madisvain
Re:Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole
on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:37AM (#44835167)
Local first is amazing. I have been building a local first application for Invoicing since 2020 called Upcount https://www.upcount.app/.
First I used PouchDB which is also awesome https://pouchdb.com/ but now switched to SQLite and Turso https://turso.tech/ which seems to fit my needs much better.
Re:Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?
on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:45PM (#31157425)
VATcomply.com has been using SQLite as a primary database for 2 years and is serving ~70 requests per second without an issue.
HTTPS: https://vatcomply.com/ Github: https://github.com/madisvain/vatcomply
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and...
on Saturday December 25, 2021 @04:05AM (#29681657)
I built and sold couple of open source API's I built and am now working on a new one that combines them together to make a complete API product for VAT compliance.
https://vatcomply.com https://github.com/madisvain/vatcomply
The idea is that you can geocode, show exchange rates and validate VAT numbers all from the same API.
Re:Recoil – A state management library for React
on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:29PM (#23184210)
For complex state flows we use Kea JS. https://kea.js.org/
The library has been around for a while and reduces a lot of boilerplate.
Is also used by some quite big names.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:47PM (#22859305)
Thank you very much for the heads up. I have updated the title to fix the spelling mistake.
Thank you!
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:55PM (#22858149)
Hoping to start something free today that can add paid features in the future: https://www.upcount.app/
Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
on Saturday March 21, 2020 @07:28PM (#22651173)
Working on a offline-first Invoicing app for freelancers & small businesses. Built to be cross-platform with Electron & react.
Enterprise HTML
Python web framework roundup
http://www.konstruktor.ee/blog/python-web-framework-roundup
A lot of web frameworks have been built for Python. There are even tutorials around the web for rolling your own web framework in Python. That is because it's really that easy. In the end this has led to a lot of great frameworks and a lot of bad ones also. So lets round them up and separate the wheat from the chaff.
Python giving Haskell a run for its money
http://www.konstruktor.ee/blog/python-giving-haskell-a-run-for-its-money
Everybody knows Haskell beats Python in speed - always. The main reason being is that Haskell is compiled but Python interpreted. There have been some general posts about this all around. But lets give it a fair trial before finding guilty - lets add PyPy to the mix.