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https://invoice-generator.com I made this 4 years ago for those times when you just need an invoice. Today 10s of thousands of individuals and businesses use this each day to get paid. It's free to use with no login required. Instead it uses localStorage to remember data.

Simple and effective.Thanks! One question, How you create pdf of the invoice? which library do you use to generate pdf?

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http://www.ogjobboard.com/ After getting chew out by my last boss regarding scrapping job post off of oil and gas industry. I created this site to practices what I have learn so far on web scraping with c# by using selenium, phantomjs and htmlagilitypack. Its a site where I scraped job posting from major oil companies.

Something doesn't work there. Using Chrome on OSX I'm getting: Server Error in '/' Application. etc.

yes, you are correct. I've fix it.

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post #681

http://hackernewsletter.com Started it over six years ago and have been sending it every week since. Have about 39,000 subscribers and still see a 45% open rate. It has been a lot of fun, and even better, I have made connections with a lot of great people.

And I just want to tell you that I really like the service. It allows me to quickly check the most interesting posts of last week if I wasn't able to read up on Hacker News during the week. Apparently, your selection matches my interests quite well. (And for the other weeks, I get a nice confirmation that indeed I've read/seen the most interesting stories :-))

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> (rsync.net doesn't offer that, but it is not a totally outlandish idea that they could if you just know them as "cloud backup services") Ah, if that is what you wanted to do, they don't need to offer anything more than they already do. There's no reason why you can't rsync your laptop to rsync.net and then rsync the fs on rsync.net back to your local server.

Yeah, exactly as detaro says. I usually like to keep most of my stuff backed up and that's almost 1 TB of data which would be very expensive to keep in the cloud. So what I did was build a very cheap server with a WD Red HDD that I use to backup my full drive every couple of months. I know I can probably use vanilla rsync but I really don't have the time to set up everything up and make sure it works, so I thought rs…

Yeah, the thing is rsync.net is just vanilla rsync. Solves the proprietary format issue, but not the 'some assembly required' issue.

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post #681

http://hackernewsletter.com Started it over six years ago and have been sending it every week since. Have about 39,000 subscribers and still see a 45% open rate. It has been a lot of fun, and even better, I have made connections with a lot of great people.

Thanks a lot for this. Was looking for something like this. But I'm a little sad that this will now make me not want to put in the effort to make one myself.

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http://worlddev.io Sms Lists is an sms craigslist for refugee camps. I made it after visiting a couple of refugee camps and realizing that it was really hard for business owners who made https://github.com/alando46/smslists

This is really a great project. Would be worth to give more details how it is possible to reuse it. Do you think it work for homeless people too?

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post #681

http://hackernewsletter.com Started it over six years ago and have been sending it every week since. Have about 39,000 subscribers and still see a 45% open rate. It has been a lot of fun, and even better, I have made connections with a lot of great people.

Thanks for creating this. I was introduced to Hacker News through your newsletter. When I think I browse too much the site and I want to stop it for some days I know that I won't miss anything because I'll get updates on Friday. Thanks again!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techstonia...

I built PokerQuiz, which is an android app and (as the name suggests) about poker. It generates random cards for you and opponent and you have to guess your chances of winning. It has another "mode" too, but that's a bit too technical.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#879

I have some sideprojects around the internet, but so far the most useful thing I made has been http://paralleltext.io A tool that helps you learn languages by reading public domain books. I should continue working on that...

Very, very cool! I’m teaching myself Spanish, and I’ve been looking for something like this for ages. I’d be curious to know more about how it’s built, and where you found the source texts. It it open-source?

Hey, thanks! I made the prototype using publicly available matched books and and got a friend included who built a matching engine for adding new books.

The frontend is react, everything is hosted on s3. If you have any questions lemme know!

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