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Someone who has built infrastructure or system prompts that use Opus will probably continue with Opus until they verify that everything works on Sonnet 3.5

eaplanton Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

https://app.growtopline.com/signup

Product description: We’re making the simplest tools to find churn, growth, and cash flow metrics for SaaS businesses. We connect to your Stripe and Quickbooks accounts to create a dashboard of useful insights without any configuration.

We need help making sure our math is right, and we’re offering the product for free in exchange for your feedback.

Contact: elliot@growtopline.com

If you’d prefer to join our waitlist, go ahead and add your email on growtopline.com

eaplanton Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://docsite.io

A dead simple tool to turn Google Docs (and Google Dive folders with many Docs inside) into published websites. It looks good on mobile, is super fast, and it uses the exact same formatting that appears in the original doc.

It was inspired by an HN post, but I can’t seem to find it.

I’d love to get some feedback!

eaplanton Ask HN: Where to get help with a hardware idea?

Look up an “Engineering Consulting Firm”. They’ll be able to tell you if they can help usually in an hour conversation.

https://outer-space.co/

https://www.delve.com/services/engineering/electrical-softwa...

eaplanton Ask HN: Can one be self-employed fixing bugs?

Yes! Try Codementor (codementor.io).

I used their platform to work as an on-demand bug fixed for dozens of companies while working on my own schedule. At first, you have to build up relationships with 1:1 development help. It doesn’t take long to become familiar enough with your clients for them to ask you for your help on their trickiest problems.

The biggest issue (and the reason I no longer work there) is that the work is sporadic. Time spent fixing bugs is lost time you could have spent getting new clients, which leads to a sort of boom/bust work schedule.

eaplanton Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

Anyone who works in automotive manufacturing/pricing: what does the touchscreen/cameras/“smart” part of the vehicle cost? I’d love to buy a “dumb” chassis/motor/battery/interior from Toyota (for example) and plop in a tactile console with a simpler controller. I wonder if there’s a market for something like that at a possibly lower price point.

eaplanton Ask HN: What do you code when learning a new language/framework?

To Do list apps

eaplanton Show HN: Redirect your customers from your marketing page to your app

Did you try clicking the "Disable marketing redirect" button? That removes the redirect.

eaplanton Show HN: Redirect your customers from your marketing page to your app

The thing I made is an opt-in redirect. If you don't want to be redirected from marketing -> app, then you wouldn't click the "Always go to app" button. No content wrapping, no installations, no change in behavior for anyone who doesn't opt in to the redirect. I made it because I often think "I'd like to see how my CI is doing", and then I type "circleci.com", and land on their marketing page instead of the app dashboard at "app.circleci.com".

eaplanton Show HN: Redirect your customers from your marketing page to your app

Yea I agree. For some reason marketing teams love to make the "log in" link tiny, if they include it at all.

eaplanton Show HN: Redirect your customers from your marketing page to your app

I think a nice feature of the thing I made is a button that lets users opt in to the redirect. I agree that it would be bad UX to prevent your paying customers from seeing the marketing page if they wanted to.

eaplanton Show HN: Redirect your customers from your marketing page to your app

On top of the lack of redirect, the login button is tiny

eaplanton Show HN: Redirect your customers from your marketing page to your app

Redirector: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/ocgpenf...

eaplanton Show HN: Redirect your customers from your marketing page to your app

Happy to help :)

eaplanton Show HN: Redirect your customers from your marketing page to your app

Great idea. Thanks!

eaplanton Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make?

I totally agree - Plaid seems like a good existing but insecure "API" that most people probably don't care that they're giving their login info to.

eaplanton Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make?

I love this idea. I would absolutely use it.

eaplanton Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make?

That last part really blows my mind. You would think that recurring outbound transfers would be totally common right now.

I totally agree that Plaid makes sense, but it frightens me a bit that you have to give your username and password to Plaid.

eaplanton Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make?

Read only makes sense. I imagine you would have to go into your settings to enable the API in the first place. The scariest thing for me about the current banking system is that my account + routing number acts like a key that can remove money from my checking account.

I totally agree that most banks have terrible UIs. I think the opensource community could do a much better job. I hadn't thought of notifications but I think it would be great.

eaplanton Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make?

These are great ideas! One of my biggest wishes would be to have my transaction and balance histories.

eaplanton Ask HN: What would the internet look like if we could create it from scratch?

That's a great essay - interesting to see how things could have been and used to be.

Aside, this article is now the #1 post. Seems you've got a good taste in reading. Any other recommendations?

eaplanton Ask HN: What would the internet look like if we could create it from scratch?

Interesting! I'd never heard of these

eaplanton Ask HN: What is the worst product you still use?

https://www.dmv.com/

For a sight that is so necessary to most Americans, it's really lacking in basic information and excessive in unnecessary information

eaplanton Show HN: Stream ethereum event logs on etherstream.io

Hi HN!

I made a tool to stream ethereum event logs https://www.etherstream.io, and I would love to get some feedback. I've found that it is extremely useful to be able to quickly "tail" logs from particular contracts while developing Dapps. My hope is to get a link on etherscan.io event logs (for example, https://etherscan.io/tx/0x75512fd4151dafce8f5a6b8b406d58f2ce...) so you can jump directly from an individual event log to the stream of those logs.

There are a few rough edges (the front end talks directly to Infura with a key I made with a throwaway email, so this won't be able to handle a huge surge of traffic until I add a backend), but if this project gains some traction, I'll smooth them out.

If you're someone who develops apps that interact with the ethereum blockchain, please let me know what you think!

Elliot

eaplanton How can a software engineer help in this pandemic?

That's a great idea. Thanks so much!

eaplanton Show HN: Jobsearch.dev – Open-Source Senior Jobsearch Course

This is an incredible course with an incredibly well defined audience. I appreciate it!