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lming | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

Nice project for looking for pitchdeck references. Thanks for building and sharing it. I am curious about the tech behind it - are you doing OCR on images? The search is very responsive - it's definitely not elastic search, curious what index/search system are you using?

lming | 4 years ago | on: Notion Acquires Automate.io

You are absolutely right that building a performant rich-text-editor for large document is indeed a very difficult problem. Mixing real-time collaboration put further challenges on api design and server processing. It's a whole different level of engineering challenges compare to building a performant CRUD web app...

I am wondering how your team does note taking in Linear - are you guys create one issue for each document? It doesn't support collaborative editing, right?

lming | 10 years ago | on: Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB

Hey Slava. Promising stuff! One question:

A websocket connection between client and server is great for real-time apps, but for non real-time app, the unnecessary websocket connections create more work for devops -- specifically DNS and load balancer. Does/will Horizon support that clients only use the Collections API to get/set data without websocket (for real-time sync)?

lming | 10 years ago | on: Crowd's reaction to Google's new logo

Very interesting analysis! There are about half positive and half native words about the new logo. But all words about classic logo are positive!

In any case, logo change doesn't matter much for big companies. People won't start or stop using your product because of logo change. I don't understand the rational behind the change.

lming | 10 years ago | on: The Chinese Lingerie Venders of Egypt

It's a fascinating read! I released my app a while ago and found most users are Arab. I am eager to learn more about my customers and this article provides great insights.

lming | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

After installation I swipe down and the app reboots my iPhone 6+ :)

It's impressive that you can get 10K organic installs in 1 week! Are there any trick/hack that other app makers can learn from it?

lming | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: MooChat – why watch WWDC alone? Chat with other participants

Founder here. Thanks for the question!

I created MooChat with three differentiations in mind:

- Easy to start chat. The app does not ask any of your personal information (email, phone number, social login etc), user can start chat right after downloading the app.

- Large group oriented. Hundreds of people can join a chatroom instantly. While it's much difficult to create large groups with other chat apps.

- Because it's so easy to form a chat group on MooChat, we are targeting to events or similar case that many people gather together for a short period of time.

I hope this make sense to you:) let me know if you think another chat app is better fit for wwdc onsite participants and live stream viewers.

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