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Re:Show HN: Add web analytics to a Google Doc in 20 seconds on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:53PM (#20754439)
So far it seems that people use it in a very different way from docsend. Usually people just put in a Google Form of survey and share the link.

For casual use cases, it's a lot faster to share than using docsend.

Re:Show HN: Add web analytics to a Google Doc in 20 seconds on Sunday August 18, 2019 @11:46PM (#20734729)
when I was desperate for early feedback... :]
Re:Compare Valuation History of Startups (such as Lime vs. Flexport) on Sunday March 31, 2019 @08:06PM (#19539330)
Hi HNers, I built this MVP over the weekend. Let me know if you find it interesting or useless ;)

Ask HN: What features you wish Google BigQuery could have?

Posted by khitcher on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:51PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hello friends!I'm a heavy user of Google BigQuery's web UI, usually using it for ad hoc analysis. IMO the UI is very hard to use, especially it lacks the basic IDE support like shortcuts etc.Therefore, I built a Chrome extension to improve it: https://medium.com/@kennyhitcher/banana-query-a-much-better-bigquery-ide-e98e76b0fc41 . This extension actually improves my efficiency a lot, mainly...

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Ask HN: MVP concept – find book lists of outstanding people

Posted by khitcher on Thursday November 01, 2018 @01:30AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi,I had this idea of collecting book lists of the people I admire, and over the weekend I built a MVP to show the concept: http://138.68.17.19/It's to solve my 2 questions around the people I admire: (1) what book did they read and recommend? (2) for a book I want to buy, who recommended it?I'm very curious about your opinions on this concept. Feedback is very appreciated :)Thanks

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Re:Show HN: a Yelp for iOS developers on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:19AM (#16646774)
This is exactly how I currently do it.

I found how inefficient this is when I talked about AsyncDisplayKit with my friends. My friends literally told me the anecdotes he heard from Pinterest and convinced me that it is not production-ready our project, even if it gets a lot of stars on github.

I figure that knowledge like this could be very helpful for a broad audience.

Show HN: a Yelp for iOS developers

Posted by khitcher on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:54AM
from the show-hn dept.

I came up with this idea "a Yelp for developers" when talking with my colleagues.My hypothesis is that, it would be very helpful if we know more about a library before choosing to use it. It's similar to that we want to know more about a restaurant by checking Yelp before visiting it.For example, there're a lot of videos on Youtube advocating how great AsyncDisplayKit (an performant UI...

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Is app UI testing broken?

Posted by khitcher on Saturday January 27, 2018 @11:50PM
from the self-post dept.

I found that app UI test is usually really hard to set up. What do you think?I'm currently working in an app company, where we spend most of the time creating new features. It becomes increasingly often that engineers break previous features, sometimes important ones.Testings are almost always done manually here, as it's often considered impractical to write all the test cases given the time...

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Re:Show HN: A web crawler for image-rich tech news on Saturday January 27, 2018 @07:10PM (#16248880)
I created the site last weekend and launched it on Tuesday.

It's mainly for catering 2 of my habits:

1. Frequently refreshing tech news sites like TechCrunch and HN; 2. Browse through text quickly but pause at each image.

So far I found it useful so I shared it here. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

Hack over weekend: an AT&T bill splitter

Posted by khitcher on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:19AM
from the self-post dept.

Going along the principle that YC advocates, "solve a real problem for yourself", last weekend I whipped out this web app that splits AT&T wireless bill automatically.It's deployed at http://198.199.111.180/It would be great if people here can give some feedback on this. As the developer I obviously feel that I'm looking at it way too close to judge it.The motivation of building it is quite...

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