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gedizon Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)

Privacy friendly open source browser extension to export chats from web client of Microsoft Teams. Reached ~90000 users now. Currently working on making it more stable to export huge chats, which contains several years of data, while keeping things efficient and fast.

gedizon Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

I mean, cumulatively :) sorry for not being very clear

gedizon Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

I have a 8€ storage VPS from Alpha VPS. It's far from a beefy machine. Hosting it for a few years so far. It has a blog generated with Hugo, WireGuard Easy VPN for me and my friends, Forgejo for a few small repos, SFTPGo for files. Even VPN hosting itself saves me and my friend maybe around 50$ a month. Maintenance is easy, and even easier after AI. Definitely worth it.

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

Today I resumed working on my open source browser extension to export chats from Microsoft Teams web client, after a two week long mandatory break due to busy dayjob activities. Now tackling the issues opened by users. Reached to more than 75000 users in less than a year, which makes me happy that its a useful thing.

Website is: https://teamschatexporter.com/

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

A browser extension to export conversations from Teams. I initially needed a readily available tool, I was ready to pay a few bucks for it. Turns out there isn’t an alternative for me because existing ones require instance admin to enable this, Microsoft Graph API permission, or some other requirement which I could not fulfill. Then started vibe coding it. Once it started working, I thought “I’m sure that there are people out there who needs smth like this” and pushed to GitHub and extension stores of popular browsers. Now more than 15000 people use this. https://github.com/gediz/teams-web-chat-exporter

gedizon How did TVs get so cheap?

Not sure about the second paragraph, but about first one I kind of agree with "someone else paying the hidden cost". I believe Google, Amazon, Roku, etc. basically pay the ODMs to manufacture the TV for them, and market the devices with affordable prices to acquire more users, in order to gain more usage data from consumers.

gedizon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

I wanted to export long chats from Microsoft Teams but turns out Microsoft Graph API or some PowerShell scripts were necessary. API access is not enabled by our IT manager by default so existing solutions dis not help. So I built (vibe-coded) a browser extension for myself, then decided to open source it. There are still some edges to smooth out but it’s going fine.

Turns out it was a common pain point. Now it has around 800 users in Chrome+Firefox. Mostly chrome.

https://github.com/gediz/teams-web-chat-exporter

gedizon Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria

ADHD?

gedizon An infinite canvas for code exploration

Sometimes it takes great amount of time to understand a specific flow in any given software that's abstract enough. This is a great concept. I'm ready to pay for it.

gedizon Ask HN: Which programming games helped you become a better programmer?

I think some of the Zachtronics games may be helpful to learn about Assembly.

gedizon Show HN: A stupid website for animating images on top of videos (HTML5 and WASM)

Great job. Buttery smooth even on a low end mobile device.