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Re:A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS on Monday August 10, 2026 @07:41PM (#49251389)
Actually I like this RFC and the world was missing a list of _for-sale domains, so here it is https://forsaledns.net/.

I just gave my domains a _for-sale record. I asked AI for what they should cost and put that value and for domains I don't want to sell I added a 0 at the end.

Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:52PM (#47786907)
I tinkered with Hermes yesterday but it still seems like a solution to a problem I don't have as a programmer.
Re:Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting? on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:55AM (#43254622)
I'm using Heztzner Webhosting (https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting/) for some decades, $2/month.
Re:What's your favorite RSS feed reader? on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @09:18AM (#41379165)
I am happily using Vienna (https://www.vienna-rss.com/) for about a decade, but it is Mac only.
For product videos I used OBS a lot: https://obsproject.com/

I haven't used Journey, but it seems promising for product Tours: https://www.william-troup.com/journey-js/

Meteor is fullstack, so you can reuse code on the front- and backend, which is nice for validation and business logic.

In the last ten years I worked for more than a dozen startups that based their business successfully on Meteor. Some of them got big and none has regretted it.

I have worked with Nuxt.js, Sapper (now Sveltekit), Play Framework an many more; all great, but for many projects I would still consider Meteor the strongest contender.

California: The bitter decision between sweet and salty almonds

Here in Paraguay we can buy Californian almonds, they are sweet but expensive, so we buy them only when they are on sale. Off course they are flown in and we should avoid buying them at all, but that alone would not save any valley.Thinking about the water shortage at some point a decision seems to be inevitable: Should California be a human habitat or an agriculture producer?The quick check...

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Re:Ask HN: Do You Use RSS? on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:06PM (#31869311)
Found this post thanks to https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss. There are two kinds of web sites. Those I read through RSS or those I don't read.
Re:Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021? on Monday November 22, 2021 @05:39PM (#29312423)
If you need full-stack and want to build quick take a look at https://www.meteor.com/.
Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:51PM (#24510385)
I have only one domain on namecheap, but since a few month I cannot access it any more. There is a captcha service (hcaptcha) before it which totally locks me out.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2020) on Monday June 01, 2020 @03:11PM (#23382444)
Passionate and experienced full stack developer

Location: Asunción, Paraguay (UTC-4)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: maybe

Technologies: Node.js, Meteor.js, Svelte, Vue, React, MongoDB, RDBMS, Redis

Résumé/CV: https://softwarerero.com/

Email: [email protected]

I'm European but live in Paraguay, my wife is from here. I always work remotely, that is, when I find a job. I would like to life in northern Brasil and my wife wants to live in the US. But we very likely stay where we are as it is much more important with whom you stay than where, and we both would miss my wife's family a lot.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB? on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:37AM (#23273221)
Definitely, for most projects. Also the combination of Meteor and MongoDB allows for great development speed.
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:28AM (#23180698)
I post this a second time as it seems to have been deleted:

Quarantine (https://quarantine.softwarerero.com/) models a worst case scenario for reaching herd immunity without finding a cure.

Duobiblo (https://app.duobiblo.com/) allows to practice a language showing chapters of the bible side-by-side with a language you already know. I learn Portuguese currently on Duolingo, which inspired the name. If a browser supports the Web Speech API for the given language it is also possible to let the browser read the text.

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? on Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:29AM (#23179957)
Quarantine (https://quarantine.softwarerero.com/) models a worst case scenario for getting herd immunity.

Duobiblo (https://app.duobiblo.com/) allows to practice a language showing chapters of the bible side-by-side with a language you already know. I learn Portuguese currently on Duolingo, which inspired the name. If a browser supports the Web Speech API for the given language it is also possible to let the browser read the text.

Show HN: Property Management with AdPro.rent

adPro.rent ia a property management system. Our family uses it to write contracts, print invoices or receipts, do simple bookkeeping, manage incidents, collect payments and get helpful statistics.Now it has been internationalized and is ready for managing your own properties or those of others. I hope it helps others to save as much time as it does for us. The system has been created initially...

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Re:Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019? on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:28AM (#21398775)
My wife and I make some money with a couple of cheap renting units. To make the administration work easier I started to write an application last year (https://adpro.sun.com.py/en). At first it was very Paraguay-specific so currently I'm working on the last part of internationalization which is the contract and invoice editor. From the start I integrated the ability to also administer renting units for others.

It is very useful to us but I'm not sure about product/market fit. I'm eager to learn from others who rent out what they use for administration and such a system makes sense to them. If I really go after the idea I'll also need a co-founder, please contact me if you are interested.

I used it for a few small apps and enjoyed. I also build/rebuild a few static sites with Svelte and it is my default tool for static sites now.
Re:Ask HN: Best Laptop for Developer? on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:48PM (#21229162)
I am very happy with a Dell Precision 5510. I bought it as replacement for my MacBook Pro, maxed out late 2016, (MB) when it needs butterfly keyboard service (twice so far). It came with a Xeon processor and 32 GB RAM. for under 1000 USD. I run it with Ubuntu and compile software all day. My MB fans were blowing a lot and once even the battery swelled (service). My replacement Precision beats the MB in any aspect.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (October 2019) on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:31PM (#21128952)
SEEKING Work - Remote (UTC-3)

Experienced fullstack developer with Node.js, Meteor, MongoDB, SQL, Svelte, Vue, React.

Portfolio: https://softwarerero.com

As a programmer I have coded a lot together with Physicists who changed careers. My wife is a Physicists and she, as all of her friends from study times, work as teachers. One fried of mine after working a few years at SLAC went beyond and studied theology, he is now a bible teacher.
In 1016 I worked for https://workgrades.com. This sounds pretty similar.
If you prefer Vue over React there is also https://nuxtjs.org/ which I found nice to work with.
Interesting, I had almost the opposite experience after having grown up in a fundamentalistic atheist environment. When I read the bible with an attitude like "God, if you really exist I will listen", it seemed somehow I understood what I read for the first time. It was the strongest experience I had in my life. This is over 30 years ago, I'm a senior developer now) and I still read almost daily in the bible. No other book has really changed the way I think about the world to any close extend.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2016) on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:34PM (#12848184)
SEEKING WORK | remote or onsite | Paraguay

Full stack with Meteor, Node.js, CoffeeScript, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis

Profile: http://softwarerero.com/

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2016) on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:26PM (#12848064)
Location: Asunción, Paraguay

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Meteor, Node.js, CoffeeScript, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis

Résumé/CV: http://softwarerero.com/

Email: [email protected]

I have been around for a while (C++, Smalltalk, Java, Scala) but my recent experiences are in the Node.js and Meteor world (frontend + backend). Until last week I was backend developer and CTO of an education startup, but we were not profitable and shut down. If you want to hire a distributed team there are several of my colleagues that are also looking for new horizons.

English?
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2016) on Monday September 05, 2016 @02:00PM (#12431477)
Remote or Barcelona | Contract | 50-100% | System Administrator / DevOps

We are a startup in the education space working from Barcelona and about 8 other locations and need an administrator/DevOps (with strong Ops) that helps us to scale.

We are currently working with MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, LINUX, Amazon AWS, Git, IBM Watson and a few dozen of APIs. Our developers use CoffeeScript for Meteor, Swift for iOS, Java and C++ for Android.

You should help us to plan and maintain a scalable hosting architecture, to standardize and manage environments for development, stage and production, help with performance optimizations, monitoring, load and content distribution, test automation, failover, backup and security.

We would like to start with a two month contract and continue if all goes well. Our founders have worked on successful startups in the past.

Knowing Meteor and it's special treatment of the Oplog would be a plus.

Re:Ask HN: How much do you earn with donations vs. ads? on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @02:51PM (#10043466)
This is the monthly income for a news site with about 160 monthly articles and 143.000 monthly page views: Direct Ad Space: 170$, AdSense 50$, Sponsored Articles: 45$, Amazon: 4$, Donations: 0$

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