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makowskidon Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS

https://brandgeo.co - what AI engines know about your brand

makowskidon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

https://BrangGEO.co/ - brand monitoring in AI engines for agencies

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

As an agency owner I kept having to manually monitor and audit how AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini describe my clients' brands, so I ended up building a tool to do it for us. It is called https://BrandGEO.co, it runs a 2-minute audit across all 5 major AI engines and tells you exactly what to fix. It works both for brand owners checking their own brand and for agencies taking care of their clients' brands.

makowskidon Ask HN: What game have you replayed more times than any other?

Grim Fandango Starcraft Starcraft 2 Diablo II

makowskidon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

I work on a problem of easily running AI workflows that are just simple API endpoints that have SDKs in most major tech stacks. I was reinventing the wheel with AI workflows for my customers so many times that I finally decided to extract all those workflows as simple APIs and give paid access to everyone. https://sharpapi.com/

makowskidon Show HN: SharpAPI – Real-time sports odds API with +EV and arbitrage detection

It's not cool to piggyback on SharpAPI.com branding.

makowskidon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://dawidmakowski.com/

makowskidon Job Description vs. Resume Match Score Tool

How well does your CV actually match a job description?

I just launched a small online tool -> https://cvmatchscore.com to help answer that question. Paste a job description, upload your CV, and get a match score with explanations.

I'd love to get your feedback :)

makowskidon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

https://SharpAPI.com

AI workflows API

makowskidon Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

https://SharpAPI.com/ is an AI-powered API platform designed to automate and optimize workflows across various industries, including E-Commerce, Marketing, Content Management, HR Tech, Travel, and more. By leveraging AI , SharpAPI offers a comprehensive suite of tools that streamline complex tasks, enabling businesses to operate more efficiently and effectively.

What Problems Does It Solve?

Some examples: - Manual Processing Challenges: Automates tasks like resume parsing, product categorization, and sentiment analysis, reducing the need for extensive human intervention. - Language Barriers: Provides real-time translation and analysis across 80+ languages, facilitating global business operations and customer engagement. - Inefficient Workflows: Streamlines processes by automating repetitive tasks, enhancing productivity, and allowing teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. - Content Quality Issues: Offers tools for paraphrasing, proofreading, SEO optimization, and spam detection, ensuring high-quality and consistent content across platforms.

makowskidon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

https://SharpAPI.com/ is an AI-powered API platform designed to automate and optimize workflows across various industries, including E-Commerce, Marketing, Content Management, HR Tech, Travel, and more.

What Problems Does It Solve? - Manual Processing Challenges: Automates tasks like resume parsing, product categorization, and sentiment analysis, reducing the need for extensive human intervention. - Language Barriers: Provides real-time translation and analysis across 80+ languages, facilitating global business operations and customer engagement. - Inefficient Workflows: Streamlines processes by automating repetitive tasks, enhancing productivity, and allowing teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. - Content Quality Issues: Offers tools for paraphrasing, proofreading, SEO optimization, and spam detection, ensuring high-quality and consistent content across platforms.

makowskidon [dead]

I had had enough of ChatGPT sounding like a machine and repeating the same forms. So I forced it into rehab: no em dashes, no buzzwords, no “in conclusion.” Sentences short. Advise directly. I keep my rulebook under 1500 characters (Custom Instructions limit). Set it: profile icon → Settings → Personalization → Custom Instructions. Sharing my prompt in the comments if you want to try it.

makowskidon [dead]

Ready? Here it is:

1. Create one folder for every project you work on in your drive (make sure it’s synced to the cloud because, let’s face it, nobody likes a good backup until they need one). 2. Inside each folder, have one simple TODO.txt file.

makowskidon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

I’m building http://SharpAPI.com/ — a flexible AI-powered API platform that helps automate repetitive workflows for things like product categorization, sentiment analysis, resume parsing, content cleanup, and more. Think Zapier, but deeply focused on content-heavy tasks across e-commerce, HR tech, Travel, content and marketing. It’s how I’ve been replacing boring grunt work with AI firepower. It's sprinkled with a lot of SDK Clients for Laravel/PHP, Node, Flutter, .Net & Python.

makowskidon Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?

https://SharpAPI.com/ - not making a living yet, but it provides quite good revenue already.

makowskidon Vibe Coding Is Fun–But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills

Nope, I didn't. I never generate any of my articles on my blog. I used (as always) ChatGPT to help me proofread typos, though.

makowskidon Vibe Coding Is Fun–But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills

I didn't use llm to generate it. I used it to proofread my thoughts, though :)

Why does everyone these days assume that everything is generated? You can check my other articles on my blog as well - none of them is generated.

makowskidon Vibe Coding Is Fun–But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills

As the author of this article/video - it's really strange for me that almost everyone here in these threads has focused on the LLM part of refactoring, where it's only mentioned as one of many tools for target-less flow state of the code tweaking sessions. :-)

makowskidon Vibe Coding Is Fun–But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills

Thanks for your comments - but I wasn't using GPT to generate the article, I only used it once for proofreading my own thoughts :)

Also - I was focusing on the REFACTORING part where LLM might be one of 100s of tools to be used while being in a state of flow of goal-less refactoring.

makowskidon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

For the last couple of months, I'm working on https://SharpAPI.com.

SharpAPI is an AI-powered API platform designed to automate and optimize workflows across various industries, including E-Commerce, Marketing, Content Management, HR Tech, Travel, and more. By leveraging AI , SharpAPI offers a comprehensive suite of tools that streamline complex tasks, enabling businesses to operate more efficiently and effectively.

What Problems Does It Solve?

Some examples: - Manual Processing Challenges: Automates tasks like resume parsing, product categorization, and sentiment analysis, reducing the need for extensive human intervention. - Language Barriers: Provides real-time translation and analysis across 80+ languages, facilitating global business operations and customer engagement. - Inefficient Workflows: Streamlines processes by automating repetitive tasks, enhancing productivity, and allowing teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. - Content Quality Issues: Offers tools for paraphrasing, proofreading, SEO optimization, and spam detection, ensuring high-quality and consistent content across platforms.

makowskidon Vibe Coding Is Fun–But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills

There’s a lot of hype about vibe coding—that moment when caffeine hits, your playlist slaps, and you hammer out code like a jazz drummer sprinting through a solo. It’s exhilarating, but relying on that adrenaline burst is like funding your retirement with scratch-offs.

So let’s flip the script to something that actually compounds: vibe refactoring. Same spontaneous energy, but aimed at shrinking technical debt and sharpening your architecture instead of amping up the commit count.

makowskidon Show HN: Free Harvard-Style Resume Generator

The other way around - if you need the best resume parsing with AI you can use SharpAPI :-) https://sharpapi.com/en/catalog/ai/hr-tech/resume-cv-parsing

makowskidon Show HN: AICruiter – AI-Powered Tool to Streamline Recruitment

so basically you're trying to copy https://careera.ai :)

makowskidon Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

For the last couple of months, I'm working on https://SharpAPI.com.

SharpAPI is an AI-powered API platform designed to automate and optimize workflows across various industries, including E-Commerce, Marketing, Content Management, HR Tech, Travel, and more. By leveraging AI , SharpAPI offers a comprehensive suite of tools that streamline complex tasks, enabling businesses to operate more efficiently and effectively.

What Problems Does It Solve?

Some examples: - Manual Processing Challenges: Automates tasks like resume parsing, product categorization, and sentiment analysis, reducing the need for extensive human intervention. - Language Barriers: Provides real-time translation and analysis across 80+ languages, facilitating global business operations and customer engagement. - Inefficient Workflows: Streamlines processes by automating repetitive tasks, enhancing productivity, and allowing teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. - Content Quality Issues: Offers tools for paraphrasing, proofreading, SEO optimization, and spam detection, ensuring high-quality and consistent content across platforms.

Unique Selling Points (USPs):

- Industry-Specific Solutions: Tailors automation tools to meet the specific needs of different industries, such as E-Commerce (product introductions, personalized emails) and HR (resume parsing, job description generation). - All-in-One Platform: Combines a wide range of automation tools within a single API, enabling businesses to streamline processes across multiple departments like Marketing, HR, and Customer Support. - Easy Integration and Scalability: Equipped with a broad range of SDK Client Libraries, SharpAPI is highly customizable, easily integrated into existing systems, and scalable to meet growing business demands. - Extensive Language Support: Handles over 80 languages, offering on-the-fly translation and content analysis, essential for businesses with a global presence. - Advanced Customization: Allows for context-specific customization through advanced API tools, providing flexibility and precision in automation tasks.

Who Is It Targeted For?

Some companies/platforms/people that will definitely benefit from it are: - E-Commerce Store Owners: Looking to enhance customer experience and boost sales by automating product introductions, thank-you emails, and customer review analysis. - HR Teams and Recruiters: Seeking to streamline the hiring process with automated resume parsing, data translation, and effortless job description creation. - Travel Operators and Hotel Managers: Aiming to improve customer satisfaction and increase bookings by categorizing offerings and analyzing customer reviews. - Digital Marketing Agencies: Wanting to scale content production, improve quality, and satisfy clients by automating content creation, tagging, and spam filtering. - Retailers and Product Managers: Needing to enhance catalog management and drive sales by categorizing products and optimizing descriptions based on customer feedback. - Content Creators and Platforms: Aspiring to reach global audiences and increase engagement by translating, paraphrasing, and optimizing content for SEO. - Customer Support Teams: Looking to personalize support, reduce response times, and retain customers by extracting contact details and analyzing feedback sentiment.

Hope to get some feedback from you guys! Cheers, Dawid

makowskidon Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

https://SharpAPI.com/ is a set of APIs to help leverage AI for workflow automation in E-Commerce, Marketing, Content Management, HR Tech, Travel, and other areas.

What can it do for its users? - Product categorization for well-organized product catalogues. - Generating engaging product descriptions and tagging. - Filtering out spam content. - Allowing understanding and analysis of sentiment in product reviews, comments, and users' Feedback for data-driven decision-making. - Generating complex job descriptions and extracting information from resume files for easy processing - and more.

I've also created a set of SDK Clients for it like PHP, Laravel, .NET, Flutter to make it a plug-and-play solution for developers.

Would love to get your feedback about it.

makowskidon Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?

Hi! I've done this exercise for multiple companies of different sizes as a CTO. One of them was a bit bigger than yours (org which is a retail arm of the Singapore Changi Airport), and 5 others were smaller, usually startups & scale-ups. Some of my happy customers are listed here: https://a2zweb.co

Please let me know if you need a hand with bringing tech fully in-house.

Cheers Dawid

https://www.linkedin.com/in/makowski/

makowskidon Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees

Hi, this is exactly the problem we’re trying to solve with https://Careera.AI

Careera is an automated platform for job matching between companies and job seekers, providing end-to-end recruitment automation.

The are NO JOB APPLICATIONS and NO CV FILTERING by the company.

Job seekers only need to register on the platform, and upload their CV, which is then parsed via AI to speed up onboarding. Every few days, the platform sends quizzes/tests to build the user’s psychometric profile.

Companies create richer job postings on the platform.

Based on hundreds of data points, the platform pre-matches both sides automatically and anonymously, guaranteeing a good relative match.

Companies are proposed candidates and can see only basic information, excluding name, race, religion, ethnicity, or physical appearance.

When both sides hit “LIKE,” they can contact each other and proceed with the interview process.

Companies must process up to a maximum of 10 proposed candidates and cannot ghost any candidate. Only then can the platform propose more candidates.

The platform is currently in the pilot stage. We would greatly appreciate community feedback. Thanks!

makowskidon Show HN: SharpAPI.com: AI-powered Swiss Army Knife API

Hey fellow coders, tech enthusiasts, founders, and product creators!

I'd like to share my creation which I launched a couple of weeks ago.

https://SharpAPI.com/ is designed to supercharge apps with AI capabilities in just a couple of lines of code, aiming to save developers countless hours on integrating typical AI capabilities for different industries like eCommerce, Travel, HR Tech, Content & Marketing Automation etc. Without the need of knowing any deep integration with LLM etc, just a simple, stable, predictable RESTful API with a broad set of SDKs. PHP/Laravel libraries are ready, and working now on .NET, JS and Flutter clients.

I have listed out some ideas for eCommerce use case examples here: https://medium.com/@makowskid/when-laravel-e-commerce-app-me...

What can it do for developers and their apps now?

E-commerce:

  - Quickly generate engaging product introductions to attract customers.

  - Streamline product categorization for a well-organized catalogue.

  - Automatically create personalized thank-you emails for enhanced customer experience.

  - Sentiment Analysis: Understand and analyze sentiment in product reviews for data-driven decision-making.

Content & Marketing Automation:

  - Easily translate text for a global audience.

  - Spam Content Detection: Identify and filter out spam content effectively.

  - Contact Information Extraction: Extract phone numbers and email addresses from non-standard formats for streamlined communication.


  - Generate concise summaries and tags/keywords for improved content consumption.

  - Boost SEO efforts by automatically generating META tags based on content.

HR Tech:

  - Generate complex job descriptions effortlessly, saving time in the hiring process.

  - Skills and Position Insights: Identify related job positions and skills to streamline recruitment.

  - Automated Resume Parsing: Efficiently parse and extract information from resume files for easy processing.

Travel, Tourism & Hospitality:

  - Analyze sentiment in travel reviews to improve services.

  - Streamline categorization for tours, activities, and hospitality products.

Thanks!