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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:33AM (#23615276)
Would you mind sharing your side project? That's awesome.
Re:Show HN: Refjar.com – bookmark links and fetch online discussions on Sunday May 06, 2018 @03:50PM (#17008116)
Great idea! Do you plan to make it paid at some point - referring to the Sign up and try for free note?

The biggest issue I have with bookmarking (apart from a better interface - which your app addresses) is link rot. I think adding a permalink (maybe by default?) would take this to the next level. Perma.cc has a nice API last time I checked :)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017) on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:27PM (#15150547)
Shopify | Toronto, ON | FULL TIME | ON-SITE

https://www.shopify.com/careers/production-engineer-edgescal...

Shopify is hiring experienced Site-Reliability Engineers in Toronto.

If you're into Kubernetes, networking, and the challenge of pushing commerce forwards sounds appealing to you - consider joining us :)

Re:36 to Love: Gorgeous Android and iOS apps based on the 36 questions... on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @10:52AM (#9334438)
Thanks for the upvotes guys - this is my first app, and it's going to be on the Steve Harvey show today!

How do I figure out where this blast of traffic to my website is coming from?

Posted by andrewlouis93 on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @10:38AM
from the self-post dept.

I made a small pet project (that doesn't even seem to have proper SEO tags) called p4kprowler (http://p4kprowler.meteor.com) which helps you sift through Pitchfork album ratings.I made it around July. Showed it off a little bit of Hacker News, and over here on some niche sub-reddits. Tested out a google adwords using this site, didn't bring in anything substantial. I was averaging out 100 hits...

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Re:Show HN: P4K Prowler - A Pitchfork Reviews Scraper built in Meteor.js on Sunday July 06, 2014 @06:18PM (#7996102)
Thank you for checking it out!

Not in particular apart from the fact that my first web development project ever which I put out last December was done in Meteor: http://mixtape.meteor.com. It was a collaborative YouTube playlist app.

Since then I've worked with other more mature MVC frameworks, but I find that I'm still able to produce my weekend projects a lot faster using Meteor. I also like the free hosting (and easy deployment) on a .meteor domain it offers.

Re:Show HN: P4K Prowler - A Pitchfork Reviews Scraper built in Meteor.js on Sunday July 06, 2014 @06:11PM (#7996075)
Yes! I do want to keep working on this. I would like to build a small user base and get input on what could feature should be worked on next.

I have in mind user generated and share-able lists, and trending albums is also a very reasonable possibility. Also, the searches do not offer too many input parameters to the search so that is something I would like to fix.

Since you've posted that, I've changed how the search is done and it should be a lot more responsive now. I have access to Pitchfork's autocomplete API so I could use that to work around the problem possibly. Do you have any ideas about this?

Thank you for the thoughtful input.

Re:Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday on Saturday April 26, 2014 @06:18PM (#7652971)
This is sick. I haven't looked into other website localizing solutions, but how is this approach better than what's currently being used in industry?
Re:Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday on Saturday April 26, 2014 @06:15PM (#7652959)
Been working on my first Rails app for a few http://sixtasks.heroku.com because I think the idea of a to-do list is powerful, but the concept needs refining.

Also, I wanted to be able to track my productivity in a tangible way, and Six Tasks helps me do that: http://i.imgur.com/5bbLxJo.png

Trying to add features like smarter task recording, and maybe tagging list items, idk I'm just making it up as I go along

Show HN: mixtape – A Meteor.js Collaborative Playlist Web-App

Posted by andrewlouis93 on Sunday April 20, 2014 @01:08AM
from the show-hn dept.

http://mixtape.meteor.com/

Mixtape was an attempt to export the YouTube playlist making functionality to a nicer interface that makes social playlists a lot easier.You can share a playlist with a friend using the share button below, pass the URL to a friend (or bookmark it for yourself!), and you guys can start adding or deleting songs or videos in real-time, as long as you guys are on the same link.Ask me any questions...

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Re:Show HN: mixtape. An unintrusive collaborative playlist webapp on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @12:17PM (#7018387)
Author here! I listen to a lot of music on YouTube, and found the native YouTube playlists next to useless, so I wound up making this clean and collaborative playlist webapp to solve this problem, and of course to get my hands dirty with Meteor!

Show HN: mixtape. An unintrusive collaborative playlist webapp

Posted by andrewlouis93 on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @11:41AM
from the show-hn dept.

http://mixtape.meteor.com

Made it in Meteor over the last semester and winter break. I use YouTube to listen to music, and found native YouTube playlists to be nearly unuseable - so I made mixtape. A simple, no-bs webapp that does exactly what you want.You also have the ability to collaborate on your playlist, by sharing it using the link generated for you below!

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