georgel

Right there with you. All the products I have built are not interesting to the HN or ProductHunt crowd. I don't even bother in those channels. Anyone reading this, find the places that are actually relevant to your customers.

I get a lot of office cleaning / janitorial spam (I don't have an office) alongside the dev shop spam. Just checked my junk SMS folder, I had 5 SMS messages for "fundraising" for a company gone 10 years ago. It is non-stop.

I wish BDR's and AE's could just answer the important questions I have for them in the first call. I have wasted countless hours of my life sitting in sales meetings, when my wallet is already open.

It really shouldn't be that hard, I even would do the work of "hey this is our expected usage, I have already adjusted for an overage buffer, how much?".

The comments on cold outreach on HN are always going to be negative. I assume the majority of us here are developers and go to insane lengths to block "spammers".

That said, even YC (can't find the exact Dalton + Michael episode) encourages cold outreach. If it didn't work, people wouldn't still be doing it.

I had these exact buttons come from DeepSeek for a demo landing page, it went down a path it called “memphis design”.

Circuit City was a popular misspelled domain back in the early 2000s.

Once I learned this exists, I blocked it from ever being requested. And I check my payroll settings to never report income.

Claude Design outputs like this.

This has been the case forever in corporate environments, even before AI. I worked for 3 years on an app that in startup land should have taken a couple months at best.

That was fun. LineRider vibes.

Must be nice to have dirt cheap electricity. PG&E rates are 0.26 to 0.62/kw for the EV plan.

Source: https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/resid...

The coworking space I was at back in 2013 held regular weekly meetups in the common space. Sometimes cool tech was shown off, but a ton of promo talks was common. I won't say no to free pizza though.

It was such a nice feature too, but very easily and quickly abused.

The circle is complete: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Some of us care. Standing up and saying the product is crap leads to being asked to leave (fired). Or ends up on deaf ears, and the product is hated by people. Been in both situations, it doesn't seem there is a winning position.

It's been around and available as an API to devs since at least 2021 in iOS. The problem was even on the best iPhone at that time, I could never get it past ~0.8x speed and after 15-20 minutes the device would heat up so much the display dimmed.

For context, I was working on a podcast app with on-device transcription, had to park that idea for years before it got to today's performance.

I'll agree they were all great, but I liked the change to force-touch more.

The uni-body pre force-touch trackpads clicked on a hinge from the top and you would need to press much harder in that area.

St. Louis is like this as well.

The irony of Reddit's early days was that it was bootstrapped with fake accounts run by the founder.

This gave me flashbacks to LonCapa in college when I was in calculus classes circa 2011. A correct answer was marked incorrect automatically because of floating point issues.

They were called "Tech Bro Podcast Network" but rebranded at some point.

I remember it going down semi-regularly in the 2013+ era, and seeing HN posts about it. Especially if you were using a package manager reliant on GitHub like Cocoapods. It seems to me it is more "impactful" on the dev community now that they have gone past just being a centralized Git server for the team, to being the thing that does deploys and all sorts of other things.

My manager recommended Agile Web Rails 8. Will spend the weekend diving into that.

This feels more like a repeat of iOS7 to me.

There are tons of tools that collect stuff like this, hotjar.com has been a thing for over a decade.

Far too many of the critical services (banks) still only offer SMS 2FA.

Don't forget the barrage of JS frameworks that were talked about daily.

I lost my free credits they were giving away a couple years back, but when you pay they make it fairly clear they will expire. I see no issues here from any provider doing this, as long as it is made clear.

Back in 2018 Bullhorn ATS tried this on me, and even asked me to retake it because the recruiter said “you didn’t score high enough” despite passing the actual interview.