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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Monday June 30, 2025 @07:28PM (#44429011)
Interesting, nice landing page. But I wonder if users care that it is "AI-native" As in, do users look for contract generation or eSignature that is infused with AI? Or rather are users interested in their own "job to be done" - whether that be creating a contract, agreement, or getting it signed efficiently.
Can you help me understand why you need to use a bunch of python scripts to generate the PDF?

Couldn’t you just make it in Adobe InDesign? Cool item, btw. I used to play saxophone years back.

I sometimes screenshot an entire w full page, sometimes just a portion with a manual crop with Screenshot Minus extemsion. I only want to index the part I capture and search the content within.
I take a lot of screenshots for work doing competitive analysis with Chrome Extension Screenshot Minus, which are saved to Dropbox.

Now, what problem do I actually have that I have sought out a solution for but couldn't find? The abilty to automatically search these screenshots' content. eg. I know I took a screen of a certain site and want to find it quickly, without estimating when it was captured and previewing images around that date and hope to find it.

Accomplish this by either OCR on the images and index the content to make is searchable or save the HTML of the page with the image and index that.

I've looked into OneNote, Evernote and although they have some OCR it's meant for taking pictures of documents and doesn't kill my pain.

Put that in a Chrome extension and service I would gladly pay for that since it solves a real pain that costs me time and had too much friction.

Well my friend raised over $6,000 on IndieGoGo [1] to buy homes at the foreclosure auctions to give to the families who live in them. There's a potluck tomorrow with all the families and funders to celebrate the success.

I could see many more of this type of effort in Detroit being successful.

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-tricycle-collective

Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday on Sunday April 06, 2014 @03:55PM (#7542525)
Along these lines, what if the tabs could pop back up at a certain day/time or if you could just snooze tabs? I see people use tabs as a pseudo todo list. Reminding you to do, schedule, research, or buy something. What if you could continue to use tabs that way, yet not clog up your computer, use up memory, or distract you from getting stuff done with open tabs.
Re:Banks need to take on Amazon and Google or die on Sunday December 08, 2013 @07:24PM (#6872229)
One weird thing you can't do with Simple is deposit cash directly through any ATM. They do not allow that. The only way is to get a cashier's check or similar instrument OR deposit cash in an account that does accept cash then transfer the money (and wait several days for it to clear)
Re:"Crowdfunding will never raise that kind of money" on Monday October 21, 2013 @03:56PM (#6587804)
I just couldn't let that quote slip by without responding.
Re:Genderize.io determines the gender of a first name on Thursday August 08, 2013 @12:43PM (#6180073)
I've thought about this before, you also should be able to get a somewhat accurate estimate of the median age of a group of attendees to an event based on the first names alone. See Baby Name Wizard Voyager tool for visualizations of first name occurences since 1900s: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager
So this is aimed at more at "coding literacy" than being able to actually use code to accomplish something. Perhaps the answer is less focus on syntax and more on how the pieces fit together. eg. what is an API? Why would your app want one? Here are some real world examples of how it is used in a simple web app.
One could also build a version of this with a Raspberry Pi, LCD screen an a little scripting for less than $60.
Re:Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @02:35PM (#5752855)
You should look into Housefed, it was a startup that did a very similar thing, the person is now doing Tindie.
And the scraper is using a "logged in" ebay account, correct? Because I believe to view completed listings you need to be logged in.
Can you dive more into the technical details of this, eg. are you using the ebay API or are you scraping the data?
Re:Show HN: RewindHN - Go back in Hacker News history on Sunday November 11, 2012 @01:30PM (#4770166)
There was something very similar to this for reddit that was very handy and useful. It was at redditsnapshot.sweyla.com but it shut down at some point. I still think there is an opportunity for someone to index reddit's front page and have it hour by hour and maybe a premium version of all the subreddits you subscribe to.
Re:Robot Dragonfly on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @09:09AM (#4753407)
The reel has some very nice cinematic shots. I wonder when we will start to see more of this in Hollywood cinema.
What is the use case for something like this? Copyright infringing files? "Valuable" downloads?

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