It's not quite as interesting as a lot of stuff here, nor is it something I can link to just yet, but I'm writing a book about interviewing for product management roles. I took a sabbatical recently and have just started interviewing, and already I've had very mixed experiences - some really well organized and thought out, and others that were clearly thrown together with no thought. I started taking notes on what wa…
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#52My wife is a dog breeder in Canada. She was starting to get worried about her dependence on Kijiji as the only site to advertise her puppy litters. Kijiji is a de facto monopoly due to network effects and they have slowly been increasing the fee they charge to post. In addition all other alternative sites are terrible - filled with pet scams. I built CanadaPups.com as an alternative. Free to post. Started a couple of…
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#53I had a second episode of extremely high blood pressure in 2017. It's a long story, but I ended up being hospitalized in a cardiac surveillance unit. A big part of my cardiac issue was that I had allowed my overall fitness to drop quite dramatically. So, I'm working on a fitness goal app. Essentially, I track my blood pressure/heart rate along with my diet, exercise, etc. And, I'm working on finding correlations, wit…
Best wishes :)
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#54https://passed.pw/ - Mobile-friendly random password generator seeded based on your mouse or touch positions for better randomness. Just wanted something simple to generate passwords/tokens and ended up building this two years ago. https://tempd.link/ - Temporary file hosting with immediate automatic deletion when leaving the site. This was just a weekend project to test out openresty and using redis as an in-memory…
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#55I’ve just started selling art-piece wordclocks: https://www.finewordclocks.com Making wordclocks has been a hobby of mine. For a few years I’ve been developing various designs, fabricating them at a local hacker space, and giving them as gifts. People keep asking if I would sell them. So I finally made a high end design and put together a simple web store. My first production design is a limited run of 100. I recentl…
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#56https://theaccidentalengineer.com/ Interviewing my friends (and strangers) about their jobs in software engineering
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#57https://atlas.patmurray.co A small app to create pretty wallpapers for iPhone and iPad out of various map designs. Has become quite popular in Germany. It started after I tweeted a screenshot of my iPhone home screen and people wanted me to make them a similar wallpaper of their city, so I built an app for it. Took exactly one week from tweet idea to App Store!
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#58https://github.com/ioddly/meditations - Daily organizer based on habit formation. It actually needs a little bit of TLC which I'm hoping to give it once I finish up my current gig. I'm still the only user, as far as I know, but I use it daily so it's fun to work on.
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#59hey there, Show HN will come soon (the next days). I have finished my side project (SaaS/PaaS) called triggerFS. triggerFS is a distributed, realtime message passing and trigger system. triggerFS enables you to build distributed systems and do high-speed realtime messaging in a service-oriented fashion. What really powers triggerFS is the gigantic amount of plugins you can use to do any kind of task. Check out https:…
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#60Everything should be on git.captnemo.in (on phone, can't give links) - Writing code to manage my home server using Docker, Terraform and some glue (nebula) - reviving the Hindustan Time hatetracker, which was a newspaper project tracking hate crimes, but was shut down after some government pressure. - zomato tracker that keeps track of restaurants that open or close in Bangalore every week. Plan is to make a twitter…
> hn classics ebook Really excited about this!