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Highly recommend Nintype third party keyboard. Such a breath of fresh air to have a keyboard made for power users.

The project is abandoned but it still works well. I hope someone sees this and gets inspired to build something to replace it. If you do you can have my money!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nintype/id796959534

Re:Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025? on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:59PM (#46413946)
Diabolical Lies
Re:Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:29PM (#45532703)
Aerospace (tiling window manager for macOS). Bit of a learning curve but it’s amazing
Re:Ask HN: Anyone else hate company "hack days" on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @07:55PM (#39448968)
Hate them so much. As an iOS end I feel like I always end up doing 10x more work than others. But it’s also my fault for accepting invites to teams with new feature ideas. Been burned enough times now that I won’t be doing that anymore.
Thanks I had forgotten about tinyseed!

Ask HN: Advice for turning my side project into a real business

I’m a product-focused dev with 10 years experience at a-list startups. For the last few years I’ve been working on a side project. It has some traction and makes ~$600/mo even though my current product is pretty raw.I’ve recently put a lot of thought into the product and realized that there is a real gap in the market that I can fill and make this into a real business. This requires a pretty...

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024) on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @09:45PM (#38850058)
Product and UX focused iOS engineer and leader with ~10 years experience, 8 at A-list consumer product/app companies that are (or once were, lol) SV darlings.

Contact me if you’re looking for a mobile dev leader to help you craft a stellar product.

Don’t contact me if you’re looking for someone to micromanage and to do only what they are told <3

Comfortable in current role but ready for something new.

Remote: yes Willing to relocate: maybe Technologies: iOS, SwiftUI (have also done plenty of backend, node, kotlin) Résumé/CV: contact if interested Email: [email protected]

I guess it depends on what you classify as “advancing your career”. If you’re a software engineer, building a side project from start to finish is valuable experience that translates. It’s especially valuable experience for devs with less work experience.

That said. I’ve learned that building out a product, even seemingly small things, takes a huge amount of effort as a solo dev. I built https://fretpro.app and it makes about $100/month (has been very slowly growing for the last year). I thought it would be quick and easy, but it took months of early mornings and weekend mornings (can’t code all night like I used to anymore), and can’t lie, my health and mental health suffered during that time. I’m much more selective with side projects these days.

I love tools like these, and love writing code to help myself learn guitar as well.

I made an iOS app for memorizing notes. You play the note on your guitar and it recognizes if it’s correct. Helps build muscle memory instead of just memorization. https://fretpro.app if anyone wants to check it out :)

Re:Ask HN: What are reputable sources of Covid-19 information? on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:57PM (#24369338)
These are awesome thanks for sharing!

Ask HN: What are reputable sources of Covid-19 information?

It's hard to know where to look, what to believe, or who to trust regarding COVID-19. I doubt that anything you can find on a major news site, or anything ranking highly in search engines is unbiased.I'd like to compile a list of resources (mail lists, videos, talks etc) that are at least somewhat reputable or trustworthy, not sponsored or skewed--experts who have done (or are doing) their...

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Ask HN: What is the fastest way to build an api for mobile back end?

If you were going to build a consumer mobile app as fast as possible, as a one-man or one-woman dev team, what technologies and tools would you use to build out the server side? Say you have 1 week to put together an MVP.One answer is that one should use the technologies he/she is most familiar with, but what would you recommend to skilled engineers who are most experienced with client...

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Re:Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @02:29PM (#4911960)
I will be writing a bot to buy me random things from musiciansfriend.
Re:Don't read TechCrunch on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @03:44AM (#4870058)
...This is the second Java/Javascript mixup I've seen on TC in the last two days.

The first one was here - http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/30/why-enterprise-apps-are-mov.... The third subheading originally read "Transitioning Developers From HTML To Java."

The worst part? These two articles aren't even by the same author. So TechCrunch has multiple writers that don't know the difference.

Re:Enterprise Apps Are Moving To Single-Page Design on Saturday December 01, 2012 @01:31AM (#4857027)
"Transitioning developers from HTML to Java"

Fail.

Re:One div: The single element HTML/CSS icon database on Friday November 30, 2012 @03:24AM (#4852399)
This is neat, but I don't think the HTML and CSS buttons are working. I'm on iPhone right now and the HTML/CSS buttons don't show the HTML or CSS. If I click one it just displays browser compatibility.... Would be cool to be able to see the source.