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Re:SaaS RFP – post and bid on SaaS in public
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:52PM (#50001102)
I was upset at how much I pay for b2b saas when I was only using a handful of features. Not quite things I would vibe code either.
I realized how annoying it was to shop around for new SaaS where everyone has different functionality. The goal with this is to apple to apples with a public RFP process where other people can see as well and publicly bid.
814M Tokens for <$500 with Cursor
Re:814M Tokens for <$500 with Cursor
on Monday December 22, 2025 @11:01PM (#46362306)
Is this just literally bleeding money?
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing puts input token pricing at $3/M tokens. Assuming this was ALL input, that's over $2400 in API for $40/month
Show HN: An AI That Builds Personalized Reading Lists
Ask HN: Best way to do coding screens?
Our interview process is fairly quick: 1. 15 minute phone call 2. 30 minute coding challenge on zoom 3. Paid onsiteWhat we’re struggling with is many people are passing the first phone call and then completely flipping the coding challenge. Many of the applicants don’t know how to code. These are people with 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.How do you structure your interview...
Re:Ask HN: Extract text and translate on every PR
on Sunday May 18, 2025 @04:53PM (#44024246)
That's cool! We used machine translate to hindi for this which made it super obvious what was english / not as it was different character set (but made it hard to navigate)
Looking for something to help with DX though here, not QA
Ask HN: Extract text and translate on every PR
One of the most tedious parts of frontend dev for our team is making sure all text is extracted to query strings for translation. We use i18n, and it’s great, but a lot falls through the cracks.Have you set something up for your org on every pull request that pulls out text?
Ask HN: What books are you reading?
React has not had a new release since June 2022
Plaid to remove their development environment, require testing in production
We just got an email that Plaid is going to be killing its development environment and they will give us "credits to test in our development environment"
Cloudflare is experiencing elevated 5xx responses
appears to be down for many websites see https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Google adding Google Meet to all meetings?
Has anyone else experienced google silently turning on Google Meet links being added to all Google Calendar events?
Ask HN: Best way to keep up with industry trends
Since starting a company I have been exposed to a lot less of how modern day engineering organizations are run. E.g. learning about new tools, frameworks, and best practices.Other than reading HN, what's the best way to keep up with new developments?
Ask HN: What is the correct product/eng cadence for a seed stage startup?
How often should we be releasing new products or features?Is it better to release something buggy and broken vs something more basic but working?I know this is vague, but I'm looking for more general heuristics I can apply rather than direct advice. Any resources or benchmarks here would be really helpful!
Re:Hello world in every computer language
on Sunday May 22, 2022 @02:13PM (#31471089)
I wrote a Coffee table book on this! https://hellobook.io/
Milk alternatives produce up to 4.5x less greenhouse gas emissions as milk
Re:Stripe Crypto
on Thursday March 10, 2022 @12:17PM (#30629431)
Some high quality humor on the page with "Cube Thingy 1", "Cube Thingy 2", and "Cube Thingy 3"
Re:Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong
on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:52PM (#30523885)
You were one of my biggest inspirations for going into software engineering, I absolutely loved your website in high school and would always mess around with the source code to your games. Happy to see you’re still going!
Spinlaunch completes suborbital launch without engine
Ask HN: Employee Anniversary Gifts
We are approaching our first employee's one year anniversary. We want to do something nice for him, but also set a fun precedent. What are good work anniversary ideas / gifts that mean well and show our appreciation?
Re:Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)
on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:41PM (#28638385)
My slack bot is a dictionary for acronyms at work https://tryplayground.slack.com/apps/AKCHPAYCC-acronym-bot
Re:Figmage: I don't mess with images (2020)
on Saturday August 07, 2021 @10:27PM (#28103764)
Great idea. Bought immediately, this has always been a pain for me
Re:Bluehost Stores Passwords in Plaintext "last four characters of you...
on Monday April 26, 2021 @01:39PM (#26945429)
You are required to give them your last 4 characters of your password over phone support in order to cancel.
FortressOne – Zero Setup Firewall
Re:Launch HN: Cohere (YC S20) – Real-time user support for web apps
on Thursday October 29, 2020 @11:19AM (#24931449)
We work with many people who are new to technology, and something like this is exactly what we are looking for to help walk our customers through our product. Amazing idea!
Re:An opinionated history of programming languages
on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:46PM (#24674896)
A fun coffee table book on a bunch of different programming langauges https://hellobook.io/
Re:Ask HN: Starting a company blog, what should I know for SEO?
on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:13PM (#24014178)
Thank you! This is valuable information.
Re:Ask HN: Starting a company blog, what should I know for SEO?
on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:12PM (#24014168)
We've written approx. 20 google docs that we have been sending directly to clients with information and are now trying to formalize the information by publishing them as blog posts. So hopefully this process is sound
Ask HN: Starting a company blog, what should I know for SEO?
I am working on a SAAS startup and want to start posting to a blog for SEO and to refer our customers to our posts for information. What are things I should know for SEO? I think we are going to go with Wordpress.Does it matter if it's blog.website.com vs website.com/blog? Does it help to have posts link between each other? Are there a list of meta tags I need to take into account? Thanks!