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97-109-107 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Markdown as document, by casual-Markdown-doc.js

I've been down this rabbit hole a few times when trying to go from an orgmode document to something I can share with other people. Usually, the path took me via html and then to pdf.

My initial impression was that the opening sentence is underselling the project:

    Casual-Markdown-Doc provide a quick solution to use markdown as document.
I believe the word document is not clear here, for clarity's sake I would suggest expanding it to describe what are the potential outputs (... to use markdown directly as a ready to publish html website?)

97-109-107 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)

New spinoff from an established strategy consulting company | CCO/CMO | Remote (Europe preferably), hub in Hamburg | Full time, asap

* CCO/CMO role at a spinoff in the corporate SaaS market

You will be responsible for setting and executing both sales and marketing strategies and activities in a startup environment.

Short term you will be deciding who and how to sell to, testing channels and approaches. Long term you will be responsible for setting sales and marketing funnels, setting up a team and managing sales processes and targets

* About the company

Code-name “Leadership monitor” is a SaaS tool sold to 20+ 2B-clients and 3000 users. Working MVP with human-in-the-loop which has been sold to customers and brings revenue. Next step is to create a scalable spin-off for new customers. Goal is to establish an independent spin-off with it’s own structure and revenue.

* Details

- ESOP program, solid base salary, second hire

- Working directly with the prospective CEO

* About you

- Real-world experience (2-15 years), startup and B2B background preferred

- Interested in organizational design, corporate culture, management theory or similar

- German language necessary

* How to apply

E-mail your resume to my colleague: "harnacke" at the domain "companycompanions.com"

97-109-107 | 3 years ago | on: SHOW HN: Building an app to rule all web-based SaaS, need feedbacks from HN

I would suggest looking into the following areas for inspiration as well:

- Xanadu and related systems for linking information

- CardboardWM (how it does user's working canvas)

- Desktop Neo – (https://desktopneo.com/) & Muse — dive into big ideas(https://museapp.com/)

- The ecosystem of templates and tooling for Notion

- TreeSheets (https://strlen.com/treesheets/)

My gut feeling is that going deep into interoperations within apps will be very challenging and require intrinsic knowledge of each platform (always evolving) interfaces.

97-109-107 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: LinkWarden – A self-hosted bookmark and archive manager

For people interested in this, adjacent solutions would be

- [ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox: Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox)

- [kanishka-linux/reminiscence: Self-Hosted Bookmark And Archive Manager](https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence)

- [go-shiori/shiori: Simple bookmark manager built with Go](https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori)

- [xwmx/nb: CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.](https://github.com/xwmx/nb)

97-109-107 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What PDF viewer do you use?

I'm not too happy with any PDF viewer on Linux. Zathura was good, but with pdfs other than A4 papers it got unwildly.

I've since switched to qpdfview, but zooming and panning feels sluggish. I noticed that a lot of PDF viewers have distinct "modes" and switching between them seems never obvious. Zoom mode, text-selection mode.

97-109-107 | 3 years ago | on: EndBASIC

This is interesting. What was your motivation to build this?

97-109-107 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Organizing and Searching Personal Documents

A few approaches combined make for a very "shallow" search whenever I need something

- Johnny Decimal (https://johnnydecimal.com/) to structure folders

- agkozak/zsh-z: Jump quickly to directories that you have visited "frecently." A native Zsh port of z.sh with added features. (https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z)

- catfish for searching (https://docs.xfce.org/apps/catfish/start)

The 2nd and 3rd component have many alternatives across platforms.

97-109-107 | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: I built an open-source web hosting platform for static sites

Tangential question - what are other examples of solutions that can be vaguely summarized as "platform for hosting and managing (and routing) discrete static websites" are out there?

I'm looking for streamlined alternatives to the following architecture (which works okay, but has too many separate parts):

  - Static websites compiled with different assets from the same root create discrete independent "public" folders
  - Folders are uploaded to a single bucket in Amazon S3 
  - Route53 and a separate reverse-proxy nginx server handle traffic to X.domain.com where X is the name of a folder in S3

97-109-107 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you guys keep your resumes updated?

I don't, but if you really think you'd need it, I can wrap it up and share.

Caveats - it relies on resume-cli to actually generate the resume and it badly glued together.

If you think you still could use it, let me know

97-109-107 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you guys keep your resumes updated?

I have an elaborate set of scripts cobbled together to feed and operate resume-cli

What I glued together let's me do this:

- Write independent versions of each partial of the resume (introduction, experience, skills, etc.) in discrete files. These are JSON files, with seperate versions tailored for different profiles, ie. "introduction (consulting).json", "introduction (ex-founder).json", ...

- Assemble selected json files to dynamically generate a merged version under a specif codename (usually company name or profile type)

- Live preview the assembled version

- Archive a specific merged version using that codename as a complete and static json

- Export as pdf, rename, upload html version and open a preview

Motivation

In essence - parts of my resume progress in a straight line infrequently, while other need to be re-written for different positions and are single-purpose. I had a hard time writing and rewriting different versions of the resume and keeping track of versions, so I decided to divide the content into partials.

I'm skipping the presentation layer, as the PDF export and theming is a seperate topic, particularly problematic on the intersection of HTML and PDF rendering.

97-109-107 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to differentiate my business from a competitor with crazy momentum?

Difficult to say at this level of abstraction, but there's one strategy that we see quite often.

  - Identify shortcomings in ABC, particularly on the intersection with other software, integrations or edge cases for specialized users  
  - Build feature spikes in your project for those cases  
  - Market your product around thise cases - ie. have dedicated pages where you have a hook "Better alternative to ABC for veterinarians"
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