too expensive and unfair, that I quit my last startup to build a new one. I built a complete platform over the past 3 years, that doesn't require a subscription and you only pay for what you send. Give it a go if you need to send a document that needs to be signed. https://goodsign.io

I have been looking for something like this, but the pricing is too high for my use case. It needs to be comparable to just printing the document and signing with pens, or it's not generally worth it to me. It seems wild to me that something that in principal could be basically free costs so much.

I generally sign my documents using macOS’s built in Preview app. I guess I pay for it when I purchase a MacBook but I get a whole lot more value.

What do web apps like DocuSign offer that Preview doesn’t?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by poorlyknit »

bediger4000 wrote: post #31

Trying to figure out a bizarre performance drop in a merge sort I wrote for one of those daily coding problems. https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-1/ It seems that adding one node to a linked list causes a repeatable performance drop. That is, linked lists of say 2^21 nodes sort faster than lists of 2^21 + 1 nodes.

The fact that it happens

    1) at/around powers of two
    2) regardless whether using GC or preallocating
makes me think its got to do with cache sizes. For example, the M2 macbook has around 16MiB of cache, which gives you approximately 2 million ~ 2^20 nodes where each node has a 64 bit number and a 64 bit pointer.

The jumps in your measurements could be related to the cache hierarchy. On Linux (probably macOS too) you should be able to run "perf stat ./mergesort" to show you the hitrate of your CPU's caches.

I'd be interested in a follow-up post :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by chirau »

sponno wrote: post #522

I got so upset with Docusign being too expensive and unfair, that I quit my last startup to build a new one. I built a complete platform over the past 3 years, that doesn't require a subscription and you only pay for what you send. Give it a go if you need to send a document that needs to be signed. https://goodsign.io

This is nice, but I think it would be even better if you had some sort of unlimited plan or volume price (I see the $1k offer but that still is pretty high). A person conducting a survey with NDAs with 150 would find this useful, but if i am regularly conducting surveys with at least 1k people who have to sign NDAs, your pricing model becomes unfavorable.

Great job all the same, this is nice.

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