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Re:Show HN: Your Open Source CV on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:32PM (#36981024)
Looks cool! However, I'm not the biggest fan on quantifying impact just by number of PRs. Maybe something that adds the most relevant issues solved using some heuristic and conversion to bullet style CV achievements would be really cool! (maybe using some LLM now that they're trendy :p)
Looks really pretty. Would love to be able to use the output from previous requests into future requests as it's always annoying to change the input based on the previous responses.
Re:Show HN: Record voice memo, receive transcription in email on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:07PM (#33279223)
It looks so cool! I'd love to have the transcript send to places other than email. I'm thinking of either a chat app like WhatsApp and Telegram or a productivity app like Notion to keep a more organized journal.
Re:How to check if any word is zero on Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:55PM (#33279053)
Interesting! It'd be nice to benchmark to see if there are any practical difference in terms of speed.
Re:Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:26PM (#33267528)
This looks to cool I didn't know anything about perceptual hashing but the idea makes a lot of sense. I'm curious if the system lose its effectiveness if a user shifts an image a few pixels, reflects it, or apply a certain filter that makes all pixels have a slightly different tonality. I'm also thinking of some system maybe a small ML program that applies a minimal amount of noise to the image such that to the human eye it looks the same but pixel-wise is totally different.
I think $40 a year just for the split feature is a little too much. However, adding more useful features for manipulating CSV files would probably change my mind about it. For example, doing some reorder or preprocess of the files as if people split into X files they'll have to do that action X times if they do it in Excel directly.
Re:Ask HN: What is your primary password manager? on Sunday July 04, 2021 @02:01PM (#27731449)
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Ask HN: What's the most painful thing to do on Excel

Hi! I'm currently trying to find an interesting problem to solve and I've seem that a lot of people keep using Excel in their day-to-day lives. Many products out there try to replace Spreadsheets with some "from-scratch" solution.However, I think that it'd be interesting to build things on top of Excel that basically improve on top of the main pain points.With that said, I wanted to ask y'all...

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Re:Startup Cashflow Manifesto on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:22AM (#27311700)
This is great! I've seen cases of colleagues having issues with their startups because they notice cashflow was not great almost too late. We wanna help startups with that so we're working on this https://tryhorizon.co/. It'd be awesome to get some feedback on it :D
Hi HN! We've been working on a Google Sheets add-on for syncing data from bank accounts into your Sheets.

We're focusing on startups as we've seen that founders are the first "financial" people in the company and they can have a hard time measuring and forecasting their finances (e.g. cashflow, runway).

Why Google Sheets? Because we've seen that people have access to other platform but many end up downloading data from there and importing it to a Spreadsheet as its more flexible with the number crunching and data manipulation they need.

Is this like an accounting software? No, we don't want to deal with complex accounting-related regulatory stuff. Instead, we want to help founders to easily access and keep updated the financial data they may need to make important decisions.

We're initially supporting bank data using Plaid but we want to add more integrations and features that make this process easier for founders.

We'd love to know your feedback and the experiences you've had dealing with financial data in your companies. Also, we're currently in private beta so if you're interested please leave us your email in the website :)

Hi! great question!

I'd say that compared to redis you can get started faster with pandora. I'm not an expert in redis but IIRC you'd need to do the setup/configuration which is what I'm trying to avoid with pandora by getting ready-to-use services pretty fast.

Also, compared to a JSON store service, pandora is kind of similar at the moment. However, in pandora you can have more control over your service by configuring permissions about which operations are public or private or even disabled. Also, you can use a custom domain and pandora will generate the SSL certificate on the background so you can have your own service under your own domain and with custom permissions.

Let me know if this answer your questions and if you have further questions/feedback :)

Thanks! Well I think I just found it very time-consuming to get started and get to the point I was aiming to get (having a simple service under some domain with SSL). I'd say as they've got a bunch of different products their docs are not as straightforward to dive in. With Pandora I got this working in less than a minute :D which was pretty awesome for my use-case.

Show HN: Pandora – Zero config key-value database services

Hi everyone!So a couple of weeks ago I was building a chrome extension for crawling data and uploading it somewhere online for further exploration. I found myself struggling a lot with this as I found every solution I tried hard to implement (Firebase, Mongo Atlas, EC2). I mean I only needed a simple endpoint in which I was able to set and get JSON data with some key. In the end I made a small...

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