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absoluteunit1on The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies with Just One Employee

> building the product was always the easiest part

building a product is the easiest part but building a good product that people want to use, pay for and functions without any issues is still as hard as ever.

i consistently see this sentiment online that "building is easy, marketing is hard" but then i see the product and its absolute AI generated slop I wouldnt touch for free

absoluteunit1on It's getting harder to focus every day

Is this an ad plug lol

absoluteunit1on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

Many still are

absoluteunit1on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

^This

Many of the mods for various subreddits also have commercial interest (own a business in the niche related to the subreddit) and ban/remove mentions of competitors but keep mentions of their own products.

^This strategy was shared with me by an aquintance who is the main mod of 1M+ subreddit. And again - this is also just scratching the surface.

Reddit has been dead for ages

absoluteunit1on Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

Nice! This is a fun one!

Give https://typequicker.com a try as well. For typing code practice, try typequicker.com. Supports most programming languages, and you can create your own custom snippets as well

absoluteunit1on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

https://typequicker.com

Building a typing application that helps you quickly learn and improve your typing.

We believe everyone can type at 80wpm or more. It just takes a good tool and a couple months of consistent practice

absoluteunit1on Maybe you should learn something

Learning something new often can take as little 10-15 minutes a day of focused time. If you do it consistently, it becomes easier and easier to maintain, and it starts to require less and less mental capacity to start

> You can learn new things. Pixel art, touch typing, 3d modelling, music, calligraphy, wood working, knitting, a language. Whatever is practical and calls to you, you can learn.

shameless plug: if you are interested in learning touch typing, i built a data driven touch typing application:

https://typequicker.com

it started as a side project (combined wanting to learn typing with my desire to build a side business while working at amazon. working on this (almost) full time now

absoluteunit1on Rive, Fast and reliable background jobs in Go

I was just asking on the Go subreddit for suggestions and River came up.

My only hesitation is that many features are locked behind Pro.

I normally only settle for completely open source tools that I can self host and try to avoid these “partially” open tools.

For now, going to try to migrate my current stack to RabbitMQ. Seems like a very mature and completely open source tool.

River does look cool but I’m not a fan of vendor lock in. Will always avoid when possible

absoluteunit1on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

Building the most effective typing application.

https://typequicker.com

absoluteunit1on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

Building https://typequicker.com

An AI first typing application.

I think anyone can learn touch typing and potentially 2x their typing speed.

We make typing practice engaging and data driven.

absoluteunit1on Everything we like is a psyop?

SEO, Reddit and Paid ads probably

absoluteunit1on Everything we like is a psyop?

> I think most users of websites like reddit, x, and yes even HN don't realize how much traffic is inorganic.

Came here to say this - I have always been extremely cautious and assumed most things online were just marketing tactics. But I never realize how far and how strategic some of these campaigns are.

I’ve recently started really getting my hands dirty with marketing for an app I’m building and the things I’ve learned in the past year have made me questions many of my views on things. At some point you realize that it’s all marketing or some form of effort to exert influence.

A good book somewhat related to this is Attention Merchants

absoluteunit1on Keycard – inject API keys into subprocesses, never touch shell env

Is this similar to what Infisical does?

absoluteunit1on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

TypeQuicker (https://typequicker.com) - personalized typing app.

I believe anyone can learn to type fast - I think it just takes the right tools to make it interesting enough for the users to use consistently

absoluteunit1on Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids

It's an interactive world - where games can be built by anyone (I personally know/met some of the devs) and all the games have some randomization/gambling mechanics involved. Lootboxes is just one tiny example. Infinite novely - there's literally infinite number of games one can play.

I don't have time right now to provide a full/quality answer with more examples - you can do a bit of seraching online to learn more.

Also from personal expeirence as well (from family and friends). When their kids comeover they have tiktok on their phone and roblox on their laptop

absoluteunit1on Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case

Oh man if they think YouTube and Instagram are addicting they should see what Roblox does lol

absoluteunit1on Marketing for Founders

> Should you focus on SEO in the early days of your startup? Probably not

I would completely disagree with this (product dependent).

If your product is a consumer app - I would highly prioritize and understand SEO before even having a product complete. Develop a good understanding of SEO around your product domain and niche.

If it’s a B2B - then yes, I would agree.

absoluteunit1on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

Absolutely!

Focusing on just English for now but hoping to add Spanish, French and a few other locales.

Regarding layouts: we already support;

- QWERTZ (German layout) - Qwerty - Dvorak - Colemak

This includes the visual guide and the hand positioning.

Adding more soon! But these have been the most requested

absoluteunit1on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

Thanks!

Good point - yeah, the idea is that it can help users stop looking down at the keyboards. It serves as a visual guide for how to position there hands correctly using the standard “touch typing” positioning.

Thanks for mentioning it was confusing - I’ll add a short Driver.js walkthrough that explains what it’s for

absoluteunit1on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

Thank!

> 1 Month instead of "Monthly" as it's a subscription and you're not really purchasing a "one month pass", correct?

Goo point - I have monthly/annually below but it might be confusing still. I’ll update to clarify. Thanks

absoluteunit1on Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

Some of these sites - wow. I literally can’t fall asleep right now (reading this in bed) scrolling through all these. So many good resources. Thank you for sharing. This is why I love HN

absoluteunit1on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

TypeQuicker (https://typequicker.com) - personalized and engaging typing application.

Anyone can learn to type fast - I think it just takes the right tools to make it interesting enough for the users to use daily

absoluteunit1on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

I share this sentiment.

In general - I don’t know if it’s a coincidence but here on HN for example, I’ve noticed an increasing amount of comments and posts emphasizing the narrative of how “well- intended” Anthropic is.

absoluteunit1on Saudade

Oh there’s a popular Portuguese song call Saudede:

https://youtu.be/eQul-rkcGPQ

absoluteunit1on My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

Exactly

absoluteunit1on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

Building https://typequicker.com

We’re aiming to build the best typing application; personalized to every users typing habits.

Typing is one of the most important hard skills today and yet most education systems skip it.

Most of our customers are adults who always wanted to type but can’t find the time. We make it faster to learn and improve by focusing around the user’s weak points (with our features like SmartPractice and TargetPractice)

absoluteunit1on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

Building TypeQuicker: https://typequicker.com

Started as a side project but has become my full time focus since leaving a FAANG job ~6months ago

So far we've added:

- Code typing practice with any language: https://typequicker.com/code-typing-practice - SmartPractice: analyzes your history stats to find weak areas and generates exercises for them: https://typequicker.com/app/text - TargetPractice: lets you interact with any of your stats; for example, clicking on a certain bigram that you typed slowly will create a natural practice text that targets that two character sequence - TypeAnything: let you create a typing exercise about anything; AI for typing pretty much - Advanced stas: we measure every character, 2,3 charcter sequences (delay to click in ms), every word, and even breakdown speed/accuracy per finger - Real-time hand/finger indicators: show you exactly where to place your fingers to type based on standard touch typing practices - Keyboards supported: QWERTY, QWERTZ (German keyboard) ISO, British ISO (adding Dvorak and Colemak soo).

absoluteunit1on The Case for Nushell (2023)

This is the second time I’m hearing of Nushell.

I wanted to try it the first time I heard about it but completely slipped my mind so this is a good reminder.

absoluteunit1on 2025: The Year in LLMs

Hey - this sounds like really interesting set-up!

Would you be open to providing more details. Would love to hear more, your workflows, etc.

absoluteunit1on Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

“We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it”

I spit out my coffee laughing lol