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dalewebbon Show HN: I built an AI that automates my entire freelancing business–now what?

How does your system work?

dalewebbon Show HN: Lightweight, open source FlatFile clone

Good job! Those quotes are insane! I've worked on a few projects where I've had to build this from scratch, I had no idea that a SaaS existed for it...

dalewebbon Show HN: Podil.js, a lightweight and secure database schema migration tool

Shouldn't the migration task be separate from the application running the web server?

If you had this within an application running in a Kubernetes pod, then each instance will attempt to run the migration.

Additionally, the application will need a DB user credentials that is capable of powerful actions like dropping a table, so that the migrator is capable of doing that - this would be a potential security vulnerability.

dalewebbon Show HN: an app to create images with AI

The image wouldn't generate for me

dalewebbon Ask HN: Any interest in a text based wireframing tool?

https://plantuml.com/salt

dalewebbon Jira Work Management

Look! It's Asana!

dalewebbon Ask HN: How viable is this idea?

There was a product listed on HN a while ago that tackled the problem with the solution you described. I can't remember what it's called though...

dalewebbon Ask HN: Is there a platform like Indiegogo or Kickstarter, but for B2B products?

I've worked with companies where we have pre-sold products (before they fully exist). By producing prototypes to get initial buy-in and then running pilots (trials) to get them to put money down.

These were potential solutions to problems that they don't have the budget or time to solve themselves

dalewebbon Ask HN: Do people still create/use UML diagrams?

I was wondering about this. I don't think people do beyond class diagrams and possibly something that resembles an activity diagram.

What provoked the question?

dalewebbon Ask HN: How much of your time at work as a software engineer is spent coding?

Probably around 4 hrs a day (or half a day). The other time is taken by code reviewing, video calls, spec writing & research

dalewebbon Ask HN: What's your personal blog link?

https://medium.com/bad-practice

I write about things I've learnt from my own startup and working for a startup both as a product manager and software engineer