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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @05:45AM (#45874618)
Nice work. I liked the instant pdf viewer. Kudos for your efforts.

Only thing I would suggest is, to support different tax formats (or provide an ability to fill custom tax format name that applies to the whole invoice). Right now, it is largely VAT. In some countries, it may not be relevant.

(Having said that, as a work around, currently anyone can use Notes field to fill custom tax details and hide all VAT related fields.)

> I'm at a point where I need to gather feedback from real users. At the moment it's completely free, but if it gains traction and higher traffic sites use it, I will have to add paid plans to make it sustainable

You can check out bannerbear (and bunch of others) who are already in this space. There is a clear need here. Wish you Good luck for your first SAAS journey.

Just want to say this is an awesome work and much needed product in the market.

Hope you get good leads for ERPNext premium offerings through this. It's important for more open source projects to flourish in the market.

Show HN: ForGrowth – Smart way to follow your favourite topics with full control

Hi HN,I like to introduce ForGrowth.TLDR: ForGrowth is a platform which provides control to you as a user in consuming the content you want. You can choose granular topics and locations and get personalized content (Jobs, Events, News, & Insights) matching them.Like many of us, I track a lot of topics (technology, sectors) by subscribing to forums (like HN, reddit), newsletters and twitter...

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Show HN: Personalized career opportunities and insights - Diversity & Inclusion

Hi HN,I like to introduce ForGrowth (https://www.forgrowth.in).ForGrowth is a platform which provides personalized career opportunities and insights based on the topics of interests, location, skill level. We also help you to choose a diversity & inclusion preference as well. (We are starting with Open/Everything & LGBT tracks).While there are lot of newsletters and social media sites...

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Re:Cell – A self-driving web app framework on Saturday June 17, 2017 @12:05AM (#14574195)
This is interesting and at the very least novel. Kudos for that.

Can you walk an extra mile and implement your version for https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld & https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas.

This helps to benchmark how intuitive is the framework for creating complex apps.

Thanks.

Some of q & a here can be part of FAQ section in the site.

Thanks for the answers.

Reg (2) Is it like https://stripe.com/checkout ? What you meant by capture the payments from dashboard ? Do you mean I have to pull the payment details from dashboard api ?

One last question : How extensively net banking is supported ?

Congratz on the launch.

I have some questions

1. If a startup is not incorporated, can we still use Razorpay ? I guess instamojo allows it

2. If I have a static site, can I still use Razorpay for payments ?

3. What is the turnaround time for depositing the money into sellers bank account ? What is the frequency ?

4. Do you provide some webhooks functionality ?

Re:Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona on Thursday September 27, 2012 @02:34PM (#4582096)
Let me add my understanding. Please correct me if it is wrong.

Actual user case if everything is in place:

1. you are in a website using browserid protocol/persona (eg. http://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/)

2.hit the login link. Give your email address ([email protected] or [email protected])

3.it prompts for your password - gmail password or yahoo password

4.post authentication it takes you to the website with user session as [email protected]/[email protected] - eg crossword.thetimes.co.uk

5.In a nutshell, end user doesn't need to create a new userid & password for using the website, as long as he knows his emailuserd/emailpassword

Present use case - since few things are missing

1. you are in a website using browserid protocol/persona (eg. http://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/)

2.hit the login link. since gmail & yahoo as email providers not implemented browserid/persona protocol, you will asked to create an account in persona.org with any of your existing email address.(gmail / yahoo).

persona.org will send you a verification link to check if you really own your email address. Click on the verification link and you are verified to use persona.org account in all the places where browserid is supported

3.in the login page - it prompts for a new password if you are a new user or existing password if you are a returning user - this is the password for the email address used in persona.org registration.

4.post authentication it takes you to the website with user session as [email protected]/[email protected] - eg crossword.thetimes.co.uk

5.In a nutshell, two things will change in future - no login window from persona.org & no need to create account in persona.org

Infact linkedin is lot better these days
I like to use this for my redis setup...what about the data backups for the persistent data..do you manage that?..If yes..what is the frequency ? I think you should provide more data for database services..especially for redis about the memory, disk space & connections. I like to move from redistogo if comparable metrics are provided.
Re:Ask HN: We dreamed, we shipped, we are stuck on Thursday September 29, 2011 @11:09AM (#3052729)
FWIW, I like to know whether you tried marketing this in an offline way to increase the community.

Did you try going to startup events and provide an access for the event members to create a niche community for them?

Though the concept is good, I feel you should reach to the audience when the merits are not clear over HN.

Since you are based in India, I feel you may go to the weekend startup meets and toss up this idea.

My 5 paise...

Ask HN: Is there a Startup wikipedia?

I understand not all startup information can be objective and same. But there are many activities repeated by many startup founders which shouldn't require browsing through all the blogs.I know there are places like onstartups / qoura in q & a format. Are there any websites in a different format for a quick reference and increased inspiration to achieve success. There are many gems in hn...

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Interesting...there is a huge migration from Brazil to China..can someone point out whats the reason?
Thanks for your perspective.
Thanks a lot. This is really useful. If I can ask " Did you enjoy filling the data during your college days? Is there something motivating/de-motivating to input data?

Ask HN: what is the best way to get authorised data from users esp students?

I am building an app to record student data about their academic and non-academic achievements/interests. The latter part is not captured in any system and so we collect it from scratch.The challenge is to authorise whether the data recorded by students is right. I met educational institutions/staff and it is apparent that it is a big pain which they are not willing to take.Is there a best...

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Re:Ask HN: Motivation to do entrepreneurship? on Monday March 21, 2011 @01:37PM (#2350706)
Thnx for your points. my worry was "I shouldn't end up in a place where I worry that the very idea which was the starting point for moving from a well paid job is not getting realized". This was heard from my friend very recently and so he was demotivated for a while to pursue it further before pivoting. I want to clarify if that is the norm or it is the persistence in an idea against the odds does it.
Re:Ask HN: Motivation to do entrepreneurship? on Monday March 21, 2011 @01:28PM (#2350665)
Thnx. My day job requires traveling. So I couldnt optimise it well. but your efforts are inspiring. Will definitely try harder.
Re:Ask HN: Motivation to do entrepreneurship? on Monday March 21, 2011 @01:27PM (#2350664)
Entrepreneurship is all about the pursuit of a vision - one that manifests as you lead the way. - Thnx for that.Its helpful in my thought process.

Ask HN: Motivation to do entrepreneurship?

I thought about quitting my job and start entrepreneurship. Presently trying to do it in part time - moonlighting. Reality - Iam not able to work satisfactorily in part time doing both.My idea involves Software but it is not pure play web application.It is more of a platform where software/webapp is one component. I am passionate about the idea to be present in the real world.So I have a...

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