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amotingaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

  Location: San Diego, CA
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: ruby on rails
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amotinga
  Email: andrew.motinga@gmail.com

amotingaon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

vibecoded a e-commerce for my brother https://delta.md/

with rails and most of it written by claude - was a pretty fun project. done in a week - and brought 4 orders already, unlike old site that didnt really work.

I dont think I would've made it if it wasn't for AI.

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

https://vorbim.org/ - free AI generated website for russian speaking folks in Moldova to learn romanian.

AI to generate lessons, excercises AI text to speech to make pronounciations AI to code cards open sources words dbs.

fun 1 month project. gets like 100ppl daily.

https://domio.md/ - zillow for moldova.

same idea - there isn't really a zillow like website in moldova - mostly classifieds sites. so I figured why not - gonna scrape the internet and put them on the map. we'll see what comes of it.

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

taking sabbatical from work (after getting laid off) went to visit family in moldova. my nieces tell me there is no app to learn romanian online - this cant be true.

I do a bit of research and turns out this is mostly true, mostly these websites built for english speaking people, meaning you learn romanian - but starting from english.

at the same time I need to dig in into all the rails 8 goodies. also, I've been hearing about this cloudflare thing, and not knowing what's that about. also, heroku is shit now, so Im curious to try some new server, hetzner u say? - wonder what's that like.

kamal is a thing now, ok.

but coding is ... time and energy intensive, what is this vibecoding ppl talking about?

anyhow May 20th I sit down to "vibecode" an app - see what happens. one thing led to another and here we are

https://vorbim.org/

found some romanian words ranked by frequency. found free open db of romanian words on dexonline. found google TTS to transform text to sound. found that cloudflare has storage sooooo much cheaper than aws s3 (only one I used for decade) found that cloudflare has some neat useful features. found that server at hetzner is pretty cheap and with ai easy to setup. found that fable/opus are great at generating content (with some hand holding) found that AI now is stupid good at building / designing websites.

it was impossible for me to build something like this without second monitor and tweaking css for days/weeks. now? I just tell it make it pretty. god damn. inspiring and disheartening at the same time.

amotingaon How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

what is DTC?

amotingaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)

  Location: Murrieta, CA | or Moldova | 
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: ruby on rails and all that entails.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amotinga/
  Email: andrew.motinga@gmail.com

open to full-time, part time or contract.

amotingaon YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally

it maybe time to look into curiosity stream I guess.

amotingaon I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me (2021)

I read the entire thing. that doesnt happen often.

amotingaon Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough?

check out maslow pyramid of needs. you're on level 3. for me it goes something like:

1. body - food, water, shelter, sleep. check 2. safety - freedom, stability. check 3. love and belonging: friends & family. check 4. self realization: prestige, respect, achievements.. ???? that's your next step. 5. the dream: full complete realization of ones potential.

read up on this thing, check it out.

also maybe useful questions to ask:

1. how is my last month going to look like - how do I wanna die. invision it. 2. maybe think. what would you do if you only had week, month, year to live? maybe go do it? is it realy impossibly to do while paying mortgage? chances are it isnt.

also, maybe list things you like about yourself and things you dont like. wanna work on those you dont like?

amotingaon Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

offer remote work - I'm in

amotingaon Russia began active preparations for disconnection from the global Internet

just did search here for this and found 2 more posts about russia testing this 3 and 2 years ago. does anybody know if this is real?

amotingaon Heroku was Down

yes, site is down

amotingaon Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?

high quality coding school that lands you a job.

amotingaon Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k

2 things why I dont bother interviewing:

1. very difficult long interview that I most likely won't pass 2. I only want to work remotely. driving every day few hours back and forth is very expensive in many ways.

When something changes about those I will think about it.

amotingaon Ask HN: Besides a job or freelancing, how would you make money with coding?

can you automate poker online? pretty sure you can build in strategy to win at microstakes

amotingaon Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt

same. even though I make good living, buying house seems difficult - it's a lot of money for many years. add closing costs and misc repairs, and owning appears to be quite expensive. I wouldn't know what to do if at any point within next 10 years I lost the job.

amotingaon Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years

if you somehow managed to get 160k out of the bootcamp I would guess bootcamp is only part of why you got such an offer. you are extreme outlier.

amotingaon Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years

structure. assuming it costs 50k to develop curriculum and 1000 ppl take it price becomes 50 per person. more people take it, price if it (theoretically) has to move towards 0. guidance. this one I can understand. having person always available to help out when something unexpected happens, which btw happens constantly is extremely helpful. this is def value added.

accountability. this one I'm not sure what you mean. meaning I invest 10k now I really have to make it work. yeah, unfortunately people tend to value expensive things more than free.

connections. yes, this is perhaps biggest selling point, the idea that they will place the student, or at the very least help significantly.

hmmm... I wonder if there is a way to quantify that. is it really ~ 1k/week to do all of that?

amotingaon Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years

serious question: what does lambda school or any other bootcamp provide that isn't available online already for free or cheap?

freecodecamp.org theodinproject limitless various courses.

curriculum is out there, /r/learnprogramming is very helpful, plethora of discords. what do they provide in 2022 that is worth ~10-20k?

amotingaon Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years

how is it going? do you have a lot of subscribers? any of them landed a job?

amotingaon Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

I'd like a ban button on a song. I like listening to various genres when I work out depending on the mood, but as soon as I hear 'pussy' I want to throw my phone out.

amotingaon Remote OK Open Startup

30x500?

amotingaon Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months

I once read 'power of mediocrity' or something like that that I saw here on HN. that article talked about the fact that it's ok to do things just to enjoy them as opposed to getting better at them.

since then I don't worry about my rating anymore, just playing on lichess without loggin in, just to have fun.

I'm not improving much, but i have fun.

amotingaon Senior developers are leading the great resignation movement

same. any meeting is just 'me time' chilling for an hour.

amotingaon Ask HN: How Do You Learn?

web dev languages / frameworks: 1. read the instruction, docs. 2. watch all the 'how to' videos I can get my hands on. 3. try to build something with it.

more generic.

1. read as much as I can find on 'how to', 'tips and tricks', 'things I wish I new when I started x' etc 1.b watching videos on 2x speed. 2. practice

tests are helpful if I can find them, but there aren't that many, good ones

amotingaon PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires

in that case why have owners at all? it should basically be nationalized then. otherwise taxpayer paying the cost without really reaping profits (if there are/will be any)

amotingaon Ask HN: What SaaS should I build now 5 years ago?

Thank you

amotingaon How do I start investing?

updated

amotingaon We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons

Yes, agree. I can list a lot of simple things like that

amotingaon “Great resignation” wave coming for companies

before pandemic started: - I asked more money (so that I can afford live alone in high COL) they said no. - I asked to work remotely - they sad no - I asked for more money (but less now) they still said no.

I left. found a remote job with 25% raise. in 3 months pandemic hit and everybody started working remotely.