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I have tried that but 1) it hallucinated a lot of technologies as I mentioned and 2) it only detects the front end stuff not backend
Posted by
Poomba on Sunday July 12, 2026 @02:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Does anyone know of any good technographic APIs? I run a dev consultancy and basically want to know what tech stack they currently use (ie what they use for CI/CD or security), so it can help me prepare when i talk to a prospect. I know Builtwith is the leader in this space but i feel its lacking a bit when it comes to finding tech that isnt front end or JS focused.I’ve tried using the...
Didnt think of the FinOps angle - thats a goodd one! The annoying thing about filtering by AWS mentions is that every other company seems to list all the clpud platforms like in a list, even if they use just one of them. Adding FinOps is a good additional filter in that case
Yep, job listings definitely are a good place to dig into. Thanks!
Yep, i guess i mean how to find the ones where the costs is exploding and where its becoming a pain, not just a nuisance they tolerate
Posted by
Poomba on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:01PM
from the self-post dept.
I’m building a tool that helps companies visualize their AWS costs and provide suggestions on how to optimize it.What’s the best way to find companies that use AWS that are spending more every single month?By AWS, i mean any product whether its S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, Redshift, etc.
Definitely would recommend the Rands Slack channel though only catch is you need to be in some sort of engineering leadership role (not sure if the criteria changed though). But I’m sure if you ask nicely, they’ll let you in. Lots of channels related to career advice there
Also would recommend just going through this huge list of tech companies that use Slack to see if any of them fits you: https://bloomberry.com/data/slack/
The web UI has become extremely slow. I am not sure if its that way for everyone or its because there are more people in our team using it. Many people dont like the UI too although that isnt my main concern
Posted by
Poomba on Friday March 13, 2026 @12:24AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Does anyone here use Discord for their workplace comms?We are outgrowing Zulip as our team chat tool and are anti-Microsoft, so Teams is definitely out. Slack is the “default” choice but their pricing leaves a lot to be desired, especially if you want SSO, longer history of saved conversations, etcWhich leaves me to Discord. I know it seems like an unconventional choice but does anyone here use...
I guess to be explicit, how will they respond to the threat of it being designated a supply chain risk(edited title)
Posted by
Poomba on Sunday March 01, 2026 @06:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Now that Trump/the administration has designater Anthropic a supply chainrisk and threatened every company that uses them, how do u think most companies that use Anthropic/Claude would respond?Anthropic only has ~100 customers in federally focused industries (ie defense) [1] but it seems Trump is not just targeting “pure” federal contractors/agencies but anyone doing business with the govt. so...
Posted by
Poomba on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:48PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm trying to decide whether to adopt Cursor for our company, but we're in a heavily regulated industry and our compliance team is flagging concerns about HIPAA/SOC2/audit trails.The thing is, there are companies in regulated industries using it [1][2]. But Cursor has no HIPAA BAA, no FedRAMP certification, and is cloud-only with all requests routing through their AWS infrastructure. (This is...
Would followers or commenters usually be recent customers though? Because that really is my target audience: users who just decided to purchase and use ChatGPT.
Thanks! Those are helpful!
For number one, any idea the best person to contact in those companies? They probably dont got a head of AI person so wondering if a VP of Engineering is the next logical person.
Also I haven’t thought of forums/communities! Any idea whether I am more likely to find small companies or big enterprises there?
Posted by
Poomba on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:35AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I built a GPT for the ChatGPT store to help turn docs and meeting notes into internal wikis. The ideal customer are large engineering-oriented companies. Ideally, companies that just started using ChatGPT and AI to do this type of task.Is there a tool that can help me find companies that just started using ChatGPT? I tried Wappalyzer and Builtwith but those seem to just focus on frontend stuff...
i dont even use a crm
blushes. To be honest, im just starting out with outbound so im not doing anything sophisticated. Just want to import a list of leads, enrich with contact details and their tech stack data. Thats all.
Ppl keep recommending me tools like apollo and zoominfo but they way too powerful for me. I dont care about how many data providers they have because i just care about those 2 thinfs
Posted by
Poomba on Sunday November 02, 2025 @11:48AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I started using clay to enrich a list of companies I want to target (mostly agencies). Priblem is that its starting to become way way too expensive. I mostly want to enrich my list with email of decision makers and whether they use a particular tech stack and whether they hiring for a particular job right now. And every one of these require more credits :(I saw some show hns for clay...
Posted by
Poomba on Sunday October 26, 2025 @05:44PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Anyone have any open source recommendations? Or if not open source then something with a reasonably good free plan?
It would be great if u could overlay a HN sentiment chart over all of these tools.
I doubt they have side deals. They took action on some of them by removing their company page, but that is like a slap in the hand.
If you want to make a big deal about this, tell us you at least sent a letter to the big players too. Otherwise, dont put up such a huge show
Why are they going after the small fish?
If they really want to put a dent into this, go after the biggest players scraping LinkedIn: PeopleDataLabs and Apollo.io (and no, taking down their company page does not count)
I know someone who got addicted to the influencer money in Tiktok and dropped out of a med school program because making 5 figures a month, taking videos of you wearing fancy clothes was way better than slogging thru med school
So your customers just want to use this for their own internal data, not external data from the web. Is that correct?
I like this approach better TBH - more reliable and robust. It probably satisfies 80% of most customer queries too as most want to query against the same sources
For me, I just order a drink when my wife stops by one to order one. I hardly go out of my way to order it myself. Everything from the drinks to the pastries are mediocre
When it finds a page that has the results I'm looking for in a particular website, does it paginate through all of them? When I searched for "stores that are on the Faire marketplace" it seems to return just the first page of results without paginating through all of them.
Use first principles in your reasoning. Back your claims up with as much data as you can. It doesnt really matter if you used AI or not
Posted by
Poomba on Thursday September 25, 2025 @06:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Are there any software jobs that actually have a high barrier of entry? Besides maybe an LLM Engineer?I feel like no matter what type of engineer you become there is always gonna be a bunch of ppl who you’re competing with. Perhaps someone are slightly more competitive than others like a devops person, but overall, i feel like the entire SWE field has become a commodityAre there actually any...