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they burned too much cash with Metaverse
Posted by
start123 on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:49AM
from the self-post dept.
Post Covid - back in 2023 - when my company went full time remote, I wanted to track the number of hours I worked everyday.Having worked full time in office before, the guilt of not spending enough hours bothered me. After looking for simple time tracking solutions, I failed to find a decent one that wasn't bloated with bells and whistles.So, I built one over the weekend, bought the domain and...
Posted by
start123 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @05:33AM
from the streetfrontier.com dept.
How will you ensure you have the skills to be manager of managers without every managing people before?
Is it me or does it look like JSP/ASP all over again?
Meetings are the only way to grow your career unfortunately. Nobody really cares how shiny your code is.
This is a great idea. I agree, the watermark thing is quite annoying.
My bad, this is still MVP, will replace it.
Yeah, I agree, I tried Toggl which is quite popular and was surprised how bloated it had become. The last time I used it was back in 2017 and it was a small yet handy tool for teams.
Yeah, that is something I am thinking of. Would love to connect with you to get more details. I am on Twitter
https://twitter.com/byteblanq if that helps.
Posted by
start123 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:46PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.timemygrind.com/
Since I went remote(working) last year, I found it hard to track my work/focus hours. To begin with, I started with my mobile stopwatch but found it to be inefficient and distracting. I then tried some time management tools online but they were geared towards enterprises than individuals. Plus, had too many features.So, last weekend I created https://www.timemygrind.com/ - a simple focus time...
Posted by
start123 on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:25PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Is there another way to check the capability of a software engineer than ask him/her to solve traditional algorithms and data structure questions?
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler
I tried every other tool out there(Miro, Lucid etc) but none of them do this. Then I tried with plain CSS but found it to be very tricky.
Posted by
start123 on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:32AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I have seen a few websites that showcase design and architecture using animated gifs.Here is one example(1st image in the link) https://www.confluent.io/blog/confluent-developer-launches-free-apache-kafka-courses-and-tutorials-online/How can I make one of these where you can visualize packets of data flowing?
Posted by
start123 on Friday April 28, 2023 @08:51AM
from the shashanksthoughts.blogspot.com dept.
Could you please add keyboard navigation. Arrows would be great!
This is fantastic! I usually use Google Maps to find interesting airports. This helps me discover more.
I just use Firefox's reader view. Does the same with just a click. If it doesn't work, just refresh in reader view and it should load properly.
Posted by
start123 on Sunday January 08, 2023 @11:42AM
from the self-post dept.
To give some context, I have been running a URL shortener[1] and all of my customers use custom domains to create short links.Today, I got curious and decided to dig a bit deeper into my database.Here's what I found about Browser share.Safari - 54.3%
Chrome - 32.6%
Firefox - 3.5%
SamsungBrowser - 3.3%
Edge - 1%
Opera - 0.4%
MiuiBrowser - 0.2%
Others = 4.7%I am quite surprised that Safari has...
Posted by
start123 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @04:01PM
from the steven-lemon182.medium.com dept.
I meant someone flagged it, not you.
And, it was banned. All I wanted is write a fictional story and vent my anger at Digitalocean.
Sorry if that sounded creepy. My intention was only to make my point. I tried to end it fairly and I guess it failed :(
Yes, I second this. It was a nightmare for me. They brought down the droplet and the recourse was that I had to create a support ticket. It was weekend and they took more than 24 hours to answer.
Until then, my site was down with customers complaining to me.
I am the author here. Let me give you more context on this.
1. My Saas platform supports custom domains including naked domains and not just subdomains so it is important for me that the IP address remains the same when I add more capacity. I am running a single large droplet as of now and when I tried to add more instance + LB, DO wouldn't let me do that. Several people have asked this feature if you look in their forums. Unless I run and manage my own Haproxy/Nginx boxes, I cannot scale up.
2. This is currently a side project and I do not have additional time to maintain more resources which is why I am willing to spend more on a platform that provides me these features. This is not due to laziness as some people have commented.