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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Thursday November 13, 2025 @04:21PM (#45920705)
Something like that - parsing and scraping have come a long way right? Plenty of different ways that are available. The adoption of various LLMs have given more options definitely. We use both traditional and LLM methods.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Sunday November 09, 2025 @05:52PM (#45870045)
My latest is Marvelogs (https://www.marvelogs.com) - always wanted to build a price tracker (or tracking any values on a regular basis) - it's nearly there.
I missed Yahoo Pipes a lot so I built something similar recently for myself :) I know there are a few alternatives out there, but had to scratch my own itch.

https://www.mashups.io

I also got frustrated with text editors and decided to build something for myself too, so I don't have to repeat the process over and over.

https://www.texteditors.dev

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Sunday June 29, 2025 @05:41PM (#44416680)
I'm working on Fro (https://fro.app)

Haven't released properly yet - not sure if it's stable but oh well.

I don't like using my personal email to sign up for things. But there are definitely things that I do want to sign up for - newsletters, try out some services.

I know there are temporary email services, but I actually want to use these services. Of course there is Apple email that forwards to your real email.

But, I also don't want to flood my inbox.

Anyway, I wanted to receive these transactional emails in my personal Slack.

So, that's what Fro is for (https://fro.app)

- Sign up - get an email address - link to your Slack channel

And you can now catch up on those newsletters via Slack.

Re:Canyon.mid on Sunday June 15, 2025 @07:24PM (#44285603)
For those who remember... :) man I miss when things are simpler, slower, maybe more manual, more tedious, but more configurable, more buggy, but more creative. I understand we got here through multiple step changes of improvements, but I'm just nostalgic - good memories!

Show HN: Rich text editor as a service – my free side project

https://www.texteditors.dev

Hey allI've used one too many rich text editors in my career to know that they are cumbersome to add and manage.So I built a tool that I can use for myself and also let others use it.TextEditors is a tool that lets you easily add a rich text editor to your site. You can configure it by clicking on the toolbar elements you want and we give you instructions on how to add to your site.Pretty early...

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Re:Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? on Monday February 24, 2025 @10:34PM (#43167846)
So if we kept frameset in HTML5, we would not have had to do all these JS shenanigans?!?!?! SPA out of the box? :)
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) on Monday February 24, 2025 @05:02AM (#43157751)
Launched Mashups back in January and been iterating over it. It's Yahoo Pipes clone - something I always wanted to make myself.

https://www.mashups.io

I don't think there is a hope when it comes to our privacy and ads and our data being sold - none. Even if I'm somewhat off the grid or low in activities, the indirect way of targeting me still exists, by my family members, friends, people associated with me. I surrender.
Re:Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email on Monday January 27, 2025 @01:24AM (#42838013)
I looked into Purelymail when searching around for good email solution. Google Workspace was getting a bit costly and there were too many things I did not need.

Zoho Mail provides another option - $1.95 per month I think for my use where I am (AU) and has all the features I need for my small indie business.

One other option I tried was to actually run mail myself with Linode VPS - https://mailinabox.email/

I know it sounds a little scary at the start running your own thing, but so far it's been working out great - zero issues so far. I may turn off Zoho one day and go fully into self-hosted option.

Is RSS really coming back? :) (you'll say it was never gone!) Lots of RSS related posts and comments recently. I've released Mashups a few weeks ago.

https://www.mashups.io

It's yahoo pipes clone - so you can mix and filter RSS feeds that you want.

Re:Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use? on Saturday January 18, 2025 @06:37AM (#42747642)
Anyone looking to mix up their own RSS feeds? I've recently launched Mashups

https://www.mashups.io

It's the good ole Yahoo Pipes clone! Would love for those who want to mix RSS feeds to try it out!

Re:I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too on Saturday January 18, 2025 @06:35AM (#42747625)
I absolutely love RSS format. It's one of the easiest ways for devs to get data and do something quickly with it.

If you remember, Yahoo Pipies allowed devs & others quickly build something with RSS feeds. I've recently rebuilt and launched my own Yahoo Pipes clone

https://www.mashups.io

Along the way of building this tool, I came across a plenty of major websites that do not provide RSS feeds and indie devs who maintain niche tools to provide these feeds.

Then again, RSS are still plentiful!

Re:I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:50PM (#42732448)
I've recently launched Mashups.io - my own Yahoo Pipes tool.

https://www.mashups.io

And using the tool, I've been filtering, changing and tweaking various RSS feeds along the way.

I absolutely love RSS and absolutely loved Yahoo Pipes. For me, that got me into mashing up stuff on the web.

For devs, RSS feeds also provide a very easy way to source data. No need to get API keys and tokens, it gives you real life dataset immediately and easily. And from there, you can create tools.

But this IS the strategy. One thing after another, giving perception that SF is "leading" the way and enterprise customers continue to listen to the SF sales reps who just need to tell the story, so on and on it goes. :)
Good idea!
Apologies - that's been fixed. Though I haven't really optimized the demo for the mobile view I think.

Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project

https://www.mashups.io

Hey everyone.For those who remember, Yahoo Pipes was a tool to mashup RSS feeds back in the good ole' days. :)I really loved that tool, but of course, it was shut down.Since then I know there's been a few tools and attempts at bringing it back.I always wanted to create Yahoo Pipes clone myself.So here is my small side project - Mashups.iohttps://www.mashups.ioIt's an MVP at the moment and well,...

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I didn't get the pun......

Show HN: Pyro – build your own private video gallery

https://www.pyro.app/

Pyro is a tool to build your own private video gallery. We collect videos from not just YouTube, but many other sources (e.g. Vimeo, TED, Rumble, CNN) based on the keywords that you are interested in. The videos are then presented in a familiar video gallery interface.You can make your gallery private or public. You can let users sign up as members and receive newsletter updates. They can leave...

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I'm definitely getting too old. Back when I was just learning Backbonejs, I gulped up every single framework that came out, tried them all, every language, every variation, server side, client side, mobile, hybrid.

In the end, after all that journey, I settled into Laravel Backend and Vue3. Every app I create now is just a copy-and-paste of what I've done before. The tech stack disappears into the background and I try to actually build the features that I want to build.

I'm definitely old because I see this great work called "one" and I look at the video and I get immediatey turned off by so many "new things". It's me - definitely me. It's maybe for a different generation of devs.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? on Sunday September 29, 2024 @07:23PM (#41691794)
I've been working on Pyro - a video gallery & community creator. It's a tool that lets you create a video-based (your own YouTube?) community but you can collect videos from many sources.

https://www.pyro.app

Here's a video site I created using this tool - a startup pitch video site

https://video.heystartup.com/

Re:Ask HN: HN for Other Verticals? on Thursday September 19, 2024 @09:17AM (#41591565)
Reddit would be an option wouldn't it?
Re:Bug squash: An underrated interview question on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @03:09AM (#41307594)
Would love for others to share non-technical questions that can filter bad candidates!
I'm blessed to remember fondly of my childhood where my grandmother, mom and aunties made kimchi altogether as a family, put them in large pots, men dug holes in the ground and put them in. Then, we took some out for tasting in a middle of cold snowy winter. The memory alone makes me salivate today.

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