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alexsherrick

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alex.sherrick@gmail.com

omega ear https://omegaear.com

touch grass https://trytotouchgrass.com

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alexsherrick··on Can AI design circuit boards yet?
I've been making a wireless earbud with a ton of features over the last year. It's taken a lot of time but I'm about to send it to fab. AI can make PCBs but it is very time consuming for complex designs.
alexsherrick··on $900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor
Nothing to see here...
alexsherrick··on Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
1. Do you fabricate in-house, or through partner fabs? If partners, where are they located?

2. Can you do 6-layer 1+4+1 HDI - laser microvias (0.100 mm), stacked microvias over buried vias, sequential lamination?

3. Can you do via-in-pad fill and planarize (Type VII / VIPPO)? I have ~218 vias on one board needing it.

4. What's your minimum copper-to-copper clearance? Can you do 0.075 mm with a waiver.

alexsherrick··on Show HN: Base.recipes – Version control for your recipes
Hey HN, I built this because I made a super tasty Texas white queso, but then I didn't know where I should keep the recipe. I also realized recipe sites kind of suck. So in the end I made a Github for recipes.

Import any recipe URL and it strips out the life stories and ads. The main thing: you can fork and edit recipes, and it keeps version history so you remember what you actually changed. It's been fun for me because I'm cooking a lot more now because it's easy to keep track of.

I also threw in a scan recipe which uses AI to parse out the text so that it should be easy to import recipes from photos/print/etc.

SvelteKit + Cloudflare Pages + D1. iOS app is live, Android in beta.

Happy to answer any questions.

alexsherrick··on Show HN: Touch grass – I built social media that wants you to close it
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback, this is exactly the kind of thing that's useful to hear.

To clarify the mechanics: yes, you have to post before you can see anyone else's. The window is monday through sunday, reveal happens sunday 6pm mountain time, and there's a grace period until monday 6pm if you're late. The idea is that everyone posts "blind" without being influenced by what others said.

On the prompts, that's some fair criticism. I've collected a bunch of prompts that I pick through each week. They fall into 3 categories and it is always in order. Q1: Check-in (something about the week), Q2: Fun (something silly usually... this has weirdly been fun to see peoples answers across the friend spectrum), and Q3: thoughtful (something a little deeper but not too heavy). It sounds like you'd prefer it lean harder into the check-in category and it might go that route eventually. I just didn't want people to get bored of the same questions.

Also it is mandatory to post 1 photo, so it's min 1 photo, max 3 photos. I'm terrible at taking photos and it has forced me into trying to take a few more which is good for documenting my life a little bit. Also the life tab becomes your journal. Only you can see it. Once the week is over no one else can see it but you. That was one idea for monetization way down the line somehow leaning into that, but with it being so cheap I just want others to maybe use it and refine it.

Appreciate you taking the time to write this up. Good luck with the board game designs!

alexsherrick··on A Deep Dive on Egress Fees
This is funny. I was just looking at egress fees and stumbled across this post. Thanks!
alexsherrick··on Germany hit a new high in renewable energy, briefly making prices negative
You can get negative day-ahead prices quite frequently due to congestion depending on what lines, generators, transformers, etc are out.
alexsherrick··on Thync – Calm or energy on demand
I think this is a cool idea; however, after paying $299 you only get 5 calm and 5 energy strips that are guaranteed for one time use. After that they cost $19.99 for another 5. This would be a very expensive "habit".
alexsherrick··on Show HN: ReservationHop - Snap up last minute reservations to hot SF restaurants
So let me get this straight... you take all the good reservations then you either cancel them or sell them. Way to create something that benefits the people of San Francisco.
alexsherrick··on Tell HN: My startup is making money and I don't know what to do
I have a few associates that would probably invest in this type of company rather quickly. Drop me an email if you want me to pass your name along.
alexsherrick··on Show HN: Hype Machine - 5+ years of Internet music history
this is awesome anthony! really brings me back... i can remember listening to certain weeks with my buddies. hopefully i'll see you at SX this year.
alexsherrick··on Propelly
This is almost identical to gumroad.com; in fact, it is except for the arrogant teenager. I'm not trying to bring in this massive storm of hate, but propelly is going to have to hustle a lot to get their name out there above gumroad.
alexsherrick··on Pandora for Music Videos
I must say... I like this.
alexsherrick··on The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders
Well, I'm still glad this got submitted; I wouldn't have gone searching for it. Pretty interesting read.
alexsherrick··on Google Tried To Buy Color For $200 Million. Color Said No.
Wow.
alexsherrick··on Play Button: a wearable, uneditable album
Damn these are pretty awesome... only problem is The Pains of Being Pure at Heart costs $24. A little much!
alexsherrick··on Google+ NSA, no thanks
Okay since you are so afraid the NSA will look at your G+, I hope you are not using GMail to receive your Facebook notifications... they might just READ EVERYTHING!! The horror.
alexsherrick··on Unannounced Facebook feature uncovered
Spotify is for sure being integrated into facebook. Facebook employees have had access for a while.
alexsherrick··on What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
#7 is a killer feature... that will be awesome
alexsherrick··on Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?
I have to agree with you on a lot of your points (even though I haven't had the chance to use G+). I am actually happy that G+ is missing advertising, corporate pages, and widgets. These things are "social", but I truly believe a social network should be about people and not games and corporations.

However, put with words with friends on there, and I'll be happy!

alexsherrick··on The Beer Archaeologist
I thought this was really cool... I wonder what that beer tastes like.
alexsherrick··on Hacker News Job Board?
I've been hanging around the site for a long time, but I haven't been here for over two years. Is it really necessary to have that long of an account to stop spam? I believe 1 year should at least be fine.
alexsherrick··on Schumer Bashes BitCoin, Wants to Shut Down Silk Road Drug Site
On Silk Road there are lots of ways to money launder... one of the main ways is that you give someone bitcoins and they give you a "gift" on paypal so that there are no fees.
alexsherrick··on WhereBerry (YC W11): A Social Network for Making Future Plans
I agree with suking, this would be much better as a FB app, something that could be part of your actual profile. It would be nice to see Wall, Info, Photos, Plans
alexsherrick··on You’ve got an idea. Now what?
anyone have a mirror for this?
alexsherrick··on What do you want to know about a company to work there?
1. Flexibility, typical hours 2. Time-off/vacation days 3. Salary 4. Benefits 5. Funding
alexsherrick··on Sprint integrates Google Voice
now if att would get on board...
alexsherrick··on Show HN: My "semester" project: cab sharing made easy
i think its a great idea... any ideas on monetizing?
alexsherrick··on Ask HN: my startup got acquisition interest, what's next?
From my experience, investment bankers don't really know much of anything. I would shy away from this.
alexsherrick··on Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impossible
A lot of people are dogging acconrad, but I have to agree with him. I was having a problem with rails, and I found the answer on stackoverflow. The right answer had no upvotes, so I figured I would upvote it; this way the original "asker" would know it is the right answer. However, it said I didn't have enough rep to upvote... I'm sure he'll figure it out but this would save him from checking the other "solutions".
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