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Re:Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Thursday June 20, 2024 @11:24AM (#40739781)
The docs should be updated now. Thanks for catching this!
Re:Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Thursday June 20, 2024 @11:22AM (#40739762)
Someone who has built infrastructure or system prompts that use Opus will probably continue with Opus until they verify that everything works on Sonnet 3.5
Re:Ask HN: Who needs beta testers? (February 2023) on Thursday February 02, 2023 @02:18AM (#34623270)
https://app.growtopline.com/signup

Product description: We’re making the simplest tools to find churn, growth, and cash flow metrics for SaaS businesses. We connect to your Stripe and Quickbooks accounts to create a dashboard of useful insights without any configuration.

We need help making sure our math is right, and we’re offering the product for free in exchange for your feedback.

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If you’d prefer to join our waitlist, go ahead and add your email on growtopline.com

https://docsite.io

A dead simple tool to turn Google Docs (and Google Dive folders with many Docs inside) into published websites. It looks good on mobile, is super fast, and it uses the exact same formatting that appears in the original doc.

It was inspired by an HN post, but I can’t seem to find it.

I’d love to get some feedback!

Re:Ask HN: Where to get help with a hardware idea? on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:21AM (#34326161)
Look up an “Engineering Consulting Firm”. They’ll be able to tell you if they can help usually in an hour conversation.

https://outer-space.co/

https://www.delve.com/services/engineering/electrical-softwa...

Re:Ask HN: Can one be self-employed fixing bugs? on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:21PM (#33385463)
Yes! Try Codementor (codementor.io).

I used their platform to work as an on-demand bug fixed for dozens of companies while working on my own schedule. At first, you have to build up relationships with 1:1 development help. It doesn’t take long to become familiar enough with your clients for them to ask you for your help on their trickiest problems.

The biggest issue (and the reason I no longer work there) is that the work is sporadic. Time spent fixing bugs is lost time you could have spent getting new clients, which leads to a sort of boom/bust work schedule.

Ask HN: Is there a site to find good code examples?

Frequently I would like to find an example of a project using a framework/language/package well. Sometimes live examples are more helpful than reading the docs because a good example has all of the context and imports that docs frequently ignore. Stack overflow similarly does not include enough context to make larger decisions.Some queries this site might answer:- “find a react project that...

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Anyone who works in automotive manufacturing/pricing: what does the touchscreen/cameras/“smart” part of the vehicle cost? I’d love to buy a “dumb” chassis/motor/battery/interior from Toyota (for example) and plop in a tactile console with a simpler controller. I wonder if there’s a market for something like that at a possibly lower price point.
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Did you try clicking the "Disable marketing redirect" button? That removes the redirect.
The thing I made is an opt-in redirect. If you don't want to be redirected from marketing -> app, then you wouldn't click the "Always go to app" button. No content wrapping, no installations, no change in behavior for anyone who doesn't opt in to the redirect. I made it because I often think "I'd like to see how my CI is doing", and then I type "circleci.com", and land on their marketing page instead of the app dashboard at "app.circleci.com".
Yea I agree. For some reason marketing teams love to make the "log in" link tiny, if they include it at all.
I think a nice feature of the thing I made is a button that lets users opt in to the redirect. I agree that it would be bad UX to prevent your paying customers from seeing the marketing page if they wanted to.
On top of the lack of redirect, the login button is tiny
Happy to help :)
Great idea. Thanks!

Show HN: Redirect your customers from your marketing page to your app

Hi HN!I've gotten a bit frustrated by going to `datadog.com` instead of `app.datadog.com`. I know that I could use a chrome extension to do this redirect for me (I do). But since this is a painful UX, I think that SaaS companies should do something to improve it for all of their users.So I made `marketing-redirect`, a quick bit of HTML to put on a marketing page that lets customers get...

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Re:Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make? on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:08PM (#26958665)
I totally agree - Plaid seems like a good existing but insecure "API" that most people probably don't care that they're giving their login info to.
Re:Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make? on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:05PM (#26958639)
I love this idea. I would absolutely use it.
Re:Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make? on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:04PM (#26958620)
That last part really blows my mind. You would think that recurring outbound transfers would be totally common right now.

I totally agree that Plaid makes sense, but it frightens me a bit that you have to give your username and password to Plaid.

Re:Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make? on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:02PM (#26958594)
Read only makes sense. I imagine you would have to go into your settings to enable the API in the first place. The scariest thing for me about the current banking system is that my account + routing number acts like a key that can remove money from my checking account.

I totally agree that most banks have terrible UIs. I think the opensource community could do a much better job. I hadn't thought of notifications but I think it would be great.

Re:Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make? on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:59PM (#26958555)
These are great ideas! One of my biggest wishes would be to have my transaction and balance histories.

Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make?

I've always hated how apps like Mint and WealthFront require my plaintext username and password, so I was thinking about how those apps could be improved with by accessing my bank's API on my behalf. Unfortunately, I've never heard of a bank with an open API, but I'm curious to hear what you would make if your bank had an API.

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That's a great essay - interesting to see how things could have been and used to be.

Aside, this article is now the #1 post. Seems you've got a good taste in reading. Any other recommendations?

Interesting! I'd never heard of these
Re:Ask HN: What is the worst product you still use? on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:11PM (#25936127)
https://www.dmv.com/

For a sight that is so necessary to most Americans, it's really lacking in basic information and excessive in unnecessary information

Is there a service like Shopify for SaaS products?

Shopify offers everything I need to sell physical goods, but I'd like to sell a piece of software I wrote as a subscription. Based on experience and a cursory google search, it seems like Shopify isn't a great choice for SaaS products. On top of the website/marketing/payment/analytics services Shopify provides, I'd love to get subscriptions, cohort analytics, API docs hosting, signup/cancel...

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