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Re:I shipped a client-side leaderboard and chaos ensued on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @02:18PM (#42197184)
chaos did not actually ensue, but did i spend the next 24 hours trying to secure it. here's what i learned.
I built a simple website that uses [stagehand](https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand) to automate the browser and roast your GitHub profile and it's hilariously mean.

Here's the code: https://github.com/alanagoyal/gitroasted

Here's a roast for @rauchg: You know, if you were any more basic, you'd be a default setting. It's like you walked into a room and everyone collectively thought, "Oh great, another one of those." Your personality is like a software update—nobody wants it, but we all have to deal with it eventually. You call that a profile? It looks like you threw together a bunch of links and hoped for the best. With 137 repositories and only 274 stars, it's clear that quantity over quality is your motto. Maybe try focusing on one project instead of spreading yourself thinner than your coding skills. And what's with the zero projects? Are you just collecting repositories like they're Pokémon? Get it together!

Re:Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:50AM (#40946674)
i added better error handling for this :)

https://www.alanagoyal.com/error

Re:Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes on Thursday July 11, 2024 @05:31PM (#40940783)
good idea - playing around with it now!
Re:Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:49PM (#40939957)
thanks! i wanted anyone to be able to create notes and be able to share them with others, so tried to come up with the most secure way to accomplish that :)
Re:Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:46PM (#40939915)
oh no! looking into this. are you just on safari??
Re:Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:44PM (#40939898)
thanks! just added to it about some of the perf and security changes i made after launching :)
Re:Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:44PM (#40939890)
this is probably happening if you're viewing a note that has been deleted. since i had 10000+ notes created on the day it launched i set up a pg_cron batch to delete empty notes that are >30 min old.

if not, can you share the url you're seeing it on? thanks for letting me know!

Re:Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:42PM (#40939871)
yeah it just redirects to the first note. i thought about having a welcome page but it took away from the apple notes feel. open to suggestions tho!
Re:Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:39PM (#40939849)
:face_palm: thank you!
Re:Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:38PM (#40939843)
good call - any ideas how to make that more clear? there is a tooltip on desktop but not mobile
Re:Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:38PM (#40939836)
thank you! fixed this :)
Re:Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @01:39PM (#40918801)
<3
Re:A guide to open-source LLM inference and performance on Monday November 20, 2023 @10:11PM (#38358571)
great post. could you apply this same framework to optimize training as well?
how does this differ from a model “router” (e.g. withmartian.com)?
Re:Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM on Thursday July 20, 2023 @11:25AM (#36801921)
this looks super cool and great ux (love the keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, notion-like experience). congrats on launching it!

do you have any plans to automate data entry? i currently use airtable and have tried folk, attio, etc. but my biggest frustration is it takes so much time and energy to manually add information about people and companies. would immediately pay $20/mo or more for a product that can automatically enrich any person/company data for me and sync with my calendar, email, twitter, linkedin, etc. to add people/companies.

Re:Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to DocSend on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:10AM (#36111513)
building with the new app router is still pretty challenging for me (esp getting it to work with other services like supabase auth)
Re:Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to DocSend on Sunday May 28, 2023 @02:42PM (#36106613)
you can choose to set a password for that reason :)

it should have at least verified you entered an accurate email tho?

Re:Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to DocSend on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:28PM (#36106006)
exactly. docsend is a great product, but once my free trial ended i didn’t want to pay $20/mo just to send documents. maybe i’m cheap ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to DocSend

https://github.com/alanagoyal/docbase

hey hn, i’m alana, founder of basecase and creator of docbase www.getdocbase.comdocbase is an open-source alternative to docsend, which lets you securely share documents and track engagement in real-time.with docbase, you can upload any document, get a secure link (with or without a password or expiration date), and view who interacts with it and when. one main use case is for founders to send...

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six weeks ago, i decided to build & open-source a project that used as many YC W23 companies as possible. in honor of demo day, i'm launching it and sharing some takeaways.

eventbase is a simple platform to create & manage in-person events: https://eventbase.app/

it’s nothing special on its own, but was an excellent blank canvas to experiment with all of the different dev tools.

1/ the website matters: a sleek, well-crafted website is often a proxy for overall product sense & attention to detail

2/ optimize time to value: make sure users reach the “aha moment” in as little time & with as little effort as possible

3/ reduce all friction: good docs are the difference between a user successfully integrating or giving up, so eliminate any margin for error

4/ keep it simple: no matter how good the docs are, no one wants to install a bunch of junk just to experiment with a new product

5/ obsess over customers: the best founders are maniacally focused on making their users successful

6/ ship, ship, ship: shipping is the most effective way to learn alongside your customers

i’ve had a ton of fun working on this & gained so much respect for all of the yc founders out there. if you’re building a product for developers, let’s work together to integrate it into eventbase. it’s fully open-source, so feel free to clone it, play around, & submit a pull request: https://github.com/alanagoyal/eventbase

congrats on the launch! so easy a vc can use it :)
highly recommend replit's 100 days of code course: https://replit.com/learn/100-days-of-python/

it's a 100 day course that takes you from no coding knowledge to being able to work with databases, build web apps, an even work with OpenAI's API to build AI apps by day 100.

Re:Show HN: Val Town – A Cloud Scripting Site on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @08:10PM (#34347689)
this seems like it could be a way better experience for writing airtable scripts - are there any examples/templates of this use case yet?

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