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jcbages | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Generate a CV-style history for open-source contributors on GitHub

Looks cool! However, I'm not the biggest fan on quantifying impact just by number of PRs. Maybe something that adds the most relevant issues solved using some heuristic and conversion to bullet style CV achievements would be really cool! (maybe using some LLM now that they're trendy :p)

jcbages | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Bruno – open-source API Client (alternative to postman))

Looks really pretty. Would love to be able to use the output from previous requests into future requests as it's always annoying to change the input based on the previous responses.

jcbages | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Record voice memo, receive transcription in email

It looks so cool! I'd love to have the transcript send to places other than email. I'm thinking of either a chat app like WhatsApp and Telegram or a productivity app like Notion to keep a more organized journal.

jcbages | 3 years ago | on: How to check if any word is zero (2021)

Interesting! It'd be nice to benchmark to see if there are any practical difference in terms of speed.

jcbages | 3 years ago | on: Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search

This looks to cool I didn't know anything about perceptual hashing but the idea makes a lot of sense. I'm curious if the system lose its effectiveness if a user shifts an image a few pixels, reflects it, or apply a certain filter that makes all pixels have a slightly different tonality. I'm also thinking of some system maybe a small ML program that applies a minimal amount of noise to the image such that to the human eye it looks the same but pixel-wise is totally different.

jcbages | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: An app to split CSV into multiple files to avoid Excel's 1M row limit

I think $40 a year just for the split feature is a little too much. However, adding more useful features for manipulating CSV files would probably change my mind about it. For example, doing some reorder or preprocess of the files as if people split into X files they'll have to do that action X times if they do it in Excel directly.

jcbages | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your primary password manager?

1password

jcbages | 4 years ago | on: Startup Cashflow Manifesto

This is great! I've seen cases of colleagues having issues with their startups because they notice cashflow was not great almost too late. We wanna help startups with that so we're working on this https://tryhorizon.co/. It'd be awesome to get some feedback on it :D

jcbages | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Horizon – Syncing bank data with Google Sheets

Hi HN! We've been working on a Google Sheets add-on for syncing data from bank accounts into your Sheets.

We're focusing on startups as we've seen that founders are the first "financial" people in the company and they can have a hard time measuring and forecasting their finances (e.g. cashflow, runway).

Why Google Sheets? Because we've seen that people have access to other platform but many end up downloading data from there and importing it to a Spreadsheet as its more flexible with the number crunching and data manipulation they need.

Is this like an accounting software? No, we don't want to deal with complex accounting-related regulatory stuff. Instead, we want to help founders to easily access and keep updated the financial data they may need to make important decisions.

We're initially supporting bank data using Plaid but we want to add more integrations and features that make this process easier for founders.

We'd love to know your feedback and the experiences you've had dealing with financial data in your companies. Also, we're currently in private beta so if you're interested please leave us your email in the website :)

jcbages | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Pandora – Instant key-value storage for your projects

Hi! great question!

I'd say that compared to redis you can get started faster with pandora. I'm not an expert in redis but IIRC you'd need to do the setup/configuration which is what I'm trying to avoid with pandora by getting ready-to-use services pretty fast.

Also, compared to a JSON store service, pandora is kind of similar at the moment. However, in pandora you can have more control over your service by configuring permissions about which operations are public or private or even disabled. Also, you can use a custom domain and pandora will generate the SSL certificate on the background so you can have your own service under your own domain and with custom permissions.

Let me know if this answer your questions and if you have further questions/feedback :)

jcbages | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Pandora – Zero config key-value database services

Thanks! Well I think I just found it very time-consuming to get started and get to the point I was aiming to get (having a simple service under some domain with SSL). I'd say as they've got a bunch of different products their docs are not as straightforward to dive in. With Pandora I got this working in less than a minute :D which was pretty awesome for my use-case.