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contaon Tasks.org – Open-source ToDo app for Android with CalDAV sync

I am using it on my Android phone and syncing with my Nextcloud instance. Works like charm. On desktop I am syncing via Thunderbird.

I also sync my notes, contacts and other stuff via Nextcloud, as I don't wanna use Google.

contaon Brave Open-Source Browser Caught Adding Referral Codes to Typed-In URLs

Someone started fork called Braver

https://github.com/braver-browser

contaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)

  Location: Czechia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Technical Product Manager (NodeJS, ElectronJS, Ruby on Rails, Ruby)
  Résumé/CV: https://hovancik.net/cv
  Email: jan (at) hovancik.net

contaon Ask HN: What is your financial “setup”?

I have built myself a expense tracking tool, where I track my expenses. I have one "account" for my expenses and another shared one that I use together with my girlfriend.

I input expenses manually and each expense has a "category". For each category I can set a monthly "Bucket" (the maximum I wanna spent) and then I can track my progress during month.

Every month I get email with spending stats and I sit down together with my girlfriend to consider our finacial situation. We can change the buckets, etc...

I think the most inportant part is manually writing expenses and then talking about it after we get the email.

contaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

I've started as Ruby on Rails dev, also some Node and that jazz, but slowly moved to positions like Project manager, Scrum-roles and Product management. I am really excited about Open-source and would love to work on something related to it (either as dev, or some product/people role).

  Location: Prague, Czech Republic
  Remote: true
  Willing to relocate: true
  Technologies: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Electron, Product
  Résumé/CV: hovancik.net/cv
  Email: jan (at) hovancik (dot) net

contaon Vue RFC: Expose logic-related component options via function-based APIs instead

I would love to see their answer to this but my guess is that it would be: "Nope. See Semantic versioning (semver.org)"

contaon Ask HN: Paid app to free and Patreon?

Thanks a lot!

contaon Ask HN: Paid app to free and Patreon?

I have an open-source app called stretchly (https://github.com/hovancik/stretchly) and I allow people to support it via paypal or patreon.

I ask people to support me by becoming my patron on Patreon as Menu item. Right now it brings me 11$/month (https://www.patreon.com/hovancik) and it goes up and down. I could do better by engaging more with people, I guess (in past some people donated when I fixed their issue very quickly).

Over time, some people also donated on paypal (5-15$ a time).

I am thinking to add "premium" features: users can access them after auth via patreon or github (if they contributed).

Premium features will be just some sugar, nothing that normal user could not do.

I also have newsletter where I try to bring some app related stuff that people might enjoy.

some tips:

- watch for mentions of your app on social media and interact

- ask for support, if people like your app they will help

- being open-source also helps

contaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2018)

  Location: Prague, Czechia
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: ruby, node
  Résumé/CV: hovancik.net/cv
  Email: jan [at] hovancik [dot] net

contaon A fork on GitHub is no fork

> collaborator then pushes some changes based on outdated information and breaks everything

github does have better ways to prevent that. that's the point of using git, right?

contaon SpiderOakONE – Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage

I have to agree that SpiderOak is terrible. Whenever I try to run it, my Mac goes crap. Everything seems to be freezing and OS is not usable at all.

Indeed it seems that they are moving to another products...