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Re:Show HN: Zilnic – a simple daily rhythm tracker on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:24AM (#46537871)
There are links for terms & privacy with this info - but it was only on the login page (so I guess it was easy to miss). I fixed that by adding the links at the bottom of the page also.

Thanks for your feedback!

Re:Show HN: Zilnic – a simple daily rhythm tracker on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:51AM (#46528764)
Last year I tracked my days in a spreadsheet. Not in a done / not-done way, but with a 0–100 score based on effort and intent.

Reading 10 pages still mattered even if the goal was 30. That small shift actually helped me stay consistent.

I wanted to do the same thing in 2026, but just rebuilding that spreadsheet (again) was a pain so I stopped fighting it and vibe coded a tiny app instead.

Zilnic is just that: rate your day, add a note, see some simple stats over time. No streak anxiety. No guilt. No “you failed today” energy.

It works with or without an account if you want to try it.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) on Monday January 05, 2026 @03:49AM (#46496604)
Location: Romania (EU)

Remote: Yes (EU / US async-friendly)

Background:

10+ years product-focused engineer (Android-first), strong in 0→1 shipping and product/UX execution. AI: Building AI-integrated apps (LLM prompting, UX flows, basic RAG concepts); early-stage, learning by doing.

Recent work: Consumer apps (journaling/coaching/habits), Compose Multiplatform (Android/iOS), subscriptions + distribution experiments.

Looking for: Early-stage AI startup; open to trial/part-time and even unpaid initially for the right project.

Email: [email protected]

Ask HN: Mobile devs – what do you hate about current mobile ad networks?

I’ve been talking to a number of indie app developers recently, and one thing that keeps coming up is frustration with current ad networks—low transparency, poor UX control, limited payouts, privacy issues, and unclear pricing.On iOS, many devs lean toward subscriptions and paid apps, while Android has historically relied more on ads for free apps—but in both cases, there’s often a desire for...

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Ask HN: Looking for mobile app devs/publishers to join a beta ads network

Hey there,For the past few weeks I've been working on a privacy-focused, simple and clean mobile ads network.I am looking for the first few app publishers for the alpha testing of the new ad banners and service and get the first round of feedback.If interested - you can check the site out and register and I'll get back to you shortly.Site: http://www.halumiads.com

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Not feeling attacked or anything. Thanks for sharing your feedback and feelings.

I also feel like focusing on the gender gap and inequality in tech and trying to fix it in some way is something not that simple to do.

P.S. Men can also apply to any job from TinyGigs.co - but hopefully companies and women alike will feel that on TinyGigs there's a place to connect more easily

I understand what you mean - but the idea of the website is not to be sexist or discriminate based on the gender but actually trying to close the gender gap since there's a known problem that women are unrepresented in the tech scene.
Where is the sexism in a community of women makers?
‍ TinyGigs started as a curated community of women makers (designers, developers, marketers, etc) looking to find exciting new projects to work on, in their spare time or even full time. Based on the feedback received, and also since there doesn't seem to be an open job board focused on women makers the idea for a simple job board to help women everywhere seems pretty interesting and with potential.

Also, the Tiny Gigs job board can be a way to for companies that may feel like there's a gender gap in their teams by having the possibility to reach out to a talented pool of women in tech, design, marketing and more.

Re:Show HN: Blaze – Learn everyday from Twitter threads on Monday September 10, 2018 @02:48AM (#17949876)
There's also a tiny web version here: GetBlaze.app (https://www.getblaze.app)
The list is simple and clean. * "beautifully crafted" was mostly of a funny reference to the Apple keynotes haha.
Hey there - my name is Alin and today I wanted to share with you Remote·Roulette - a biweekly curated email with the best remote jobs - the third project for my personal challenge - "12 Startups in 6 Months".

I'm currently working on another, bigger project called TalkFirst.Today - a chat only dating app but until it will be ready for release I wanted to release this tiny project called.

With Remote·Roulette I wanted to build a fun way to discover new tech remote jobs without having to keep on searching on different job boards.

Looking forward to hear what you think about it.

Sign up now should work - hope you'll try the app one more time :D

Cheers and thanks for your feedback.

Hey - thanks for your feedback - I'll take a look and fix the problems. About the preview - that could be a good idea - I think I'll add an email example so the users can make an idea of what they'll get.
Hey there - my name is Alin and today I wanted to share with you Likes|Digest - a weekly email digest & a searchable list of your Twitter likes - the second project for my personal challenge - "12 Startups in 6 Months".

I wanted to build Likes|Digest because I often times I like different tweets as a way of bookmarking - but never get back to them.

So I thought that a weekly email reminder with all of these likes could at lest help me take another look over it. And since Twitter doesn't provide a search feature for all this likes I've also added a search feature (which is still a work in progress).

Would love to get your opinnion on it.

I think it was 50/50 even though initialy I thought that the front end would take longer since I wanted to just use the bare minimum features from Vulcan.js.

Since Vulcan is still an early stage project there were (and still are) some stuff that I needed to change also some stuff in the backend.

Also - there were some problems with the DNS records and almost a day was spent working on it.

Hey guys - today I wanted to share the #1 Startup for a perosnal challenge - "12 Startups in 6 Months"

AlDente - https://www.aldente.io - A ProductHunt like community for food and drinks enthusiasts where users can share and discover tasty new dishes.

The first version was ready in about 7 days of "after-hours" work - meaning about 3 hours per night and I tried to follow Reid Hoffman's rule for the MVP : "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

Please check it out and if you have feedback of find bugs please feel free to shoot me a message.

Ask: Weekly newsletter from hackers/makers

Hey there, my name is Alin and today I wanted to share with you a new project that I'm working on. It's called BuildersOf - and it's a weekly newsletter with a dose of inspiration from people who are actually building stuff.For a few months now I keep on having this idea to build something... where developers & builders of any kind can share their everyday experiences (like status update,...

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