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Re:Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:08AM (#50205022)
Software used to solve problems for users. Now AI is solving most problems for users, but not all (although ever increasing). I think software needs to evolve to solve the category of problems that AI is not (yet) good at. For example very hard (extreme long horizon) problems in digital space which are still expensive to solve. Some domains overlapping with real-world and restricted/regulated industries are also not yet disrupted by AI to the level regular SaaS is. To get ahead one needs to start in those domains now, as it will get much harder once AI will start eating them.
Re:Chuck Norris has died
on Friday March 20, 2026 @10:39AM (#47455226)
Wishing him speedy recovery! Legend
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:17PM (#46223138)
Unpark - Domain Activation Engine. I built this to solve my own problem of having 30+ parked domains. Instantly generates and deploys a simple AI website to any parked domain. For domain hoarders who aren't web developers.
Re:Learning a foreign language–before you're born
on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @02:45AM (#45500049)
I think about this quite often, as 2 of my kids were born in Ireland, but grew up elsewhere (Slavic country). I speak English with them, but so do some of my friends/neighbors with their kids. The other kids would seldom speak English though, while my kids seem to default to English somehow. Btw. they left Ireland when they were 2y and 9months old (now 9 and 7), never attended daycare there, were only exposed to English at grocery stores, doctors etc. My point is, the early exposure to the language seem to make huge difference. I'm sure it's a combination of other things too but I'd say it is definitely a strong factor.
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Re:Flightcontrol: AWS PaaS
on Monday October 06, 2025 @10:48AM (#45492025)
I think the problem with these general-purpose PaaS on top of Cloud is exactly that they're general-purpose. You will run into limitations and issues as soon as you start doing things only 5-10% of their customers need, like for example running privileged docker containers in kubernetes or wanting to manage parts of your infra with terraform.
I'd much rather see tools helping me deploy one particular niche use case in Cloud really well.
BTW I'm trying to follow this mantra while building https://staticbot.dev
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
on Monday June 30, 2025 @05:09AM (#44421080)
I'm building StaticBot.dev. I was surprised how tedious the manual setup for hosting static websites on AWS infra still was after 2 decades in the industry, and as I wanted to put a few websites out there to test waters for some ideas I had recently, decided to tackle it myself. So basically scratching very own specific itch: deploying and managing a fleet of static project websites in AWS infrastructure with IaC and nice UI. I wouldn't myself use something with (hidden) vendor lock-in, so opted for "hybrid" approach where user can deploy conveniently using the tool but has up-to-date terraform code avaiable in s3 so can take over project deployment anytime. Not much of a business mind so I might open source the whole thing later on (though the value of code kind of plumetted lately as AI can generate it so well).
Jean Michel Jarre and Brian May Starmus Concert Livestream [video]
Re:Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @09:12AM (#40210633)
Is it roughly correct to think the speed of the camera in the ESA video would be 683,280,000 times the speed of light? Considering the zoom in took ~1 minute, and that's the number of minutes in 1300 years (the distance to Horsehead Nebula).
Re:Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
on Thursday August 19, 2021 @10:47AM (#28234504)
For me it's Scott Smith's blog post series describing his current journey after being diagnosed with ALS (Stephen Hawking's disease) as a young father of two little girls. There are unique perspectives on gratitude and how to stand strong in the face of one of the cruelest afflictions life might throw at you.
Ask HN: Do you identify your website’s visitors?
If yes, what do you do with the identified companies/persons?From technical point, are you using a 3rd party service, a custom solution, or Google API?Also, if you have any opinion on privacy/ethics of doing this, curious to hear what you think.
Re:Ask HN: How much money do you have?
on Sunday January 24, 2021 @02:18PM (#25894865)
Just curious - do you invest in startups?
Re:Ask HN: Stuck with an unpronounceable product name
on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:20AM (#20233778)
'"Third option is to launch a clone of the product with a different name, use it for capturing the ad traffic and then direct it towards the original product. This seems workable, but also a bit too experimental for comfort."'
You might also have the option to twist the above - similar to what I did with my product http://exmerg.com. I created a copy of it at http://gridoc.com and directed the traffic from the old product to the new one. Users gradually started going directly to the new one (gridoc) and the original web is now almost forgotten.
Re:Ask HN: Low self confidence and self esteem. How to improve?
on Monday May 20, 2019 @10:44AM (#19960807)
If you think that you are lucky to have good friends and helpful colleagues, maybe turn it around and think to yourself - they are lucky to have me!
Personally, I consider people who are humble or even low self-esteem as more interesting. Maybe it even correlates with intelligence? Idk, but the fact that you might feel like you lack confidence can actually make you look more interesting to people.
I know many people (including me) who try to minimize contact with with over-confident people when possible.
Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
on Saturday April 20, 2019 @03:32AM (#19705282)
Running a 1-man SaaS as a side-project has been one of the best things career wise. It helped me gain a different perspective on software (design, devops, sales, support etc.) in general. Being able to bring some of that experience into my day-time jobs was really rewarding.
The Saas i'm running is Gridoc (https://gridoc.com) - it pays for the car and a few bills. I'm pretty sure it could be doing better but it has been on auto-pilot for a couple years now (started a family).
Announcing Sencha Ext Community Edition
100 Days of ML Code
A pretty easy way to discover how Soundex works can be playing with http://gridoc.com/fuzzy-matching/ - a tool for fuzzy record matching that supports Soundex and Levenshtein Distance.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of the tool.
Re:Problems with CSVs (2016)
on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @08:03AM (#16810243)
52. All tools working with CSV follow RFC 4180[1]
Ask HN: Successful switch away from SaaS?
What other delivery models have you tried? How were you satisfied with the outcomes? Thanks!
Re:How Vienna produced ideas that shaped the West
on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:21AM (#13283432)
"Vienna was the heart of an Austro-Hungarian empire of about 53m people that stretched from Innsbruck in the west almost as far as the Black Sea in the east. After 1867 the empire was divided into two: a Magyar-dominated Hungary, ruled from Budapest, and a heterogeneous, multi-ethnic, multilingual other half, ruled from Vienna."
In all fairness the Magyar-dominated Hungary could be attributed the same attributes, it was multi-ethnic and multilingual, especially in the suburban areas of the kingdom.
Ethnic map from 1910 [1] shows it pretty well (Croatia and Slavonia were left out from the picture).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary#/media/File...
Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:20PM (#12568043)
I'm in desperate need of scalable Apache Spark cluster available through API that would make it easy to submit jobs that could process arbitrary size datasets but would let me abstract away the scaling part of the problem. I don't understand how there's nothing like that already considering popularity of Spark.
Re:Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?
on Sunday September 04, 2016 @04:40PM (#12426605)
Not exactly give away or sell, rather looking for a partner that could make http://exmerg.com better. If interested ping me at sevce at bitfictioncom.
Re:Request For Research: Basic Income
on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @03:34PM (#10983050)
Basic income introduces a few drawbacks:
- talented people will not need to do consulting or daytime jobs to support their startups or side-project, which can lead to them living in a bubble
- there will always be people who spend all their income on gambling, drugs, sex, whatever - with basic income they just have more cash to waste (although this could be controlled somehow)
- low-skilled jobs aren't going anywhere soon - how do we want to motivate people to do jobs like garbage collection or road maintenance - this is already a problem in countries with exuberant social systems like France
Re:WebSockets: caution required
on Thursday December 31, 2015 @09:37AM (#10817685)
I don't think WebSockets belong on a website (even an interactive one as discourse...
From the article "Discourse does not use WebSockets. Discourse docker ships with HTTP/2 templates."
The whole article is worth reading. It looks like the author is well aware the WebSockets limitations.
Re:Otto, the successor to Vagrant
on Monday September 28, 2015 @03:48PM (#10292696)
Did you try http://www.openshift.org? The self-hosted version is basically what you described, at least for the JVM languages.
Re:Passive income sources (summer 2015)
on Saturday July 25, 2015 @06:29PM (#9949285)
In 2014 I have worked on http://exmerg.com but it wasn't until recently for it to start generating some passive income. Still, the infrastructure costs (AWS) are higher than the revenue, so money wise the balance is passive (not counting the hours spent building the service which I could use for client work).
The positive side effect of building it was having additional source of motivation to learn new things in various fields like UI/UX design, cloud services, business operations and other SaaS related stuff.
The main lesson it taught me was how much hidden work needs to be done to attract users and monetize a web service. I think a start-up that would make it easier to deploy, maintain and monetize web services would be an interesting one.
Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
on Monday March 30, 2015 @04:56PM (#9292552)
Felix Dennis (†2014)
What’s It Like Then, Being Rich?
What’s it like then, being rich,
Knitting gold to warm an itch?
Very much like being poor;
Wealth is just a key — no more.
To luxury — and start with me!
Surely better that you earn it;
Could I trust you to return it?
Is it bred in mothers’ milk?
Many paths can lead to riches,
Few in sunlight, most in ditches.
From us — this odd ambivalence?
Envy, malice, obligations;
Toadying from poor relations.
Why would any rich man labour?
Wealth is salt in wine immersed,
Quaffing but excites the thirst.
How many homes does one man need?
For some the trick’s in trading it;
For others, in parading it.
Perched on padded Chippendales?
When affluence holds no surprise,
Wonders come in other guise.
What might you miss, if you were poor?
Time. The luxury of choices.
First editions. Old Rolls-Royces.
Re:Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma
on Saturday February 14, 2015 @07:03AM (#9049454)
Regarding the switching between different subjects or projects, what helped me was to quickly write down TODO notes of actions I should immediately take when picking up the subject again. For example "Finish exercise X", "Watch lecture Y" or "Run unit tests of project Z".
I found my self dive in to the subject much faster when there was no need to think about where to start.
Re:San Francisco and L.A. sue Uber
on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @04:33AM (#8728419)
I second that. Every time Quora digest appears in my mailbox it manages to grab my attention for couple of minutes at least.