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Ask HN: Which companies do you admire and why?

A lot of the big players from the 2010s have lost some of their aura, and there are a lot of people who don't love the big names in tech these days and are disenchanted from the industry.Which companies do you still admire and why? Include software-adjacent or even non-software.

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Re:Google's Rust Style Guide on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:41AM (#50191593)
Deserves its own Ask HN.

Show HN: Yardi SDK for Python (property management software)

https://github.com/yhavin/yardi-sdk

I just published this Yardi SDK to help users interact with Yardi APIs.Backstory: I work at a property investment company and we use multiple Yardi accounts for our properties. I use Yardi APIs to collate data across our portfolio and make reports and run analytics.Motivation: Yardi uses legacy/enterprise SOAP endpoints which are complicated to deal with. You need to make XML envelopes and...

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Luckily DAASS does all the promoting, and I also get sign ups by word of mouth
I made an Excel/Google Sheets course, hosted with smalltime Masterclass non-(competitor) called DAASS: https://learnwithyakir.com/daass. Does over $1k/month, for my commission portion.

No frills, 6.5 hours of digestible videos, 30+ functions/formulas, enough theory to help you learn on your own. Writing complex formulas in Excel was my gateway to proper software development. It's a useful skill even now as a developer, working with data in CSVs, making small tools for quick automation, things like that. (Just don't make a CRM in Excel, lol.)