j-rom
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:56PM (#45880175)
I'm trying to improve the UX of my time-zone converter. I started with my dedicated converter pages, like /est-to-ist. The goal was to make it easier to identify which times are best for scheduling meetings:
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2025)
on Sunday November 02, 2025 @02:54PM (#45792900)
https://currenttimeutc.com/
It's a minimalist time zone converter. The real value add, in my opinion, is that it lets you look up multiple locations and add them all to list that updates in real-time. I built this a few years ago but I made a bunch of UX and quality of life changes recently. I have metrics around usage but I would be curious to chat with some users to get their take on how it can be improved.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
on Monday July 28, 2025 @09:43AM (#44710819)
https://rps.plus/
I built a competitive rock paper scissors game. It's got ranks, match-making, and a leaderboard.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
on Monday June 30, 2025 @07:08AM (#44421807)
A competitive rock-paper-scissors game. Something where replay-ability is high and low barrier to entry. I have completed most of the core features that I wanted and now I'm fine-tuning things, fixing bugs, etc...:
Re:Tippy Coco: A Free, Open-Source Game Inspired by Slime Volleyball
on Sunday May 04, 2025 @04:55PM (#43889500)
It was a game changer once I realized you could over the net. Super fun game!
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @09:59PM (#43840406)
I built a simple PDF invoice generator a few months ago. Been polishing that up recently: https://invoiceden.com/
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025)
on Monday February 24, 2025 @02:09AM (#43156621)
Trying to scratch my own itch by creating (yet another) todo list site. It's more for me than anyone else. I typically use a simple text file to track my tasks in a day but I wanted something just a little bit more. Still minimal but maybe 1 - 2 steps above editing a file.
Donezo: https://donezo.pages.dev/
Re:I got promoted to staff engineer twice
on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @05:38AM (#42565205)
I agree that consistently shipping "impactful" work is vital for getting to staff. And "impactful" changes from company to company.
Ask HN: What did you do during the holidays?
Re:Ask HN: 2025 Resolutions?
on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @02:30AM (#42564541)
What was your takeaway from having these days? Did you have a different mindset going into the week?
Re:Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @05:36AM (#42557846)
- Wake up (preferably no alarm)
- Do 1 set of pushups. As many as it takes to get to failure
- Brush teeth
- Fill up and drink full water bottle, 21 oz
- Eat protein bar
- Start reading through emails and creating todo list for the day
Re:Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @04:44PM (#39832625)
I recently built a simple tool for comparing timezones and I'm currently trying my hand at SEO to try to get more traffic.
Phalanx
Re:Cloudflare Thanksgiving 2023 Security Incident
on Thursday February 01, 2024 @09:40PM (#39224310)
> To ensure these systems are 100% secure, equipment in the Brazil data center was returned to the manufacturers. The manufacturers’ forensic teams examined all of our systems to ensure that no access or persistence was gained. Nothing was found, but we replaced the hardware anyway.
The thoroughness is pretty amazing
Re:Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
on Sunday January 21, 2024 @12:16PM (#39080368)
Reminds me of Pushbullet back in the day
Timeline of the Far Future
Re:Show HN: I Made a Sudoku Game
on Monday January 08, 2024 @01:13PM (#38915830)
Nice! 5:28
Show HN: I built a minimalist time zone converter
Re:Show HN: I made a tool to compare Timezones
on Saturday January 06, 2024 @11:11AM (#38892579)
Might I interest you in https://currenttimeutc.com/. This creates shareable dashboards with different cities, timezones, and airports.
Re:Show HN: I made a tool to compare Timezones
on Friday January 05, 2024 @10:08PM (#38887991)
Out of curiosity, would you prefer to see all the options laid out so you can quickly scan which ones would be optimal? Or would you prefer to click a button and then it just schedules the meeting for you?
Re:Show HN: I made a tool to compare Timezones
on Friday January 05, 2024 @09:33PM (#38887769)
Very cool! I like how you use a slider to update the times.
Shameless plug for my own site that does something similar: https://currenttimeutc.com/
Re:Ask HN: How do you promote your product outside of Reddit, HN, PH, ...
on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:04AM (#38159064)
Good to know! How do you go about promoting your tools? Is it also through your existing content network?
Re:Ask HN: How do you promote your product outside of Reddit, HN, PH, ...
on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:03AM (#38159062)
That's a good idea. I've considered that but my game is more similar to Wordle where it's a daily word game. It doesn't really fit in with the other games that streamers typically play. But if the goal is to simply get the word out, promoting it on a few streams might be the way to do it.
Re:Ask HN: How do you promote your product outside of Reddit, HN, PH, ...
on Sunday November 05, 2023 @02:46PM (#38154884)
Do you feel like doing the content is worth the ROI? I would basically be starting from zero and from what I've heard, it's a lot of effort to go from 0 -> 1.
Re:Ask HN: How do you promote your product outside of Reddit, HN, PH, ...
on Sunday November 05, 2023 @02:18PM (#38154584)
Agreed. But this can be tough if you don't already have an existing following. I was thinking of including something like a "Change log" on my site where when I launch a feature, the user gets a pop-up that says something like "Here's all the things that we launched while you were away".
Ask HN: How do you promote your product outside of Reddit, HN, PH, and IH?
Context: I have built a free web game that has a small, yet stable group of users that plays it daily. This was mostly through word-of-mouth. I posted on Reddit, Hacker News, Product Hunt, Indie Hackers but those didn't really yield a significant change in traffic or users.Is the only remaining option for growth to spend money on ads?
Re:Ask HN: Cloudflare Workers Are Down?
on Monday October 30, 2023 @04:12PM (#38075079)
Complete Pages outage for me. I have several sites hosted on Cloudflare Pages and I can't access any of them, they're all returning 500's.
Re:Ask HN: Show me your product with your competitors and differences
on Sunday October 29, 2023 @02:07PM (#38061073)
My product: https://emojirades.pages.dev/
A daily emoji + charades game where users are shown 3 emojis and have to guess the word.
With regards to gameplay and being a "daily" game, I drew inspiration from Wordle: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Re:Ask HN: Heroku Alternative for 2023?
on Monday October 23, 2023 @01:14AM (#37981878)
I've been using Cloudflare pages for the past few projects. It's fast to prototype and to get a quick proof-of-concept deployed and working.