jfornear

Hi HN, I built this as a weekend side project to try automating personal finance tasks like expense tracking, reports, and taxes with AI.

It’s open source if anyone wants to run it locally or experiment with it: https://github.com/jfornear/nullbook https://nullbook.ai

  Location: Dallas, TX
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Figma, Sketch, Python, Django, React, React Native, AWS (S3, CloudFront, Lambda), Cloudflare, Heroku, Postgres
  Résumé/CV: https://read.cv/jfornear
  Email: [email protected]

Hello, I'm Jesse, a product designer and front-end software engineer with experience designing and building web and mobile apps for early-stage startups in social networking, healthcare, internet of things, EV analytics, and SaaS.

Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockmann (https://amzn.to/3Mzt5AB) is my favorite design book, but I just use an 8x8 grid since it became the standard on iOS.

Cool idea! I would use something like this to discover AI-related Python starter apps and guides to integrate AI into my projects.

I built a free Django and React starter repo for https://learndjangoreact.com, and can share some feedback from that perspective:

1) I’m hesitant to post it because I don’t want to create a new account or connect my GitHub to promote a free repo.

2) I think Google is good enough for anyone looking for a Django and React starter app, especially since I already have a site for it. GitHub search is pretty good too.

3) I built my starter app mostly for myself to build new ideas faster, and I already moved on to a new idea (https://mailgrid.app) — so any effort spent on this feels like energy taken from that, etc.

4) I think new developers should pick whatever stack that inspires them, and I don’t expect my starter app to appeal to a wide audience.

Hope that helps!

I've been running https://chat.dog for 7 years — don't spend any time on it but it's a fun side project. Building https://mailgrid.app now.

I love Django. Inspired me to start an open source project for gaps in their docs like setting up a local development environment, using React for the frontend, adding Google Analytics, deploying to Heroku/AWS, etc.

https://learndjangoreact.com/tutorial

https://learndjangoreact.com/docs/add-google-analytics

I started https://learndjangoreact.com/tutorial to be concise and easy to navigate with good examples.

I made https://jfornear.com with Jekyll and GitHub Pages. I haven’t updated it since 2019... I’ve been focused on building https://pinjour.com lately.

Readability has improved with the latest typography updates. App looks nice. I mostly read emails but find some newsletters get annoying with too many low-quality updates. I wonder if you could test throttling email notifications for newsletters with low open rates, etc.

Excited to launch this. If you're into birding, fly fishing, hiking, travel photography, etc., try it out and let me know what you think so far!

Great guide, looks nice on mobile. Most personal blogs on HN could benefit from following this. :)

I've been using DGG and find myself switching to Google for maps, images, news, and sports scores and schedules—Google has really built out over the years.

I think one way to look at it is that minimum viable products can easily be “viable“ in the short run and still fail in the long run due to lack of vision and willpower, grit, or conviction.

HR professionals will tell you that many people lie about their compensation. This is probably not worth talking about without sharing your pay stubs or tax returns.

Created https://chat.dog/startup-school to follow Startup School over the next few weeks!

Started an open chat to follow Startup School—will post videos, etc. https://chat.dog/startup-school

Building a personal site is initially a design and time management exercise.

Set aside a few hours a night, and before getting into Vue.js, CSS, etc., jot down a list of pages, sketch out a layout, and gather inspiration for the visual style and any creative ideas you want to add.

I recently learned this the hard way. I changed my phone number after moving cities, and AT&T just leased my old number to someone else!

Intentionally building Chatdog (https://chat.dog) to not require a phone number.

No the name just came out of the fun dog icon, which was inspired by Neko Atsume and Big Dogs.

Thanks for the feedback! This is an early release and there are definitely additional features planned.

Hi HN,

I started on a new project called Chatdog (https://chat.dog) to create an alternative to Telegram, et al. Telegram forces you to download their app and provide your phone number to join a room. Chatdog doesn’t require any personal data and can be used pseudonymously or even anonymously!