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Worked at Amazon from 2010 - 2012. Left because I wanted to create something of my own. Have failed twice at since then, hopefully will succeed this time.

gt5050on Ask HN: Review my application for YC Winter 2018

YC Application here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RnRE4wV54vzlFM2TM89Y2LCD...

Hi, I am a solo founder building ChartPoet (https://chartpoet.com).

ChartPoet is like Google docs for databases. ChartPoet provides an excel/sheets like collaborative environment for databases so that people who dont know SQL can work on querying and visualizing data. Have a look (Access Pin: 7612) at this

https://zifi.chartpoet.io/data/frBkjNW6Ct7/

Will really appreciate some feedback.

gt5050on Stories – Medium clone built with Rails

OP! Nice of you to ship this. We need more of editors and self publishing platforms. I tried creating an editor a few years ago at my last job [1]. It is really hard to get all things correct when implementing your editor, with all quirks that contendeditable has.

[1](http://hindi.yourstory.com/editor)

gt5050on A Workshop on Linux Containers: Rebuild Docker from Scratch

I found this introduction to Linux namespaces very good

https://medium.com/@teddyking/linux-namespaces-850489d3ccf

gt5050on How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later

At my last job we did a comparison between Vue and React before rewriting a major frontend application.

We did a POC in both React/Vue and ended up using Vue mainly due to the following reasons:

Single File Components

Single file components (.vue files) is the best thing about Vue. I understand this might be a personal preference, but we wanted to avoid CSS-IN-JS. Our designer could churn out neat html/css, but was a beginner in Javascript. With Vue's single file components, he could also hack parallely with us while iterating on html/css.

Standard / Official way of doing things

This again is a personal preference but Vuejs comes with a recommended way to do a majority of things. Vuex(state management) and Vue-Router are provided/maintained by same Vue core team.

React at times can be overwhelming for beginnners, just because of the amount of choice available

Example:

Google Search for 'React CSS style' [https://www.google.co.in/search?q=react+css+style] points to a bunch of links all of which link to valid solutions, but I have to go through a few of them before I get what I am looking for.

Similar search for 'Vue CSS style' [https://www.google.co.in/search?q=vue+css+style] all top links lead to official documenation on vuejs.org.

Excellent documentation

Also, as a team we were primarily writing Angular 1 when we decided to choose a frontend framework for newer projects. I feel this also made our transition to Vue easier vis a vis React

gt5050on Ask HN: Do you internationalize/localize your apps?

We havent yet released the product, so we dont really have metrics around usage from international users.

We could launch English only for now, making sure that the application is ready to be internationalized in the future.

gt5050on Interviews on Skype: Test candidates using a real-time code editor over Skype.

Real time coding interviews are really necessary to avoid hiring people who dont have basic proficiency in coding ( https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/)

The problem given in a coding interview should be a simple one and the candidate should be allowed to choose the solution language.

gt5050on Launch HN: NextDrop Technologies (YC S17) – Water Marketplace for Urban India

Congratulations on the launch! A lot of households also use water cans, and very often you cannot control the quality, are you planning to address this as well ?

gt5050on Launch HN: VergeSense (YC S17) – AI-Powered Sensors for Building Management

Could this be used in retail store spaces to get footfall analyticsc?

Also, what this the average area the sensors cover

gt5050on United States Camel Corps

BSF Camel Corps ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikaner_Camel_Corps ) are probably the last forces still using camels for active duty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqr0_PjPEIk

gt5050on Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)

OpenPicker(http://gauravtiwari5050.github.io/OpenPicker/)

OpenPicker is an open source and self hosted file picker for websites.

I would like to ship Facebook image upload integration to OpenPicker this month.

To hack on this, basic experience with NodeJs/Express, CoffeeScript and Angular1.0 should be enough.

Github link: https://github.com/gauravtiwari5050/OpenPicker

MIT License

gt5050on Show HN: Anime.js – Polyvalent JavaScript Animation Engine

This looks great. Thanks for posting this.

Is there a way we could export these animations as a gif ?

gt5050on Show HN: Income Tax Calculator

Tax Deducted at Source, basically the employer deducts the tax before making the payment to the employee

More here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Deducted_at_Source

gt5050on Show HN: ExitIntent – Convert bouncing visitors to leads and customers

SumoMe is not exactly free(they have paid upgrades as you suggested). The differentiating factor is the WYSIWYG pop builder which lets you completely customize the popup to match your website.

gt5050on Show HN: ExitIntent – Convert bouncing visitors to leads and customers

We do use ExitIntent on our site. Please click on "See it in action" link below. We kept it like this so that if user wants to see the demo multiple times , they can see it working. The actual exitintent wouldn't work if user wanted to see it multiple times, as popups are shown only once per user per site

gt5050on Show HN: ExitIntent – Convert bouncing visitors to leads and customers

Thanks a lot for your feedback. As of now it does trigger on moving your mouse towards to the address bar, we would fix this soon.

gt5050on Show HN: ExitIntent – Convert bouncing visitors to leads and customers

Thanks for your feedback

I agree that these popups might seem spammy. To avoid this ExitIntent popups are shown only once per user per site(or until you decide to reset the cookies)

We built the WYSIWYG editor with predesigned templates so that it would be easy for anyone to run popup campaigns.The idea is to help people generate leads from exiting visitors, and a popup campaign is one of the ways to do it.

gt5050on Show HN: ExitIntent – Convert bouncing visitors to leads and customers

Thanks for pointing this out . We are fixing this now.

gt5050on Show HN: ExitIntent – Convert bouncing visitors to leads and customers

Hi HN, We have built ExitIntent to help reduce bounce rates and convert exiting visitors to leads. We have tried to make it very simple for anyone to run popup campaigns on their sites. Would love to get the feedback of the community.

gt5050on I'm Building a GitHub for Writers

This sounds great.

I am also working on something similar called Papyrus. It lets authors create and edit ebooks simultaneously.

http://papyruseditor.com/en/home/collaborate/new

gt5050on Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

Firefox (19.0.2) shows this error on the demo page

"This browser does not have native cryptography support :("

gt5050on Ask HN: Has anyone here self-published a book? Any advice?

You could try using PapyrusEditor (http://papyruseditor.com )

PS: I created this tool, let me know if you need any help.

gt5050on Show HN: Realtime collaborative ebook publishing

Hello HN,

We released Papyrus here on HN a few month back.One of the most requested features was to be able to collaboratively edit books. We have tried to provide a collaborative editing environment where multiple authors can simultaneously edit an ebook(all made possible due to http://sharejs.org/) Your feedback would be very helpful.

gt5050on Show HN: Debuggify – Advanced error analytics for modern Javascript applications

I think it is logging you into a demo account. You need to logout.