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thanks for sharing these! definitely great to look for. Ikea also has both mechanical and motorized standing desks. Cardoard based stands like Refold also looks great but didn't tried them.

hi, this CSV and JSON dataset includes more than 43,000 projects published on YC HN in Show HN, Reddit and other websites. Dataset covers from May 2017 to November 2020 and was used for AllSideProjects.com (now closed).

Hi,

I've made this list of websites to block on the computer, mobile devices, routers, etc. 100+ websites so far including HN news.

Please contribute and add more websites you are procrastinating on https://github.com/bytescout/list-of-procrastination-website...

regards, Eugene

Great platform with a diverse groups of startup founders, entrepreneurs and experienced CTO. I'm visiting it regularly and there is always something interesting to read.

From the technical side I like that I can use `markdown` inside messages. Web version is also smooth and fast even on mobile Safari.

The platform reminds me of Reddit and will be great to get weekly or bi-weekly digests pointing out to interesting discussions in different groups. Also, Reddit has lot of NSFW groups and NSFW posts. I wonder if OpenLand can be used for NSFW content or NSFW groups?

Hi all,

PDF Multitool is the PDF reader app for Windows that is designed for geeks! Includes dark mode support for viewing pdf files as well as set of tools like:

- pdf splitter and pdf merger

- table data extraction with automatic search

- convert pdf to CSV, JSON, XML, TXT, JPG, PNG

- sensitive data analysize and remover (auto and manual modes)

- rare tools like unsearchable PDF maker (turns your text searchable PDFs into scanned like PDF)

- attachments, images and media extractor

The download page is here: https://bytescout.com/download/download_freeware.html or you may use this direct download link: https://cdn.bytescout.com/PDFMultitool.exe

The app is free for non-commercial usage with no restrictions in the functionality. If you use it for business purposes then you may purchase a Business License.

Hope you will like it and will appreciate any comments and suggestions. Thanks!

hi all, made this free chrome plugin (and recently updated to add support for LinkedIn) to easily add private notes to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter accounts. Notes are displayed as a list along with links to these accounts and exportable to CSV.

first part of the SQL Trainer simulator that helps in learning of basic SQL Queries is here https://app.bytescout.com/sql-trainer/index.html

Both parts are made with “learn by doing” approach in mind and work with real data.

Hi all, I work on this search engine which is made to help patients to research prices from various US hospitals. Hospitals are required to publish their price lists online starting this year but it is a real pain going from website to website.

Current version contains 5M+ prices from doznes of hospitals and will be growing.

Planning to addd these things: - Indication of charge types (procedure, drugs, etc) - Better filtering - Export to downloadable CSV

Please share your thoughts and suggestions!

Hi,

Made this Data Playground to help non-technical people to work with CSV files by filtering, sorting, viewing data from them using natural language questions like: "Show 5 recent orders", "Get customers with email like Berry", "Get orders with size like XL".

For technical people it also can work with SQL queries (just use the special switch).

The app works online, any suggestions and comments would be appreciated!

Hi,

Few months ago I've encountered the issue with Zendesk online customer support service that they are not allowing receiving files and attachments larger than 10 megabytes. Gmail is also limited to 25 mb per attachments. So along with a developer I've made this small web app prototype that works like this:

- user signs up and configures a branded "inbox" page by uploading a logo, setting colors, customizing mesages. Here is the live example for Cats Photo Company

- user shares the link to the "file inbox" to her clients inviting them to send files through this form

- clients then can send common files and super large files (like 6 gb or more per file) through this page. The page resumes if connection is lost, also uses multithreaded uploads to speed up the process.

- Once files are submitted, notification about new "ticket" is sent to the user and user may then download files submitted by a client

- (not yet working) tickets are synced to Zendesk and similar customer support services if any

Screenshot of the branded page customized by a user: https://imgur.com/K28fhwt

Screenshot of the view of submitted files ticket: https://imgur.com/JEgVgeX

Prototype online (for testing only): https://file-inbox.herokuapp.com/

What do you think? Would you pay $19/month for such a service? Any comments or suggestions are appreciated, thank you in advance!

TLDR; keep anything with magnets (Kindle, Apple Watch charging cable or even second macbook) away from macbook laptop as magnets may turn on / off your computer.

The idea is great and tried it but probably it is not working for all people equally. So prefer to use https://play.mubert.com that can also play indefinetely or just spin up 1-2 hour mixes on RTS.FM (available on soundcloud and and as Apple iTunes podcasts)

thanks for the suggestion! I found the the theory can work great after some doing. Stanford course looks great for this purpose!

discussion on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/bytescout-sql-trainer

thanks! hope it will help to train sql skills in this simulator

thanks for the suggestion! yes, definitely will need to update the way it checks for correct answer as there can be multiple variations.

thanks! added info that it is available in MySQL only. MySQL is pretty popular so this query can be good to know anyway.

JOIN excercise added. https://app.bytescout.com/sql-trainer/index.html

Hi, My name is Eugene and we made this little online SQL language trainer to help non-programmers to learn basic SQL queries. And more important, it shows the result of query entered.

Any suggestions and comments are welcome!

and many thanks for all the suggestion already made! And seems like we should better remove MySQL specific command from the very first question.

thanks for the feedback! Will change it

joins will be added soon!

Zendesk is great for customer support and Github is great for working and managing the code. But how to make it possible for software engineers not to go to Zendesk and be able to answer right from the lovely Github without switching between services?

That was how the idea of this bot appear.

This open-source Zendesk-Github bot was tested during last 12 months on ByteScout.com technical support in production. The general idea was the following: in Github we create a separate "inbox" repository where the bot puts tickets and replies from customers as Github issues. And then it is possible to discuss, to reference this issue from other Github repositories. And when the answer is ready then one just puts a special keyword that indicates that bot should use this comment as a reply to customer's request in Zendesk.

Other features include: - copying the issue completely with comments to another repository. - posting comment from Github as a Zendesk Knowledgebase article. - fetching of optional information about customers from mail marketing system or CRM system (is there an active or expired subscription? etc)

And best of all, this bot can be deployed and run on a completely free Heroku dyno on Heroku.

Hi,

I wrote this book based on interviews with entrepreneurs, representatives of freelance marketplaces (Upwork, Freelancer.com and others), 200+ publications.

The book has 4 sections: entrepreneurs working remotely, hiring and managing remote team, remote partners, finding and working with remote customers / clients.

Free promotion runs for 5 days and you may get it to your Kindle reader for free. Hope you will enjoy it!

Hi all,

This online tool takes PDF document (from url or from file) and creates a virtual reality room with up to 12 pages from the document flying around. It should work on Gear VR and Oculus as well as in Chrome and other modern browsers.

It uses React VR for virtual reality plus a custom backend for pdf rendering.

Here is the short video showing how it looks like: http://imgur.com/qKMXJ8d

Any comments or suggestions are welcome!

hi and thank you for your work on Tabula! Well, some months ago I've advised to try Tabula and the first thing was the Java download page opened without any explanation. She managed to install java runtime and to try again but when was trying to upload files it was displaying either internal server error in jruby message or just a plain json in the browser. So, in my opinion and experience it may require some efforts to run it (at least for the first time). But to _use_ it, for sure, no such a technical background is required.

PDF.co offline tool (for Windows) supports OCR and partial OCR for pdf to text and pdf to csv with layout preserved. (disclaimer: i work on it)

Tabula is the nice free tool but requires technical background to run it. There is a free https://pdf.co with both online and offline tools (Windows) for PDF to CSV. (disclaimer: i work on it)

Upwork and www.Freelancer.com I think the leaders by the number of available projects. There is also a lot of buzz about www.toptal.com (but have not tried it yet).

Nitrious is the great solution to work with unix box, using it for months now and it really hides the pain of managing and setting the environment for Rails app development. The built-in IDE works great too, though would like to see some more tools like refactoring but anyway I like that all it requires is the browser so can work basically from any computer.

Yes, sounds like the advertisement but I am comparing to literally days spent on setting up the environment for Rails development on Windows and Ubuntu and my experience with Nitrious where it was like just minutes to get up and running.

Was not able to find what was the framework used. Any ideas on what was used to package the code into ios app?

Previous interviews mentioned they used Chromebook and Nitrious.IO to work and develop the project but seems like something else needed to package the javascript or rails code into the ios app? Or maybe I am missing something