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theanirudh | 2 years ago | on: The Drivers Cooperative: New York’s driver-owned ride-hailing app

Shout out to Namma Yatri [1] app in Bengaluru, India. It is developed by a payments startup called Juspay. It is endorsed by the Auto Rickshaw Drivers Union. It was launched in November of 2022 and has since done about 5m rides and drivers have earned 9m USD [2]. The entire app, backend and protocol is completely open source [3]. Seems like it uses a fair bit of Haskell and Nix!

[1] https://www.nammayatri.in

[2] https://www.nammayatri.in/open/

[3] https://github.com/nammayatri

theanirudh | 3 years ago | on: Tunnelmole – give your local servers a public URL

I recently started using Tailscale funnel for the same purpose. Works well! https://tailscale.com/blog/introducing-tailscale-funnel/

theanirudh | 3 years ago | on: SirTunnel, a personal ngrok alternative

I’ve been using Tailscale Funnel for this use case.

theanirudh | 3 years ago | on: Tamagui 1.0 – Cross-platform React apps in less time, with better performance

About to start working on an app and exploring this stack. Do you have any resources, sample repo or any open source app that I can learn from?

theanirudh | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

Raycast. Apart from being a great launcher, it has replaced the need for a dedicated window manager and clipboard app.

theanirudh | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Good resource on writing web app with plain JavaScript/HTML/CSS?

This article by Julia Evans shows how to "build web apps like in 2005" but use libraries from NPM, use ES6 imports and stuff.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/11/15/esbuild-vue/

theanirudh | 3 years ago | on: Why I program in Erlang (2012)

Erlang. They recently open sourced an Erlang type checker https://github.com/WhatsApp/eqwalizer and tree-sitter grammar https://github.com/WhatsApp/tree-sitter-erlang.

theanirudh | 3 years ago | on: Elixir – Phoenix LiveView Native

There is a sample app and tutorial here: https://github.com/liveviewnative

theanirudh | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did not ruin the acquired company?

YouTube

theanirudh | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?

Gitlab is a very open company and have lots of documentation on their architecture here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/architecture.html and here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure...

theanirudh | 4 years ago | on: LiveBeats: Building a social music app with Phoenix LiveView

Chris McCord, who built this app (and author of Phoenix) talked about it on the Thinking Elixir podcast. Excited to learn that many of the learnings that he got when building this app will make its way into Phoenix LiveView.

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/84

theanirudh | 4 years ago | on: Building a Cross-Platform Web and Mobile App from the Ground Up

This talk at Nextjs Conf explores cross platform solutions for common issues like routing, styling and animation. Found it to be quite helpful!

https://youtu.be/0lnbdRweJtA

theanirudh | 4 years ago | on: macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux

> A better solution for me was using Karabiner-Elements to only swap the right command and option keys:

macOS has a built in tool called hidutil[1] for simple keyboard remapping. Prefer to use that since Karabiner-Elements has some issues on M1 and macOS Big Sur. I use this[2] tool to generate a simple launchd config.

1 - https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2450... 2 - https://hidutil-generator.netlify.app

theanirudh | 4 years ago | on: WhatsApp – About multi-device beta

Another limitation is that you can't pin chats on desktop/web.

theanirudh | 4 years ago | on: A simple way to build collaborative web apps

Great article! Is there something similar to Replicache that is targeted towards simple multiplayer games? Im building a multiplayer version of a clicker game like Universal Paperclips[0] and dealing with similar the problems that Replicache tries to solve.

[0] https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

theanirudh | 4 years ago | on: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

https://bitclout.com

theanirudh | 5 years ago | on: Flutter 2

It was buggy as well. I was locked out of receiving and sending payments for about a month. After some updates, had to relink my bank account and the app created a new UPI ID by appending a -1 ie. myname-1@okhdfc! It's like creating a new email ID to resolve the issue.

theanirudh | 5 years ago | on: When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux

> Jeff started to think - we have all this excess server capacity for 46 weeks/year, why not rent it out to other companies?

If Amazon rented out excess capacity after Nov/Dec, what did they do for next years Nov/Dec peak? Did they build up more capacity throughout the year and not rent it out?

theanirudh | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

> Zoom "happy hours" pretty much get dominated by two or three voices (usually of the most senior people) and everyone else just listens, because you can't have 2 conversations at a time.

This is definitely a problem and my co founder and I wanted to solve it. We tried a bunch of stuff, but one thing that we noticed was that we were playing a lot more casual games with our friends and family since the pandemic. It was pretty enjoyable. We tried the same with our colleagues and it was definitely much better than a Zoom happy hour. The game provides some structure which removes the awkwardness and there is some amount of participation from everyone on the call. We are now working on a product (https://getlounge.app/) that helps teams organize these game happy hours.

theanirudh | 5 years ago | on: UX Issues with Notion

Dropbox Paper has the best editing experience. Notion should try to emulate that.